The true and lively histoRYKE PURTREATURES OF THE WOLL BIBLE.  
QVOD TIBI FIERI NON VISUS, ALTERI NE FACERIS  
AT LIONS, BY JEAN OF TOURNES. M.D.LIII   

TO THE RIGTH WORSHIPFUL AND most worthy, Master Pikeling, ambassador of the king of England, Peter derendel peace, and felicity.  
I Know, mi most discreet and virtuous Master, that some among other shall be fond, ready to blame this work, bringing for them, that no need it was of such purtreatures, sith we have at liberty themself stories, wherein we may much better know the pure truth reading the whole, then to stay at a thing uncertain and drawn at pleasure: Some other shall be (know I well) which shall endeavour themselves to sai, that it is a thing openly forbidden be the law of God, and allthought the strong and faithful may without ani danger behold them, using thereof after their own good discretion, that nevertheless, being sen of the weak and simple, it may be unto them occasion of fall: Other likewise that, sith the hearing above all our five natural wits most divine is alone needful to salvation, wherewith we, as with an instrument meet, must take and receive the promesses of God offered and presented unto us in the holy scriptures, contenting ourselves we should red them, with understanding thereto required, and undertake no further. To whom we, willing most feign them satisfy, answer: that, all be it the letter well understanded giveth plain and perfette knowledge of the things, neverbethelesse the true and lively purtreatures and representations thereof may be, and (to say better) are good and profitable means, wherbe we may shirtlie and with ease, kippe and grave in mind the whole meaning of it, wiche otherwise without often reading, and with much weariness of wit might easily be forgotten being unto us in stead of true, clear, and manifest arguments of the whole subject. For what a mean more shirt, sure, and with no little pleasure easy might any man find, to teach his children, and such as are not sen in the Bible withal, then to show them, the stories well drawn, and lively pourteated nothing laking thereto, but all things therein set out entirely, afterward declaring them holly that, which they represent? Or what greater a pleasure, and recreation of mind might a studious man have, knowing all ready the stories, and being well used, and sen therein, the 2 to see presently before his eyes the things self, which he had red to be passed long before, the figure and the letter coming, and agreeing so well, that they seem properly to be none other, but one self thing, disagreeing only in this, that the story telleth things all ready passed, the which the figure as calling back to the present, showeth plainly with all evidency to the eye. Now as for that which the other might say, that to draw and pourtreate is forbidden unto us be the law and commandment of God, I grant that, for to worship it, if then the weacke and simple (as they say) do fall, that is to be imputed to them, not the figures: sith so much lack that they bring and provoke to idolatry, that rather they turn clean away from it, putting before the eyes the sore punishments and pains, wherewith the children of Israel were punished, when they committed such an abominable deed: As fore the rest, they may se therein, but all exemples of good and holy living, that is to wit, how god hath all ways been ready to help, and bear favour to such as did walk rigthlie in his paths and ways: contrariwise grievously to punish them, which rebel unto him would none other, but follow their own will, and wicked mind: to be shirt they may learn every where therein to fly, and eschew sin, and with good address to follow virtue. As for the third, truth is that be the hearing needs we must receive the faith: jet nevertheless in her degree the sight is greatly required, and needful, therewith to know God's glory and magnificency in his works, considered in the beginning he mad heaven and earth, with other visible works, according our capacity showing, and manifesting himself unto us, to the end, that be this mean we might come to the knowledge of him, and seeing plain, that such his works were far more than of man, might know likewise that it behoved the worckman thereof to be without any compareson mor excellent than any man was. If therefore be the means of the eye we come to so a high and divine knowledge, I can think none other, but that in this it be good and profitable so that we will not abuse thereof, the which thing might also hap of the hearing. For who cold let any man, that should hear tell or read some story never so godly or should tell or read it himself, to imagine some idolatry in his mind? and that is liekwise against the law and commandment of God, being not only exterior, but also interior. If theniwil so bring and call back things passed, red and heard in the true, and holy stories of the old Testament, that the eye may also enjoy thereof, of a truth the intention and mind, nor the end also, may be but good, and godly. The which things with myself right well considered, I have thought it meet to endeavour myself to translate the argument of each figure in English metre, being likewise put in six other languages, to the intent that the country, wherein I had been nourrisshed and brought up, should in no wise remain bastard alone, his tongue kipping her place among other, ready to bring him lick commodity. This therefore be me undertaken and ended, kipping every wherlicke measure, the third person active of the Present, with the Aoriste, likewise the Participle passive of the preterit at discretion, as commonly in the speech is used, the contractions also of the tongue observed, moreover in the Orthographye leaving y to the greek words, using of our own, as I thought it meet and conventent, I being of the French nation, for mi safeguard and the works, have fond none more sure, than iou mi virtuous master presupposed that ie borne in the country, to the which naturally am affectionate, are at this time Ambassador toward the King of mi natural land, doubting no wise, but if iou will vouchsafe to take in band to kippe it a little and defend, under the buckler of iour favour, that without any lost, or damage shall remain will, and harmless. For I know right well, that iour good judgement is in so great a reputation with every one, that witherwar die shall draw, all without any withstanding will follow iou. Truth is, that the work is unworthy to compear before iour Master ship, so much laketh that iou ought to receive it, neverhethlesse it shall plense iou, to look a little upon the good affection, and mind wherewith it is presented: and so doing ie shall encourage me to give meself hereafter to that thing, which, may be, shall be better worth, to the service of iour mastership, whose lowly and humble servant I am, and shall be.   

