The true and lyuely histoRYKE PVRTREATVRES OF THE VVOLL BIBLE.
AT LYONS, BY IEAN OF TOVRNES. M.D.LIII.
TO THE RIGTH WORSHIPFƲLL AND most vvorthie, Master Pikeling, embassadour of the kinge of Englande, Peter derendel peace, and felicitie.
I Knowe, mi most discret and vertuous Master, that some amonge other shall be fonde, readie to blame this worke, bringinge for them, that no nede it was of suche purtreatures, sith we haue at libertie theself stories, wherin we mai muche better knowe the pure truth reding the wholl, then to staie at a thinge vncertaine and drawen at pleasure: Some other shall be (knowe I well) wiche shall endeuer themselues to sai, that it is a thinge openlie [Page]forbiden be the lawe of God, and allthought the strong and faithfull mai without ani danger beholde them, vsing therof after their owne goode discretion, that neuerthelesse, being sen of the weake and simple, it mai be vnto them occasion of fall: Other lickwise that, sith the hearing aboue all our fiue naturall wittes most diuin is allone nedfull to saluation, wherwith we, as with an instrument mete, must take and receaue the promesses of God offred and presented vnto vs in the holie scriptures, contenting ourselues we shulde red them, with vnderstanding therto required, and vndertake no further. To whome we, willing most faine them satisfie, aunswer: that, all be it the letter well vnderstanded geueth plaine and perfette knowlege of the thinges, neuerbethelesse the true and lyuelye purtreatures and representations therof mai be, and (to sai better) are good and profitable meanes, wherbe we mai shirtlie and with ease, kippe and graue in minde the wholl meaning of it, wiche otherwise without often reding, and with muche werines [Page]of witte might easilie be forgotten being vnto vs in stede of true, cleare, and manifest argumentes of the wholl subiect. For what a meane more shirt, sure, and with no little pleasure easie might ani man finde, to teache his childerne, and suche as are not sen in the Bible withall, then to shewe them, the stories well drawen, and lyuely pourteated nothing laking therto, but all thinges therin sette out entierelie, afterward declaring them hollie that, wiche thei represente? Or what greater a pleasure, and recreation of minde might a studious man haue, knowing all readie the stories, and being wel vsed, and sen therin, the 2 to se presentlie before his eies the thinges self, wiche he had red to be passed longe before, the figure and the letter coming, and agreing so well, that thei seme properlie to be none other, but one self thinge, disagreing onlie in this, that the storie telleth thinges all readie passed, the wiche the figure as calling backe to the present, sheweth plainlie with all euidencie to the eie. Nowe as for that wiche the other might sai, that to drawe and pourtreate [Page]is forbidden vnto vs be the lawe and commaundement of God, I graunt that, for to worshippe it, if then the weacke and simple (as thei sai) do fall, that is to be imputed to them, not the figures: sith so muche lacke that thei bringe and prouocke to idolatrie, that rather thei tourne cleane awai frome it, putting befor the eies the sore punisshementes and paines, wherwith the childerne of Israel were punisshed, when thei committed suche an abominable deed: As fore the reste, thei mai se therin, but all exemples of good and holie liuing, that is to wite, howe god hath all waies ben readie to healpe, and beare fauour to suche as did walke rigthlie in his pathes and waies: contrariewise greuouslie to punisshe them, wiche rebell vnto him wolde none other, but folow their owne will, and wicked minde: to be shirt thei mai lerne eurie where therin to flie, and eschewe sinne, and with good adresse to folowe vertu. As for the thirde, truth is that be the hearing nedes we must receaue the faith: iet neuerthelesse in her degree the syght is [Page]greatlie required, and nedfull, therwith to knowe Goddes glorie and magnificencie in his workes, cō sidered in the beginning he mad heauen and earth, with other visible workes, acording our capacitie shewing, and manifesting himself vnto vs, to the ende, that be this meane we might come to the knowlege of him, and seing plaine, that suche his workes were fare more then of man, might knowe lickewise that it behoued the worckman therof to be without ani compareson mor excellent then anie man was. If therfore be the meanes of the eie we come to so a high and diuin knowlege, I can thinke non other, but that in this it be goode and profitable so that we will not abuse therof, the wiche thinge might also happe of the hearing. For who colde let ani man, that shulde heare tell or red some storie neuer so godlie or shulde tell or red it himself, to imagine some idolatrie in his minde? and that is liekwise against the lawe and commaundement of God, being not onlie exteriour, but also interiour. If theniwil so bringe and call backe thinges passed, red and heard in the trew, and [Page]holie stories of the olde Testament, that the eie mai also enioie therof, of a truth the intention and minde, nor the ende also, mai be but good, and godlie. The wiche thinges with miself right well considered, I haue thought it mete to endeuer miself to translate the argument of eche figure in Englishe meter, being lickewise putte in sixe other languages, to the entent that the countre, wherin I had ben nourrisshed and brought vp, shulde in no wise remain bastard allone, his tonge kipping her place amonge other, readie to bring him licke comoditie. This therfor be me vndertaken and ended, kipping eurie wherlicke measure, the thirde person actiue of the Present, with the Aoriste, lickewise the Participle passiue of the preterite at discretion, as comonlie in the speache is vsed, the contractions also of the tonge obserued, morouer in the Orthographye leauing y to the greke wordes, vsing of our owne, as I thought it mete and conuentent, I being of the Frenshe nation, for mi sauegarde and the workes, haue fonde none more sure, then iou mi vertuous master presupposed [Page]that ie borne in the countre, to the wiche naturallie am affectionat, are at this time Embassadour towarde the Kinge of mi naturall lande, douting no wise, but if iou will vouchesaue to take in bande to kippe it a litle and defende, vnder the buckler of iour fauour, that without anie lost, or damage shall remaine woll, and harmelesse. For I knowe right well, that iour good iugement is in so great a reputation with eurie one, that witherwar die shall drawe, all without ani withstanding will folowe iou. Truth is, that the worke is vnworthie to compeere before iour Master shippe, so muche laketh that iou ought to receaue it, neuerhethlesse it shall plense iou, to looke a little vpon the good affection, and minde wherwith it is presented: and so doing ie shall encorage me to geue meself herafter to that thinge, wiche, mai be, shall be better worth, to the seruice of iour Mastershippe, whose lowlie and humble seruaunt I am, and shall be.
