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A31368	Self-conflict, or, The powerful motions between the flesh & spirit represented in the person and upon the occasion of Joseph when by Potiphar's wife he was enticed to adultery : a divine poem / written originally in low-Dutch by Jacob Catts ... ; and from thence translated.; Self-stryt. English	Cats, Jacob, 1577-1660.; Quarles, John, 1624-1665.; Quarles, John, 1624-1665. Triumphant chastity.	1680 (1680)	Wing C1524; ESTC R17547	60,812	132

and these joys reject But why should we that have not reach'd our Noon Think on the period of our days so soon Disturb by thoughts of other worlds our rest And flee those joys of which we are possest Age blith like Youth like hoary age Youth grave Things more discording not on earth we have Dalliance becomes best Youth as hand in hand With joy Youth couples knits in am'rous band Both their designs is Mirth and soft delight As doth their Names their humour 's so unite And both one soul so they agree possess What the one covets t'other craves no less Hymen in stricter union never joyn'd Two pleasant pairs of more agreeing mind Youth in his bloom and now when South inspires Life in the Spring and gathers into quires The scatter'd Nightingales and decks the Hills With cheerful green and Banks of gliding Rills When Gardens re-assume their Summers pride Where Art and Nature both in triumph ride Whose various Flowers deceive the rasher eye In taking them for curious Tapistry Then three chief pleasures he to him assumes With which the hasty minutes he consumes Jocundity the first compos'd of air That knows no sadness nor doth laughter spare Who not on Earth but as on Air doth tread Each step he makes with e●e● tossing head Next Play whose fingers strike the warbling string Which moves the Soul and into tune doth bring Whose musick regulates dividing feet That move in dance and makes both fitly meet And lastly Chace to fallow-Deer inclin'd But which in Cities not in Woods we find Hotly pursuing till within his toyls He has obtain'd some of those beautious spoyls Then sweet-lip'd Joy attractively array'd With soft Habiliments whereon pourtray'd Are Loves inventions though her brighter air Plunge hearts far deeper into am'rous care The Onyx and the Jaspers various die And Diamonds darken at her brighter eye The Saphyr's blew by her more azure veins Seem to confess they serve but there for stains And blushing Rubies seem to loose their die When her more Ruby lips are moving by The curious Apples of her swelling breasts In which a Paradise of pleasure rests Surpass the whitest Syndon which she wears And gazing eyes to ravishment ensnares Thus clad and qualified likewise she For her diversion has made choice of three Song first with quavering throat who in soft lays Of moving Verse Loves mysteries displays Or of Salmacis streams a Song indites Which turns her listners to Hermaphrodites Loose Riot next to revelling inclin'd So to supply the concaves of her mind Which must by merry ●outs a vent obtain Of that light Spirit active in her brain And lastly Snap the belly-friend whose taste In well-fed flesh than fruit finds more repast Whose blood like Kids upon a mo●y plain Doth skip and dance Leval●●'s in each vein Lo what a jolly company is here Methinks my youthful Soul with new-born chee● At their remembrance over-spread I feel Which in each faculty doth gently steal We both yet young now flourish in our prime You twenty seven scarce reckon of your time I not so much if now it may not be A time to love that time we ne're shall see Ah why should youth his sweet desires controul And with too pensive thoughts torment his Soul Just when the fragrant bloom of Youth would sprout But 't is in vain for youthful lust will out It will have all its due let th' aged grieve Who now of love have took eternal leave Let them with sighs converse and groan to know High things who with a third leg added go As to like years we to like mood incline Of Sex both fit in acts of love to joyn So kindly Nature hath our tempers wrought That whilst we 're two we 're made thus one in thought Well then cheer up dull Soul no● longer now To spend thy days in grief thy self allow O do but see how all these joys do move To serve thee in the practices of love When aged furrows once thy face shall plough No more then these delights will Love allow Of things uncomely we the chiefest find When age like youth to dalliance is inclin'd Come then to Nature Mother of each thing Let 's for an Offring our youths verdure bring Her Priests we are her Temple my rooms name My bed her Altar and her