THE PRINTER TO THE READER.  
THE affection mine all ways toward the heartly earnest, loving reader, being continually commanded of the duty of mi profession, may not but daily go about to satisfy the in this, which thou desirest and lookest for in mi vacation, the which, to may please thee, I would it were to mi mind so f●…e acd licentious stretched at large, as it is be the mishap of the time restrained. Restrained it is truly, not of itself, but for the diversity of the brains of this day, some tender and delicate, the other to rude, and gross, and the last to strangely different from them both, scrupulous, and obstinate: so that without danger, or scandal, i may not delecte the with the same things which for the are more required, to the contentation of the part harder to be contended, as the mor tickling, which is the spirit. For whose delectation I may not but confess, that the holy scripture is the chief of all the other. And because that in this part, wiche therewith may edify us, I may not (as I said) well reioisse thee, I did look to please the with the other, that bringeth up, which is the representation of the holy Bible, to the end that, if tow maiest●ot enjoy the letter so freely, as thou wouldest this●f, thou mayest tapisse sure the chambers of thy mi●de and remembrance with the figures thereof, and mor honestly, after us, than thou dost the chanbres, and halls of thy house with ethnic stores, thus evil becoming the faithful. And when it were but for a witness, and to bring the to mnde, that all the old testament was but the image, and figure of this, which we hold, I have would feign figure it the here: to the intent also, that, having often before thin eyes, the story of the holy patriarchs living, tow mayest so well conform thine at their example, that it may be to the fulfilling of gods will, and thy salvation, So be it.   

GENESIS I.  
 

God the heaven mad in the beginning,  
The earth and sea withal in perfectness,  
The moon and son in the sky bright shining,  
Adam after mad to his one likeness.    

GENESIS II.  
 

With living ghost god mad Adam to live,  
Permitting him to maintain in his breath:  
To eat of all except the fruit of live,  
Wiche did forbid under the pain of death.    

GENESIS II.  
 

A heavy sleep 〈◊〉 Adam god did cast,  
Then from his sid a rib of his plucking:  
Therewith lightly Eve his wife formed chaste,  
And before him laid her at his waking.    

GENESIS III.  
 

To Eve is come the serpent malicious  
Full quick, and so right busy about here,  
Soon worcked, that (of their good envious)  
The fruit forbid they eat both together.    

GENESIS III.  
 

This fruit anon their both eyes clear opened:  
Wherefore a shame so to show their nature,  
A figgers leaves plucking nigh them joined  
To their bodies, making so coverture.    

GENESIS III.  
 

God then knowing such crafty deception,  
Adam called roughly and sore chidding:  
His curse them gave and his malediction,  
For despising of his holy bidding.    

GENESIS III.  
 

God each of them with a garment of skin  
Clothed, driveth out the fair place of pleasure:  
Then of the fruit the waikipech Cherubin:  
Wherefore with death pursued are anon sure.    

GENESIS III.  
 

With much drooping and sweat of his visage,  
Eateth Adam his bread new and modern:  
Eve in sorrow and care of her menage,  
giveth out great cries bringing fourth of children.    

GENESIS FOUR  
 

Cain cursed first of man's bloodshedder,  
Therewith sicking his one malediction,  
Of envy full smiting slayeth his brother:  
Wherefore loseth all hope of redemption.    

GENESIS VI & VII.  
 

God the deluge to Noah doth forsai●…  
Commanding him the arch to build and do:  
Then to get in with his such as doth say:  
For all mankind with waters willeth undo.    

GENESIS VII.  
 

Of the sky scluses let all their waters skip,  
And lift in air the arch to the clouds plain,  
Five moths and more on their waves do her kippe:  
Then whence they came they go all strait again.    

GENESIS VIII.  
 

The arch cometh on Armenies the hill:  
Perished is all truth the whole world ronde,  
No alone with his alive resteth still,  
Wiche dead backward findeth euri thing stark dronde.    

GENESIS VIII.  
 

A land come down an altar buildeth to pray,  
With pure cattle he maketh immolation:  
God doth promise that never of live day,  
No man se shall such other mondation.    

GENESIS IX.  
 

Sealing this peace god in the sky doth lay,  
The rain bow his, and that token them give:  
Then all blessed forbiddeth them to slay,  
In any wise no man that is alive.    

GENESIS IX.  
 

I'm cursed is of Noah his father,  
Wiche drunk leaveth him uncoured frowardly:  
Sem then sorry with laphet his brother,  
Cover him go strait there where he doth lie.    

GENESIS XI.  
 

Nembroth the strong to make speak of his name,  
Babel the tour buildeth with great estages:  
But god breacking and dissiping the same,  
Confounded all his men in their languages.    

GENESIS XII.  
 

from his country Abraham doth him part.  
God bidding him with all felicity,  
To go away to Chanaan the part,  
Wiche doth promise to his posterity.    

GENESIS XIII.  
 

cattle and goods so much Abraham have,  
And Loath also on the earth feeding there:  
That their shepherd's do their best and do brave,  
To make sore war among them together.    

GENESIS XIII.  
 

Wherefore leaving the place of Chanaan,  
Loth be counsel separeth him shirtlie:  
With all his goods there leaving Abraham  
Cometh to dwell in Sodom willingly.    

GENESIS XIIII.  
 

Melchisedech the high priest and good king,  
Bread wine bringeth him then his benediction:  
Of the booties which Abraham doth bring,  
To him he giveth the decimes in portion.    

GENESIS XVI.  
 

Abraham then Agar without faintise  
Knoweth in deed, be Saras own counsel:  
Great that she is here mastresse doth despise:  
Wherefore great so must fly with much travail.    

GENESIS XVII.  
 

God his Angel within the wilderness  
Sendeth, telling her go themself humilie  
Agar before thy dame and good masters:  
For thy children I will sure multiply.    

GENESIS XVII.  
 

God Abraham plainly doth certify,  
To have a son with him great possession:  
To beget kings in his own progeny:  
Then him commandeth do the circoncision.    

GENESIS XVIII.  
 

Of Sodomis the three Angels forsai,  
To Abraham the fearful eversion:  
For their strange vice he doth unto god prai:  
Whereof he hath pity nor compassion.    