THE PRINTER TO THE READER.
THE affection mine all waies towarde the hartlie ernest, louing reader, being cōtinuallie commaunded of the dutie of mi profession, mai not but dailie go about to satisfie the in this, wiche thow desirest and lookest for in mi vacation, the wiche, to mai please the, I wolde it were to mi minde so f [...]e acd licentiouse streched at large, as it is be the mishappe of the time restrained. Restrained it is trulie, not of it self, but for the diuersitie of the braines of this dai, some tender and delicat, the other to rude, and grosse, and the last to straungelie different frome them both, scrupulouse, and obstinate: so that without danger, or scandale, i mai not delecte the with the same thinges wiche for the are more required, to the contentation of the part harder to be contended, as the mor tickeling, wiche is the sprit. For whose delectation I mai [Page]not but confesse, that the holie scripture is the chief of all the other. And because that in this part, wiche therwith mai edifie vs, I mai not (as I said) wel reioisse the, I did looke to please the with the other, that bringeth vp, whiche is the representation of the holie Bible, to the ende that, if tow maiest [...]ot enioi the letter so frelie, as thow woldest this [...]f, thow maiest tapisse sure the chambres of thi mi [...]de and remembraunce with the figures therof, and mor honestlie, after vs, then thou doest the chanbres, and halles of thi house with ethnike stores, thus euill becoming the faithfull. And when it were but for a witnesse, and to bringe the to mnde, that all the olde testament was but the image, and figure of this, wiche we holde, I haue wold faine figure it the here: to the entent also, that, hauing often befor thin eies, the storie of the holie Patriarches liuing, tow maiest so well conforme thine at their exemple, that it mai be to the fulfilling of goddes will, and thi saluation, So be it.
GENESIS I.
God the heauen mad in the beginning,
The earth and sea withall in perfitnes,
The moone and sonne in the skie bright shining,
Adam after mad to his one licknes.
GENESIS II.
With liuing ghoast god mad Adam to liue,
Permitting him to maintain in his breath:
To eate of all except the frute of liue,
Wiche did forbid vnder the pain of death.
GENESIS II.
A heauie sleep
[...] Adam god did cast,
Then frome his sid a ribbe of his plucking:
Therwith lightlie Eue his wif formed chast,
And befor him laied her at his waking.
GENESIS III.
To Eue is come the serpent maliciouse
Full quicke, and so right busie about here,
Soon worcked, that (of their good enuiouse)
The frute forbide thei eate both togethere.
GENESIS III.
This frute anon their both eies cleare opened:
Wherfore a shame so to shew their nature,
A figgers leaues plucking nigh them ioined
To their bodies, making so couerture.
GENESIS III.
God then knowing suche crastie deception,
Adam called roughlie and sore chidding:
His curse them gaue and his malediction,
For dispising of his holie bidding.
GENESIS III.
God eche of them with a garment of skinne
Clothed, driueth out the faire place of pleasure:
Then of the frute the waikipech Cherubin:
Wherfore with death pursued are anon sure.
GENESIS III.
With muche droping and sweat of his visage,
Eateth Adam his bread new and moderne:
Eue in sorow and care of her menage,
Geueth out great cries bringing fourth of childerne.
GENESIS IIII.
Cain cursed first of mans blood sheder,
Therwith sicking his one malediction,
Of enuie full smitting slaieth his brother:
Wherfore leeseth all hope of redemption.
GENESIS VI. & VII.
God the deluge to Noe doeth forsai
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Commaunding him the arche to builde and do:
Then to get in with his suche as doeth sai:
For all mankinde with waters willeth vndo.
GENESIS VII.
Of the skie scluses let all their waters skippe,
And lift in aire the arche to the cloudes plain,
Fiue mothes and more on their waues do her kippe:
Then whence thei came thei go all straight again.
GENESIS VIII.
The arche cometh on Armenies the hill:
Perished is all trough the wholl worlde ronde,
Noe allone with his aliue resteth still,
Wiche dead backward findeth euri thing sterke dronde.
GENESIS VIII.
A lande come down an altare buildeth to praie,
With pure cattell he maketh immolation:
God doeth promise that neuer of liue daie,
No man se shall suche other mondation.
GENESIS IX.
Sealing this peace god in the skie doeth laie,
The raine bowe his, and that token them giue:
Then all blissed forbideth them to slaie,
In ani wise no man that is aliue.
GENESIS IX.
Cham cursed is of Noe his father,
Wiche droncke leaueth him vncoured frowardlie:
Sem then sorie with laphet his brother,
Couer him go straight ther where he doeth lie.
GENESIS XI.
Nembroth the stronge to make speake of his name,
Babel the toure buildeth with greate estages:
But god breacking and dissiping thesame,
Confounded all his men in their languages.
GENESIS XII.
Frome his countre Abraham doeth him part.
God bidding him with all felicitie,
To go awaie to Chanaan the part,
Wiche doeth promise to his posteritie.
GENESIS XIII.
Cattell and gooddes so muche Abraham haue,
And Loth also on the earth feeding there:
That ther sheepherdes do their best and do braue,
To make sore warre amonge them togethere.
GENESIS XIII.
Wherfore leauing the place of Chanaan,
Loth be counsaill separeth him shirtlie:
With all his gooddes there leauing Abraham
Cometh to dwell in Sodome willinglie.
GENESIS XIIII.
