THE
SECOND
DAY
OF
THE
FIRST
Weeke
of
the
most
excellent
,
learned
,
and
diuine
Poet
,
William
,
Lord
Bartas
.
Done
out
of
French
into
English
Heroicall
verse
by
THOMAS
WINTER
,
Maister
of
Artes
.
Nec
verbum
verbo
curabis
reddere
fidus
Interpres
.
Hor.
de
arte
Poet.
LONDON
,
Printed
for
Iames
Shaw
.
1603.
TO
THE
HONORABLE
handes
of
the
most
noble
and
valorous
Knight
,
Sir
Walter
Raleigh
,
Lord
Warden
of
the
Stanneries
,
Captaine
of
her
Maiesties
Guard
,
Lieutenant
of
the
countie
of
Cornewall
,
and
Gouernour
of
the
I
le
of
Iersey
.
BEing
desirous
(
my
honorable
Lord
)
to
exhibite
some
testimony
of
that
ardent
desire
which
I
haue
to
doe
your
Lordship
seruice
,
I
am
enforced
to
imitate
that
poore
man
,
which
wanting
better
meanes
to
expresse
his
aff●ction
,
offered
his
hands
full
of
running
water
to
Artax●rxes
.
For
,
knowing
your
Lordships
loue
to
learning
,
(
for
Ars
non
habet
inimicum
nisi
ignorantem
)
and
hauing
no
inuention
of
mine
owne
,
I
haue
boldly
aduentured
to
draw
water
from
another
mans
fountaine
,
and
to
commend
this
poore
translation
to
your
fauourable
censure
and
honorable
protection
.
Which
I
do
the
more
humbly
desire
,
for
that
I
know
your
Lordships
honorable
name
will
be
a
sufficient
bulwarke
against
those
snarling
dogs
,
Quibus
innatum
est
,
vt
non
pro
feritate
,
sed
pro
consuetudine
latrent
,
which
barke
more
of
custome
then
of
curstnesse
;
which
being
guiltie
to
themselues
of
their
owne
imperfections
,
and
hauing
such
muddie
wits
,
that
a
man
would
sweare
they
were
borne
at
Puddle
wharfe
,
do
notwithstanding
labour
to
build
their
owne
reputation
vpon
other
mens
disgraces
;
and
by
disgorging
their
malicious
censures
vppon
the
painful
indeuors
of
all
those
which
either
diligently
write
,
or
painfully
translate
,
do
thinke
to
purchase
a
lease
of
eternall
commendation
.
I
will
not
blot
my
paper
with
any
commendation
of
my
Author
,
who
was
so
noble
for
his
birth
,
so
famous
for
his
learning
,
and
so
admirable
for
his
inuention
;
lest
I
should
seeme
to
hang
out
a
bush
where
good
wine
is
alreadie
knowne
to
be
sold
,
or
to
light
a
candle
when
the
Sunne
is
in
his
vertical
point
.
For
if
he
proue
any
where
distastful
to
your
iudicious
vnderstanding
,
I
must
ascribe
the
fault
to
my selfe
,
which
haue
done
him
iniury
,
to
cloath
him
with
a
sute
so
ill
fitting
to
his
proportion
.
But
how
meane
soeuer
it
be
,
my
humble
request
is
,
that
your
Lordship
will
accept
it
as
a
pledge
of
his
dutifull
loue
,
which
is
desirous
to
be
euer
at
your
Lordships
commandement
.
And
so
humbly
presuming
to
kisse
your
faire
hands
,
I
pray
continually
for
the
happie
successe
of
all
your
honorable
deseignements
.
Your
Honors
most
humbly
deuoted
,
TH.
WINTER
.
The
Argument
.
OVr
Poet
intending
a
D●scou●se
of
the
worlds
creation
,
and
hauing
in
the
first
day
of
this
Weeke
indiciously
declared
that
the
world
had
a
beginning
,
against
the
absurd
paradoxes
of
some
doting
philosophers
,
which
held
that
it
was
from
all
eternity
:
and
ha●ing
both
taxed
and
answered
their
atheisticall
curiositie
,
which
busie
their
●dle
and
addle
brains
,
about
enquiring
what
God
did
before
the
creation
:
prouing
also
that
there
can
be
but
one
world
,
and
confuting
diuerse
oth●r
errors
of
the
anci●nts
:
sheweth
,
that
God
●irst
made
some
cònfused
matter
or
Chaos
,
of
which
he
afterward
framed
the
particular
parts
of
the
whole
body
of
this
world
.
