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A paraphrase upon the Canticles, and some select hymns of the New and Old Testament with other occasional compositions in English verse / by Samuel Woodford ...
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Woodford, Samuel, 1636-1700.
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First-fruits should have been brought to thee Whose due I am and all that 's mine By Birth-right Thou a Title hast to me And by Command those Fruits are Thine But Thine or mine neither have bin Offered before to Sin Sin came and first conceal'd my right in Thee And then usurpt what e're was mine But let Redemption clear Thy Right to me And then both shall again be Thine Both Thine and mine tho they have bin Offered before to Sin Instead of First-fruits Lord I bring to Thee Th' whole Harvest which yet is not mine Thou in return shalt give Thy self to me And make it so because 't is Thine Both Thine and mine as if 't had bin Neve'r offered up to Sin Deo Opt. Max. S. Qui huc usque auxiliatus est in futurum mihi Providebit THIS Altar to Thy Name Great God I raise The Pious Labour of my too late Praise With Stones from Thine own sacred Quarry brought Tho by my Artless Hand but rudely wrought Artless and rude tho its Traces be Methinks I by it clearly see My Past Supports and Future care And what of both ' is my present share The Guidance of the Love Divine Making me call his Pleasure mine O let it in Thy Presence stand Inviolable from any Hand And when on it thou deignst to look Write down the Votary in Thy Book Who at his Foot has his Dependance set And in th' Inscription thus proclaimes Thee Great To God who hitherto has helpt my only Trust And for the Future will provide for He is Just. Ad Psalmos 1667. The following Compositions and Translations are therefore here Printed by the Authors consent and allowance suitable enough to the general Title of RIMES and he hopes not unbecoming his Habit tho done the most of them long before his Admission into Holy Orders because they have as to such of them at least which he could much rather have wished lost and forgotten by some too curious Collector of such Trifles against his will and knowledge been already from very false Copies very falsly Published and he is not wholly out of danger for the rest as neither was he till now for a good number of those above whose Copies he doubts are in many Hands ODE Ad Passagium inducendum I. O aspettata in ciel Beata c. BLEST Soul in Heaven expected long And long in Heav'n mayst Thou expected be Who ' art cloath'd not loaded with Humanity Like others but more Resolute and Strong Of God belove'd those briny Paths to tread Which from our unjoyn'd World unto his Kingdom lead Look how a Western Gale Do's on Thy Barques spred Canvass blow Loos'd from the Shore long since with hoys'd up Sail A better Port than what Thou leav'st to know The Wind is to Thy Service prest And from this gloomy Vale where we complain Both of our own and others Wrongs in vain Of Thy first Innocence possest In a strait Line will drive Thee to Thy Rest And whether now thou ' art bound to the true East II. Forse I devoti c. 'T was that or now the fervent Prayers Of holy Men re'inforced by their Tears Had on th' Eternal Goodness wrought Or if both Prayers and Tears were weak And useless Arms to stop th' Almighty Justice thought Nor us'd it may be its fixt Course to break T was that of His meer Love alone Heav'ns Sacred King again deny'd Again by ' His Murdr'ous Enemies defi'd i th' place where He in triumph Di'd In pity thither did at length look down He lookt and in the generous Brest Of holy Charles revenge inspir'd Revenge which was too long desir'd Revenge whose lingring Europe did infest But only to be greater was a while deferr'd Thus would He help his Spouse belov'd And of a War just Heav'n approv'd The bare report found Babylon thoughtful left her mov'd III. Chiunque alberga ' tra Garonna c. All who between the Alps and Garoone dwell Twixt Rhodanus and Rhene and the salt Sea The Christian Armies with their Banners swell Whole Spain that Jealous ever us'd to be Of others Honour to the Camp does come Leaving the Pirenes behind to guard its empty Home Britain and all the Isles that lie From th' Orcades extremity To where the Straits do Afric bound With all where e're is found But the first Traces of the Gospels sound Various in Garb various in Arms and