Melchisedech the high priest and good kinge,
Breade wine bringeth him then his benediction:
Of the boties wiche Abraham doeth bringe,
To him he geueth the decimes in porcion.
GENESIS XVI.
Abraham then Agar without faintise
Knoweth in deed, be Saras owne counsaill:
Great that she is here mastresse doeth dispise:
Wherfor greate so must flie with muche trauaill.
GENESIS XVII.
God his Aungell within the wildernes
Sendeth, telling her go theself humilie
Agar before thi dame and good mastres:
For thi childerne I will sure multiplie.
GENESIS XVII.
God Abraham plainlie doeth certifie,
To haue a sonne with him great possession:
To begette kinges in his owne progenie:
Then him commaundeth do the circoncision.
GENESIS XVIII.
Of Sodomis the thre Aungels forsai,
To Abraham the fearful euersion:
For their straunge vice he doeth vnto god prai:
Wherof he hath pitie nor compassion.
GENESIS XIX.
The Sodomites, the Aungels to take still,
The dore of loth will breake also down trowe:
But disloging with loth punishe their will,
And false desire, causing them ouerthrowe.
GENESIS XIX.
The Aungels straight led loth out of Sodome,
His wif also and daughters far of sight
Of heauens fire that Sodomites consomme:
Of salte lothes wif becommeth statu bright.
GENESIS XIX.
Lothis daughters to saue his seed withall,
Within a holl mad him dronke purposedlie:
Wiche to his blood taking no heed atall,
With eche of them medleth most pleasauntlie.
GENESIS XX.
Abimelech willeth be force detain,
From Abraham his deare and weded wif:
But god him doeth to restore here again,
Threatning of him to ende the wicked lif.
GENESIS XXI.
Sara complaineth of Ismael sporting
With her deare sonne Isaac eurie daie:
But Abraham strif and noise eschewing,
Agar anon with her childe driueth awaie.
GENESIS XXI.
Agar her sonne, in the wilde wooddes weping
Ʋnder a tre laieth, of thirst willing die:
Godis Aungell of them the voice hearing,
Sheweth her a weall her childe to satisfie.
GENESIS XXII.
Abraham willeth for to please godes highnes,
Of his deare sonne to make immolation:
But god knowing his wount true righteousnes,
Maketh him to leaue suche an execution.
GENESIS XXIII.
In Hebrom lande Sara endeth her last dai:
Abraham paieth the sepulcher trulie
To Ephron ionge wherin doeth her right lai
The good olde man mourning most bitterlie.
GENESIS XXIIII.
Here bucket faire vp Rebecca doeth holde,
The seruaunt drinketh therin all with his ease:
Rebecca then iet to water is bolde
His tene camels the better him to please.
GENESIS XXIIII.
As in the filde Isaac walketh loocking,
Cometh Rebecca frome Mesopotamie:
On his camels the seruaunt doeth her bringe,
Of Isaac to be the wif semie.
GENESIS XXV.
Full of longe daies the owne dette of nature
Paieth Abraham, and dieth veri swetlie:
His good childerne within the sepulture
Nigh be Sara do laie him for to lie.
GENESIS XXV.
Of Rebecca ar borne all together
The twines mamed Esau and Iacob:
The wicke holdeth be the foote his brother,
When thei brought fourth in hast do waill and sob.
GENESIS XXV.
Frome the filde cometh Esau a honger,
And his brother Iacob selleth and maketh sure,
For certain meat that he eateth a sonder.
(Wherfore repenteth his) primogeniture.
GENESIS XXVI.
To Palestins Isaac doeth him saie
His wines brother out of his owne nation:
Abimelech seing them both to plaie
Through a window, blameth the said fiction.
GENESIS XXVI.
Isaac doeth (whill the dearth is) remain
In Palestine, his flockes make good encrease:
Wherfore enuied Abimelech taket pain,
Stried his waters, to driue him out with ease.
GENESIS XXVI.
Abimelech of Isaac hath minde,
Seing that god fauoureth him greatlie,
And peace with him with an othe he doeth binde,
Allthought he hath handled him most roughlie.
GENESIS XXVII.
Esaü leeseth his deare benediction,
Be Rebecca counsaill his owne mother:
Wiche doeth so well led the simulation,
That to Iacob doeth giue it his father.
GENESIS XXVIII.
Alader seeth Iacob frome earth allone
Touching the skie, Aungels theron passing,
Slombring that whill the heade vpon à stone:
God then apeereth to him muche promising.
GENESIS XXIX.
Rachel leading here sheepe to the water,
Iacob the weall doeth vncouer vpon
Then here kissing, and doeth so woorcke aster.
That her he wedeth with her sister anon.
GENESIS XXX.
Baren Rachel a longe time doeth remain:
Often therfor to Iacob maketh her mone:
But god mightie setteh her out of this pain,
For she bringeth fourth Ioseph childe of her owne.
GENESIS XXXI.
Iacob leauing Laban soon cometh awai,
Rachel softlie her idole taketh with her:
Laban after goeth and cerche them that dai:
But findeth nothing wherfor kisseth them both ther.
GENESIS XXXII.
Considering their auncient strif and olde,
Iacob seing Esau in doute cometh,
Assuring him the Aurgell with him bolde,
Wrestleth plain, wherfor crepell becometh.
GENESIS XXXIIII.
But of Iacob the childerne it permitte
Will not Sichem witout circoncision,
And without doute their father do promitte,
To fulfill it for their last conclusion.
GENESIS XXXVII.
Ioseph the childe to his brother doeth tell
All the dreames his, wherfor thei without rest
Enuious are, and to se him do swell,
Of their father knowing him loued best.
GENESIS XXXVII.
Ruben telleth them that he willeth not defill
Handes, with the bloode of non of his bretherne:
But if it pleaseth, that his clothes taket hei will,
And so cast him into the olde cisterne.
GENESIS XXXVI.