GENESIS XIX.  
 

The Sodomites, the Angels to take still,  
The door of loath will break also down trow:  
But disloging with loath punish their will,  
And false desire, causing them overthrow.    

GENESIS XIX.  
 

The Angels strait led loath out of Sodom,  
His wife also and daughters far of sight  
Of heavens fire that Sodomites consomme:  
Of salt loathes wife becometh statu bright.    

GENESIS XIX.  
 

Lot's daughters to save his seed withal,  
Within a holl mad him drunk purposedly:  
Wiche to his blood taking no heed at all,  
With each of them meddleth most pleasantly.    

GENESIS XX.  
 

Abimelech willeth be force detain,  
From Abraham his dear and wedded wife:  
But god him doth to restore here again,  
Threatening of him to end the wicked life.    

GENESIS XXI.  
 

Sara complaineth of Ishmael sporting  
With her dear son Isaac every day:  
But Abraham strife and noise eschewing,  
Agar anon with her child driveth away.    

GENESIS XXI.  
 

Agar her son, in the wild woods weeping  
Under a tree layeth, of thirst willing die:  
Godis Angel of them the voice hearing,  
showeth her a weal her child to satisfy.    

GENESIS XXII.  
 

Abraham willeth for to please gods highness,  
Of his dear son to make immolation:  
But god knowing his wont true righteousness,  
Maketh him to leave such an execution.    

GENESIS XXIII.  
 

In Hebrom land Sara endeth her last day:  
Abraham payeth the sepulchre truly  
To Ephron ionge wherein doth her right lai  
The good old man mourning most bitterly.    

GENESIS XXIIII.  
 

Here bucket fair up Rebecca doth hold,  
The servant drinketh therein all with his ease:  
Rebecca then jet to water is bold  
His tene camels the better him to please.    

GENESIS XXIIII.  
 

As in the filled Isaac walketh loocking,  
Cometh Rebecca from Mesopotamie:  
On his camels the servant doth her bring,  
Of Isaac to be the wife semie.    

GENESIS XXV.  
 

Full of long days the own debt of nature  
payeth Abraham, and dieth veri sweetly:  
His good children within the sepulture  
Nigh be Sara do lay him for to lie.    

GENESIS XXV.  
 

Of Rebecca are borne all together  
The twines maimed Esau and jacob:  
The wick holdeth be the foot his brother,  
When they brought fourth in haste do wail and sob.    

GENESIS XXV.  
 

from the filled cometh Esau a hunger,  
And his brother jacob selleth and maketh sure,  
For certain meat that he eateth a sunder.  
(Wherefore repenteth his) primogeniture.    

GENESIS XXVI.  
 

To Palestins Isaac doth him say  
His wine's brother out of his own nation:  
Abimelech seeing them both to play  
Through a window, blameth the said fiction.    

GENESIS XXVI.  
 

Isaac doth (while the dearth is) remain  
In Palestine, his flocks make good increase:  
Wherefore envied Abimelech taketh pain,  
Stried his waters, to drive him out with ease.    

GENESIS XXVI.  
 

Abimelech of Isaac hath mind,  
 that god favoureth him greatly,  
And peace with him with an oath he doth bind,  
Allthought he hath handled him most roughly.    

GENESIS XXVII.  
 

Esaü loseth his dear benediction,  
Be Rebecca counsel his own mother:  
Wiche doth so well led the simulation,  
That to jacob doth give it his father.    

GENESIS XXVIII.  
 

Alader seeth jacob from earth alone  
Touching the sky, Angels thereon passing,  
Slombring that while the head upon a stone:  
God then apeereth to him much promising.    

GENESIS XXIX.  
 

Rachel leading here sheep to the water,  
jacob the weal doth uncover upon  
Then here kissing, and doth so work aster.  
That her he weedeth with her sister anon.    

GENESIS XXX.  
 

Baren Rachel a long time doth remain:  
Often therefore to jacob maketh her moan:  
But god mighty setteh her out of this pain,  
For she bringeth fourth joseph child of her own.    

GENESIS XXXI.  
 

jacob leaving Laban soon cometh away,  
Rachel softly her idol taketh with her:  
Laban after goeth and cerche them that day:  
But findeth nothing wherefore kisseth them both ther.    

GENESIS XXXII.  
 

Considering their ancient strife and old,  
jacob seeing Esau in doubt cometh,  
Assuring him the Aurgell with him bold,  
Wrestleth plain, wherefore crepell becometh.    

GENESIS XXXIIII.  
 

But of jacob the children it permit  
Will not Sichem without circoncision,  
And without doubt their father do promitte,  
To fulfil it for their last conclusion.    

GENESIS XXXVII.  
 

joseph the child to his brother doth tell  
All the dreams his, wherefore they without rest  
Envious are, and to see him do swell,  
Of their father knowing him loved best.    

GENESIS XXXVII.  
 

Reuben telleth them that he willeth not defill  
Hands, with the blood of non of his brethren:  
But if it pleaseth, that his clothes take they will,  
And so cast him into the old cistern.    

GENESIS XXXVI.  
 

To slay him quite judas doth not consent,  
But to sell him to merchants willeth obei:  
To whom passing that wai they all content  
Do sell him strait, for good ready money.    

GENESIS XXXVII.  
 

jacob seeing sent to him from the filled,  
Of his dear son so berayed the garment:  
Thinking to be, with some of the beasts wild,  
All devoored, sore doth mourn and lament.    

GENESIS XXXVIII.  
 

judas away goeth see his sheep to shear,  
Thamar knoweth it, wiche him deceive would ,  
Disguising her, fair clothes on her doth wear,  
And leaveth mourning then goeth him tarry for.    

