Golding, Arthur / Beza, Theodore · published 1577 · first performed or written 1575 (Annals) biblical play unassigned nearest T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation · 496 words
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Go to my Sara, that great God of ours Hath blessed us, to th'intent that we all hours Should for his gifts which he alone doth give, Him serve and praise as long as we do live. Now let us hence and chief take good heed, We hazard not our son to much in deed, By suffering him to haunt the company Of wicked folk, with whom you see we be. A new made vessel holdeth long the scent Of that that first of all is in it penned. A child by nature near so well disposed, By bringing up is quite and clean transpozed. Sir, I do hope my duty for to do, Therefore the thing that we must look unto, Is that Gods will may be fulfilled in him. Right sure I am we shall him wield so trim, And that the Lord will bliss him so: as all Shall in the end to his high honour fall. I go, I come, I travel night and day, I beat my brains, that by no kind of way My labour be in any wise misspent. Reign God aloft above the firmament, The earth at lest to me doth wholly draw, And that mislikes not God nor yet his law. As God by his in heaven is honoured: So I on earth by mine am worshipped. God dwells in heaven, and I on earth likewize: God maketh peace, and I do wars devise. God reigns above, and I do reign below: God causeth love, and I do hatred sow. God made the starry skies and earthy clods: I made much more: for I did make the gods. God served is by Angels full of light: And do not my fair Angels glister bright? I trow there is not one of all my swine, Whose grooyn I make not goldlike for to shine These lechers, drunkards, glutton's overfedd, Whose noses shine fair tipped with brazell red, Which wear fine precious stones upon their Are my upholders & my Cherubins. (skins, God never made a thing so perfect yet, That could the makers full perfection hit. But I have made, (whereof I glory may) A thousand worse than myself far way. For I believe and know it in my thought, therz but one God, & that myself am nowght. But yet I know there are whose foolish mind I have so turned quite against the kind, That some (which now is common long agone) Had liefer serve a thousand gods than one▪ And others have conceived in their brain, That for to think there is a God is vain. Thus since the time the man on mould was made, With happy luck I followed have this trade And follow will (come loss or come there gain) So long as I this habit may maintain, I say this habit wherewithal as now The world is unacquainted: but I vow The day shall come it shall be known so rife,
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Go to my Sara, that great God of ours Hath blist vs, to thintent that we all howres Should for his giftes which he alone doth giue, Him serue and prayse as long as we doe liue. Now let vs hence and chiefly take good heede, We hazard not our sonne to much in deede, By suffering him to haunt the company Of wicked folke, with whom you see we be. A new made vessell holdeth long the sent Of that that first of all is in it pent. A child by nature nere so well dispozed, By bringing vp is quite and cleane transpozed. Sir, I doe hope my dewtie for to doe, Therefore the thing that we must looke vnto, Is that Gods will may be fulfild in him. Right sure I am we shall him weeld so trim, And that the Lord will blisse him so: as all Shall in the ende to his high honor fall. I goe, I come, I trauell night and day, I beate my braynes, that by no kind of way My labour be in any wise misspent. Reigne God aloft aboue the firmament, The earth at least to me doth wholly draw, And that mislikes not God nor yet his lawe. As God by his in heauen is honored: So I on earth by myne am worshipped. God dwells in heauen, and I on earth likewize: God maketh peace, and I doe warres deuize. God reignes aboue, and I doe reigne belowe: God causeth loue, and I doe hatred sowe. God made the starrie skies and earthy clodds: I made much more: for I did make ye godds. God serued is by Angells full of light: And doe not my faire Angells glister bright? I trow there is not one of all my swine, Whose grooyn I make not goldlike for to shine These lechours, drunkards, gluttons ouerfedd, Whose noses shine faire tipt with brazell redd, Which weare fine precious stones vppon their Are my vpholders & my Cherubins. (skinnes, God neuer made a thing so perfect yit, That could the makers full perfection hit. But I haue made, (whereof I glory may) A thowsand worser then my selfe farre way. For I beleue and know it in my thought, therz but one God, & that my self am nowght. But yit I know there are whose foolish mind I haue so turned quite against the kind, That some (which now is commō long agone) Had leuer serue a thowsand gods than one▪ And others haue conceiued in their brayne, That for to thinke there is a God is vayne. Thus since ye time ye man on mowld was made, With happy lucke I followed haue this trade And follow wil (come losse or come there gain) So long as I this habit may mainteine, I say this habit wherewithall as now The world is vnacquainted: but I vow The day shall come it shall be knowne so rife,