Ruine by Civil Warre supported Belgâ—a overthrown the Spanish invincible Navie expelled the Spaniards out of Ireland received the Irish into Mercie enriched England by her most prudent Government 45 Years Elizabeth a vertuous and triumphant Queen in the 70th year of her Age in most happy and peaceable manner departed this Life leaving here her mortal parts until by the last Trump she shall rise immortal LXXII She past the Furnace to be more refin'd From Flames drew Purity of Minde Not heat of Passion hence being try'd She brighter shin'd LXXIII Here wound here lance me LORD thy Austin cries Dissect me here for Paradise The Cross the Altar be so Love be Sacrifice LXXIV Imprint thy LOVE so deep into my Heart That neither Hunger Thirst nor Smart Gain Losse nor Thraldom Life nor Death Us ever part LXXV Should Foes rip up my Breast with piercing Blade My Soul would but have Passage made Through which to HEAV'N she might in Purple Riv'lets wade LXXVI Forbid the Banes 'twixt Soul and Body joyn'd The Corps but falls to be refin'd And re-espous'd unto the Glorifi'd high Minde LXXVII Who makes th' ALMIGHTY his Delight He goes To Martyrdom as to Repose The Red Sea leads to PALESTINE where all Ioy flowes LXXVIII Steel'd 'gainst Afflictions Anvel let 's become Proud of the Worlds severest Doom No Majestie on Earth is like to Martyrdome LXXIX Enter into thy Masters Ioy ' s so great This Thought is with such Flames repleat That from th' High Court of Mercy Souls all Deaths defeat LXXX Who saith Fear not HIM must we fear alone Blest whom no Fear makes Faith be gone How many must they fear who fear not only ONE LXXXI We are but once to our Graves Port brought in To which from Birth w' have sailing bin It matters not what Way so we scape Rocks of Sin LXXXII But hark 't is late the Whislers knock from Plough The droyling Swineheards Drum beats now Maids have their Cursies made to th' spungy-teated Cow LXXXIII Larks roosted are the folded Flocks are pent In huâ—dled Grates the tir'd Ox sent In loose Trace home now Hesper lights his Torch 〈◊〉 Tent. LXXXIV See glimmering Light the Pharos of our Cot By Innocence protected not By Guards we thither tend where Ev'n-song's not forgot LXXXV O Pray'r Thou Anchor through the Worldly Sea Thou sov'raign Rhet'rick 'bove the Plea Of Flesh that feed'st the fainting Soul thou art 〈◊〉 Key LXXXVI Blest Season when Dayes Eye is clos'd to win Our Heart to clear th' Account when Sin Has past the Audit Ravishments of Soul begin LXXXVII Who never wake to meditate or weep Shall â—ure be sentenc'd for their Sleep Night to forepassed Day should still strict Centrie keep LXXXVIII O let them perish midst their flaring Clay Who value Treasures with a Day Devoutly spent FAITH' 's the true Gem the World a Gay LXXXIX So wastful Vsâ—rer as thy self there 's None Who 〈◊〉 three true Gems for one 〈…〉 Thy Rest Famâ— Soul for ever gone XC When 〈◊〉 Mists our Hemisphear invade Of all the Air when one Blot's made 〈…〉 XCI Then for an Hour Elixir of Delight We Heav'n beleag'ring pray and write When every Eye is lockt but those that watch the Night XCII Saints fight on bended Knees their Weapons are Defensive Patience Tears and Pray'r Their Valour most when without Witness Hell do's scare XCIII May whiter Wishes wing'd with Zeal appear Lovely unto Thy purest Ear Where nothing is accepted but what 's chast and clear XCIV Lifes hectick Fits finde Cordials in Pray'rs Hive Transcendently Restorative Which might our Iron Age to its first Gold retrive XCV See listning Time runs back to fetch the Age Of Gold when Pray'r does Heav'n engage Devotion is Religions Life-blood 't is Gods Page XCVI Who brings rich Bliss by Bills of sure Exchange The Blessings that the Poor arrange For Alms receiv'd that Day beatifies our Grange XCVII Dance Nabals with large Sails on smiling Tides Till the black Storm against you rides Whose pitchie Rains interminable Vengeance guides XCVIII But LORD let Charitie our Table spread Let Vnity adorn our Bed And may soft Love be Pillow underneath our Head XCIX Enricht le ts darn up Want what Fortune can Or give or take away from Man We prize not much HEAV'N payes the good Samaritan C. Thus Life still blessing and still blest we spend Thus entertain we Death as Friend To disapparel us for GLORIES endlesse End CI. Who thus forgot in Graces growes as Years Loves cherisht Pray'r unwitnest Tears Rescu'd from monstrous Men no other Monster fears CII They who their dwelling in Abdera had Did think Democritus was mad He knew t was so of them The Application's sad CIII Knew but the World what COMFORTS tiding on Flow to such Recollection It would run mad with Envie be with Rage undone CIV O Sequestration Rich to Worldlings Shame A Life 's our Object not a Name Herostratus did sail like Witch i' th' Air of Fame CV Get long-breath'd Chronicles ye need such Alms Sue from Diurnal Breefs for Palms Injurious Grandeur for its frantick Pride wants Balms CVI. In Aery Flatt'ries Rumour not Fame lies Inconstancie Times Mistresse cries It up which soon by arguing Time Truths Parent dies CVII Fames Plant takes Root from Vertue grows thereby Pure Souls though Fortune-trod stand high When mundane shallow-searching Breath It self shall die CVIII O frail Applause of Flesh swoln Bubbles passe Turf-fire more Smoak than Splendor has What Bulwark firm on Sand What shell for Pearl may passe CIX But Saints with an attentive Hope from High On HEAV'NS Paroll do live and die Passing from Lifes short Night to Dayes ETERNITIE CX Whâ— blessedly so breathe and leave their Breath Of dying Life make living Death Each Day spent like the last does act a HEAV'N beneath CXâ— Death's one long Sleep and humane Life no more Than one short Watch an Hour before World after thy mad Tempest 't is the landing Shore CXII Mid point betwixt the Lives of Losse and Gain The Path to boundlesse Ioy or Pain Saints Birth-day Natures Dread GRACE doth this Bandog chain CXIII When Moses from high Pisgahs Top descry'd Fair Canaan Type o' th' HEAV'NLY Bâ—IDE He breath'd out his Joy-ravisht Soul so sweetly dy'd CXIV To IMMORTALITIE the Grave 's a Womb We passe into a Glorious Room Thorough the gloomie Entry of a narrow Tomb. CXV LORD as THOU mad'st most pow'rful ONE in THREE The World of nothing so let me Make nothing of the World but make my All in THEE CXVI Pardon the By-steps that my Soul has trod Most Great Good Glorious Gratious GOD Seal THOU the Bill of my Divorse to Earths dull clod CXVII Thy boundlesse Sourse of GRACE the scarlet Spot Scour'd white as Wool that first did blot Th' Original in Man that was so fairly wrot CXVIII Check not my Hope but spurre my Fear to THEE Virtue to court and Vice to flee Love lend thou me thy Spurre Fear thou my Bridle be CXIX
best by Tears is woo'd LXV THOU Who one Shoarless Sea of All did'st make Except one floating Isle to take Vengeance on Guilt My Salt Flood rais'd drown Sin i' th' Lake LXVI O how these Words Arise to Judgement quell On Wheels in Torments broke I 'd dwell So as by Grace I might be sav'd from endlesse Hell LXVII To Angel-Intercessor I 'm forbid To pray Yet pray to ONE that did Pray to ANOTHER for HIMSELF when 's Blood-drops slid LXVIII FATHER Perfections Self in CHRIST does shine Thy Justice then in HIM confine Through 's Merits make thy Mercies both are endless mine LXIX See not but through's abstersive Blood my Sin By which I being cleans'd within Adde Perseverance 'T is as hard to hold as win LXX Her Eyes are Centinels to Pray'r to Moans Her Ears her Nose courts Charnel-bones Her Hands Breast-hammers are her constant Food is Groans LXXI Her Heart is hung with Blacks with Dust she cloyes Her golden Tresses Weds Annoyes Breeds Sighs bears Grief which Ibis-like Sin-snakes destroyes LXXII Thus mounts she drizling Olivet the Plains Of Iericho she leaves While Rains The Farmer wet they fully swell his earing Graines LXXIII She her own Farmer stockt from HEAV'N is bent To thrive Care 'bout the Pay-day's spent Stange She alone is Farmer Farm and Stock and Rent LXXIV The Porcupine so 's Quiver Bow and Darts To ' her self alonâ—e has all Wars Arts Her own Artillery needs no Aid from forreign Parts LXXV Sad Votaresse thy Earth of late oregrown With Weeds is plough'd till'd harrow'd sown The Seed of Grace sprouts up when Nature is kept down LXXVI Thy Glebe is melow'd with Faith-quickning Juice The Furrows thence Hope-blades produce Thy Valley cloth'd with LOVE will Harvest Joyes diffuse LXXVII Live Phenix from Self-death I' th' Morn who dies To Sin does but immortalize Who studie Death ere dead ere th' Resurrection rise LXXVIII Rachel thy Children Goal and Crown have won Ere they had Skill or Will to run Blest who their whole Dayes Work in their Lifes Morn have done LXXIX Like misty Morn She rose in Dew so found She ne're was till this Sicknesse sound Till Sin in Sorrows flowing Issue Tears lay drownd LXXX Souls Life-blood Tears prevailing Pleaders tame Such Rebels as by Eve did shame Mans Glory only These the old faln World new frame LXXXI Lust causeth Sin Sin Shame Shame bids repent Repentance weeps Tears Sorrow vent Sorrow shews Faith Faith Hope Hope Love Love Souls Content LXXXII Thus from bruis'd Spiceries of her Breast doth rise Incense sweet-smelling Sacrifice Whilst she lifts up to HEAV'N her Heart