The Infancy of the World, Hymn – Song
A Hymne in Commemoration of the Gun-powder Treason.
NOw the grisly God of Hell,
With his …onsters, fierce and fell,
Which in pitchy Cev…rns dwell
Enter into consultation:
And the Devil's Imp… th… [Pope,]
And the Catholicks which grope
In the dark…, doe greatly hope
For to see our desolation.
E're our Queen Elizabet…
Had resign'd her latest …
Men and Devils undern…
Met to hatch a horrid treason.
Garnet moves the King of Spaine
To invade: King James his reigne
New begun makes him refrain
That designe b'ing rul'd by reason.
Seditious Catesby he recit…s
To Winter, what he had as lights,
From Parsons and the J…sui…,
On which the Powder-plo… was grounded.
These Ca…almes with their c…mplices
(Foes to vertue, … to …)
Swear to hide …e …n…prizes
Which sh…ll be to them propounded.
Powd…r-Barreis thirty six;
(Billet-wood and faggot sticks
For to colour it) they fix,
In a Cellar that was voyd.
This conspir'd to overthrow
King and Kingdome at a blow,
What to do they faine would know,
Faux a villaine they employ'd.
A letter sent to th' Lord Mounteagle,
To discontent did him inveigle,
The King, like a Majestick Eagle,
Saw with his ju…men…s peircing eye;
And … …he … …and
(… the word… ha… wisely scan'd)
The … c…u…d not understand,
The … sense he did disery.
The King commands, they search about,
For to remove suspitious doubt;
At last they find the traytor out,
With a dark lanthorn in his h…nd.
The plo…'s reveal'd, and al their aims
His gratious goodness God proclaime…,
In saving thus our soveraine James
And all the Nobles of the land,
Oh what for us the Lord hath wrought,
He, he hath rescu'd us, and brought
All our foes fond atempts to nought?
Bloody mindes have bloody ends.
In the secret-hidden snare,
Which for us they did prepare,
They themselves intangled are;
Powder plotters powder rends.
They that did our deaths conspire,
And did very much desire
We might dance in shets of fir…,
Their plots found out, they fled our coasts.
Some of them did a halter stretch,
Guy Faux▪ a brazen-faced wretch,
Had's head er…cted on a cratch:
Glory be to the Lord of Hoasts.
Thrice blessed be this day, may not
Th… unaccomplish'd Powder-plot,
By any Christians be forgot.
O joyfull joyfull holy day!
Let Bells in ev'ry Steeple ring,
And ev'ry sort of people sing,
And boyes their squibs and crackers fling,
And bone-fires bea…ny light display.
Let all of us with one accord
Extoll and magnifie the Lord;
Who to this Island did afford
So great, so straing deliverance!
O sing we all waies to his prayse,
Sweet Sonnets Hymnes and Lirick-Layes,
Who doth preserve his Church alwaies,
Praise God my soul, his praise advance.
GENETHLIACON, OR A Birth-song, in honor of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ his coming into the World.
1.
FRom the skies Night slideth down;
Cloathed in a sable gown;
And her drowsie head doth crown,
With a Poppy Coronet:
Muffling up her scar-crow face;
Holding forth a Leeden Mace;
Thus she o're the world doth trace;
With bright Sentinells beset.
2.
Now the Magi from a farr
From the Eastern borders are
Lead by th' lustre of a Starr,
To the place where Jesus lay:
They, soon e're they him behold,
Present presents manifold,
Myrrhe and frankincense, and gold,
And in praises spend the day.
3.
And it hapned thus, that near
Unto Bethlehem, there were
Faithfull Shepherds, who with care
Tended on their fleecy fold:
Least that their flock-leading Rams,
And the pretty baing Lambs,
Should be whoried with their dams,
For the Foxes were too bold.
4.
Suddenly, a glorious light,
Chas'd away the purblinde night;
And from Heav'n an Angel bright
To the Shepheards did appear;
W…hile their fleecy people graz'd,
At this prodigy they gaz'd,
And no little were amaz'd,
For their hearts did shake with fear.
5.
From the bosom of a cloud,
Heavens Herald did unshroud,
This Embassy out aloud,
Fear nor shepheards; Lo this morn.
The glad tidings which I bring,
Shall give you just cause to sing,
For to you, to you, a King,
And a blessed Saviour's born:
6.
There, where princly David sway'd
He which the worlds ground-work laid,
Born is of a Mother-Maid,
And involv'd in swad'ling clouts:
Ever after shall all nations,
In succeeding generations,
Fill the heav'ns with acclamations,
And the earth with joyfull shouts.
7.
He which is inestemable,
And to doe all things is able,
Is inclos'd within a stable,
Cradled in a silly manger:
Where the stalled Ox hath fed,
There your Saviour lays h…s head,
And a lock of straw's his bed,
Go Swains, entertain the strang
8.
When the Angel held his tongue,
An heav'nly Hoast of Angels sung,
(That the valted Regions rung)
For they warb'led out most shrill,
This harmonious mellody:
Glory be to God on high,
Peace unto the earth be nigh,
And unto mankind good will.
9.
Praised be Gods holy name,
Let the world his praise proclaime,
Happy time, wherein we came
For to tend upon our fold:
We are now redeem'd from hell,
We that from our maker sell,
We, curs'd we, that did rebell,
Was there better news e're told.
10.
Pretious Balm from Gilead springs,
Unto us a Saviour brings,
Healing in his balmy wings;
Unto us a Son is given.
We will carol songs of praise,
Eucha…ists, and Roud-delaie…,
On her Ho-boies all our daies.
To the Emperour of heaven.
11.
What we with our ears have heard,
Hath unto our eyes appear'd,
And shall be abroad decalr'd,
By our mouths. O blessed birth!
O! what God for us hath done,
He hath sent his only Son,
By whose loss we shall be won!
Here is cause indeed of mir…h.
12.
Glory be to thee the Lord,
Who according to thy word,
Such rich mercy dost afford,
As is treasured up in Jesus,
O how doth our joy abound,
May'… in ev'ry corner sound,
We are lost, but shall be found,
We are pain'd, but Christ will ease us!
Soul.
A Saviour is born;
And is he born for me?
Me; what? for me forlorn?
O love beyond degree!
Christ.
These sides shall feel the spear;
Blood shall my sides run down:
Soul, I the cross will bear;
And thou shalt wear the crown.
Soul.
Though the dull earth aspire,
And sprightly flames descend:
Yet shall my heart my Lyre,
Praise thee without AN END