GENESIS XXXVIII.  
 

judas mad her of a fate kid promise  
To lie with her, and of him gage she held:  
Then of Phares unknown the crastines,  
And of Zaram, in wai gate her with child.    

GENESIS XXXVIII.  
 

Of all his flock a fair fate kid milking  
Bindeth judas, and to her doth it send,  
His man find her jet in the filled thinking:  
But fond is not there about at the end.    

GENESIS XXXVIII.  
 

For to burn her judas did pursue on  
After Thamar, knowing her sure with child:  
Then is forced strait to leave her alone:  
When she showing the gage plain he behold.    

GENESIS XXXVIII.  
 

judas away goeth see his sheep to shear,  
Thamar knoweth it, wiche him deceive would ,  
Disguising her, fair clothes on her doth wear,  
And leaveth mourning then goeth him tarry for.    

GENESIS XXXVIII.  
 

judas mad her of a fate kid promise  
To lie with her, and of him gage she held:  
Then of Phares unknown the crastines,  
And of Zaram, in wai gate her with child.    

GENESIS XXXVIII.  
 

Of all his flock a fair fate kid milking  
Bindeth judas, and to her doth it send,  
His man find her jet in the filled thinking:  
But fond is not there about at the end.    

GENESIS XXXVIII.  
 

For to burn her judas did pursue on  
After Thamar, knowing her sure with child:  
Then is forced strait to leave her alone:  
When she showing the gage plain he behold.    

GENESIS XXXVIII.  
 

Be the merchants in to egypt is brought  
The good joseph, detaïned be envy:  
Wiche for money of Phutifar is bought,  
Of Pharaon chief of gendarmery.    

GENESIS XXXIX.  
 

Be his chaste clock his masters doth him draw  
To lay with him, joseph willeth not consent:  
Wherefore crying said, when so fast him saw,  
joseph it was, that with force take her meant.    

GENESIS XXXIX.  
 

Wherefore (hard of Phutifar, this saying  
That she maintaineth in liing veritable)  
All in a rage of rest taketh nothing,  
Till that he be prisonner miserable.    

GENESIS XL.  
 

Tow prisoners their dreams all did declare:  
The meaning told joseph as came to pass,  
Within three days that the geollers of care  
Deliured one, the other hanged was.    

GENESIS XLI.  
 

Pharaon willeth, that is dream be expound:  
The soothsayers and augurs of his land  
Hold all peace, none that can speak is fond:  
joseph therefore from prison they demand.    

GENESIS XLI.  
 

joseph declare doth the dark dreams so right  
Of Pharaon, that with his deliuring,  
Of this rich king, is then fond in the sight  
Worthy, to have of egypt the ruling.    

GENESIS XLI.  
 

Of all iowels Pharaon abonding,  
To be clothed joseph causeth and arrayed,  
Him of the world saviour be name calling,  
Maketh him of his to be worshipped and prayed.    

GENESIS XLI.  
 

To seven ieres of hunger to pouruai,  
joseph having of god the providence,  
Plenty of wheat, and meal apart doth lai,  
In seven ieres that be of abundance.    

GENESIS XLI.  
 

Be Pharaon joseph is in marriage:  
Tow children fair he hath anon aster,  
One Manasses, in the floor of his age,  
Then Ephraim, which followed the other,    

GENESIS XLII.  
 

They do find in putting out their forment,  
All their money, wherefore their fear is more:  
For good joseph jacob is in torment,  
For Simeon, and Benjamin mourneth sore.    

GENESIS XLIII.  
 

joseph doth them the steward recomaunde,  
When Benjamin beholdeth before his eiene:  
Of a banquet then the meat doth command,  
For at none day he willeth with them dine.    

GENESIS XLIIII.  
 

Within their sacks, joseph jet ones again,  
All their silver and money causeth to lay:  
Within the same of Benjamin biddeth plain  
His great cup set, and then sendeth them away.    

GENESIS XLV.  
 

Benjamins' neck about both arms doth reach,  
And kisseth them all with a love amiable,  
On them weeping, recover doth the speech:  
Then Pharaon maketh joy unestimable.    

GENESIS XLVII.  
 

The Egyptians citizens with other,  
Sell their goods all to joseph, and knowledge,  
Some corn to have, but the priests asunder  
Do kippe all theirs, be kingly privilege.    

GENESIS XLIX.  
 

His towelue children joseph mad all there come:  
Then to them all gave his precious blessing,  
Ready to die, and all their time to come  
Did them reveal, be high prophetising.    

GENESIS L.  
 

Now his father joseph bringeth to Ebron,  
The which is dead, for to bury him there:  
jacob living had prayed so to be done,  
The good old man, and thereto mad him swear.    

GENESIS L.  
 

Of Pharaon in the territory  
jacob children fare abroad there do dwell:  
Dead in Egipte joseph all they bury  
Well imbaumed, in a little cornel.   
END.   

EXODI I.  
 

A new king then, joseph no wise knowing,  
Israel all did sore vex, and torment,  
Therewith shirtlie them all undo thinking:  
But them he mad mor increase, and augment.    

EXODI I.  
 

Wherefore for spit he commandeth all midwives,  
All put to death children male, that are borne:  
But fearing god these piteable, and good wives  
Lest them alive, and slain to be them sworn.    

EXODI I.  
 

Pharaon then commandeth then to be drond  
Shirtlie with speed, full of unpaciencie:  
All the folk then, that tears to poor is fond,  
Goeth to drond them, in their innocency.    

EXODI II.  
 

Moses mother of him then a bed brought,  
His dear father a while him kept and hid  
For his beauty, then him rushes among sought  
In water lai, to do as the king bid.    

EXODI II.  
 

The kings daughter fond him in great pity  
The rushes among, which to him favourable,  
As god did please, him to save thought worthy,  
His own mother giving him for nurse able.    

EXODI II.  
 