fire ou● flame Our days worst part is when declining age Suddenly takes us with a deaths presage Pluck therefore flowers my youth e're spring be past Let 's love that most which doth but shortly last Dost thou yet muse Or is it timerous fear Withholds thy hand Behold thy blooming year With speedy feet to falling Autumn hies And he who gets this fall no more doth rise JOSEPH NOr reason nor Religion 't is that I Should wast my youth in carnal luxury Too soon you judge it that with prudent care I for my hasting end should now prepare But is there any one or can you tell When death shall ring us our departing knell None can the measure of his days divine Or when his Sun shall in its grave decline Even now we by that Pursevant may be Hurried from hence to that Eternity Where no repentance is allowed more To us nor mercy which we scorn'd before And yet you think the shortness of our days To so much more industry in the ways Of lust should us elicite O much beguil'd Nor unto poorest reason reconcil'd Should he who shortly must account produce Of his led life be therefore more profuse Of his most precious minutes and excite His youthful vigor to obscene delight 'T is as unreasonable as t is sure By many sins we many plagues procure O think how oft we crimson cheeks do view Suddenly change into deaths bloodless hue How oft vermilion-lips have been surpriz'd With hue more pale than box and sacrific'd By deaths inevitable stroak to dwell With Spirits just or evermore in Hell Nay though as young as you yet have we seen ●risk morning looks at evening who have been Wrapt in a winding-sheet and oft at night Eyes shut to sleep that more ne're view'd this light We daily see nor is it more a wonder ●ans Sun at noon declining going under And that which we on others acted see ●orewarns may happen either you or me Gay youths as smoak that quickly fades away We as our last should therefore think each day And strive as that perswasion did require By setling things before it should expire To God the fattest of the fold we yield And so the first-fruits of the tilled field How should we dare then with our own refuse Of feeble age his Majesty abuse 〈◊〉 to the flesh our youth we give and bring To God a crazy stump for offering ●embers repleat by age with pains and akes Whose palsie joynts for deaths approaches shakes What will he say or how can we conceive 〈◊〉 our performances should then receive More wisely therefore let 's our time redeem Whilst youth remains which God doth most esteem The

SELF-CONFLICT represented in a Dispute between IOSEPH and POTIPHARS WIFE A DIVINE POEM SELF-CONFLICT OR The powerful Motions between THE Flesh Spirit REPRESENTED In the Person and upon the occasion OF JOSEPH WHEN By POTIPHAR's Wife He was enticed to Adultery A DIVINE POEM Written originally in Low-Dutch by JACOB CATTS sometime Lord Pensioner of Holland and from thence Translated LONDON Printed for Robert Sollers at the Kings-Arms and Bible in St. Pauls Church-yard 1680. TO THE READER THou hast here the fruits of some Lucubrations and vacant hours which to me have paid the pains in Translating and I dare ●ay they will thine in Reading if thou ●ast not more Itching Ears after loftier ●trains than without doubt I can ren●er than Sanctified Desires after whole●ome and profitable Matter rendered ●nto thee Indeed else it were a pity Gold should be rejected because pre●●nted unto thee in a Homely Vessel 〈◊〉 Soveraign Counsel because not sung to thee by a Cowley or a Milton the very footsteps of either of which thou art not like here to find My hopes shall be however to meet with some few who will not dash their advantages in pieces by carping a● me who am herein no more than the Friendly Bearer and to these I would intimate what remains to be said of the Work itself for their further satisfaction It 's Subject then is a Christians Warfare or to come up to its Title His Conflict with himself If thou art a Christian indeed thou art a Souldier and must fight continually not Sensually with Earthly Powers but Spiritually with all the Powers of Darkness where thou wilt find the most puissan● and dangerous Enemy thou hast to grapple with thine own self and with these as thou must fight continually so over these all thou must be sure to be victorious or they will triumph over thee which will be in thy inevitable Destruction Skill therefore in this so myrious a Warfare will be of greatest importance to thee which saith my Author doth consist In knowing thine own Weakness the Strength of thine Adversaries and the Remedy against both To whose following Discourses then for excellent