her Hand her Eyes LXXXIII I 'm sick with trembling sunk with mourning blasted With sinning and with sighing wasted New Life begins to breath O Ioy too long untasted LXXXIV Twice did'st new Life by Breath by Death bestow On Man prevaricating Who By yielding to a Woman made Man yield to Woe LXXXV Then did'st his Soul restore as first inspire With second Grace renewing Fire Whence He hath part again in thy Coelestial Quire LXXXVI Once more for this Heav'n-Denison did'st get A never-fading Coronet Which was with two bright Iewels Grace and Glory set LXXXVII 'T was at my bloud-stain'd Birth Thy Love said Live Links of Thy praevious Chain revive Ev'n crumbled Dust So Thou my Soul from Death reprive LXXXVIII CHRIST Th' Vnction art Salvation IESVS in Thy Death Redemption Blood for Sin Gives Satisfaction Thy Ascension Hope does winne LXXXIX Thy Session Comfort Though I did offend LORD Fears disband give Grace t' amend That Hope which reaps not shame may rise Peace descend XC My Pardon signe The Spear pierct THEE 's the Pen Thy Bloud the Ink Thy Gospel then The Standish is O let my Soul be Paper clean XCI Kinde angry LORD since Thou dost wound yet cure I 'l bear the Yoak the Crosse endure Lament and Love and when set free keep Conscience pure XCII Thus mourns she and in mourning thus she joyes Ev'n that adds Comfort which annoyes Sighs turn to Songs Tears to Wine Fear Fear destroies XCIII As holy Flame did from her Heart arise Dropt holy Water from her Eyes While Pray'r her Incense was LOVE her SACRIFICE XCIV Arm Arm She breaks in with strong ZEAL The Place Sin quitts now garison'd by GRACE Illustrious Triumphs do the Steps of Victors trace XCV When the loud Volleyes of her Pray'rs begin To make a Breach they soon take in The Parapets Redouts and Counterscarps of Sin XCVI At once she works and fights With Lamp she waits Midst Virgins at the BRIDEGROOMS Gates With HIM to feast Her with his BRIDAL DELICATES XCVII To HEAV'N now goes she on her Knees which cry Loud as her Tongue much speaks her Eye HEAV'N storm'd by Violence yields Eyes Tongue and Knees scale high XCVIII My Last crave Pardon for my First Extreams Be prais'd who crown'st my Morn with Beams Converted Age sees Visions erring Youth dreamt Dreams XCIX RELIGION's its own Lustre Who This shun Night-founder'd grope at midday Sun Rebellion is its own self-tort'ring Dungeon C. Mans restlesse Minde GODS Image can't be blest Till of this ONE This ALL possest THOU our Souls Center art our everlasting REST Pars superata Freti Lucem praebentibus Astris Longior at nostrae Pars superanda Viae Da DEUS ut Cursus suscepti nostra propinquet Meta laboranti grata futura Rati Magnificat Anima mea DOMINUM THEOPHILA'S LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO III. The Restauration ARGUMENT Laetior una Dies IESV tua SACRA Canenti Quà m sine TE melicis Secula mille Lyris Vt paveam Scelus omne petam super Omnia COELUM Da mihi Fraena TIMOR Da mihi Calcar AMOR The Authors Rapture GRACE is prais'd a Flood Of Tears is pour'd for Albions Blood Shed in a Mist for smot Micaiahs PEACE is woo'd STANZA I. MUSE twang the pow'rful Harp brush each String O' th' warbling Lute and Canzons sing May ravish Earth and thence to HEAV'N in Triumph spring II. Noble Du-bartas in a high-flown Trance Observ'd to start from 's Bed and dance Said Thus by me shall caper all the Realm of France III. As viscous Meteors fram'd of earthy Slime By Motion fir'd like Stars do clime The woolly-curdled Clouds there blaze out their Time IV. Streaming with burnisht Flames yet Those but ray To spend Themselves and light our Way And panting Windes to cool ours not their own Lungs play V. So my enliv'ned Spirits ascend the Skies Wasting to make the Simple wise Who bears the Torch himself shades lightens others Eyes VI. As Lust for Hell ZEAL sweats to build for HEAV'N When fervent Aspirations driv'n By all the Souls quick Pow'rs to that high Search are giv'n VII High is the Sphear on which FAITHS Poles are hing'd Pure Knowledge Thou art not restring'd Thy Flames enfire the bushie Heart yet leave 't unsing'd VIII Suburbs of PARADISE Thou Saintly Land Of Visions Woo'd by WISDOMS Band By dull Mules in gold-trappings
Children or I die LOVE rest Thy Head upon the Pillows of my Breast When me THOU shalt impregn'd with Vertues make 50. A fruitful Eden All the Frutage take Thy Passion Ionathan below did move Rapt SPIRITS in high Excess flame with intensest Love 51 My Life is hid with THEE in GOD Descry THY SELF ô THOU my plighted SPOUSE that I May ever glorious be That my joy'd Soul 52. With THEE may make up Marriage and my whole Self THEE for Bridegroom have My Hope still sends Up Come that I may enter with thy feasted Friends 53. O That long-long'd for COME ô COME mine Eyes LOVES Sentinels watch like officious Spies Strike Sparks of JOY t'enflame LOVES Tinder make 54. The Exile view her Home the Dreamer wake Tears raise the Fire of LOVE Ease Sighs of Air Fires Passion watry Tears and earthy self Despair 55. My Sighs condens'd to Drops compute Hours spent Cancell the Lease of my Clay-Tenement Which payes deer Rent of Groans ô grant a Writ 56. Of Ease I languish out not live Permit A Passe to SIONS MOUNT But I resigne My green-sick Will though sick of LOVE to that of Thine 57. Waitings which ripen Hopes are not Delayes Presence how great how true's LOVE Absence saies While Lungs my Breath shall organ I 'l press still 58. Th' Exinanition of my o'regrown Will Behold I quickly come O're-joyd I'm here O Come Till then each Day 's an Age each Hour a Year 59. JESU That NAME' 's Ioyes Essence hasten on Throng amorous Sighs for Dissolution Fastidious Earth avant With Love-plumes soar 60. My Soul to meet thy SPOUSE Can'st wish for more Only Come give a RING Re-eccho then O Come Even so LORD IESV Come Amen Amen LXI Who 's this Inamor'd VOT'RESSE Like the Morn From Mountain unto Mountain born Who first with Night-drops dew'd seem'd Turtle Dove forlorn LXII But now e're warped Body neer Decay Stands Bow-like bent to shoot away Her Soul Ere prone Looks kiss her Grave e're her last Day LXIII She LOVE-fill'd wants no Mate has rather one Body too much I' th' SPIRITS Throne CHRISTS Peace is fullest Quire Such Loneness least alone LXIV When soft-flying Sleep Deaths Sister Wings do's spread Over that curtain'd Grave her Bed Then with prophetick Dreams the HIGHEST crowns her Head LXV Behold a comely PERSON clad in white The all-inlightning Sun lesse bright Than that illustrious FACE of HIS which blest her Sight LXVI To Her in MAJESTIE His Way HE broke And softly thus to Her HE spoke Come Come away My JESUS saies She. So She woke LXVII Her Pray'rs more passionate than witty rise As Sols Postilion bright her Eyes Wrastling with GOD for GRACE bedew Loves Paradise LXVIII Betimes when keen breath'd Winds with frosty Cream Peri'wig bald Trees glaze tatling Stream For May-games past white-sheet peccavi is Winters Theme LXIX Those Day-breaks give good Morrows which she takes With Thanks so doubly Good them makes Who in GODS Promise rests in GODS Remembrance wakes LXX SAINTS nothing more SAINTS nothing lesse regard Than LOVES SELF than self-Love unscar'd Though rackt into an Anagram their Souls being spar'd LXXI Through Vertuous Self-mistrust They acted move Like Needle toucht by th' Stone of Love Blest Magnet which attracts and Souls directs ABOVE LXXII Were She but mortal She were satisfy'd So GOD liv'd in Her till She dy'd His WORD her Deed his WILL her Warrant BOTH her Guide LXXIII Thus this DEVOTA breaths out yerning Cries Let not Dust blinde my sensual Eyes When as my Spirits Energie transcends the Skies LXXIV VIRTUES raise Souls All 's FILIAL to ABOVE Low'st Step is Mercenary Love Fraternal are the Sides that SAINTS Ascent improve LXXV Manna to my enamour'd Soul art THOU The SPIRIT of Heav'n distill'd do's flow From thy ASPECT By That from Brutes we ANGELS grow LXXVI Had I ô had I many Lives as Years As many Loves as Love hath Fears All All were THINE had I as many Hearts as Hairs LXXVII From THEE my JOY-EXTENSIONS spreading flow Dilating as Leaf-gold be n't slow O THOU my All and more Love-lorn THEE still I woo LXXVIII The Widow press'd till THEE to grant She bound The VIRGIN sought THEE till she found The Publican did knock till opening knocking crown'd LXXIX Though nought but dross I in my self can spie Yet melted with THY beaming EYE My Refuse turns to Gold by mystick Alchymie LXXX Then whet thy blunt Sythe Time and wing thy Feet Life not in Length but Use is sweet Come Death the Body brought a bed o' th' SOUL Come fleet LXXXI Be Pulse my passing-Bell be Skin my Herse Nights sable Curtains that disperse The Rayes of Day be Shroud Dews weep my funeral Verse LXXXII Pittie me Love-sick Virgins Then She swound O'recome with Zeal She sunk to th' Ground Darts of intolerable Sweets her Soul did wound LXXXIII She lay with flaming LOVE empierc't to th' Heart Wak't As She bled She kist the Dart Then sigh'd Take all I am or have All All THOU art LXXXIV Then sunk again Reviv'd LOVES BOW She bent And marry'd String to Shaft and sent Ejaculations which the Skies like Lightning rent LXXXV Piercing Them through feather'd with Sighs to show She little pay'd yet much did owe The Feathers sung and fir'd as they did upward go LXXXVI No