A brother his Moses seeth outraged,  
Be malicious an Egiptien damnable:  
This wrong seen, is so well avenged,  
That word to death, he hideth him in sable.    

EXODI II.  
 

Of the Hebreus tow chidding most roughly,  
Moses cometh them to rebucke, and take:  
One outrageous telleth him stubburlie,  
Wilt thou slaughter mor on me undertake?    

EXODI II.  
 

Pharaon biddeth to seek as manslaughter  
Moses abroad, strait to him kill, and slay:  
But god willeth that he leaveth that quarter,  
The kings fury better eschew to may.    

EXODI II.  
 

Their beasts coming at the weal to water  
Daughters seven, of Madian the priest,  
Of the shepherds Moses was the master,  
To will grieve them, refrening all their list.    

EXODI II.  
 

jetro after be his daughter him fet  
Sent to that place, seeing the parsonage,  
receiveth of him the promise with joy great,  
To give to him, his daughter in marriage.    

EXODI II.  
 

Dead Pharaon, Israel doth him mourn,  
Even as wounded, with extreme affliction:  
His voice of god is hard plain at that turn,  
Wiche for his pains had great a compassion.    

EXODI III.  
 

God to Moses showeth him in Oreb mount  
There in a shroobe, as flame that doth strength lack:  
Wiche coming nigh the holy place as wont,  
The shoes on feet, god maketh him to go back.    

EXODI III. & FOUR  
 

Moses is mad of Israel captain,  
Be his hands god willeth his works show strange,  
Promising him be his might high, and plain,  
To an ader his rod at will to change.    

EXODI FOUR  
 

Aaron cometh speak in the wilderness,  
As god willeth, to Moses his brother:  
Wiche blessing him biddeth him in readiness,  
To Pharaon go tell all together.    

EXODI FOUR  
 

With tokens three they showed manifest,  
Of Israel that god them thither sent,  
To bring them out, seeing them worthy best:  
Israel all thanketh god to serve him bend.    

EXODI V  
 

For Israel of his pains to soulage  
Cometh Aaron, with his brother Moses,  
Desire the king, not so grieve them nor charge:  
But mor for this the people doth oppress.    

EXODI VII.  
 

Aaron layeth before this wicked king  
This his rod down, which changeth to ader:  
Thesame also be enchanters making:  
But devooring the first killeth the other.    

EXODI VIII.  
 

Nevertheless Pharaon bursteth for spit:  
God knowing then that other willeth not do,  
Maketh springe out many frogs in Egipte,  
To infest there, the meat and drink unto.    

EXODI VIII.  
 

So forced then doth permit sacrifice  
To Israel, ceasing him do wrong:  
Moses ready apeasing the justice  
Of god mighty, maketh die the vermin sprung.    

EXODI VIII.  
 

Even as before he showeth them naughty face,  
Swelleth with wrath, taketh his false objects:  
God changeth the dust to dogs flies in that place,  
Wiche do prick him, beasts, also his subjects.    

EXODI IX.  
 

He doth repent, and falseth his promise,  
Even as before god's people doth molest:  
God causeth die, to refrain his hardness,  
Beasts every one, in his country with pest.    

EXODI IX.  
 

This heavy struck sostned his stubborn heart,  
Caused him know God, showing himself a fear:  
Moses maketh cease tempesting every part,  
Apeasing god which is for in anger.    

EXODI X.  
 

Pharaon then doth himself humilie,  
Finding at taste to bitter his own sin:  
The arms in air Moses god prayeth humbly,  
The grasshoppers to drive the red sea in.    

EXODI X.  
 

Using always these his answers terrible  
Pharaon, so the lord God doth provoke,  
That in his land a darkness most horrible  
Is be three days, all troubling without mock.    

EXODI XII.  
 

Now Israel eateth the lamb spotless,  
As god thereof hath mad the ordonance:  
Wiche the passage willeth so be known doubtless,  
In which he took of Egiptiens vengeance.    

EXODI XII.  
 

All the first borne of man, both and of best  
god's angel killeth quite out of hand,  
For the sore sins of the king manifest:  
Wherefore crieth out all the people of his land,    

EXODI XII.  
 

The Egyptians leave underfull richesses  
To Israel, from Egipte him sending:  
God maketh it bring with them be crastinesse,  
Of that spoilling them, for their deserving.    

EXODI XIII.  
 

Moses to God first borne doth sanctify:  
Wherefore with beasts maketh immolation,  
Wiche doth redeem man's blood, and purify,  
Receiving death, be their decollation.    

EXODI XIII.  
 

Marching be day, God for their good address  
Them of a cloud a colonne sendeth away,  
Wiche guideth them still in the wilderness,  
Coing before in air be every wai.    

EXODI XIIII. & XV.  
 

The Egyptians with death are appeased,  
Upon the banks of the red sea are laid:  
Of Israel the children are pleased:  
Then praising god, a fair cantique is said.    

EXODI XV.  
 

Marry Moses, and Aaron sister  
With a tabrette, beginneth alone to plait  
Women singing follow her glad after,  
For together their god to praise, and prai.    

EXODI XV.  
 

Israel maieth nomor forbear the thirst,  
In sur desert the water is bitter:  
Their suddenly beginneth to murmur first:  
Moses turneth it then to sweetness after.    

EXODI XV.  
 

In Helim place most pleasant to the eye,  
Findeth Israel twelve fair, and good fountains  
To him pleasing, with palms seventy,  
Campeth himself there, to forget his pains.    

EXODI XVI.  
 

Israel meat in Sin hungry doth lack.  
Aaron there, and Moses doth dispitte,  
saying leaver to have be remained back  
With Egiptiens, and have died in Egipte.    

EXODI XVI.  
 

God at the need never forgetting his,  
Causeth him fly of fat quailles a great sight,  
For to show him that of goods the spring is,  
And in the camp lodges and tents down to light.    

