Translations from Philip of Mornay
1.
All things that are, or euer were, or shall hereafter bee,
Both man and woman, beast and bird, fish, worme, herb, grasse, and tree,
And euery other thing, yea, euen the auncient gods each one,
Whom wee so highly honor heere, come all of one alone.
2.
The Ioue almightie is the King of Kings and God of Gods,
One God, and all, the Father both and Mother of the Gods.
3.
Looke up to that same only King, Which did the world create:
Who being only one, self-bred, all other things begate:
And being with them all, unseene of any mortall wight,
Beholdeth all things, giuing man now wealth and heart's delight,
Now wofull warre: for sure there is none other King but Hee.
I see Him not, because the clowdes a covert to Him bee,
And in the eye of mortall man there is but mortall sight,
Too weake to see the lightfull Iouve that ruleth all with right:
For, sitting in the brazen Heauen aloft in throne of golde,
Hee makes the Earth His footestoole, and with either hand doth holde
The outmost of the Ocean-waues; and at His presence quake
Both mountaynes huge, and hideous seas, and eke the Stygian Lake:
The endlesse skie and stately heauens, and all things eke beside,
Did once within the thundering Ioue closse hoorded up abide:
The blessed Gods and Goddesses, whose being is for aye,
And all things past or yet to come, within Ioue's bowels lay:
From Ioue's wide wombe did all things come: Ioue is both first and last;
Beginning, Middes and Ende is Ioue; for Ioue are all things past.
Iouve layde foundation of the Earth and of the starrie skie;
Iouve reigneth King; the selfe-same Iouve of all things farre and nie
The Father and the Author is: one power, one God is Hee.
Alonely great, one Lord of All. This royall masse which wee
Beholde, and all [the] things that are conteyned in the same,
As fire and water, earth and ayre, and Titan's golden flame
That shines by Day, and drowns the Night, and euerie other thing,
Are placed in the goodly House of Ioue, the heauenly King.
4.
Certesse of Goddes there is no mo but one,
Who made the Heauens, and eeke the Earth so round;
The dreadfull Sea, which cleaps the same about,
And blustring windes which rayze the waues aloft:
But we fond men, through folly gon astray,
Euen to the hurt and damning of our soules,
Haue set up idols made of wood and stone:
Thinking, like fooles, by meanes of honoring them
To giue full well to God His honor due.
5.
Thou Neptune, and thou Iupiter, and all
You other Goddes, so wicked are you all,
That if due iustice unto you were doone,
Both Heauen and temples should be emptie soone.
6.
There is but onely one true God, right great and euerlasting,
Almightie and inuisible, Which seeth euery thing,
But cannot bee beheld Himselfe of any fleshly man
7.
The self-bred, bred without the helpe of Moother,
Wife of Himselfe, Whose name no wight can tell,
Doth dwell in fyre, beyond all reach of thought:
Of Whome we angelles are the smallest part.
8.
I am but Phaebus, more of mee ye get not at my hand;
It is as little in my mynd as I can understand.
9.
Apollo is not of that mynd; beware
How thou dost deale: he is too strong for thee:
For God it is that makes him undertake
This enterprize, and doth the same mayntayne, —
Euen God, I tell thee, under Whom both heauen
And Earth and Sea and euery thing therein,
And Phaebus eke, and Hell itselfe, doth quake.
10.
Wee feends, which haunt both Sea and Land through all the world so wide,
Do tremble at the whip of God, which all the world doth guide.
11.
First God, and next the Word, and then their Sprite,
Which three be One and ioyne in One al Three:
Their force is endlesse: get thee hence, frail wight;
The man of life unknowne excelleth thee.
12.
Unhappie Priest, demaund not me, the least
And meanest Feend, concerning that diuine
Begetter, and the deere and onely Sonne
Of that renowned King, nor of his Spirit,
Conteining all things plenteously, throughout
Hilles, brookes, sea, land, hell, ayre and lightsome fire.
Now wo is me, for from this house of mine
That spirit will me driue within a while;
So as this Temple, where men's destenies
Are now foretold, shall stand all desolate.