Directions herein it falls in now aptly for me onely to refer thee And yet this induceth me to say thus much more before I leave thee here that by reading thou mayst perceive thy glozing Corruptions using in the person of Josephs Mistriss the most cogent Expressions to charm thee into consent to their Exuberous Desires And by proceeding immediately to those Replies carried on in the person of Joseph thou hast the application of more Soveraign Antidotes to kill or enervate such else irresistible Charms either in the birth or riper growth within thee Yet here lest the tender Conscience might check at the Libidinous and Prophane Language necessarily made use of by my Author he clears that Scruple from the like practice in David who useth Wicked Expressions but in the Persons of the Wicked and in Solomon who writes Lewdly but in the Persons of Lewd Women c. Where likewise among others he satisfies his honest-minded Reader with this redundant and significant Similitude That the Rose receives advantage in it fragrancy by being planted near Garlick The Stile is Verse that so no Advantage may be denyed the Flesh in this her publick Tryal or as my Author would have it that the Scope may with the more inevitable force penetrate the Heart as the sonorous harmony of a Trumpet doth through the narrow passage of its body the Ear and then I may add that the young Reader may through a happy kind of guile be caught with pleasure to his own Souls advantage The Variations Amplifications and Additions made use of in this Translation will I hope easily be excused if not judged necessary especially where the difference between Translating and Construing and the unconstrained freedome of Verse is considered And now having given thee what I hope may satisfie thee as to the Work it self I would now onely superadde a brief Account of the Author and of the particular success of this excellent Piece of his both at home and abroad And this shall be all I shall at this time say of both As to the Author Holland whose Lord Pensioner he was could not detain him long in that Fatal Dignity which he happily resigned at a seasonable time for a Retired Life at his beloved Zorgfliet where giving more ample liberty to his incomparable Mind he lets it all flow to his Countrey-men in Castalian Numbers untill at length he living to a good old age they together compleated a very Large Volume which he hath left filled with the profitablest variety of delight both Moral and Divine that in that kind there had ever been extant And now as to the success of this small part of his Studies esteemed by the most one of the most worthy it hath met with such kind and general acceptation at Home that there it hath been often Printed in all sorts of Volumes nor hath it found less abroad where in Germany it was by different hands almost at one and the same time Translated and Printed Herewithall I will now leave thee and refer thee to the Work it self in the perusal of which I heartily wish thy benefit and delight Farewel THE ENTERTAINMENT IN fulsom dung thou who a beast dost here Behold inclos'd and pondering dost appear The meaning to desire thy thoughts compose My Song the while shall thee the mind disclose Of cleanlyest Creatures in this Ring enchas'd Thou one behold'st by unkind hands there plac'd Of name the Ermin one by nature bent To be untainted with ought foul now pent In putrid Muck behold no pains dispute May ' scape procure unless it will pollute In filth its fur but hating most a blot It faints opprest with famine on the Plot. The choyce is sharp or it must dye or see That now its Coat in Mire defil'd must be Yet such its mind that in this huge dismay Cold death it choseth and concludes its days Where lo though dying with what wondrous care It softly sinks lest it should blot a hair There now it lies stretcht out upon the plain Grim death embracing to be free of stain Thus far the Emblem which ●he mind displays Of Jacobs Joseph which his pious ways And Conquest shews by him of lust obtain'd Of lust so strongly which in 's Mistress reign'd No● youthful dalliance relish'd with his mind He f●r more pleasure in chast thoughts did find Though carbonading lust did him assail He stood unmov'd nor could that lust prevail A Lady he to him beholds inclin'd With unchast love young fair and rich his mind Yet he● resists she ●almy joys presents He God prefers her j●●s as vice resents She pleads Alone we 're safe from prying ey● But he returns Yet God doth us descrye Then she My Lord abroad none obvious stand To cross our loves He then But God's at hand She adds Youth prompts us to this