EXODI XVI.  
 

The mighty God of his people loving,  
Be forty ieres from the sky mad to rain  
Man, of the taste of honey savouring,  
Floor of forment, mad as coriander plain.    

EXODI XVI.  
 

It pleaseth God his man ordinary,  
A day only to Israel to last:  
Wiche keeping it tow, to the contrary,  
Findeth it in worms, and stench wiche they must cast.    

EXODI XVI.  
 

hallowed is of god the creator  
The seventh day, in the which he did rest:  
Of his bidding the people zelatour,  
Sabbatizing doth no woorck man, nor best,    

EXODI XVI.  
 

Aaron layeth the man in tabernacle,  
For to be showed to the posterity:  
That they maise how their god be miracle,  
Fed Israel in a desert hungry.    

EXODI XVII.  
 

In Raphidim no water maieth be fond:  
Moses feareth less to death be stoned:  
The god of healed biddeth him strike the rock sand,  
Wiche much water pooreth well seasoned.    

EXODI XVII.  
 

To Israel Amalech war doth make,  
Thinking his camp with arms all to undo:  
The sword in hand joshua putteth him back,  
Moses the hands lifting the air unto.    

EXODI XVIII.  
 

jetro cometh see Moses in wilderness,  
Wiche receiveth him as well he doth deserve:  
Of Pharaon then telleth the wickedness,  
And the torment, wherewith he did them serve.    

EXODI XVIII.  
 

Moses the causes of the people doth hear,  
jetro seeth well, that he taketh to much pains:  
He causeth make that help to him they bear,  
Good and faithful judges, with righteous captains.    

EXODI XIX.  
 

All Israel campeth himself in the plain  
Nigh be Sina, whence he willeth go away:  
Moses alone goeth up to the mountain,  
For to his god, which calleth him speak, and prai.    

EXODI XIX.  
 

God willeth that his people understand:  
Moses cometh then him to sanctify,  
That be this mean against death he maieth stand.  
And his garments causeth him purify.    

EXODI XIX.  
 

The smocking hill the great trumpet did blaw:  
The people hard the voice of god in fire,  
Wiche with great noise to Moses giveth his law,  
Wherein showeth him his zeal, and good desire.    

EXODI XXXII.  
 

On God living Israel doth not pass,  
 Moses long in the mount remain:  
Maketh in Oreb cast a calf in a mass,  
Then as his god doth him prai and retain.    

EXODI XXXII.  
 

Before this calf is offering immoled  
Be Israel, that his god doth forget:  
And so his faith most holy violed,  
Lightly sinning be idolatry great.    

EXODI XXXII.  
 

Being therefore nomor of god mindful,  
His whole mind is thereto set, that he must  
Eat still, and dance, for his body sinful,  
Far from his god, willeth live at his lust.    

EXODI XXXII.  
 

Moses doth see Israel himself mar,  
And to his god wickedly do wrong:  
Wherefore angry, the tables breaketh with great care  
Of his sweat laws, which first in his heart sprung.    

EXODI XXXII.  
 

The calf hath mad to burn anon after:  
To Israel children gave it to drink,  
Pulverised, dissolved in water,  
That of their sin the taste might deeper sink.    

EXODI XXXII. & XXXIII.  
 

God speacketh roughly against Israel all,  
Moses thereof is in heavy torments:  
Israel then doth weeping prai, and call,  
And cloth himself, with his mourning garments.    

EXODI XXXIII.  
 

Moses himself putteth in the tabernacle:  
God speaketh to him in a colonne fiery:  
The people then shamefast at the oracle,  
Doth him worship, seeing the mystery.    

EXODI XXXIII.  
 

almighty god before Moses doth pass  
Putteth his hand, on his eyes and visage:  
Showing therebe that no man seeth his face,  
But that of death pass he must the passage.    

EXODI XXXIIII.  
 

With God Moses fasting endeth without pain  
Of nights forty, and forty days ever.  
The holy law is in tables putted again,  
The which with fear they must kippe, and revere.    

EXODI XXXIIII.  
 

Moses cometh from Sinai the mount,  
The princes are come see him at his coming:  
Aaron is with them wondering not wont,  
To see from far his face with horns shining.    

EXODI XXXIIII.  
 

Speaking to them this godly parsonage,  
 they have lack of strength in their eyes,  
For to see him, doth cover his visage,  
That so they may better hear the words his.    

EXODI XXXVI. & XXV.  
 

It is ended with all fine browderie,  
On great pillars with art well measured:  
At hoops of gold hangeth the tapisserie,  
With golden work all the pieces figured.    

EXODI XXXVII. & XXV.  
 

The praying place is as god hath bidded:  
Tow Cherubins of an work excellent,  
Under the arch with a rich crown girded,  
To lay therein the laws of testament.    

EXODI XXXVII. & XXV.  
 

Of the same are all the vases, and the table  
Wherein the bread is of proposition:  
Even so as god of the work admirable,  
from point to point mad clear declaration.    

EXODI XXXVII. & XXV.  
 

The candellstycke of pure gold is hanged,  
There for to light in the sanctuary,  
Wiche with five branches to their rich stock ioned,  
Seven tapers hold for luminary.    

EXODI XXXVII. & XXX.  
 

An altar mad (coured with gold) four squarre,  
Towise mor high kiping good proportion:  
Always smocking upon sweet perfumes are,  
Whereof god maketh the right composition.    

EXODI XXXVIII. & XXVII.  
 

The altar than is mad of sacrifice,  
With brass coured, in pieces thin and small:  
All instruments to that meet, and propice,  
As pots, gredirons, brandirons, caudrons withal.    

EXODI XXXIX. & XXVIII.  
 

Of Aaron the garment the high priest  
Is finished, according gods bidding:  
And so well mad that none fairer may list,  
For to show plain, that it is gods finding.    

