GABRIELS SALVTATION TO MARIE.

MADE BY IAMES COCKBVRNE.

Ingressus igitur Angelus ad eam, dixit, Aue gratìs dilecta, do­minus tecum est, benedicta tu inter mulieres.

Luc. 1.28.
IVSTITIA. RELIGIO.
‘SVVM CVIQVE’‘DEVM COLE’‘HIS SVFFVLTA DVRANT.’

EDINBVRGH PRINTED BY ROBERT CHARTERIS Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie. An. Dom. MDCV.

TO THE AVTHOR.

GO prosecute that sacred course of thine,
And vse the subiect that's vnusde too long.
The frutefull treasures of a rich Ingyne,
That's spent approuing right disprouing vvrong,
May make diuinitie seeme more diuine:
Whilst by a rauishde soule diuinelie song:
This in all myndes doth great delight infuse,
To heare things heauenlie of an heauenlie muse.
W. A. of Menstrie.

TO THE HONOVRABLE LADIE OF HIGHEST HOPE MISTRESSE Ieane Hammiltone, Ladie Skirling.

HOnourable Ladie, hauing nothing of vvorth to present your Ladishippe, I haue presumde to offer to the Schryne of your gratious clemencie the humble sacrifice of my deuote sinceritie: vvhereby I haue bevvrayed rather a vvill to obey, then any skill to deserue your Ladiships protection. For (vvell I vvotte) these fevv disordered lynes are too vveake a prop to beare the burthene of your al-fleing fame. Yet calling to mynde your Ladiships vvorthie dis­position, I am persvvaded my attempts vvill rather be buryed in si­lence, nor smyled at vvith disdaine, and the rather be bucaus I am obligate your Ladieships in all devvties euer and euer.

Iames Cockburne.

INVOCATION.

WHat tyme the Cock vvith vvyde displayed vving
Did beate his breast, and then proclame the day:
His peirsing note vnto my thoughts did bring
My devvties all, and first hovv I should pray.
Then on my knees I turnde me vvhere I lay,
With mourning speech euen thus I did begin:
O Lord, I thee beseech thy iustice stay:
Call not to mynde the lyfe I liued in.
Grant me thy spirite that I may rightlie rin
Ʋnto that Lambe that did thine regor mease,
To off [...]r thee by him for highest sin
A broken heart for burning sacrifyce:
Then I besought that all the three in one,
The vvorke vvould blesse my pen had vndergone.

TO THE HONOVR­ED LADIE OF HIGHEST HOPE MISTRESSE IEANE HAM­miltone Ladie Skirling.

NOT to the vvorldling vvaltring in his vvealth,
Nor to the vsurer recounts his gaine:
Not to the sicke, vvhose thoght is on his health,
Nor to the insolent of lyfe prophane:
Not to the ignorant of brutish braine,
Nor to the stupide Stoick vvill I send thee:
Not to the learnde, vvhose knovvledge vvith disdaine
Will scorne the Poet that so lovvrdlie pende thee:
Not vnto babes, vvhose age cannot defend thee,
Nor siluer-seeking Minstrels for to sing:
Not vnto careles men, vvho vvhen they end thee,
Vnclosde vvill thee vvithin some vvindovv sling:
But to a Ladie svveet I vvill thee offer,
Who hauing reade thee, closlie vvill thee coffer.
THEN fairest faire, vvhose matchles maners mylde,
And hautie thoughts dimerites high affection:
Who might haue beene the mother of that Childe,
If any Gentile had beene in election.
But since it is (I speake it vvith correction)
Thou art no Ievv, but in the Ievv indented
By grace, loue, mercie and by free adoption
Of that great God our miserie preuented:
Then praise his Name the vvay so vvell inuented,
Praise thou the spirite that sanctified the birth,
Praise Iesus Christ so freelie that consented
To cloath his god-hoode vvith the filthie earth:
Praise all the three, they onely craue Peccaui,
Changde hopeles Eua in an happie Aue.

GABRIELL HIS SA­LVTATION TO MARIE.