To slaie him quite Iudas doeth not consent,
But to sell him to marchauntes willeth obei:
To whome passing that wai thei all content
Do sell him straight, for good readie monei.
GENESIS XXXVII.
Iacob seing sent to him frome the filde,
Of his deare sonne so beraied the garment:
Thinking to be, with some of the beastes wilde,
All deuoored, sore doeth mourne and lament.
GENESIS XXXVIII.
Iudas awai goeth se his sheepe to sheare,
Thamar knoweth it, wiche him deceaue wolde sor,
Disguising her, faire clothes on her doeth weare,
And leaueth mourning then goeth him tarie for.
GENESIS XXXVIII.
Iudas mad her of a fate kidde promes
To lie with her, and of him gage she hilde:
Then of Phares vnknowen the crastines,
And of Zaram, in wai gate her with childe.
GENESIS XXXVIII.
Of all his flocke a faire fate kidde milking
Bindeth Iudas, and to her doeth it sende,
His man finde her iet in the filde thinking:
But fonde is not ther about at the ende.
GENESIS XXXVIII.
For to burne her Iudas did pursue on
After Thamar, knowing her sure with childe:
Then is forced straight to leaue her allone:
When she shewing the gage plain he behilde.
GENESIS XXXVIII.
Iudas awai goeth se his sheepe to sheare,
Thamar knoweth it, wiche him deceaue wolde sor,
Disguising her, faire clothes on her doeth weare,
And leaueth mourning then goeth him tarie for.
GENESIS XXXVIII.
Iudas mad her of a fate kidde promes
To lie with her, and of him gage she hilde:
Then of Phares vnknowen the crastines,
And of Zaram, in wai gate her with childe.
GENESIS XXXVIII.
Of all his flocke a faire fate kidde milking
Bindeth Iudas, and to her doeth it sende,
His man finde her iet in the filde thinking:
But fonde is not ther about at the ende.
GENESIS XXXVIII.
For to burne her Iudas did pursue on
After Thamar, knowing her sure with childe:
Then is forced straight to leaue her allone:
When she shewing the gage plain he behilde.
GENESIS XXXVIII.
Be the marchauntes in to Egypte is brought
The good Ioseph, detaïned be enuie:
Wiche for monei of Phutifar is bought,
Of Pharaon chief of gendarmerie.
GENESIS XXXIX.
Be his chast clocke his mastres doeth him draw
To laie with him, Ioseph willeth not consent:
Wherfore criing saied, when so fast him saw,
Ioseph it was, that with force take her ment.
GENESIS XXXIX.
Wherfore (harde of Phutifar, this saiing
That she maintaineth in liing veritable)
All in a rage of rest taketh nothing,
Till that he be prisonner miserable.
GENESIS XL.
Tow prisonners their dreames all did declare:
The meaning told Ioseph as came to pas,
Within thre daies that the geollers of care
Deliured one, the other hanged was.
GENESIS XLI.
Pharaon willeth, that is dreame be exponde:
The southsaiers and augures of his lande
Holde all peace, none that can speake is fonde:
Ioseph therfor frome prison thei demande.
GENESIS XLI.
Ioseph declare doeth the darcke dreames so right
Of Pharaon, that with his deliuring,
Of this riche kinge, is then fonde in the sight
Woorthie, to haue of Egypte the ruling.
GENESIS XLI.
Of all iowels Pharaon abonding,
To be clothed Ioseph causeth and araied,
Him of the worlde sauiour be name calling,
Maketh him of his to be woorshipped and praied.
GENESIS XLI.
To seuen ieres of honger to pouruai,
Ioseph hauing of god the prouidence,
Plentie of wheat, and meal apart doeth lai,
In seuen ieres that be of abondance.
GENESIS XLI.
Be Pharaon Ioseph is in mariage:
Tow childerne faire he hath anon aster,
One Manasses, in the floore of his aage,
Then Ephraim, wiche folowed the other,
GENESIS XLII.
Thei do finde in putting out their forment,
All their monei, wherfor their feare is more:
For good Ioseph Iacob is in tourment,
For Simeon, and Beniamin mourneth sore.
GENESIS XLIII.
Ioseph doeth them the steward recomaunde,
When Beniamin beholdeth befor his eiene:
Of a banquet then the meate doeth comaunde,
For at none dai he willeth with them dine.
GENESIS XLIIII.
Within their sackes, Ioseph iet ones again,
All their siluer and monei causeth to laie:
Within thesame of Beniamin biddeth plain
His great cup sette, and then sendeth them awai.
GENESIS XLV.
Beniamins necke about both armes doeth reche,
And kisseth them all with a loue amiable,
On them weping, recouer doeth the speache:
Then Pharaon maketh ioie vnestimable.
GENESIS XLVII.
The Egiptiens citizens with other,
Sell their gooddes all to Ioseph, and knowlege,
Some corne to haue, but the priestes asonder
Do kippe all theirs, be kinglie priuilege.
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GENESIS XLIX.
His towelue childerne Ioseph mad all there come:
Then to them all gaue his precious blissing,
Readie to die, and all their time to come
Did them reuele, be high prophetising.
GENESIS L.
Now his father Ioseph bringeth to Ebron,
The wiche is dead, for to burie him ther:
Iacob liuing had praied so to be don,
The good olde man, and therto mad him swear.
GENESIS L.
Of Pharaon in the territorie
Iacob childerne fare abroad there do dwell:
Dead in Egipte Ioseph all thei burie
Well imbaumed, in a little cornell.
ENDE.
EXODI I.
A new kinge then, Ioseph no wise knowing,
Israel all did sore vexe, and tourment,
Therwith shirtlie them all vndo thinking:
But them he mad mor encrease, and augment.
EXODI I.
Wherfor for spitte he comaundeth all midwiues,
All put to death childerne male, that are borne:
But fearing god these piteable, and good wiues
Lest them aliue, and slain to be them sworne.
EXODI I.
