[Poems from Sussex, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), 'Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.']

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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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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The whiche by wordes synce preachers knoo

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

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

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

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

And envye fynde as he hath sought

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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

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

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

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

Endured hartes no warninge feele

Oh shamelesse whore is dread then gon

By suche thie foes as meantt thie weale

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Oh menbre of falce Babylon menbre =membre; membre A

The shopp of crafte, the den of yre

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

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

When none thie ruyne shall bemone

But render vnto the rightuous lord

That so hath iudged Babylon

Immortall prayse with one accorde

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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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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Whose tourne to serve in his poore neede / this worke thow first began

Or whate is Adames sonne / that beares his fathers marke

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

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

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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

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

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

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

Clottid in one, did'st part in fowre / whiche Elementes wee cleape

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And as the same is now / even heare within our tyme

And ever shall heare-after be / when we be filth and slyme

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Exaudi Deus orationem meam. Ps: 55.

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

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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

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

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

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

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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'

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

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

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

Who thoughe force had hurt my fame, they did not touche my lif

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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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Domine deus salutis. Psal: [8]8

88] 98 H, A

O Lorde vppon whose will / dependith my welfare

To call vppon thie hollie name / syns day nor night I spare

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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

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

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

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

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

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Nor suche set forth thie praise as dwell / in the land of dispaire praise] faith A, faieth 1549

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

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

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

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

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