1.
OVT from the orders of the Angels all
Sings holie hymnes about the throne of grace,
The Lord commands to come vnto his call
The winged Gabriell, straight to embrace
An happie charge for Eues vnhappie race:
Who since hir husbands fall had lyen within
The foule alluring baytes of filthie sin.
2.
Swiftlie he came, sweetlie the Lord did say,
Thou that hes oft my message borne in yre
Kings to destroy, and countries did deny
My god-hoode great, with hote consuming fyre:
Go now in peace, let all thy rich attyre
Be Azure hew, bright starres therein thou fix,
I will my justice with my mercie mix.
3.
I will redeeme, recall, I will reclame,
Not by desert, but by adoption;
Not for their merites but my glories Name,
No not compelde, but at my option
The house of Iacob by my onelie Sonne,
Borne of a Mayde, and the beleeuers all
That breathes beneath my euer-mouing Ball.
4.
I will perfite my promise made indeede
To the first man through facilnes that fell:
That his begot should bruse the serpents head,
Whose birth in bewtie should the rest excell,
Then where that Virgine rests I will thee tell,
Of all the Tribes that I haue taine for chose,
The famous Nazareth doth her enclose.
5.
Pure are her thoughts, chaste are her actions all
Firme is her faith, and feruentlie doth pray:
Diuine in Spirite, deuote on me to call:
Resolu'd in heart, at euerie houre to pay
The death her dew, or yet content to stay:
So are her vertues knowne, so flyes her fame,
Betrothde she is, blest Marie heght her name.
6.
Salute the mayde with humble dewties dew,
Discharge my charge with reuerence and feare:
Seene shall it be (although it seeme vntrew)
That of my Sonne she is the mother deare:
For when with glorie great thou drawes neare
And warbles forth thy voice, thou shall perceaue
The holie Spirite the Sauiour conceaue.
7.
Thus said the Lord, when Eoles windie Fanne
The weeping dew from tender trees had rent,
And when the horned-Moone with visage wanne
Her borrowed light had back to Tytan sent,
That all the night before he had her lent:
And this he said, while all the hoste of heauen
Proclaimde his glore for such commission giuen.
8.
And hauing said, his armes abroad he threw,
And blest the messinger before him lay:
Then silent sat, away the Angell flew,
And in the Aire his wings did wyde display:
He claue the cloudes and cut the vapors gray,
He made the heauens admire, the waters wonder,
To see his glore, and heare his thuds of thunder.
9.
With holie Canticles and hymnes he sings
The ioyfull newes of mans saluation,
In flames of fyre were grauen betweene his wings
The Birth, the Buriall, and the Passion
The Death, the Rysing and Conception,
Of Iesus Christ, yea and the totall summe
Of all his wondrous works that were to come.
10.
Dronke with delights, sweete Nazareth he soght,
That place he compast thryfe aroud and ouer,
In Maries presence shortlie is he broght,
Graue was his grace, while he on wing did houer,
At last his heauen-borne sight he did vncouer:
And with a shudder all the house he spangled,
With twinkling dew vnto his plumes were tangled.
11.
Amazde at first, but not greatlie agast,
To see his glorie great, she changed hew:
A blushing rednes swiftlie came and past
And dayntilie her whitenes did subdew
The lightning rayes that from her eye-lids flew,
When sodaine ioy made tumbling teares ouerflow,
Would soone haue set an heape of hearts on low.
12.
The first seene signe of her trew chastitie
Round fleeting flew, and cannopyed her skinne,
Two frothie globes of equall quantitie
Playde on her breast, with vaynes blew, blushing, thin:
Her tempting mouth aboue her dimpled chin,
Her rankes of pearle, her halfe vp-spreading Roses
Still other kist, while still each other closes.
13.
Betweene the branches of her bodie lay
Great Egypts wonders in the holie Print:
Whereon she reade, and hauing reade would stay
To meditate, how Moses meeke was sent
To that proud Prince, who neuer would repent,
Till all his Chariotes, wheeles and Assle trees
Indented were with sandes amidst the seyes.
14.
Whiles would she turne and ouer-turne the leafe,
Whiles grauelie gather vp some sentence darke:
Whiles sadlie sit twixt doubting and beleefe,
How the first age was closde within an Arke:
Whiles with her foremest ioynt she would remarke
The trimbling sacrifice that Abram old
Made of his tender Sonne with courage bold.
15.
At last her heart did kindle vp her spirite:
Her spirite commanded both her knees to bow.
On yeelding knees the Lord she did intreate,
Her pithie prayers pure he would allow,
Which in his presence there she did avow:
Desyring that in heart he would resolue
The apprehensions high she did reuolue.
16.
What meanes the brough so round about her hang,
Whose glancing rayes [...]ew Opall changing hewes?
What meanes the winged spirite so sweetlie sang,
The second Ad [...] [...] with ioyfull newes?
What boy it is my [...]ped spirite [...]?
With Angels eyes, what [...] these words of mirth
Glorie to God, and peace to [...]
17.
At these her words her [...], her [...]
His beauties blaze forbade her to admire
For loe the sanct, his message to [...]fold
Proclamde these [...]ggied words with [...]yling cheare,
Hayle Virgine pure, [...] Dauids daughter deare,
Hayle well of [...]
The Lambe [...]
18.
Hayle Marie mylde replenished with grace,
Beloued of God, [...] of all the [...]
That of the bleeting Eues of Adams race,
This onelie blessing great [...]ngs to thee:
Then to discharge thi message giuen to mee,
I blesse thy actions all, I blesse thy name,
I blesse that blessed babe springs of thy wambe.
19.
The holie, happie salutation giuen,
New admirations through her fenses ran,
With thoughts confusde and stented eyes to heuaen
Vnto the winged Spirite she thus began