Pharaon then comaundeth then to be drond
Shirtlie with speede, full of vnpaciencie:
All the folke then, that teares to poore is fond,
Goeth to drond them, in their innocencie.
EXODI II.
Moses mother of him then a bed brought,
His deare father a whill him kept and hidde
For his beautie, then him russhes among sought
In water lai, to do as the king bidde.
EXODI II.
The kinges daughter fonde him in great pitie
The russhes amonge, wiche to him fauourable,
As god did please, him to saue thought worthie,
His owne mother giuing him for nource able.
EXODI II.
A brother his Moses seeth outraged,
Be maliciouse an Egiptien damnable:
This wronge seen, is so well auenged,
That wond to death, he hideth him in sable.
EXODI II.
Of the Hebreus tow chidding most roughlie,
Moses cometh them to rebucke, and take:
One outrageous telleth him stubburlie,
Willt thou slaughter mor on me vndertake?
EXODI II.
Pharaon biddeth to seeke as manslaughter
Moses abroad, straight to him kill, and slaie:
But god willeth that he leaueth that quarter,
The kinges furie better eschew to maie.
EXODI II.
Their beastes coming at the weall to water
Daughters seuen, of Madian the priest,
Of the sheepheardes Moses was the master,
To will greue them, refrening all their list.
EXODI II.
Ietro after be his daughter him fette
Sent to that place, seing the personage,
Receaueth of him the promes with ioie greate,
To giue to him, his daughter in mariage.
EXODI II.
Dead Pharaon, Israel doeth him mourne,
Euen as wonded, with extreme affliction:
His voice of god is hard plain at that turne,
Wiche for his paines had great a compassion.
EXODI III.
God to Moses sheweth him in Oreb mount
Ther in a shroobe, as flamme that doeth strenght lacke:
Wiche coming nigh the holie place as wont,
The shoes on feet, god maketh him to go backe.
EXODI III. & IIII.
Moses is mad of Israel captain,
Be his handes god willeth his workes shew straunge,
Promising him be his might high, and plain,
To an ader his rod at will to chaunge.
EXODI IIII.
Aaron cometh speake in the wildernes,
As god willeth, to Moses his brother:
Wiche blissing him biddeth him in readines,
To Pharaon go tell all together.
EXODI IIII.
With tokens thre thei shewed manifest,
Of Israel that god them thither sent,
To bringe them out, seing them worthie best:
Israel all thanketh god to serue him bent.
EXODI V.
For Israel of his paines to soulage
Cometh Aaron, with his brother Moses,
Desire the kinge, not so greue them nor charge:
But mor for this the people doeth oppres.
EXODI VII.
Aaron laieth before this wicked kinge
This his rod down, wiche chaungeth to ader:
Thesame also be inchaunters making:
But deuooring the first killeth the other.
EXODI VIII.
Neuerthelesse Pharaon bursteth for spitte:
God knowing then that other willeth not do,
Maketh springe out manie frogges in Egipte,
To infest ther, the meate and drincke vnto.
EXODI VIII.
So forced then doeth permitte sacrifice
To Israel, cessing him do wronge:
Moses readie apeasing the iustice
Of god mightie, maketh die the vermine spronge.
EXODI VIII.
Euen as befor he sheweth them naughtie face,
Swelleth with wrath, taketh his false obiectes:
God chaungeth the dust to dogges flies in that place,
Wiche do pricke kim, beastes, also his subiectes.
EXODI IX.
He doeth repent, and falseth his promes,
Euen as befor goddes people doeth moleste:
God causeth die, to refrain his hardnes,
Beastes eurie one, in his countre with peste.
EXODI IX.
This heauie strocke sostned his stubburne hart,
Caused him know God, shewing himself a fear:
Moses maketh cesse tempesting eurie part,
Apeasing god wiche is for in anger.
EXODI X.
Pharaon then doeth himself humilie,
Finding at tast to bitter his owne sinne:
The armes in aire Moses god praieth humblie,
The grasshoppers to driue the red sea in.
EXODI X.
Ʋsing allwaies these his aunswers terrible
Pharaon, so the lord God doeth prouocke,
That in his lande a darcknes most horrible
Is be thre daies, all troubling without mocke.
EXODI XII.
Nowe Israel eateth the lambe spotles,
As god therof hath mad the ordonnaunce:
Wiche the passage willeth so be knowen doutles,
In wiche he tooke of Egiptiens vengeaunce.
EXODI XII.
All the first borne of man, both and of best
Goddis aungell killeth quite out of hande,
For the sore sinnes of the kinge manifest:
Wherfor crieth out all the people of his lande,
EXODI XII.
The Egiptiens leaue vnderfull richesse
To Israel, frome Egipte him sending:
God maketh it bringe with them be crastinesse,
Of that spoilling them, for their deseruing.
EXODI XIII.
Moses to God first borne doeth sanctifie:
Wherfor with beastes maketh immolation,
Wiche doeth redeme mans blood, and purifie,
Receauing death, be their decollation.
EXODI XIII.
Marching be dai, God for their good adresse
Them of a cloude a colonne sendeth awai,
Wiche guideth them still in the wildernes,
Coing befor in aire be eurie wai.
EXODI XIIII. & XV.
The Egiptiens with death are apeased,
Ʋpon the banckes of the red sea ar laied:
Of Israel the childerne ar pleased:
Then praising god, a faire cantique is saied.
EXODI XV.
Marie Moses, and Aaron sister
With a tabrette, beginneth allone to plait
Wemen singing folow her glad after,
For together their god to praise, and prai.
EXODI XV.
Israel maieth nomor forbeare the thirste,
In sur desert the water is bitter:
Their sodainlie beginneth to murmur first:
Moses tourneth it then to swetnes after.
EXODI XV.
In Helim place most pleasaunt to the eie,
Findeth Israel twelue faire, and good fountaines
To him pleasing, with palmes seuentie,
Campeth him self ther, to forgette his paines.