Speech Chari'ty does to th' high Impress provoke or else beseech And worthier her what could be ever done Or who has e're so just a War begun Not Menelaus for his Wife nor Minos for his Son IV. Vna parte del mondo è c. Up in the North midst Winter and thick Snow Beyond the Suns auspicious Ray Where Clouds and Storms mete out the short liv'd Day Is bred a Nation which did never know Peace and her Charms or if it did but as a Foe Who ne're were heard or Wounds to flie or Pain Or of Deaths Icy Fetters to complain That were their Country to upbraid and Birth to stain These more devout grown than of old With German rage have of the Sword tane hold Turks Arabs Saracens and the shame They go against of Heathen Deities Only to know were to despise As fit but with their Blood their bordring Sea anew to name A People naked timo'rous ignorant of War That ne're strook blow but from a far And only with their Arrows wound the bloodless Air V. Dunque hora è l tempo c. Now is the time from our too patient Neck That ancient Yoke wherewith we ' are gall'd to break And from our Eyes the Vail to lay aside Which both the Ene'mies weakness and our strength does hide And now my Friend is an occasion seen Wherein you may those Virtues show Which part from Heav'n you have and part have gaind below The Trophies of your Tongue and learned Pen Nor will it longer any Wonder be Tho you of Orpheus and Amphion read Whose Songs tam'd Beasts and Stones did lead When of your own a greater Miracle you see And Men more Deaf and Salvager than they Led by your Skill go where you point the Way When Italy awak'ned by the sound Of your loud Voice and all her Sons around Rise from their sleep expecting that bright Day When they ' may get him Laurels who with Thorns was Crownd Ne're had that Aged Mother yet An opportunity so fair her Sons a cause more great VI. Tu è hai per arrichir c. Thou who to ' enrich the Treasure of thy Brain Hast many a flying Roll turnd o're Of th' present Times and those that went before And on those Wings to Heav'n aloft doâ—â— soar Seeing the Fates of Empires all beneath Thee plain Full well Thou knowst how in the Roman State From the first Day that Mars his Son In Blood laid its Foundation Till great Augustus who thrice entred the triumphal Gate Rome of Blood was ever free And
Rites absurd by his strange Wives brought in Authentick made when their establishing Own'd him as Founder and some think that Verse Then lustful Orgias first began to sing And prostituted Mysteries rehearse Which Fabulous Greece did after through the World disperse XXX Verse it is sure did early suffer wrong And Tyran Love debaucht it as he ' had done God's noblest Creature for the chains are strong With which he holds it yet as if his own It purely were and were enough alone All that he else has lost back to regain And whence he had been tumbled to the Throne Once more advance him in his Hands the Rein Of all things midst an holier People put again XXXI It serv'd a little then its service now Is wondrously encreast since Sloth and Age Have heightned Vice and made Verse to it bow To th' Gods before it was in Vassalage And only knew the Pythonesses rage Or Priests inspir'd to all beside most chast To Vertue did and to true Worth engage And if the Object had been rightly plac'd Might for a real Vertue and true Grace have past XXXII But now what quickly after it begun Retaining nothing but the Ill ' it has gain'd By Lux and Travel it does counter-run To all that 's Good or Honest or maintain'd I' th' Civil Worlds esteem with Atheism stain'd As the next step to many Gods is none And all Impiety has place obtain'd With the worst Men and is so furious grown That in its fits it God and King defies alone XXXIII These it defies and dare unmask'd profess Where'it may be free and to its full pitch flown What e'ven to think abash'd mere Heathenness Nay when reserv'd most and most modest grown 'T will others Follies sing and make its own And than the Wise much rather please the Vain But since its present State too well is known To be conceal'd my self I shall not pain To tell it here or further tho provok'd complain XXXIV Ah! that it would it self or could complain And of the Lusts to which it did submit Unwillingly at first nor without pain But willingly when Custom humbled it Betray'd by ' its false and treacherous Mi'gnon Wit Her Mistress Verse the treacherous Maid beguil'd The false Love her and up