ice-fring'd Cloud may quench LOVES soaring Flame LOVE is more strong then Death or Shame Grown up all Soul the Flesh sinks in a triple Qualm LXXXVII I charge ye SION VIRGINS let Her still Enjoy her disencloystred Fill In These high Extasies of UNION and WILL. LXXXVIII Do not with Claps of Hands or noise of Feet Awake Her from what is more sweet Till the bright rising Day-star light Her to HEAV'NS Street LXXXIX Yeeld Her what her unfetter'd Rapture gives Since She 's more where She loves than lives Transanimations scaling HEAV'N break carnal Gyves XC In LOVES triumphant Chariot plac't She is Concentrick are her JOYES with HIS Encharioted in Fire her Spirit HEAV'N-ripe for Blisse XCI They 're only sound who Thus are lost in Trance Transported to the High'st Advance With Him who was in Spirit rapt to ' expreffeles Glance XCII Return'd She cry'd O slay me thus again Ne're lives she who thus ne're is slain How sweet the Wounds of LOVE No Pleasure to LOVES pain XCIII In furnac't Pyrausta-like I fry To live is Faith 't is Gain to die One Life 's enough for Two THOU liv'st in me not I XCIV How mid'st Regalios of LOVES Banquet I Dissolve in Sweets Extremitie O Languors Thus to live is in pure Flames to die XCV Three Kings three Gifts to th' KING of Kings did bring Myrrhe Incense Gold to Man GOD King For Myrrhe Tears Incense Pray'rs Gold take Loves Offering XCVI O take Loves Hecatomb Then through her Eyes Did LOVE inamoring Passions rise HIGH'ST GLORY crowns THEOPHILA's Love-Sacrifice XCVII Not She Mortality alone did die Death's but Translation to the Skie All Virtues fir'd in her pure BREAST their Spicerie
Caesar for his Glorie Absolon for his Beauty Achitophel for his Policie Dives for his Wealth or Iudas for his Office Seeing then that Happinesse consists not in the Affluence of Exorbitant Possessions nor in the Humours of fickle Honour all external Splendors being unsatisfactory let Christians neglect terrestrial Vanities and retire into the Recesses of Religion nothing being so great in humane Actions as a pious knowing Minde which disposeth great Things and may yield such permanent Monuments as bring Felicity to Mankinde above the Founders of Empires being an Antepast to the overflowing FEASTS of ETERNITIE Man endued with Altitude of Wisdom in the sweetnesse of Conscience and Height of Vertue is of all Creatures sub-Angelical the ALMIGHTIES Masterpiece the Image of his MAKER a Candidate of DIVINITY and Model of the Vniverse who in holy Colloquies Whisprings and secret Conferences with GOD findes HIM a Torrent of Pleasure a Fountain of Honour and an inexhaustible Treasure whose divine Life is a Character of the DIVINE NATURE by taking GOD for the Text Truth for the Doctrine and Holinesse for the Use without which the highest Endowments of the most refined Wit are but the quaint Magick of a learned Lunacie Most wretched therefore are they beyond all Synonima's of Misery whose undisciplin'd Education leaves them unfurnisht of Skill to spend their Time in any Thing but what in the prosecution of Sin tends to Death Wealth and Greatnesse rendring them past Reproof ev'n ready to tempt their very Tempter whereby they are wholly enclin'd to Sensualities being in their Entertainments commonly intemperate in their Drink humerous their Humours quarrelous their Duels damnable concluding a voluptuous and brutish Life in a bloody and desperate Death preferring the Bodie before the Soul Sence before the Spirit Appetite before Reason temporary Fooleries phantastick Visits idle Courtships gay Trifles fascinating Vanities as if the Pleasure of Life were but the smothering of pretious Time in those things which are meer Puffs in Expectation Vanitie in Enjoyment and Vexation of Spirit in Departure before solid Goodnesse and eternal Exultations To divert thee therefore from such Shelves of indiscreet Vice and to direct thee to the safe and noble Channel of Vertue ev'n to Faith with good Works to Piety w th Compassion to Zeal with Charity to know the End which distinguisheth thee from a Beast and to chuse a good End which differenceth thee from an evil Man be so much thine own Friend as to peruse seriously this spiritual Poem which treateth on Sub-coelestials Coelestials and Super-coelestials whereby a delightful Curiousness may steal thee into the Pleasure of Goodnesse Know then that Sub-coelestials or Sublunaries have their Assignment in the lowest Portion of the Universe and being wholly of a corporeal Nature do enjoy Spiritual Gifts the Chief of which is Life by Loan onely where there is no Generation without Corruption no Birth without Death From the Surface of the Earth to the Center is 3436 Miles the whole Thickness 6872 Miles the whole Compsse 21600 Miles from its Center to the Moon is 3924912 Miles Now Coelestials or aethereal Bodies are seated in the middle which participating of a greater Portion of Perfection impart innumerable rare Vertues and influential Efficacies to Things below not enduring a Corruption only subject having obtained their Period to change The glorious Projection and Transfusion of aetheral Light both of the Sun and of the Stars of the six Magnitudes constitute by astronomicall Computation more than 300 Suns upward to the EMPYRAEAN HEAVEN A Starre in the Equator makes 12598666 Miles in an Hour which is 209994 Miles in a Minute a Motion quicker than Thought Super-coelestials are Intelligencies altogether Spiritual and Immortal excellent in their Beings intuitive in their Conceptions such as are the glorious Quire of the Apostles the exulting Number of the Prophets the innumerable Army of crown'd Martyrs triumphing Virgins charitable Confessors c. or the blessed Hierarchie of Angels participating somewhat of GOD and Man having had a Beginning as Man and now being immortall with GOD having their Immortality for his Sempiternity void of all Mixture as is GOD and yet consisting of Matter and Form as doth Man Subsisting in some Subject and Substance as doth Man yet being incorporeal as is GOD They having Clarity Impassibility Subtility and Agility having Understanding without Errour Light without Darkness Joy without Sorrow Will without Perturbation Impassibility without Corruption pure as the Light ordained to serve the LORD of Light They are local and circumscribed by Place as is Man yet are they in a place not properly by way of Circumscription but by way of Definition though they cannot be in several Places at once yet are they able in a Moment to be any where as GOD alwayes is every where of admirable Capacity and Knowledge resembling GOD yet ignorant of the ESSENCE of GOD much lesse see they all Things in IT in that like Man Ev'n these Incorporeal Substances would pine and starve if an All-filling and infinitely All-sufficient and Superabundant GOD were not the Object of their high Contemplation whose Blisse of theirs is the neerest Approach to that Divine MAJESTIE WHO is a true real substantial and essential NATURE subsisting of HIMSELF an eternal BEING an infinite ONENESSE the radical PRINCIPLE of all Things whose ESSENCE is an incomprehensible Light His POVVER is Omnipotency and his BECK an absolute Act WHO before the Creation was a BOOK rowl'd up in HIMSELF having Light only in HIMSELF WHO is a SPIRIT existent from everlasting to everlasting One ESSENCE Three SUBSISTENCIES whose DIVINE NATURE is an essential and infinite UNDERSTANDING which knowes all Things actually alwayes which cannot possibly be comprehended by any finite Creature much lesse by Man groveling on Earth in the Mud of Errour and grosse Ignorance who are unable by any Art or Industrie to finde out the true Nature Form and Vertue of the least flie or gnat The whole Vniverse is the Looking-glasse of GODS Power Wisdom and Bountie HE loves as Charitie knows as Truth judges as Equitie rules as Majestie defends as Safety works as Vertue reveals as Light c. HE is a never deficient Brightnesse a never weary Life a Spring ever-flowing the Principle of Beginning c. If any Creature knew what GOD is he should be GOD for none knoweth HIM but HIMSELF who is Good without Qualitie great without Quantitie present without Place everlasting without Time WHO by a Bodie is no where by Energie every where Above all by Power beneath all by sustaining all without all by compassing all within all by penetrating all being absent seen being present invisible of WHOM to speak is to be silent WHOM to value is to exceed all Rate WHOM to define is still to encrease in Definition INFINITENESSE being the right Philosophers Stone which turns all Metals into Gold and one Dram of IT being put not only to a Seraphin or to a whole Element but even to the least gnat