EXODI XVI.
Israel meate in Sin hongrie doeth lacke.
Aaron ther, and Moses doeth dispitte,
Saiing leauer to haue be remained backe
With Egiptiens, and haue died in Egipte.
EXODI XVI.
God at the nede neuer forgetting his,
Causeth him flie of fat quailles a great sight,
For to shew him that of gooddes the spring is,
And in the campe lodges and tentes down to light.
EXODI XVI.
The mightie God of his people louing,
Be fortie ieres frome the skie mad to rain
Manne, of the tast of honnie sauouring,
Floore of forment, mad as coriander plain.
EXODI XVI.
It pleaseth God his manne ordinarie,
A dai onlie to Israel to last:
Wiche keping it tow, to the contrarie,
Findeth it in woormes, and stinche wiche thei must cast.
EXODI XVI.
Halowed is of god the creatour
The seuenth dai, in the wiche he did rest:
Of his bidding the people zelatour,
Sabbatizing doeth no woorck man, nor best,
EXODI XVI.
Aaron laieth the manne in tabernacle,
For to be shewed to the posteritie:
That thei maise how their god be miracle,
Fed Israel in a desert hongrie.
EXODI XVII.
In Raphidim no water maieth be fonde:
Moses feareth lesse to death be stoned:
The god of healde biddeth him strike the rocke sonde,
Wiche muche water pooreth well seasoned.
EXODI XVII.
To Israel Amalech warre doeth make,
Thinking his campe with armes all to vndo:
The swerd in hand Iosue putteth him backe,
Moses the handes lifting the aire vnto.
EXODI XVIII.
Ietro cometh se Moses in wildernes,
Wiche receaueth him as well he doeth deserue:
Of Pharaon then telleth the wickednes,
And the tourment, wherwith he did them serue.
EXODI XVIII.
Moses the causes of the people doeth heare,
Ietro seeth well, that he taketh to muche paines:
He causeth make that healpe to him thei beare,
Good and faithfull Iudges, with righteous captains.
EXODI XIX.
All Israel campeth himself in the plain
Nigh be Sina, whence he willeth go awai:
Moses allone goeth vp to the mountain,
For to his god, wiche calleth him speake, and prai.
EXODI XIX.
God willeth that his peopell vnderstande:
Moses cometh then him to sanctifie,
That be this meane against death he maieth stande.
And his garmentes causeth him purifie.
EXODI XIX.
The smocking hill the greate trompette did blaw:
The people hard the voice of god in fire,
Wiche with great noise to Moses geueth his law,
Wherin sheweth him his zeale, and good desire.
EXODI XXXII.
On God liuing Israel doeth not passe,
Seing Moses long in the mount remain:
Maketh in Oreb cast a calf in a masse,
Then as his god doeth him prai and retain.
EXODI XXXII.
Befor this calfe is offring immoled
Be Israel, that his god doeth forgette:
And so his faith most holie violed,
Lightlie sinning be idolatrie greate.
EXODI XXXII.
Being therfor nomor of god mindfull,
His wholl minde is therto sette, that he must
Eate still, and danse, for his bodie sinfull,
Far frome his god, willeth liue at his lust.
EXODI XXXII.
Moses doeth se Israel him self marre,
And to his god wickedlie do wronge:
Wherfore angrie, the tables breaketh with great care
Of his swet lawes, wiche first in his hart spronge.
EXODI XXXII.
The calfe hath mad to burne anon after:
To Israel childerne gaue it to drincke,
Puluerised, dissolued in water,
That of their sinne the tast might deper sincke.
EXODI XXXII. & XXXIII.
God speacketh roughlie against Israel all,
Moses therof is in heauie tourmentes:
Israel then doeth weping prai, and call,
And clothe himselfe, with his mourning garmentes.
EXODI XXXIII.
Moses him selfe putteth in the tabernacle:
God speaketh to him in a colonne firie:
The people then shamefast at the oracle,
Doeth him woorshippe, seing the misterie.
EXODI XXXIII.
Allmightie god befor Moses doeth passe
Putteth his hand, on his eies and visage:
Shewing therbe that no man seeth his face,
But that of death passe he must the passage.
EXODI XXXIIII.
With God Moses fasting endeth without pain
Of nightes fortie, and fortie daies euer.
The holie law is in tables putted again,
The wiche with feare thei must kippe, and reuere.
EXODI XXXIIII.
Moses cometh frome Sinai the mount,
The princes are come se him at his coming:
Aaron is with them wondring not wount,
To se frome fare his face with hornes shining.
EXODI XXXIIII.
Speaking to them this godlie personage,
Seing thei haue lacke of strenght in their eies,
For to se him, doeth couer his visage,
That so thei mai better heare the wordes his.
EXODI XXXVI. & XXV.
It is ended with all fine browderie,
On great pillers with art well measured:
At hoopes of golde hangeth the tapisserie,
With golden woorcke all the pieces figured.
EXODI XXXVII. & XXV.
The praiing place is as god hath bidded:
Towe Cherubins of an worke excellent,
Ʋnder the arche with a riche crowne girded,
To laie therin the lawes of testament.
EXODI XXXVII. & XXV.
Of the same are all the vases, and the table
Wherin the bread is of proposition:
Euen so as god of the worcke admirable,
Frome point to point mad clear declaration.
EXODI XXXVII. & XXV.
The candellstycke of pure golde is hanged,
Ther for to light in the sanctuarie,
Wiche with fiue braunches to their riche stocke ioned,
Seuen tapers holde for luminarie.
EXODI XXXVII. & XXX.
An altar mad (coured with golde) four squarre,
Towise mor high kiping good proportion:
Allwaies smocking vpon swete perfumes are,
Wherof god maketh the right composition.
EXODI XXXVIII. & XXVII.