All things that are, or euer were, or shall hereafter bee,
Both man and woman, beast and bird, fish, worme, herb, grasse, and tree,
And euery other thing, yea, euen the auncient gods each one,
Whom wee so highly honor heere, come all of one alone.
2.
The Ioue almightie is the King of Kings and God of Gods,
One God, and all, the Father both and Mother of the Gods.
3.
Looke up to that same only King, Which did the world create:
Who being only one, self-bred, all other things begate:
And being with them all, unseene of any mortall wight,
Beholdeth all things, giuing man now wealth and heart's delight,
Now wofull warre: for sure there is none other King but Hee.
I see Him not, because the clowdes a covert to Him bee,
And in the eye of mortall man there is but mortall sight,
Too weake to see the lightfull Iouve that ruleth all with right:
For, sitting in the brazen Heauen aloft in throne of golde,
Hee makes the Earth His footestoole, and with either hand doth holde
The outmost of the Ocean-waues; and at His presence quake
Both mountaynes huge, and hideous seas, and eke the Stygian Lake:
The endlesse skie and stately heauens, and all things eke beside,
Did once within the thundering Ioue closse hoorded up abide:
The blessed Gods and Goddesses, whose being is for aye,
And all things past or yet to come, within Ioue's bowels lay:
From Ioue's wide wombe did all things come: Ioue is both first and last;
Beginning, Middes and Ende is Ioue; for Ioue are all things past.
Iouve layde foundation of the Earth and of the starrie skie;
Iouve reigneth King; the selfe-same Iouve of all things farre and nie
The Father and the Author is: one power, one God is Hee.
Alonely great, one Lord of All. This royall masse which wee
Beholde, and all [the] things that are conteyned in the same,
As fire and water, earth and ayre, and Titan's golden flame
That shines by Day, and drowns the Night, and euerie other thing,
Are placed in the goodly House of Ioue, the heauenly King.
4.
Certesse of Goddes there is no mo but one,
Who made the Heauens, and eeke the Earth so round;
The dreadfull Sea, which cleaps the same about,
And blustring windes which rayze the waues aloft:
But we fond men, through folly gon astray,
Euen to the hurt and damning of our soules,
Haue set up idols made of wood and stone:
Thinking, like fooles, by meanes of honoring them
To giue full well to God His honor due.
5.
Thou Neptune, and thou Iupiter, and all
You other Goddes, so wicked are you all,
That if due iustice unto you were doone,
Both Heauen and temples should be emptie soone.
6.
There is but onely one true God, right great and euerlasting,
Almightie and inuisible, Which seeth euery thing,
But cannot bee beheld Himselfe of any fleshly man
7.
The self-bred, bred without the helpe of Moother,
Wife of Himselfe, Whose name no wight can tell,
Doth dwell in fyre, beyond all reach of thought:
Of Whome we angelles are the smallest part.
8.
I am but Phaebus, more of mee ye get not at my hand;
It is as little in my mynd as I can understand.
9.
Apollo is not of that mynd; beware
How thou dost deale: he is too strong for thee:
For God it is that makes him undertake
This enterprize, and doth the same mayntayne, —
Euen God, I tell thee, under Whom both heauen
And Earth and Sea and euery thing therein,
And Phaebus eke, and Hell itselfe, doth quake.
10.
Wee feends, which haunt both Sea and Land through all the world so wide,
Do tremble at the whip of God, which all the world doth guide.
11.
First God, and next the Word, and then their Sprite,
Which three be One and ioyne in One al Three:
Their force is endlesse: get thee hence, frail wight;
The man of life unknowne excelleth thee.
12.
Unhappie Priest, demaund not me, the least
And meanest Feend, concerning that diuine
Begetter, and the deere and onely Sonne
Of that renowned King, nor of his Spirit,
Conteining all things plenteously, throughout
Hilles, brookes, sea, land, hell, ayre and lightsome fire.
Now wo is me, for from this house of mine
That spirit will me driue within a while;
So as this Temple, where men's destenies
Are now foretold, shall stand all desolate.
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