And
then
shortly
and
sweetly
discoursing
of
the
light
,
the
d●y
and
the
night
,
●ith
the
singular
commodities
redounding
to
mankind
by
their
successiue
reuolutions
,
he
ends
that
booke
with
the
creation
of
the
Angels
.
All
which
being
learnedly
perfourmed
,
●e
addresseth
himselfe
in
this
second
booke
to
the
d●ciphering
of
the
second
dayes
creation
.
Wherei●
,
first
he
layeth
open
th●
vanitie
of
the
lasciuious
and
wenching
pamphleters
of
our
age
,
which
prodigally
spend
their
precious
time
,
in
adorning
some
degenerate
imp●
,
or
loose-liuing
Lady
with
those
honors
,
which
should
be
onely
confined
to
vertuous
design●ments
.
Then
he
inuoketh
the
ass●stance
of
Gods
spirite
,
and
briefly
proposing
his
chast
intention
,
fals
directly
to
the
handling
of
the
●lements
,
their
number
and
composition
in
mixt
bodies
;
of
the
commoditie
and
inconuenience
of
their
agreeing
or
disagreeing
proportions
in
mans
bodie
:
then
reasoning
of
their
continuance
,
he
refutes
di●erse
errors
touching
the
generation
,
corruption
and
alteration
of
things
in
their
matter
and
forme
.
After
,
breathing
a
while
,
he
enters
a
discourse
of
the
Aire
,
shewing
how
it
is
deuided
,
what
the
temperature
of
each
region
is
,
with
the
causes
of
the
same
:
and
how
the
mists
,
the
blasts
,
the
clouds
,
the
deaw
,
the
yee
and
other
waterie
meteors
are
ingendred
:
and
consequently
intreateth
of
the
falling
starres
,
and
comets
,
with
the
rest
of
the
fiery
impressions
which
are
often
seene
in
the
two
extreme
regions
of
the
aire
.
Hereunto
he
adioyneth
a
philosophicall
narration
of
the
thunder
and
lightning
,
touching
in
briefe
their
strange
yet
certaine
effects
;
not
omitting
,
for
the
more
absolute
complement
of
his
discourse
,
to
assigne
probable
reasons
of
the
raine-bow
,
the
circles
about
the
Sunne
and
Moone
,
and
the
many
Sunnes
and
Moones
,
which
affright
the
ignorant
with
their
appearance
.
But
albeit
he
shewes
himself
a
Philosopher
in
producing
these
naturall
reasons
,
yet
he
would
haue
euery
man
to
shew
himselfe
a
Christian
,
in
not
wholy
resting
satisfied
with
these
second
causes
;
but
euer
so
to
acknowledge
the
wisedome
of
the
Almighty
,
that
he
rather
admire
the
creator
,
then
adore
the
creature
:
adding
thereunto
the
religious
vse
,
which
Christians
should
make
of
these
impressions
and
prodigious
signes
.
And
that
he
may
clip
the
wings
of
mans
pride
,
which
is
wont
to
soare
beyond
it selfe
in
self-conceits
,
he
demonstrates
how
it
is
impossible
for
the
most
cunning
naturalist
,
to
render
sound
reasons
of
all
accidents
.
Then
leauing
the
aire
,
he
ouerthrowes
their
opinion
which
hold
but
three
elements
,
and
shewes
the
difference
between
that
elementarie
and
our
compounded
fire
;
adioyning
therunto
a
briefe
treatise
of
the
matter
,
the
motion
and
number
of
the
celestial
spheares
.
And
answering
those
which
are
of
opinion
,
that
there
are
no
waters
aboue
the
firmament
,
he
assumes
a
fit
occasion
to
mention
the
generall
floud
;
with
an
elegant
description
whereof
he
ends
this
second
dayes
worke
.
All
which
excellent
points
he
adornes
with
such
pleasant
illustrations
,
that
Omne
tulit
punctum
,
qui
miscuit
vtile
dulci.