broken Consort of Hearts and Spirits the Will there accepted for the Work and the Desire for Desert Behold here in an Original is presented an Example of Life with Force of Precepts happy who coppy them out in their Actions Indeed Examples and Precepts are as Poems and Pictures for as Poems are speaking Pictures and Pictures are silent Poems so Example is a silent Precept and Precept a speaking Example And as Musick is an audible Beauty and Beauty a visible Musick So Precepts are audible Sweets to the Wise and Examples silent Harmony to the illiterate who may unclasp and glance on these Poems as on Pictures with Inadvertency yet He who shall contribute to the Improvement of the Author either by a prudent Detection of an Errour or a sober Communication of an irrefragable Truth deserves the venerable Esteem and Welcome of a good ANGEL And He who by a candid Adherence unto and a fruitful Participation of what is good and pious confirms Him therein merits the honourable Entertainment of a faithful Friend But he who shall â—â—â—duce him in Absence for what in Presence he would seem to applaud incurres the double Guilt of Flattery and Slander and he who wounds Him with ill Reading and Misprision does Execution on Him before Iudgement Now He who is the Way the Truth and the Life bring those to everlasting Life who love the Way and Truth in Sincerity The severall Cantos The Humiliation Restauration Inamoration Representation Association Contemplation Admiration The Recapitulation Praelibation Translations Abnegation Disincantation Segregation Reinvitation Termination Be pleased Reader first to correct these Typographical Errours Acres circumfert centum licèt Argus Ocellos Non tamen errantes cernat ubique Typos AT the bottom B4 Line 20. Read Ecstasies Pag. 1. Stanza 1. Strains p. 54. St. 23. Condescent p. 76. St. 71. Vnbounded p. 84. St. 25. Thee p. 106. St. 86. doth most 132. 31. non p. 144. rectifie the Figures p. 169. St. 60. repurgat 173. 90 eversis 203. 82. For. 214. l. 12. exanimes 217. l. 7. splendet 239. 29. didst 268. l. 25. Nectare c. PNEVMATO-SARCO-MACHIA OR THEOPHILA'S Spiritual Warfare THE Life of a true CHRISTIAN is a continual Conflict Each Act of the good Fight hath a Military Scene and our Blessed SAVIOUR coming like a Man of War commands in Chief under the FATHER who hath layed Help upon One that is Mighty by anointing him with the Holy GHOST and with Power This World is his pitched Field his Standard the Cross his Colours Blood his Armour Patience his Battle Persecution his Victory Death And in mystical DIVINITY his two-handed Sword is the Word and Spirit which wounds and heals and what is shed in this holy War is not Blood but Love his Trumpeters are Prophets and Preachers his Menacies Mercies and his Arrows Benefits When he offers HIMSELF to us He then invades us His great and small Shot are Volies of Sighs and Groans when we are converted we are conquer'd He bindes when He embraceth us In the Cords of Love He leads us Captives and kills us into Life when He crucifies the Old and quickens in us the New Man So then here is no Death but of inbred Corruptions No Slaughter but of carnal Affections which being Mortified the Soul becomes a living Sacrifice holy and acceptable unto GOD. WHEN that great Gen'ralissimo of all Infernal Ianizaries shall His Legions of Temptations raise enroul And muster Them 'gainst Thee my Soul And Ranks of Pleasures Profits Honours bring To give a Charge on the right Wing And place his dreadful Troops of deadly Sins Upon the Left with murth'ring Gins And draw to his main Bodie thousand Lusts And for Reserve wherein he trusts Shall specious Sanctities Brigade provide Whose Leader is spiritual Pride And having treacherously laid his Trains In Ambush under Hope of Gains By sinning as so many Scouts to finde Each March and Posture of thy Mind Then Soul sound an Alarm to FAITH and presse Thy ZEAL to be in Readinesse And leavie all thy Faculties to serve Thy CHIEFE Take PRAY'R for thy Reserve Under the Conduct of his SPIRIT See Under the Banner that they be Of thy SALVATIONS CAPTAIN Then be sure That all thy Out-works stand secure Yet narrower look into th' indenting Line Of thy ambiguous Thoughts Designe With constant Care a Watch o're every Part Ev'n at thy Cinque-ports and thy Heart Set Centinels Let FAITH be Captain o're The Life-Guard standing at the Dore Of thy well-warded Breast Disloyal Fear That corresponds with Guilt cashear Nor let Hypocrisie sneak in and out Thy Garrison with that Spie Doubt The Watch-word be IMMANUEL Then set Strong Parties of thy Tears and let Them still to salie forth prepared stand And but expect the Souls Command Waiting until a blest Recruit from HIGH Be sent with GRACES free Supplie Thus where the LORD of Hosts the Van leads there Triumphant Palms bring up the Rere TO MY FANCIE UPON THEOPHILA FLy FANCIE Beauties arched Brow Darts wing'd with Fire thence sparkling flow From Flash of Lightning Eye-balls turn Contracted Beams of Chrystal burn Wave Curls which Wit Gold-tresses calls That golden Fleece to Tinsel falls EVade Thou peach-bloom Cheek-Decoies Where both the Roses blend false Joyes Presse not the two-leav'd Rubie Gates Which fence their Pearl-Portcullis Grates Suck not the Breath though it return Fragrant as Phoenix spicie Urn. LOck up thine Ears and so disarm The Magick of inamoring Charm The lily'd Breasts with Violets vein'd Are Flow'rs as soon deflowr'd as gain'd Love-loâ—ks Perfume Paint Spots dispraise These by the Black-Art Spirits raise GArnish no Bristows with rich Mine Glow-worms are Vermin though they shine Should one Love-knot All Lovelies tie This One These All soon cloy and die Cupid as lame as blinde being gone Live One with HIM WHO made Thee One AVoid exotick Pangs o' th' Brain Nor let thy Margent blush a Stain With artful Method Misc'line sow May Iudgement with Invention grow Profit with Pleasure bring to th' Test Be Oar refin'd before imprest PAsse Forge and File be Point and Edge 'Gainst what severest Browes alledge Mix Balm with Ink Let thy Salt heal T' each Palate various Manna deal Have for the Wise strong Sense deep Truth Grand-Sallet of choice Wit for Youth CUll Metaphors well-weigh'd and clear Enucle'ate Mysteries to th' Ear. Be Wit Stenography'd yet free 'T is largest in Epitome Fly through Arts Heptarchie be clad With Wings to soar but not to gad THy Pineons raise with mystick Fire Sometimes 'bove high-roof't Sense aspire So draw THEOPH'LA that each Line Centring in HEAV'N may seem Divine Her Voice soon fits Thee for that Quire W' are cindred by intrinsick Fire MAgnetick VIRTUE' 's in her Brest Impregn'd with GRACE the noblest GUEST Who in LOVES Albo are enrol'd Unutterable Joyes behold Geographers Earths Globe survey Fancie HEAVN'S Astrolabe display SIx hast thou view'd of Europs Courts Soon as Idaeas pass'd their Sports Sense canst thou perse and construe Blisse Only
SOULS sanctify'd know This. Then hackney not to Toyes Lifes Span. The SAINTS Rere tops the Courtiers Van. IN Hopes Cell holy Hermit be Let Ecstacies transfigure Thee There as Truths Champion strive all Waies To storm LOVES Towre with Hosts of Praise Keep strong Faiths Court of Guard The Stars March in Batalia to these Wars ZEalous in Pray'r besiege the Skie Conquests are Crown'd by Constancie Stand Cen'tnell at the BRIDEGROOMS Gates Who serve there reign o're earthly States Rais'd on Devotions flaming Wings Disdain the crakling Blaze of Things NO Musick courts Spiritual Ears Like high-tun'd Anthems This uprears Thee FANCIE rapt through Mists of Fears And Clouds of Penitential Tears Eagling 'bove transitory Sphears Till ev'n the INVISIBLE appears DIvorc'd from past and present Toyes ' Spouse New Ierus'lems future Joyes Be Re-baptiz'd in Eye-dew-Fall Of All forgot forget Thou All. These Acts well kept Commence and prove Professor in Seraphick LOVE A Friends ECCHO to his FANCIE upon SACRATA I. WHen Fancie bright SACRATA courts It is not with accustom'd Sports â—Tis not in prizing of her Eyes To the Disvalue of the Skies Nor robbing Gardens of their Hue To give her â—lowrie Cheeks their Due II. â—Tis not in stripping of the Sea For Coral to resigne that Plea It hath to the Vermilion Die If that her râ—ddy Lips be nigh Or that I long to see them ope As if I thence for Pearl did hope III. Nor is 't in promising my â—ars Rather to her than to the Sphears Or that a Smile of hers displayes As much Content as Phoebus Rayes Or that her Hand for Whitenesse shames The Down of Swans on Silver Thames IV. Let such on these Romances dwell Who do admire Loves Husk and Shell Hark wanton Fair-ones all your Fawns Are Happinesses haplesse Pawns With these alone the Mind does Flag Beauty is oft the Souls Black Bag. V. Pure Flames that ravish with their Fâ—re Ascend unmeasurably Higher Which after Search we find to be In Virtue linkt with Pietie The Radiations of the Soul All Splendors of the Flesh controul VI. Fond Sense cry up a rosie Skin SACRATA rosy'd is within But brighter THEOPHIL behold Whoâ—e Vest is wrought with â—urfled Gold LOVES self in her his Flame embeams LOVES Sacrifice ZEALS Rapture seems VII Of Paradise before the Fall This Saint is Emblematical Then Fancie give Her due Renown She 's Queen of Arts This Book her Crown SACRATA turns CASTARA unto us And BENLOVVES Anagramm'd BENEVOLUS JER COLLIER M. A. and Fell. of S. Iohns Coll. Camb. Non me Palma negata Macrum data reddet Opimum A Smooth clear Vein should have it Sourse From Nature and have Art but Nurse Which though it Men at Athens feasts May fight at Ephesus with Beasts WIts rudely hal'd to Momus Bar By braying Beasts condemned are Reason How many Brutes there be 'Mong Men 'cause not inform'd by Thee VAtes Pôet-Prophet is If good Alike both scorn'd and understood Though Readers Censure 's Writers Fate Spleen sha'nt contract nor Praise dilate OR clap or hisse The