Am I a mother neuer knew a man?
Or with the scornefull maydes shall I be loathed,
Whose onelie fault is this, I was betrothed.
20.
Free flees my thoughts, vnspotted is my fame,
I loath all companie that may allure,
I ballance not my pleasures with my shame:
With Iepthes girle I liue a Virgine pure,
I scorne to be enrold as Sichems hure:
Therefore the Lord in his appoynted day
Will grant saluation to this tent of clay.
21.
I neuer went to see nor to be seene,
To Tymbrell sound I neuer caroll song:
I neuer danced in Cabinet nor greene,
Short passages, nor mouing Measures long,
Earings of gold in treasse neuer hang
Lyke twinkling stars, I neuer learnde to smyle
With rolling eyes, nor [...]rging [...]earde style.
22.
I neuer shew my snow-white swelling globes,
To giue the insolent the more [...]yte
I neuer walked in silken shyning robes,
The feeders: of our fa [...]ill appetyte:
Dittayes of loue I neuer did indyte,
I neuer vsde perfumde nor paynted face,
Nor [...]ted Courtlie beck with minsing pace.
23.
No Marie, no, thy spotles thoughtes are knowne,
Thy faith is seene to the al-seeing eye:
Through all the earth thy blessings shall be showne,
Then feare thou not reprochfull in fa [...]ie,
The Spirite in God shall ouer-shadow thee:
By him thou shalt conceaue that Holie one,
That sit for euer shall on Dauids throne.
24.
Great shall he be, his Kingdome shall not moue,
Ouer all the house of lacob shall he sway:
All power shall be granted him aboue,
The corners of the earth shall him obey,
The Gentile Kings to him shall tribute pay
Vpon their knees in honour of his birth,
At Bethlem, with gold, incense and mirth.
25.
Heauens soldiers shall scumme the toplesse skyes,
And sound the phamphere of his fame on hie:
Preists, Propheits, Patriarks with holie cryes,
That night about poore sheepherds heads shall flie:
The Angels and Archangels in degrie,
And winged Cherebins with warbling voice,
Round in a ring shall mightelie reioyce.
26.
With all the blessed troupes Hyerarchies,
As powers, thrones and dominations:
Blest Serphins and Principalities,
Victorious Martyres with immortall Crownes,
Young innocents pure virgine whose renownes
Gainst all assaults haue keept their chastitie,
As mid-wyue skild that office shall supplie.
27.
Now while these melodies shall mountaines moue,
And euerie Angell shall another leade:
This wonder wondrous for to approue,
Each sheepherd shall tune on an oaten reade,
With lylting lowde fast home-ward shall they speede:
And cause the countrie people all conueene,
To praise the Lord, for wonders by them seene.
28.
Then shall the Ocean tumble vp her sand,
And prease her bounds to breake, thy Sonne to see:
The wandring starres shall twinkling ouer him stand,
Which was the guyde to Herodes Princes three:
The fyrie lampe of heauens blew Cannopie
Lest he be last his seruice to aduance,
Shall giue thy babe good-morrow with a glance.
29.
All flesh shall fold, all Nations shall haue peace,
Sybillaes prophesies no faith shall haue.
By him the Delphin Oracle shall cease,
The Gentiles gods no longer shall deceaue:
And if thou would of me this question craue,
What name he heght these errours shall expell?
Manie they are, but first Immanuell.
30.
The Gentiles hope, and Iacobs morning starre,
The rocke of rayne, and the corner stone:
The flower of Iesse, that doth sent so farre,
The trew-Messias and that holie one:
The Prince of peace, the Resurrection
A Christ, a Iesus and a Sauiour,
A Lambe, a Silo and a great Pastour.
31.
The furnisher of faith, the mercie sait,
The Sanctuarie great of mans refuge,
The Lords annoynted and his rewler great
The word, the way, the Prophete and the Iudge:
The Ruther of the Arke in the deludge:
The bread of lyfe, the Alpha and the end,
The Doue that Noe in his Ambassage send.
32.
The well of lyfe the bread sent down from heauen,
His Fathers Image bewtifull and faire,
Brightnes it selfe, to whome all glore is giuen:
The first begotten and his Fathers Aire:
The serpent strong the helles all-spuilzier
The bishoppe of our soules and brother deare,
Blest be thy bellie such a babe doth beare.
33.
Now while this winged Spirite had told this tale,
The sweete alluring lookes and comelie grace,
The mayde that at his entrie seemed pale
Shynde lyke the birneist beames of Tytans face,
Dread left her thoghts, feare gaue high ioy the place,
Her eyes, eares, heart, and tongue were all content
Vnto his happie charge to giue consent.
34.
Thou the Creator of all creature:
That formed the globe, the morning and the nights,
That set the seyes, and made the aire so pure,
That spangled all the heauens with fyrie lights,
Confirme thy promise made in all our sights:
And let thy hand-mayde finde that happie blessing
Which Israels Dames could not obtain by wishing.
35.
With hyssope purge and purifie my heart,
Direct thy Spirite to cloath me with his wings:
Thy graces great on me, pure me impart,
Mount vp my earthlie thoghts to heauenlie things:
And since that I euen of the King of Kings,
The mother am, Lord lift my voice on hie,
With some sweete song thy name to magnifie.
36.
As this he said, the sweete renewing Ghost
Cled with a cloud begouth to doe his dew,
With glorie great he fild the house almost,
Like to a Turtle white his Image grew:
Betwene the Angell and the mayd he flew
With soft, sweete, sober course, and then did light
Betwene her lips, then vanisht out of sight:
37.
O far-fetcht fainting breath, ô chiuering chin,
O flightring heart, and eyes entombe in teares,
O hollow warbling throate, now now begin
With neuer tyring tune to fill the eares
Of euerie creature my blessing heares:
O happie soule, see thou these verses warpe,
Lyke these sometymes were sung to Dauids Harpe.