The altar then is mad of sacrifice,
With brasse coured, in pieces thinne and small:
All instrumentes to that meete, and propice,
As pottes, gredirons, brandirons, caudrons withall.
EXODI XXXIX. & XXVIII.
Of Aaron the garment the high priest
Is finisshed, acording goddes bidding:
And so well mad that non fairer mai list,
For to shewe plain, that it is goddes finding.
EXODI XL.
Moses maketh the holie hallowing,
With all deacking of the Sanctuarie:
With oile maketh the godlie anointing,
For goddes bidding it is ordinarie.
EXODI XL.
Being ended of the Sanctuarie
The worcke, then ther goddis highnes doeth light
In ronde about, and aboue doeth tarie
Be dai couring it, a cloude faire in sight,
EXODI XL.
Ended the dai, anon it doeth become
In shining fire, and a light most goodlie:
Wiche missing not euen as the night is come,
Burning sparcleth, about the place holie,
EXODI XL.
When Israel seeth the cloude awai moue,
And that leauing the holie place doeth part:
Sodainlie thence doeth vncampe and remoue,
And folowe it, wether it goeth the part.
ENDE.
LEVITICI IX.
A fyre coming from god and skie aboue,
The sacrifice vtterlie doeth deuoore:
Israel this seing falleth down with loue
Praiseth his god, and woorshippeth at that hoore.
LEVITICI X.
Nadab with him Abiu a fire straunge,
To the lorde god against his will do offer:
Wherfor angrie doeth ield them both their chaunge:
For painfull death with heauens fire do suffer
LEVITICI X.
Their both bodies dead (most fearfull spestacle)
Moses causeth be men in readines
To be cast out, fare frome the tabernacle,
For so to be an exempell sport les.
LEVITICI XXIIII.
Moses causeth to be stoned a ionge man,
With false witnesse proued a blasphemer:
Fare from their camp the people to him ranne,
To kippe the law of their deare redemer.
DEVTERON. XXXIIII.
God sheweth then the good prophete Moses,
Fortelling him of his liue the passage,
All the cornels of the lande be promes:
Wiche he doeth se frome Nebo mount at large.
IVDICVM III.
For Israel to put in his fredome,
Eioth Eglon slaied, king full of richesse:
Be this Moab the burden in his rome
Of Israel bearing, doeth him oppresse.
IVDICVM IIII.
Towentie ieres wholl Sisure prouoker stoute,
Sor Israel did pursue, and assaill:
But him hydding ones not sure, and in doute,
Iahel his head came to perce with a naill.
IVDICVM VII.
When Gedeon behilde throw the waters,
Thre hundred full of his men to be drond,
In their handes laid trompettes, both and tapers:
So victorie on his enmies he fond.
IVDICVM IX.
Hauing killed his bretherne on a stone,
Abimelech was forced ielde the ghoast:
For besieging with sor warre Thebes, anon
A strocke he had, of a woman with lost.
IVDICVM XV.
Be Sanson stronge at some foxes tailles wer tied
Fagettes burning, wherof troubled did starre
The Phijistins, left awai go vntied
Be suche a meane, that all corne thei did marre.
IVDICVM XV.
A thousande men with a chickebone did kill
Of a dead asse Sanson, wiche frome thesame
Seeth spring water, wherof he drinketh his fill,
When to his helpe god calleth him, and his name.
RVTH II.
Of Booz wheat Ruth began to gather,
And nigh to him is she so bolde to come:
The good Booz vittals bidde to giue her:
Then she so wife, willeth his wif become.
I. REGVM XVI.
The wicked sprit entring in the bodie
Of kinge Saül, for sor him to tourment:
Dauid plaing, with swete a melodie
Diuinlie mad him awai to absent.
I. REGVM XIX.
Micol Dauid to be killed fearing,
Faineth sicknes a bed kepe him, and binde:
Then an image all hearie ther laing,
Thinketh to chaunge of the king the same minde.
I. REGVM XXIIII.
Dauid willeth not, auenge him of his kinge,
Allthought it laieth in his power vtterlie:
Onlie on him the great daunger hanging,
Of him in care, sheweth him faithfullie.
I. REGVM XXXI.
Saül seing his thre childerne beslain,
His warriars all, and the bataill be lost,
Being wonded, feareth prisonner remain:
Wherfor his lif, with his hande did him cost.
II. REGVM XIII.
Ammon forced Thamar his one sister:
Absalon then, for the ded detestable
Mad a banquet, wher he coming after,
Was ther then slaied, of his men, at his table.
II. REGVM XVII.
Of treason sheweth the false talking coured
Achitophel, that Dauid innocent
Absalon taketh, but all is discoured:
Wherfor for fear, straight to hange himself went.
II. REGVM XVIII.
Absalon is for his wickednes paied:
For god permitteth, willing nomor forbeare,
That be the heares hanged remaining staied,
Ioab causeth him die, with strockes of speare.
II. REGVM XX.
Ioab befor the stronge towne of Abele,
The dwellers in did somme, and warne them last,
To ielde to him Siba false, and rebell:
Whose hed anon, to them in he did cast.
III. REGVM II.
Salomon knoweth Ioab vnfaithfullnes:
Wherfor angrie, with his mouth doeth comande,
To death bitter to be put, with cruelnes,
Allthought touching goddis altar doeth stande,
III. REGVM X.
The quene cometh frome Saba, for to heare
Salomon kinge, and his diuin conning:
Wiche being hard, wonderfull did apeare:
Presentes therfor riche mad, him fauouring.
III. REGVM XIII.
Obeissing man, mor then his god aboue,
Fed his bodie a prophete in Bethel:
But in the waie, when thence he did remoue,
Was put to death, with a wilde beast cruell.
III. REGVM XVI.
Therse being rond about besieged,
Zambri maing not no wise awai tourne,
Durst assaut none suffer, sor affliged:
Wherfor himself in his palaice doeth burne.