Moon sails round Though bark'd at by each yelping Hound The brighter Shee the more they bark But slumbring quetch not in the dark DEign Him bright 〈◊〉 your piercing Glance Arts Foes are Sons of Ignorance So freed from Nights rude Overseers The POET may be try'd by his PEERS A VERDICT FOR THE Pious SACRIFICER TO shine and light not scorch thy MUSE did aim And so hath rais'd this Quintessential Flame By th' Salt and Whiteness of her Lines We think With holy Water Tears She mixt her Ink And both the Fire and Food of this chast MUSE Is more what Altars than what Tables use VVho does not pray with Zeal thy FAITH may move Rightly concentrick with thy HOPE and LOVE So in the TEMPLE these Religious Hosts From Hecatombs may rise to HOLOCAUSTS WALTER MONTAGVE Com. Manch Filius FOR THE AUTHOR Truly Heroick By BLOVD VIRTVE LEARNING SCholar Commander Traveller commixt Schools Camps Courts raise FAME make it fixt Your Fame and Feet have Alps and Oceans past Fam'd Feet which Art can't raise nor Envie blast Beaumont and Fletcher coyn'd a golden Way T' expresse suspend and passionate a Play Nimble and pleasant are all Motions there For two Intelligences rul'd the Spheare Both Sock and Buskin sunk with Them and then Davenant and Denham buoy'd them up agen Beyond these Pillars Some think nothing is Great BRITAINS Wit stands in a Precipice But Sir as though HEAV'NS Streits discover'd were By Science of your Card UNKNOVVNS appear Sail then with Prince of Wits illustrious Dunne VVho rapt Earth round with Love and was its Sun But your first Love was pure Whos 's ev'ry Dresse Is inter-tissu'd Wit and Holinesse And mends upon It self whose Streams that meet With Sands and Herberts grow more deep more sweet I wing'd with Joy to th' PRAELIBATION fly Thence view I Errours Trage-comedie With THEOPHIL from Fear to Faith I rise The mystick Bridge twixt Hell and Paradise Hell scap't seems double Heav'n RENEVV'D with Bands Of Pray'rs Vows Tears with Eyes and Knees and Hands I see her cope with HEAV'N and HEAV'N does thence As in the Baptists Dayes feel Violence But her ecstatick SONGS OF LOVE declare To Iedidiah Shee 's apparent Heir Be those then next The SONG OF SONGS Love stiles Her Fourth The Second Book of CANTICLES But with what dreadfull yet delightful Tones She sings when GLORIFY'D Then stinglesse Drones Are Death and Hell Joyes Crescent then 's encreast To fullest Lustre at her BRIDAL FEAST Sixth Sev'nth and Eighth such Banquets frame would make WISDOM turn Cormorant my Spirits shake i th' Reading Soul of Joy thy ravishing Sp'rite Draws bedrid Mindes to longing Appetite FAME write with Gold on Diamond Pages treat Upon the GLORIES of a Work so great Be 't then Enacted that all Graces dwell In Thee THEOPH'LA Virtues Chronicle Who jemm'st it in JERUSALEM Above Where all is GRACE and GLORY LIGHT and LOVE To That UNPARALLEL This comes so neer That 't is a Glimpse of HEAV'N to reade Thee here O blest Ambition Speculations high Enchariot Thee Elijah-like to th' SKIE What State worth Envy like Thy sweet Abode That overtops the World and mounts to GOD Walkt through your Eden Stanza's you invite Our ravisht Souls to recre'ate with Delight In Bow'r of compt Discourse Great Verse but Prose Such None but our Great MASTER could compose For Bulk an easie Folio is this All Yet we a Volume may each Canto call For Solid Matter where we should consult On Paragraphs mark what does thence result For every Period's of DEVOTION Proof And each Resolve is of concern'd Behoof Peruse Examine Censure ô how bright Does shine RELIGION checquer'd with Delight Diffusive Soul your Spirit was soaring when This Manna dew'd from your inspired Pen. Such melting Passions of a Soul divine Could They be cast in any Mould but Thine Wonder arrests our Thought That you alone In such Combustions wherein Thousands grone And
making Jars LIII My Soul enlabyrinth'd in Grief spend Years In Sackcloth chamleted with Tears Retir'd to Rocks dark entrals court unwitnest Fears LIV. There passe with Heraclite a gentler Age Free from the sad ACCOUNT of Rage That acts the toilsome World on its tumultuous Stage LV. There sweet RELIGION strings and tunes and skrues The Souls Theorb ' and doth infuse Grave Dorick Epods in th' Enthusiastick MUSE LVI There LOVE turns trumpets into Harps which call Off Sieges from the gun-shot Wall Alluring them to HEAV'N her Seat Imperial LVII Thence came our Ioy and Thence HYMNS eas'd our Grief Of which th' ANGELICAL was chief Glory to GOD Earth Peace Good Will for Mans Relief LVIII Quills pluckt from Venus Doves impresse but shame Then give your Rimes to Vulcans Flame Hee 'l elevate your badger Feet He 's free though lame LIX Things fall and Nothings rise Old VIRTUE fram'd Honour for WISDOM WISDOM fam'd Old VIRTUE Such Times were Wealth then Arts Page was nam'd LX. Lambeth was Oxfords Whetstone Yet above Preferments Pinnacle they movâ— Who string the Vniverse and bracelet It for LOVE LXI Virtues magnifick Orb inflames their Zeal By high-rais'd ANTHEMS Plaguâ—s they heal And threefork'd Thunders in HEAVNS outstretcht Arm repeal LXII Shall Larks with shrill-chirpt Mattens rouze from Bed Of curtain'd Night Sols orient Head And shall quick SOULS lie numb'd as wrapt in Sheets of Lead LXIII Awake from slumbring Lethargie The gay And circling Charioter of Day In 's Progress through the azure Fields sees checks our Stay LXIV Arise and rising emulate the rare Industrious Spinsters who with fair Embroid'ries checker-work the Chambers of the Air. LXV Ascend Sol does on Hills his Gold display And scatt'ring Sweets does spice the Day And shoots delight through Nature with each arrow'd Ray. LXVI The Opal-colour'd Dawns raise Fancie high Hymns ravish those who Pulpets fly Convert dull Lead to active Gold by LOVE-CHYMIE LXVII As Natures prime Confectioner the Bee By her Flow'r-nibling Chymistrie Turns Vert to Or So VERSE gross Prose does rarifie LXVIII Pow'rs cannot Poets as They Pow'rs up-buoy Whose Soul-enliv'ning Charms Decoy Each wrinkled Care to the Pacifick Sea of Joy LXIX As where from Iewels sparkling Lustre darts Those Rayes enstarre the duskie Parts So Beams of Poesie give Light Life Soul to Arts. LXX Rich POESIE Thy more irradiant Gems Give Splendor unto DIADEMS And with coruscant Rayes emblazest HONOURS Stems LXXI Thee MUSE Arts ambient Air Inventions Door The Stage of Wits both Rich and Poor Do court â—A PRINCE may glory to become thy WOOER LXXII POETS ly'entomb'd by KINGS Arts Gums dispence By Rumination bruis'd are thence By VERSE so fir'd that their Perfume ENHEAV'NS the Sense LXXIII It s The'ory makes All wiser yet Few better Practise is Spirit Art the Letter Vse artlesse doth enlarge Art uselesse does but fetter LXXIV Sharp Sentences are Goads to make Deeds go Good Works are Males Words Females show Whose Lives act Presidents prevent the Laws and Do. LXXV So far We know as we obey GOD and HE counts We leave not his Command When as our Interludes but 'twixt our Acts do stand LXXVI Honours brave SOUL is in that Body shrin'd Which floats not with each giddy Winde Fickle as Courtly Dress but WISDOMS Sea does find LXXVII Steering by GRACES Pole-star which is fast In th' APOSTOLLICK Zodiack plac't Whose Course at first four EVANGELICK Pilots trac't LXXVIII The THEANTHROPICK WORD That mystick Glasse Of Revelations That masse Of Oracles That Fu'el of Pray'r That Wall of Brass LXXIX That Print of HEAV'N on Earth That Mercies Treasure And Key That Evidence and Seisure Faiths Card Hopes Anchor Loves full Sail Abyss of Pleasure LXXX Such SAINTS high Tides n'ere ebbe so low to shelf Them on the Quicksand of their self Swallowing Corruption Sin 's the Wrack They fly that Elf. LXXXI Gloomier than West of Death than North of Night Than Nest of Triduan Blacks with Fright Which Egypt scar'd when HE brought Darkness WHO made Light LXXXII Compar'd to whose Storm thund'ring Peals are calm Compar'd to whose Sting Asps yield Balm Compar'd to whose loath'd Charm Death is a Mercy-Psalm LXXXIII Her Snares escap'd soar Muse to HIM whose bright Spirit-illuminating Sight Turns Damps to glorious Dayes turns Fogs to radiant Light LXXXIV RELIGION's Wisdoms Study That display LORD countermand what goes astray And smite the Ass rude Flesh when it does start or bray LXXXV Soul thou art lesse than MERCIES least Three ne're Depart from Sin Shame Guilt and Fear Fear Shame Guilt Sin are Four Yet All in One appear LXXXVI Crest-faln by Sin how wretchedly I stray Me thinks 't is Pride in me to pray HEAV'N aid me strugling under this sad Load of Clay LXXXVII No Man may merit yet did ONE we hold Who most do vant their Zeal are cold Thus Tin for Silver goes with these and Brasse for Gold LXXXVIII Renew my Heart direct my Tongue unseal My Hand inspire my Faith reveal My Hope encrease my Love and my Backslidings heal LXXXIX Let Language Mans choice Glory serve the Minde Thy SPIRIT on Bezaliel shin'd Help BLOUD by Faith apply'd Thy Spittle cur'd the Blinde XC Turn Sense to Spirit Nature's chang'd alone By GRACE THAT is the Chymick-stone And thy all-pow'rful WORD is pure Projection XCI TRUTHS Touchstone surest Rule that ere was fra'md Tradition Mans dark Map 's disclaim'd The Paper burns me not yet I am all inflam'd XCII For as I read such inward Splendor glowes Such Life-renewing Vigour