EXODI XL.  
 

Moses maketh the holy hallowing,  
With all deacking of the Sanctuary:  
With oil maketh the godly anointing,  
For gods bidding it is ordinary.    

EXODI XL.  
 

Being ended of the Sanctuary  
The work, than there God's highness doth light  
In ronde about, and above doth tarry  
Be day cowering it, a cloud fair in sight,    

EXODI XL.  
 

Ended the day, anon it doth become  
In shining fire, and a light most goodly:  
Wiche missing not even as the night is come,  
Burning sparcleth, about the place holy,    

EXODI XL.  
 

When Israel seeth the cloud away move,  
And that leaving the holy place doth part:  
Suddenly thence doth uncampe and remove,  
And follow it, weather it goeth the part.   
END.   

LEVITICI IX.  
 

A fire coming from god and sky above,  
The sacrifice utterly doth devoore:  
Israel this seeing falleth down with love  
Praiseth his god, and worshippeth at that hoore.    

LEVITICI X.  
 

Nadab with him Abiu a fire strange,  
To the lord god against his will do offer:  
Wherefore angry doth ield them both their change:  
For painful death with heavens fire do suffer    

LEVITICI X.  
 

Their both bodies dead (most fearful spestacle)  
Moses causeth be men in readiness  
To be cast out, far from the tabernacle,  
For so to be an exempell sport les.    

LEVITICI XXIIII.  
 

Moses causeth to be stoned a young man,  
With false witness proved a blasphemer:  
Far from their camp the people to him ran,  
To kippe the law of their dear redeemer.    

DEUTERON. XXXIIII.  
 

God showeth then the good prophet Moses,  
foretelling him of his live the passage,  
All the cornels of the land be promise:  
Wiche he doth see from Nebo mount at large.    

JUDICUM III.  
 

For Israel to put in his freedom,  
Eioth Eglon slaied, king full of richesse:  
Be this Moab the burden in his room  
Of Israel bearing, doth him oppress.    

JUDICUM FOUR  
 

Towentie ieres whole Sisure provoker stout,  
 Israel did pursue, and assail:  
But him hydding ones not sure, and in doubt,  
jahel his head came to pierce with a naill.    

JUDICUM VII.  
 

When Gedeon behold throw the waters,  
Three hundred full of his men to be drond,  
In their hands laid trumpets, both and tapers:  
So victory on his enemies he fond.    

JUDICUM IX.  
 

Having killed his brethren on a stone,  
Abimelech was forced ielde the ghost:  
For besieging with  war Thebes, anon  
A struck he had, of a woman with lost.    

JUDICUM XV.  
 

Be Sanson strong at some fox's tailles were tied  
Fagettes burning, whereof troubled did star  
The Phijistins, left away go untied  
Be such a mean, that all corn they did mar.    

JUDICUM XV.  
 

A thousand men with a chickebone did kill  
Of a dead ass Sanson, which from the same  
Seeth spring water, whereof he drinketh his fill,  
When to his help god calleth him, and his name.    

RVTH II.  
 

Of Booz wheat Ruth began to gather,  
And nigh to him is she so bold to come:  
The good Booz vittals bid to give her:  
Then she so wife, willeth his wife become.    

I. REGUM XVI.  
 

The wicked spirit entering in the body  
Of king Saül, for sor him to torment:  
David playing, with sweet a melody  
Divinlie mad him away to absent.    

I. REGUM XIX.  
 

Micol David to be killed fearing,  
Feigneth sickness a bed keep him, and bind:  
Then an image all hairy there laying,  
Thinketh to change of the king the same mind.    

I. REGUM XXIIII.  
 

David willeth not, avenge him of his king,  
Allthought it layeth in his power utterly:  
Only on him the great danger hanging,  
Of him in care, showeth him faithfully.    

I. REGUM XXXI.  
 

Saül seeing his three children beslain,  
His warriors all, and the battle be lost,  
Being wounded, feareth prisonner remain:  
Wherefore his life, with his hand did him cost.    

II. REGUM XIII.  
 

Ammon forced Thamar his one sister:  
Absalon then, for the dead detestable  
Mad a banquet, where he coming after,  
Was there then slaied, of his men, at his table.    

II. REGUM XVII.  
 

Of treason showeth the false talking coured  
Achitophel, that David innocent  
Absalon taketh, but all is discoured:  
Wherefore for fear, strait to hang himself went.    

II. REGUM XVIII.  
 

Absalon is for his wickedness paid:  
For god permitteth, willing nomor forbear,  
That be the hears hanged remaining stayed,  
joab causeth him die, with strokes of spear.    

II. REGUM XX.  
 

joab before the strong town of Abele,  
The dwellers in did some, and warn them last,  
To ielde to him Siba false, and rebel:  
Whose head anon, to them in he did cast.    

III. REGUM II.  
 

Solomon knoweth joab unfaithfulness:  
Wherefore angry, with his mouth doth command,  
To death bitter to be put, with cruelness,  
Allthought touching God's altar doth stand,    

III. REGUM X.  
 

The queen cometh from Saba, for to hear  
Solomon king, and his divine cunning:  
Wiche being hard, wonderful did appear:  
Presents therefore rich mad, him favouring.    

III. REGUM XIII.  
 

Obeissing man, mor than his god above,  
Fed his body a prophet in Bethel:  
But in the way, when thence he did remove,  
Was put to death, with a wild beast cruel.    

III. REGUM XVI.  
 

Therse being rond about besieged,  
Zambri maing not no wise away turn,  
Durst assault none suffer, sor affliged:  
Wherefore himself in his palace doth burn.    

III. REGUM XVII.  
 

When on the earth, no rain god did release,  
In the torrent of Carith drank Helie  
With tow ravans, as to god it did please,  
Were bread and win, to him brought faithfully.    