MARIES SONG.

THE Heauens eternall al-foreseeing King,
Our thoughts deepe searcher, Natures father great
The worlds strong Mouer, founder of all thing
Within the round and the infernall pit:
Strange graces hes he granted vnto me,
That without sin I should sing lullabie.
From high he hes beheld my pure estate,
And made my flightring Spirite his praise proclame.
His kindnes hes no periode nor date,
To all him loues, all holie be his name,
The proud he hes despysed for loue of me,
And bids me sing on high sweete lullabie.
He hes deiect the mightie from their thrones,
And mounted humble hearts of poorest spirite:
Refresht he hes the hunger-steruing bones
Of simple soules lay begging by the streete,
He hes sent downe his Angell vnto me,
And bids me rock the babe with lullabie.
That happie promise now he will fulfill,
Made in sweete Edens glauncing gardene gay
To Abram on the sacrificing hill.
To him whose Harpe draue Saules euill spirit away:
He hes resolude the mother I should be
To his deare deare, and sing sweete lullabie.
For which sweete song the gwerdone shall be giuen,
When hopelesse age hes poynted out my end,
The fourth place in the Diamantiue heauen,
Where troupes of winged spirites shall me attend:
And on the earth each age shall speake of me,
For singing their sweete Sauiours lullabie.
FINIS.

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