flowes That All what 's known of thy most righteous WILL It showes XCIII Whose Spells make Enochs walk with THEE withhold Corruption and translate e're old All Vaticans are drosse THIS Magisterial Gold XCIV Thus poor numm'd Tartars when th' are brought into Warm Persias Gem-pav'd Court are so Reviv'd that then They live till then half dead w th Snow XCV Good Thoughts from THEE infus'd I do derive Good Words effus'd THOU dost me give Good Works diffus'd by THEE in THEE do live thrive XCVI Nerve-stretching Muse thy Bow 's new strung shoot then Hymns to the BEST from worst of Men Make Arts thy Tributaries twist Heart Tongue Pen. XCVII But how can Eves degenerate Issue bent To Sin in its weak Measures vent Thy PRAISE Unmeasurable and Omnipotent XCVIII Shrubs cannot Cedars nor Wrens Eagles praise Nor purblinde Owls on Sols Orb gaze What is a drop to Seas a Beam to boundlesse Raies XCIX Yet Hope and Love may raise my drooping Flight And Faith in THEE embeam my Night Great LOVE supply Faiths Nerves with winged Hope I WRITE C. My Spirit LORD my Soul my Bodie all My Thoughts Words Works hereafter shall Praise THEE and Sin bemone JESU how lov'dst THOU me Me blessed thy LOVE make Me raised Thy LOVE take JESU my pretious ONE May This LOVES OFFERING be My Heart Tongue Eye Hand boweâ— Knee As All came from let All return to THEE NVnc sacra primus habet Finem mea Cura Libellus IÃ m
precor impellat sanctior Aura ratem I felix rapidas diffindas Caerula Syrtes Te Divina regit DEXTERA Sospes abi NON NOBIS DOMINE THEOPHILAS LOVE-SACRIFICE The Summary of the Poem THEOPHILA or Divine Love ascends to her BELOV'D by three Degrees By Humilitie by Zeal by Contemplation In the First She is Sincere In the Second Fervent In the Third Extatical In her Humiliation She sadly condoles her Sin in her Devotion She improves her Grace In her Meditation She antidates her Glory and triumphantly congratulates the Fruition of her SPOUSE And by three Wayes which Divines call the Purgative Illuminative and Vnitive She is happily led into the Disquisition of Sin by Man of Suffering by CRIST as SPONSOR of Salvation by HIM as REDEEMER In the Purgative Way she falls upon Repentance Mortification Self-denial helpt in part by the Knowledge of herself which breeds Contrition Renuntiation and Purpose of Amendment In the Illuminative she pursues Moral Vertues Theological Graces and Gospel-promises revealed by CHRIST as the Great APOSTLE which begets in her Gratitude Imitation and Appropriation In the Vnitive she is wholly taken up with Intuition of supercoelestial Excellencies with beatifical Apprehensions and Adherencies as to CHRIST in Bodie to the Holy GHOST in Spirit to GOD the FATHER in a bright Resemblance of the Divine NATURE All which are felt by the Knowledg of CHRIST as MEDIATOR whence flow Admiration Elevation consummated in GLORIFICATION And were Mysteriously intimated in the Symbolical Oblations of the Star-led Sophies Who by their Myrrhe signify'd Faith Chastity Mortification the Purgative Actions by their Incense implied Hope Prayer Obedience the Illuminative Devotions by their Gold importing Charity Satiety Radiancie the Vnitive Eminencies And it is the only Ambition of THEOPHILA to offer these presents to her BELOV'D by whom her Sin is purged her Understanding enlightned her Will and Affections enflamed to the Communion of all his GLORIES Thus She by recollecting past Creation present Corruption and future BEATIFICAL VISION endeavors to rowze us up from Hellish Security Worldly Solicitude and Carnal Concupiscence that being rais'd we may conform to the will submit to the Power and sympathize with the SPIRIT of CHRIST by a total Resignation of Self-comforts Abilities Ends and by the internal Acts of Love Devotion Contemplation She makes Sense subservient to Reason Reason to Faith and Faith to the written Word By Faith she beleeves what he has reveal'd and yields him up all her Vnderstanding By Hope She waits for his Promises and refers to Him all her Will By Charity she Loves his Excellencies and resignes to him all her Affections And by all these She triumphs over Sin Death Hell in the sensual World and by his Virtue Grace Favour enjoyes an eminent Degree of PERFECTION in the Intellectual THE AVTHORS PRAYER O THOU most High distinct in PERSONS undivided in ESSENCE Eternal PRINCIPLE of all Substances essential BEING of all Subsistencies CAUSE of all Causalities LIFE of our Souls and SOUL of our Lives Whose DEITIE is as far beyond the Comprehension of our Reason as thy OMNIPOTENCIE transcends our Impotencie We wretched Dust acknowledge that Adams Fall as it depriv'd us of all Good so hath it deprav'd us with all Evil for from our production to our Dissolution our Life if strictly discussed will be found wholly tainted alwayes tempted with Sin We discover our Condition to be more corrupt than we can fully discover The Sense of our Sin stupifies us the Sight of it reveals our Blindness and the Remembrance thereof doth put us in Minde of our forgetfulnesse of THEE The Number of our Transgressions surpasseth our Skill in Arithmetick their Weight is insupportable depressing us even to the Abysse their Guilt more extense than any thing but thy MERCIE O LORD we have loved Darknesse more than Light because our Deeds were evil therefore THOU hast shew'd us terrible Things We have sucked out the Dregs of deadly Wine Our National Crimes have extorted from thy JUSTICE National Iudgements Our hellish Sins enflame thy WRATH and thy WRATH enflames Hell-fire against us We want so much of Happinesse as of Obedience our Beatitude consisting in a thorough Submission of our Determinations unto thy Disposings and our Practise to thy Providence which causeth us with humbly-pressing Importunitie to implore thy GOODNESSE for HIS SAKE who of mere Love took upon Him a Nature of Infirmities to cure the Infirmities of our Nature that THOU would'st give us a Sense of our Senselesness and a fervent Desire of more Fervency and true Remorse and Sorrow for want of Remorse and Sorrow for these our Sins O Steer the mysticall Ship of thy CHURCH safe amidst the Rocks and Quicksands of Schism and Heresie Superstition and Sacriledge into the fair Havens of PEACE and TRUTH Give to thy disconsolate Spouse melting in Tears of Bloud the Spirit of Sanctitie and Prudence May the Light which conducts her to thy Coelestial CANAAN be never mockt by new false Lights of apostatizing Hypocrisie nor extinguished by Barbarism Thou our FATHER art the GOD of Peace thy SON our SAVIOUR the Prince of Peace Thy SPIRIT the Spirit of Peace thy Servants the Children of Peace whose Dutie is the Studie of Peace and the End of their Faith the Peace of GOD which passeth all Vnderstanding Let All submit to thy SCEPTER adore thy JUDGEMENTS revere thy LAWS and love THEE above All for thine OWN SAKE and others ev'n their Enemies for THY SAKE having THEE for our Pattern thy PRECEPTS for our Rule and thy SPIRIT for our Guide And now in particular I throw my self who have unmeasurably swarved from thy Statutes upon thy Mercies beseeching THEE to give me a deep Sense of my own Vnworthiness and yet withall sincere Thankfulnesse for thy Assistancies Grant that my Sorrow for Sin may be unfeigned my Desires of Forgiveness fervent my purpose of Amendment stedfast that so my Hopes of HEAVEN may be advanced and what THOU hast sowen in thy MERCIE THOU mayest reap from my Duty Let Religion and right Reason rule as Soveraign in me and let the irascible and concupiscible Faculties be their Subjects Give me an Estate balanc'd between Want and Waste Pity and Envie Give me Grace to spend my Wealth and Strength in thy Service Let all my Melancholy be Repentance my Ioyes spiritual Exultations my Rest Hope my Peace a good Conscience and my Acquiescence in THEE In THEE as the Principle of Truth in thy Word as the Measure of Knowledge in thy Law as the Rule of Life in thy Promise as the Satisfaction of Hope and in thy Vnion as the highest Fruition of Glory O Thou Spring of Bountie who hast given thy SON to Redeem me Thy Holy SPIRIT to sanctifie me and Thy SELF to satisfie me give me a generous Contempt of sensual Delusions that I may see the Vanity of the World the Deceitfulnesse of Riches the Shame of Pleasures the folly of Sports the Inconstancie of Honours the Danger of
