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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02823	Partheneia sacra. Or The mysterious and delicious garden of the sacred Parthenes symbolically set forth and enriched with pious deuises and emblemes for the entertainement of deuout soules; contriued al to the honour of the incomparable Virgin Marie mother of God; for the pleasure and deuotion especially of the Parthenian sodalitie of her Immaculate Conception. By H.A.	Hawkins, Henry, 1571?-1646.; Aston, Herbert, b. 1614, attributed name.; Langeren, Jacob van, engraver.; Langeren, P. van, engraver.	1633 (1633)	STC 12958; ESTC S103886	142,987	288

of my Fancie may neuer be soyled more to offend thine eyes and those of the Immaculat Pearl of thy womb the Spouse of my soule CHRIST IESVS THE XVIII SYMBOL THE DOVE THE DEVISE THE CHARACTER THE Doue is the true and perfect type of Loue let them but change caps with each other and the Doue shal be Loue and Loue a Doue If Venus betake her to her Chariot she is drawne with the teame of foure of them as Poets say This are we sure of the Holie-Ghost the essential Diuine loue hath been seen to appeare as carried with Charitie in the forme and figure of a Doue The Doues are neuer in their proper element more nor better pleased then in digging them holes in the rock and planting their litle pauillions there And the Eyes the Agents of Loue like a payre of twin-like Doues haue set vp their rests and built their nests as it were in the hollow concaues of the browes in seruice of Loue. The Doue is the trustie messenger or winged Post of the Ayre that carries letters to and fro in matters of the greatest importance which she fayles not to deliuer with the hazard of her life nor euer misseth but it costs her the best bloud of her bodie She is euen an arrow and verily as swift as it but without a steelie head to hurt withal as hauing no gaule within her or curstnes in the bil She is a very sociable creature and apt for Citties witnes their Douecots where they liue in great peace and neighbourhood togeather and not of feare as some do they flock togeather in great troupes but meerly of loue and charitie one to an other She is very abstemious and religious in her dyet and wil not feed on those flesh-pots of Egipt that first came-in with that Patriark and second Parent of our kind contenting herself with bread alone allowed euen from Adam's time who tilled and ploughed the first of anie She is hot by nature yet of condition a Moyses for meeknes and euen the verie Lamb of birds if not so able to cloath our nakednes with her wool as he yet surely she would if she could yet euer readie and prompt to lodge vs in her downes And when she can not stead vs otherwise she wil afford her bodie to be sacrificed by vs as an entire holocaust of her good nature THE MORALS IN FORAMINIBVS PETRAE WHO wil giue me the wings of a Doue the Prophet sayth and I wil fly and rest The Doue would fly and then rest fly in the exercise of al vertues and then rest in the contemplation of the Diuine attributes or fly in the meditation of our Sauiour's life then rest in the deep contemplation of his bitter passion fly in reading the Diuine Scriptures that point vs the Rock and rest in digging in the holes of the said Rock the blessed stigmats of his venerable and sacred wounds For Reading indeed though it much auayle to lead vs to the Rock yet diues not so deep into the Rock as serious Meditation doth Meditation though it dig into the Rock yet dwels not so quietly there nor rests so sweetly in the Rock as a deep Contemplation doth while Reading regards but the shel only that is brings to the Rock Meditation the kernel that is digs into the Rock but Contemplation swallowes relisheth the kernel that is dwels and sets vp its rest in the Rock Reading looks but superficially therinto Meditation bores and enters into it but Contemplation diues and sounds into the depth Reading exhibits the breasts of the mother-Mother-Church in opening the books of the Old and New Testament but Meditation and more Contemplation wrings them to fetch out the milk to nourish withal Reading crops off the eares of corne and Meditation and Contemplation as with the fingar and thumb wrings out the grayne then grinds it to meal til it comes to be bread and food of men And this the tender and compassionate Mother did who flying like to the Doue al the time of her life neuer rested herself til finding her Sonne become a Rock of scandal and reproch aud piteously bored on euerie side she enters into them and dwelles within them and if you ask her where she is might very wel answer IN FORAMINIBVS PETRAE THE ESSAY THE Doue the Mercurie of birds the faythful Messenger of Noe the friend to the Oliue hath properly no coulour of her owne to know or distinguish her by so is she vniuersal for al in this only she is singular aboue the rest that being of what coulour soeuer her neck being opposed to the Sun wil diuersify into a thousand coulours more various then the Iris it-self or that Bird of Iuno in al her pride as scarlet cerulean flame-coulour and yealding a flash like the Carbuncle with vermilion ash-coulour and manie others besides which haue no name but as you borrow them from other things And though she be neuer so chast innocent and loyal to her mate yet can she not auoyd his iealousie Which you may see and it is a pleasant contemplation to note the while when the Cock returns to his Douecot how discouering his iealousies his litle breast wil swel vp to the bignes of his bodie then with the voice to break forth into a hoarse and angrie note by and by to walke in state as it were and encompas his mate about and with the shew of a wrothful Nemesis rake the ground with the swift trayling and strotting of his trayne and that you may not doubt but he is angrie indeed with the pecking of his bil strokes of his wings he persecutes the poore wretch deseruing it not Yet she abides very patient to al nor is troubled a whit at his causeles indignation proceeding out of vehemence of loue she flyes not away to shun him and withdraw herself but rather approaches neerer and closer to him she returns not blow for blow againe but meekly endures and suffers al vntil the diuturnitie of sufferance and her meeknesse do vanquish and mollify the choler and fiercenes of the furious thing And so at last the Cock forgetting his suspicion is quite tamed laying the enemie aside puts on the Louer returns to reconciliation of friendship againe and the ioyning of their bils togeather with more ardent affection renewes the same as the flame is encreased with the sprinckling of frigid drops theron She is a meek creature and hath no gaule she feeds on no liuing thing she brings vp others yong she makes choice of the purest grayne she builds in the rocks she hath groanes for singing notes sits very willingly by the waters side that she may suddenly shun the haw ke foreseen by his shadow therin and a thousand other qualities besides THE DISCOVRSE NOW then as the Doue builds her nest not in trees nor on the earth but in the holes and concauities of the Rock not so curious as some birds be to plaister