they both did set One shameless Brothel wanton that this wild Till both of Honour Vertue and true Love were spoil'd XXXV Despoil'd they were despoil'd what they did serve Honour and Vertue and the Love Divine And Wedlock which did covertly preserve Some Traces of a Vigor Masculine Which Lust could never to its Beck incline So perfectly but it resistance made Weak as it was and sprung a Counter-mine But now aside all Enmities were laid And all with one consent did plot Heavâ—n to invade XXXVI Which as th' Almighty saw into his Mind That Mind of his it came which ever love To ' his Works did bear to Man was ever kind The madness of such Faytours to reprove And what none else could do the Cause remove The cause was this Mock-Love whom to debase Into his Mind it came by him who strove So high to raise him and who what he was Of all Men best did know did all in Loves surpass XXXVII Wise Salomon who when he long had try'd The vain Experiment at length grew Wise Nor longer with him would the secret hide Than till th' Almighty open'd had his Eyes And to him clear'd the blest Discoveries Till his Repentance had his Loves effac'd And Credence gain'd us that immerst to rise Tho hard it be the Doom may not be past If what 's too long one Day deferr'd yet come at last XXXVIII Him his great Prophet God most high did raise Turning the Tenor of his inspir'd String Of Ancient Honour and of Future Praise But most of Love the Cause and end to sing And hidden Mysteries to the Light to bring The mighty Works th' Almighty's Self would do For Loves and his BELOVEDS ransoming All which he did to th' Royal Prophet show And all which by him taught his Israel came to know XXXIX Not as those Works when finisht perfectly Should be display'd but as became their state And Him who was restor'd the Type to be Of all the Glories which he should relate By Figures and by Shadows adaequate To Humane Reasonings and Discourse finite By his chang'd Loves a Love to adumbrate Which cannot else be seen by Mortal Light God's Love to Man which different Natures should unite XL. That Love which God in time from Heav'n should bring With Man to dwell and as true Man appear Which Man no less of all his Works the King To Heav'n excluded thence by ' his Fall should bear And on his Wings triumphantly up-rear And all the way as he does thither rise With Idees fill him of the Beauties there That Love in fine which does all Loves comprize Whence Man to ' his Maker lives his Maker for him dies XLI Of all which Marriage is the Sacrament Or Symbol call it if the Name displease The closest Union to represent 'Twixt God and Man 'twixt Man and Happiness And if there closer Union be than these Or more and whether more be meant who knows Tho closer none in one Term all to express Marriage which once confirm'd by holy Vows Is Loves Reprizal and in one all Unions shows XLII So God most High resolv'd so Salomon By him inspir'd did carnal Love impeach Of highest Treason and Rebellion The first who plainly did the Mystery preach And what himself but late learnt others teach That Love alone whose long and outstretcht Line Through Natures Works to Natures end does reach Their Love whom God not Lust or Interest joyn Unequal tho it be comes nearest the Divine XLIII As near as was or fit for us to know Or possible in Mortal Flesh immur'd Tho God himself the Form would take below When brighter Vision could not be endur'd Nor Loves invisible taught else or secur'd For such is Man tho of God's Works the chief Of things Invisible to be assur'd That from things Visible he must receive Th' imperfect Image and of God by ' himself conceive XLIV His Bodies structure and his Souls great Powers Both which as having God himself propounds Tho Acts Organical are purely Ours And he the Deity by the shift confounds Who makes it what the Parable expounds With Senses and with Parts corporeal Loving like us and with a Lovers Wounds Which from the Deity are excluded all And only us'd that under Sense those Acts may fall XLV Yet so God loves so would be known to Love As Love i th' Marriage Bed kept undefilâ—d Might figure best if one the Vail remove Our Nature which of Innocence dispoylâ—d Till rais'd whence sunk beguiles and is beguil'd But once restor'd is worthy Him and Us Him still to love with Love us to be fill'd Of Grace not Debt become both Amorous The Churches Husband He the Church his Bride and Spouse XLVI Thus loving and belov'd