Greatness and the strict Account to be given for All O then give me an undaunted Fortitude an elevated Course of Contemplation a Resignation of Spirit and a sincere Desire of thy Glory Adde O LORD to the Cheerfulness of my Obedience the Assurance of Faith and to the Confidence of my Hope the Joyes of Love O THOU who art the Fountain of my Faith the Object of my Ioy and the Rock of my Confidence guide my Passion by Reason my Reason by Religion my Religion by Faith my Faith by thy Word be pleased to improve thy Word by thy SPIRIT that so being established by Faith confirmed in Hope and rooted in Charitie I may be only ambitious of THEE prizing THEE above the Delights of Men Love of Women and Treasures of the World Nothing being so pretious as thy Favour so dreadfull as thy Displeasure so hateful as Sin so desirable as thy Grace Let my Heart be alwayes fixt upon Thee possessed by Thee established in Thee true unto Thee upright toward Thee and entire for Thee that being thus inebriated with the sweet and pure streams of thy Sanctuary I may serve Thee to the utmost of each Faculty with all the Extension of my Will and Intension of my Affections till my Love shall ascend from Earth to HEAVEN from small Beginnings to the Consummatiâ—n of a well-regulated and never ceasing Charitie O GOD who art no lesse infinite in Wisdom than in Goodness let me where I cannot rightly know Thee there reverently admire Thee that in Transcendencies my very Ignorance may honour Thee Let thy Holy SPIRIT inflame my Zeal inform my Judgement conform my Will reform my Affections and transform me wholly into the Image and Imitation of Thy Onely SON Grant that I may improve my Talent to thy Glory who art the Imparter of the Guift the Blesser of the Action and the Assister of the Designe So that having sowen to the Spirit I may by thy Mercies and Thy SONS Merits who is the SON of thy Love the Anchor of my Hope and the Finisher of my Faith reap Life everlasting And now in his only Name vouchsafe to accept from dust and ashes the Oblation of this weak yet willing Service and secure the Possession to THY SELF that Sin may neither pollute the Sacrifice divide the Guift nor question the Title Fill my Mouth with Praises for these happy Opportunities of Contemplation the managing of publick Actions lesse agreeing with my Disposition and though my Body be retir'd yet let my Soul be enlarged like an uncaptiv'd Bird to soar in the Speculation of Divine Mysteries O be praysed for that in this general Combustion of Christendom THOU hast vouchsafed me a little Zoar as Refuge in which my Soul doth yet live to magnifie Thee But above All for my Redemption from the Execution of thy Wrath by the Execration of the SON of thy Love having made Innocence to become guilty to make the guilty innocent and the Sun of Righteousness to suffer a total Eclipse to expiate the Deeds of Darkness Be THOU exalted for the Myriads of thy Mercies in my Travells through Europ as far transcending my Computation as Compensation But chiefly for the Hope Thou hast given me that when I have served Thee inhumbly-strict Obedience to the Glorie of thy Name THOU art pleased that I shall enter into the GLORY of my LORD to all Eternitie where I shall behold THEE in thy Majesty CHRIST thy SON in his Glory the SPIRIT in his Sanctity the Hierarchy of Heaven in their Excellencie and the Saints in their Rest in which Rest there is perfect Tranquillitie and in this Tranquillity Ioy and in this Ioy Variety and in this Variety Security and in this Security Immortality with Thee Who reignest in the Excellencies of Transcendencie and in the infinite Durations of a blessed Eternitie To WHOM with the IMAGE of thy GOODNESSE and the BREATH of thy LOVE ô most glorious TRINITY and ineffable UNITIE be all Sanctitie and Adoration sacrificed now and for evermore Amen Amen INto the most Holy TREASVRIE Of the ever-glorious PRAISES Of the MEDIATOR between GOD Man CHRIST JESUS The Empyraean Flame of the DIVINITY Indefinible Interminable Ineffable The Immaculate Earth of the HUMANITY Inseparable Inconfusible Inconvertible Mysterious in an Hypostaticall UNION WHO is The true LIGHT enlightning the World The ETERNAL WORD By ENERGIE Incarnated Embrightning our knowledge Enlivening our FAITH Quickning our HOPE Enflaming our LOVE Prostrated dust and ashes With an adoring Awfulness trembling Veneration To his INFINITE MAJESTIE Doth humbly cast this Mite Acknowledging from GOD all Opportunities of Good to be improved by His GRACE to His GLORY THEOPHILAS LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO II. The Humiliation ARGUMENT Vnde superbit Homo cujus Conceptio Culpa Nasci Poena Labor Vita necesse morâ— Totus homo pravus Caro Mens Natura Voluntas Coelicus act Hominis Crimina tollit AMOR. The Deiform'd Soul deform'd by Sin repents In Pray'rs and Tears her Grief She vents And till Faith cheer her by CHISTS Love Life Death laments STANZA I. ALMIGHTY POWER Who did'st All Souls Create Who did'st Redeem their faln Estate Who still dost Sanctifie and them Redintegrate II. Sourse River Ocean of all Blisse instill Spring-tides into my low-ebb'd Quill Each graceful Work flowes from what works all Grace Thy Will III. LORD Thou before Time Matter Form or Place Wast All E're Natures mortal Race Thy SELF Host Guest and Palace Natures total Space IV. When yet though not discern'd in that Abysse CREATOR WORD and SPIRIT of Blisse In UNITY the TRINE one GOD adored is V. E're THOU the Chrystal-mantled HEAV'N didst rear Or did the Earth Sols Bride appear First Race of Intellectuals mad'st THEE to revere VI. Praise best doth Inexpressibles expresse Soul Th' ARCHITECT of Wonders blesse Whose All-creating WORD embirth'd a Nothingnesse VII Who brooding on the Deep Production Dispos'd then call'd out Light which on The formless Worlds rude Face was all dispers'dly thrown VIII When callow Nature pluckt from out her Nest Of Causes was awak'd from Rest Her shapeless Lump with fledg'd effects He trimly drest IX Then new-born Day HE gilt with glittering Sun Contracted Light with changing Moon He Night adorn'd and hung up Lamps like spangled Bullion X. The Earth with Water mixt HE separates Earth Plants brought forth and Beasts All Mates The Waters Fowl and Fish to yield Man delicates XI Then did of th' El'ements Dust Mans Bodie frame A perfect Microcosm the Same He quickned with a sparkle of Pneumatick Flame XII More Heav'nly specify'd by Life from th' WORD That Nature doth This Grace afford And Glory from the SPIRIT design'd as threefold Cord. XIII Man ere a Childe by ' Infusion wise though He Was of yet not for Earth though free Chanc'lour install'd of Edens Universitie XIV His Virgin-Sister-Wife i' th Grove He woo'd Heav'ns Nursery new Fruit his Food Skin was his Robe Clouds washt Winds swept his Floor All good XV. Envie that GOD should so love Man
first mov'd Satan to ruine HEAV'NS Belov'd The Serpent Devil'd Eve She 's Dam to Adam prov'd XVI Both taste by tasting tastlesse Both became Who All would know knew nought but Shame They blush for That which They when righteous could not name XVII Still in our Maw that Apples Core doth stick Which they did swallow and the thick Rinde of forbidden Fruit has left our Nature sick XVIII Now serves our Guiltiness as winding Sheet To wrap up Lepers Cover meet While thus stern Vengeance does our Wormships sadly greet XIX Disloyal Slaves look out see Mischief revels Look in see your own Denne of Evils Look up see Heav'ns dread JUDGE Look down see Hells fierce Devils XX. Created in GODS Image to look high Corrupted like to Brutes you lie Perdition's from your selves No Cure for those will die XXI Your Beautie Rottenness skin'd o're does show Like to a Dunghill blancht with Snow Your glorious Nature 's by embasing Sin brought low XXII Hence you the heavy Doom of Death do gain Enforc'd unto laborious Pain And th' ANGELS flaming Sword doth you expuls'd restrain XXIII Thus She reproacht Yet more alas remain'd Mans Issue in his Loins is staind Sin set his Throne in Him and since o're all has reign'd XXIV Black Sin more hideous then green Dragons Claws Dun Gryphons Talons swart Bears Paws Then checquer'd Panthers Teeth or tawnie Lions Jaws XXV Forfeit to the CREATOR'S thus Mans Race And by the WORD withdrawn is Grace From him the SPIRIT of GLORY turn'd his pleasing Face XXVI Yet that this Second Race in fallen Plight Might not with th' First be ruin'd quite The WORD doth interpose to stop th' incensed MIGHT XXVII Then undertakes for Man to satisfie And the sad losse of GRACE supply That us He might advance to GLORIES Hierarchie XXVIII Then Peace is preacht i th' Womans SEED but then As Men increase So Sins of Men And Actual on Original heapt GOD's vext agen XXIX Till drencht they were in Deluge had no Shore And burnt in Sodom-Flames of yore Plagued in Egypt plung'd into the Gulf of Core XXX And gnawn by Worms in Herod Sin 's Asps Womb Plotter Theif Plaintiff Witnesse Doom Sledge Executioner Hells Inmate Horrors Tomb. XXXI Misgotten Brat thy Trains are infinite To ruine each intangled Wight Mischiefs nere rest in Men th' have everlasting Spite XXXII Spite wageth War then War turns Law to Lust Lust crumbles Faith into Distrust Distrust by causelesse Jealousie betrayes the Just XXXIII The Iust are plunder'd by thy Rage thy Rage Bubbleth from Envie Envie 's Page To thy Misdeeds Misdeeds their own Misfate engage XXXIV Thus linkt to Hell's thy Chain Curs'd be that Need Makes Sinners in their Sins proceed Shame to Guilts forlorn Hope leads left-hand Files Take heed XXXV GODS Fort the Conscience in the worst does stand Though Sin the Town keeps by strong Hand Yet lies it open to the Check at HEAV'NS Command XXXVI Hence Hell surrounds them In their Dreams to fall Headlong they seem then start groan crawl From Furies with excessive Frights which them appal XXXVII Ne're was more Mischief ne're was less Remorse Never Revenge on his black Horse Did swifter ride Never to GOD so slow Recourse XXXVIII The Age-bow'd Earth groans under Sinners Weight While guiltlesse Blood cries to HEAV'NS Height JUSTICE soon takes th' Alarm whose steeled Arm will Smite XXXIX Inevitable Woes a while may stay Vengeance is GODS Who will repay The desperately Wilfull nor will long delay XL. 