III. REGVM XVII.
When on the earth, no rain god did release,
In the torrent of Carith drancke Helie
With tow rauans, as to god it did please,
Were bread and win, to him brought faithfullie.
III. REGVM XVII.
Praing his god Helie mad to reliue
Be diuin power the childe of his hostesse:
Wiche beholding, her childe to be aliue,
A holie man him to be, did confesse.
III. REGVM XIX.
In wildernes Helie seeth an Aungell,
Water, and bread shewing him, in that whill:
Be whose vertue, after he hath eate well,
Cometh to the top of Oreb goddis hill.
IIII. REGVM IIII.
Helise did the people pacifie,
When honger sor did him vexe, and moleste:
With litle bread did him so satisfie,
That encreasing, therof had some of rest.
IIII. REGVM VI.
The Siriens brought Helise all blinded
Of god into Samarie, then hartlesse:
Then do we se how god wolde, and minded
That left thei were go, together harmelesse.
IIII. REGVM IX.
Iehu seing Iezabel be kepth fast
Within a towr, broken of her high minde,
Her bodie down caused thence to be cast:
Wher deuoored was, of dogges, in her kinde.
IIII. REGVM XIII.
To be buried is laied a man sterke deade,
Within the tombe of Helise prophete:
Wiche as the bones he toucheth listeth his heade,
And reliued, riseth straight on his feete.
IIII. REGVM XVII.
Israel is kept fast in Assirie:
But the wicked, wiche on god no trust sette.
On Israel holding all Samarie,
Ar put to death, with leons fiers, without lette.
IIII. REGVM XIX.
The Assiriens, thinking be their great deedes,
Hierusalem to force, with mightie hande:
The Aungell did, being then at their sides,
Slain a hundred, fiue and fiftie thousande.
IIII. REGVM XIX.
Of the Hebreus the great persecutour
Sennacherib, worshipping his Idole
Slain was, without other executour,
But his childerne, drawen into monopole.
IIII. REGVM XX.
Ezechias sicke a bed in great smart,
Was be Esaie warned of death so stronge:
Then he pràied god fearfull, with all his hart,
Wiche healed him, and his lif did prolonge.
IIII. REGVM XXII.
The holie law, in the boocke conserued,
Red is befor Iosias king of might,
Wiche willeth sure, that it be obserued:
So mindeth walke fautles in his goddes sight.
IIII. REGVM XXV.
All wicked deedes are then awai tourned,
When Iosias walketh in holines:
On the altars the false priestes are burned:
For what god hateth, he seeth with werines.
TOBIAE I.
Keping Tobie prisonner men wicked,
Neuerthelesse his god beareth in minde
So feruentlie, that in his hart sticked,
Woorckes of mercie to shew of eurie kinde.
TOBIAE VI.
The childe Tobie holdeth fast in his hande
This so great fisshe, putting him in surtie:
Then him clensing wiselie he doeth demande
Of Raphael, his owne true propertie.
TOBIAE VIII.
Tobie putteth of the same fisshe the gall
The colles vpon, and to god doeth trust sure:
Wherfor Sara to his wifletting fall,
Bond the Aungell, the enmie of nature.
TOBIAE XI.
His good father reioissing verie olde,
With a good zeale Tobie at his coming,
A will the gall on his eies he doeth holde
Of this his fisshe, thence his sight restoring.
IVDITH XIII.
Holophernes with Iudith is in loue,
But she anon paied him for his follie:
For as he was droncke, that he colde not moue,
She killed him, deliuring Bethulie.
HESTHER VII. & VIII.
With Assuere Hester in fauour come,
Saued from death all the people Ie wisshe:
Mad hange Aman, wicke wolde hange in his rome
Good Mardoche, most wicked and piuisshe.
IOB II.
Yet that Sathan with leaue and licencie
Of god stracke Iob, with extreme affliction:
Neuerthelesse his manlie paciencie
Mad to apeere his diuin perfection.
EZECH. XXXVII.
Ezechiel in the fildes disioined
Saw bones manie, wiche as his minde did giue,
Were all anon eche to other ioined
With stronge sinous, full of flesshe, and of liue.
DANIELIS III.
The thre childerne woorshippe not the Idole:
Wherfor a liue ar thrust in the fornace:
Down the Aungell cometh that doeth them console,
Harmelesse frome fire, keping them in that place.
DANIELIS V.
Balthasar seeth a hande and doeth beholde,
Ʋpon a wall writting his mishappe:
For he drinking in the temples vases to bold,
To leese anon his kingdome doeth not scappe.
DANIELIS XIIII.
In Babilone worshipped the dragon,
Of Daniel is with meanes sure mete withall:
For a morsell, wiche to deuoore is gon,
Casting to him, bursted, and dead did fall.
DANIELIS XIIII.
Frome the leons deane is Daniel saue brought out,
God permitting him receaue no outrage:
His enmies all in a sore feare be put,
And in his sted deuoured, with great rage.
IONAE II.
Ionas thinking frome his God for to flie,
On sea sailling, ther came suche a tempest,
That the shippmen him did cast in boldlie:
Wherfor anon the water was in rest.
IONAE II. & III.
Daies and nightes thre in her bodie the whall
Ionas did kepe, and then coost him to lande:
Where of his god heare did the voice to call,
Wiche him go preshe, to Niniue dit commande,
IONAE III.
Criing Ionas that god willeth subuert
Niniue, then thei do penitencie make:
Kinges, and subiectes men se them to conuert,
To god mightie, wiche his vengeaunce kepeth backe.
II. MACHAB. III.
Wonderfull is the heauie punition,
Wiche frome the skie cometh stricke Geliadore:
When the treasure to robe taketh commission
Wiche goddes temple doeth both deacke, and decore.
II. MACHAB. VII.
Seuen bretherne ar put to death bitter,
Keping the law of god, with deuotion:
So is with them their godlie deare mother,
Wiche bringeth them, to the execution.