III. REGUM XVII.  
 

praying his god Helie mad to relive  
Be divine power the child of his hostess:  
Wiche beholding, her child to be alive,  
A holy man him to be, did confess.    

III. REGUM XIX.  
 

In wilderness Helie seeth an Angel,  
Water, and bread showing him, in that while:  
Be whose virtue, after he hath eat well,  
Cometh to the top of Oreb God's hill.    

FOUR REGUM FOUR  
 

Helise did the people pacify,  
When hunger sor did him vex, and molest:  
With little bread did him so satisfy,  
That increasing, thereof had some of rest.    

FOUR REGUM VI  
 

The syrians brought Helise all blinded  
Of god into Samarie, then heartless:  
Then do we see how god would, and minded  
That left they were go, together harmless.    

FOUR REGUM IX.  
 

jehu seeing jezabel be kepth fast  
Within a tower, broken of her high mind,  
Her body down caused thence to be cast:  
Where devoored was, of dogs, in her kind.    

FOUR REGUM XIII.  
 

To be buried is laid a man sterke dead,  
Within the tomb of Helise prophet:  
Wiche as the bones he toucheth listeth his head,  
And relieved, riseth strait on his feet.    

FOUR REGUM XVII.  
 

Israel is kept fast in Assirie:  
But the wicked, which on god no trust set.  
On Israel holding all Samarie,  
Are put to death, with leons fires, without let.    

FOUR REGUM XIX.  
 

The assyrians, thinking be their great deeds,  
Jerusalem to force, with mighty hand:  
The Angel did, being then at their sides,  
Slain a hundred, five and fifty thousand.    

FOUR REGUM XIX.  
 

Of the Hebreus the great persecutor  
Sennacherib, worshipping his Idol  
Slain was, without other executor,  
But his children, drawn into monopole.    

FOUR REGUM XX.  
 

Ezechias sick a bed in great smart,  
Was be isaiah warned of death so strong:  
Then he pràied god fearful, with all his heart,  
Wiche healed him, and his life did prolong.    

FOUR REGUM XXII.  
 

The holy law, in the boocke conserved,  
Red is before josias king of might,  
Wiche willeth sure, that it be observed:  
So mindeth walk faultless in his god's sight.    

FOUR REGUM XXV.  
 

All wicked deeds are then away turned,  
When josias walketh in holiness:  
On the altars the false priests are burned:  
For what god hateth, he seeth with weariness.    

TOBIAE I.  
 

Keeping Toby prisonner men wicked,  
Nevertheless his god beareth in mind  
So fervently, that in his heart sticked,  
Woorckes of mercy to show of every kind.    

TOBIAE VI.  
 

The child Toby holdeth fast in his hand  
This so great fish, putting him in surety:  
Then him cleansing wisely he doth demand  
Of Raphael, his own true property.    

TOBIAE VIII.  
 

Toby putteth of the same fish the gall  
The coals upon, and to god doth trust sure:  
Wherefore Sara to his wifletting fall,  
Bond the Angel, the enemy of nature.    

TOBIAE XI.  
 

His good father reioissing very old,  
With a good zeal Toby at his coming,  
A will the gall on his eyes he doth hold  
Of this his fish, thence his sight restoring.    

JUDITH XIII.  
 

Holophernes with judith is in love,  
But she anon paid him for his folly:  
For as he was drunk, that he cold not move,  
She killed him, deliuring Bethulie.    

HESTHER VII. & VIII.  
 

With Assuere Hester in favour come,  
Saved from death all the people je wish:  
Mad hang Aman, wick would hang in his room  
Good Mardoche, most wicked and peevish.    

JOB II.  
 

Yet that Satan with leave and licency  
Of god stracke job, with extreme affliction:  
Nevertheless his manly patience  
Mad to apeere his divine perfection.    

EZECH. XXXVII.  
 

Ezechiel in the fields disjoined  
Saw bones many, which as his mind did give,  
Were all anon each to other joined  
With strong sinous, full of flesh, and of live.    

DANIELIS III.  
 

The three children worship not the Idol:  
Wherefore a live are thrust in the furnace:  
Down the Angel cometh that doth them console,  
Harmless from fire, keeping them in that place.    

DANIELIS V.  
 

Balthasar seeth a hand and doth behold,  
Upon a wall writing his mishap:  
For he drinking in the temples vases to bold,  
To lose anon his kingdom doth not scappe.    

DANIELIS XIIII.  
 

In Babilone worshipped the dragon,  
Of Daniel is with means sure meet withal:  
For a morsel, which to devoore is gone,  
Casting to him, bursted, and dead did fall.    

DANIELIS XIIII.  
 

from the leons dean is Daniel save brought out,  
God permitting him receive no outrage:  
His enemies all in a sore fear be put,  
And in his stead devoured, with great rage.    

JONAE II.  
 

jonas thinking from his God for to fly,  
On sea sailling, there came such a tempest,  
That the shippmen him did cast in boldly:  
Wherefore anon the water was in rest.    

JONAE II. & III.  
 

Days and nights three in her body the whale  
jonas did keep, and then coast him to land:  
Where of his god hear did the voice to call,  
Wiche him go preshe, to Ninive dit command,    

JONAE III.  
 

Criing jonas that god willeth subvert  
Ninive, than they do penitency make:  
Kings, and subjects men see them to convert,  
To god mighty, which his vengeance keepeth back.    

II. MACHAB. III.  
 

Wonderful is the heavy punition,  
Wiche from the sky cometh strick Geliadore:  
When the treasure to rob taketh commission  
Wiche gods temple doth both deacke, and decore.    

II. MACHAB. VII.  
 

Seven brethren are put to death bitter,  
Keeping the law of god, with devotion:  
So is with them their godly dear mother,  
Wiche bringeth them, to the execution.