'T is darkest neer Day-break HE will o'return Th' Implacable who Mercie spurn Superlative Abuses in th' Abysse shall burn XLI Deaths Hell Deaths Self out-deaths Vindictive Place Deep under Depths Excentrick Space Horrour It self than Thee wears a lesse horrid Face XLII Where Pride Lust Rage Sin treble-pointed dwell Shackled in red-hot Chains they yell In bottomlesse Extreams of never-slaking Hell XLIII Riddle Compell'd at once to live and die Frying they freez and freezing frie On helplesse hopelesse easelesse endlesse Racks they lie XLIV And rave for what they hate Cursing in vain Yet each Curse is a Pray'r for Pain For cursing still their Woe they woo GODS Curse again XLV Devils and Shreeks their Ears their Eyes affright There 's blazing Fire yet darkest Night Still paying ne're discharg'd Sins Debt is Infinite XLVI Angels by one Sin fell So Man How then May Sinners stand Let 's quit Sins Den This Moment's Ours Life hasts away Delayes gangrene XLVII Conviction ushers Grace Fall to prevent Thy Fall Times Fore-lock take Relent Shall is to come and Was is past then Now repent XLVIII Before the Suns long Shadows span up Night E're on thy shaking Head Snowes light E're round thy palsy'd Heart Ice be congealed quite XLIX E're in thy Pocket thou thine Eyes dost wear E're thy Bones serve for Calender E're in thy Hand 's thy Leg or Silver in thy Hair L. Preventing Physick use Think now ye hear The Dead-awakening Trump Lo there The queazie-stomackt Graves disgorge Worms fatning Chear LI. Sins Sergeants wait t' attach you Then make haste Lest you into Despair be cast The JUDGE unsway'd Take Dayes at best count each your Last LII Time posts on loose-rein'd Steeds The Sun ere 't face To West may see Thee end thy Race Death is a Noun yet not declin'd in any Case LIII The Cradle's nigh the Tomb. That Soul has Woe Whose drowzie March to HEAV'N is slow As drawling Snails whose slime glues them to Things below LIV. Anathema to luke-warm Souls Lo here THEOPHILA'S unhing'd with Fear Clamm'd with chill sweat when as her ranckling Sins appear LV. Perplext in Crimes meandring Maze GODS Law And Guilt that does strict Iudgement draw And her too carnal yet too stonie Heart She saw LVI Yet Rocks may cleave she cries Then weeps for Tears And grieves for Grief fears want of Fears She Hell HEAV'NS Prison views Distress for Robe She wears LVII Deprav'd by Vice depriv'd of GRACE with Pray'r She runs Faiths Course breaks through Despair O'retakes Hope Broken Legs by setting stronger are LVIII Shame native Conscience views That HOLY ONE Who came from GOD to Man undone Whose Birth produc'd a Star Whose Death eclips't the Sun LIX She sees Man-GOD in Stamp Of Him who shakes but does not cramp The bruised Reed Snuffs puts not out the sputtring Lamp LX. She sees for Creatures the CREATOR came To die The SHEPHERD prov'd the Lamb For Sacrifice when Jews releas'd a spotted Ram. LXI She sees defamed Glory wronged Right Debased Majestie crusht Might Virtue condemn'd Peace robb'd Love slain And All by Spite LXII She streaming sees like Spouts each broached Vein With Gore not to be matcht again Her Grief thence draws up Mysts to fall in weeping Rain LXIII Vast Cares long dumb thus vent Flow Tears Souls Wine Iuice of an Heart opprest Encline LORD to this heart-broke Altar cemented with Brine LXIV Romorsefull Clouds dissolve in Showr's 'T is Blood Turns rocky Hearts into a Flood Eyes keep your Sluces ope HEAV'N
And quit from Clay I did attain Swift as a glancing Meteor to th' Aerial Plain XLIII Where passing through I did perfume the Air With sacred Spice and incenst Pray'r While grateful Clouds their liquid Pearl as Guift prepare XLIV I spare tâ—unlock those Treasuries of Snow Or tell what paints the rainy Bowe Or what cause Thunders Lightnings Rains or whence Windes flow XLV Those Regions pass'd where bearded Comets light The World to fatall Woes a bright Large Orb of harmless Fire enflam'd my Heav'n-ward Flight XLVI To azure-arched Skie ascends my Soul Thence view I North and Southern Pole Where Globes in Serpentine yet order'd Motions rowl XLVII Thence by the changing Moons alternate Face Vp through unweari'd Phosphors Place I mount to Sols Diurnal and his Annual Race XLVIII By whose propitious Influence Things are Quickned below this Monarch Star Making his Progresse through the Signes unclouds the Air XLIX And eight-score Times out-bulks the Earth whose Race In four and twenty Howers space 'Bove fifty Milions of Germanick Leagues do's pace L. This Giant with as many Tongues as Rayes Speaks out so oft as He displayes His Beams which gild the World that Man his LORD should praise LI. Through Sphears I pass'd to Stars that nail HEAV'NS Court My Stay was with Skie-wonders short Which by first Movers Force are whirl'd about their Fort. LII Through the blew-spangled Frame my psalming Tongue Made th' Orbs suspend their usual Song To hear Coelestial Hymns the glist'ring Quires did throng LIII Chime out ye Crystal Sphears and tune your Poles Skies sound your Base ere ye to Coals Dissolve and tumble on the Bonfire World in Shoals LIV. The Primum Mobile do's seem immense And doth transfused Influence Through all inferiour Orbs as swift as Thought dispense LV. Suppose a Milstone should from thence be hurl'd Vnto the Center of this World 'T would make up sixscore Years ere it could down be whirld LVI Now entred I HEAV'NS Suburbs 〈…〉 No orient Jewels cast such 〈◊〉 O might this Verse be wreath'd but with 〈◊〉 Diadems LVII Sols radiant Fulgence in meridian Skies Seem'd Shade unto those CLARITIES Where Beauties Self might beautifie her fairâ—st Eyes LVIII 'T is 'bove high'st Verge where Reason dares be bold That HEAV'N of GOD is of such Mold That Eyes till glorify'd cannot the same behold LIX 'T is purely Spirit'al and so must be Above compare in all Degree With Ought that draws its Line from th' six Dayes Pedigree LX. 'T is immaterial 'bove the highest Sphear Doth brighter then the rest appear Than Orbs of Fire Moon Sun or Crystaline more clear LXI 'T is Space immense from whence Apostates driv'n Their Rooms might so to Men be giv'n With Those confirmed SONS th' Indigenae of HEAV'N LXII Absurdly some Philosophers did dream That HEAV'N's an uncreated Beam Which forth eternally from GOD HIMSELF did stream LXIII 'T is but a Creature though its Essence be To change unsubject standing free On never shaken Pillars of INFINITIE LXIV Ocean of JOYES Who can THEE fully state For clearer knowledge Man must wait First shoot Deaths Gulf thy Soul may then arrive thereat LXV For no One enters There till He hath trod Deaths Path then from that Period Elected Souls ascend to Heav'n to BLISSE to GOD LXVI Zeal through me fir's its way to speak that I Would thither like wing'd Lightning flie Were my Flesh-curtain drawn that clouds my Spirits Eye LXVII What Heights would Souls affect could they undress Themselves of Rags that them depress How beautiful ' s the Form of naked HOLINES LXVIII New Light Life Love Joy Bliss there boundless flow There shall my Soul thy GLORY know When She her Robe of Clay shall to Earths wardrobe throw LXIX Fond that I am to speak Passe on to BLISSE That with an individual Kisse Greets Thee for ever Pardon this Parenthesis LXX Faith 's the Souls Eye As nothing were between They that beleeve see Things unseen Close then thy carnal thy spiritual Eyes unscreen LXXI For my transplanted Spirit shall emblaze Words may make Wonder stand at Gaze Vnboundless Bliss doth ev'n the sep'rat Spirit amaze LXXII O Fleet of Intellectuals Glory-fraught Inestimable Arras wrought With Heart-orecoming Colours how ye pass all Thought LXXIII THOU All-comprizing uncompriz'd WHO art Ever yet never made impart THOU Loves Abyss without or Ebbe or Shoar an Heart LXXIV Of WISDOM to attempt proceed and end what never Was Is Can be penn'd May Spots in Maps dumb Teacher Empires comprehend LXXV The Skie-enchased Diamonds lesser show Than Julie's hairy Worms that glow Sampled with those Rebounds unbounded GLORIES throw LXXV That Vessel of Election rapt to th' Soil Of highest BLISSE did here recoyl I' th' same Attempt 't is Honour to confess a Foyl LXXVII Sense knowes not 'bove Court-Triumphs Thrones or Kings Gems Musick Beauties Banquetings Without such Tropes it can't unfold Spiritual Things LXXVIII O how That most unutterable BLAZE Of HEAV'NS all-luminating RAYES Do's Souls disrob'd of Flesh both brighten amaze LXXIX That boundless Solstice with transparent Beams Through HEAV'NS triumphant ARCHES streams And gliding through each Spirit with intrinsick Gleams LXXX Pierceth to th' little World and doth dispell The gloomy Clouds of Sin that swell The Soul decoying it to ever-burning Hell LXXXI By GLORY how are SPIRITS made divine How super-radiantly They shine From th' ever-flowing SPRING of the refulgent TRINE LXXXII Beyond Report of high'st Discourse They dart Their Radiations 'bove all Art This cath'like BLISSE ore-flowes the most capacious Heart LXXXIII Conceive a Court where all Joyes domineer Where Seas of Sweets oreflow and where GLORIES exhaustless Mines Sports endless Springs appear LXXXIV Where infinite Excesse of Sweets ne're cloyes Where still Fruitions Feast employes Desire where Who enjoy the least can't count their Joyes LXXXV One may t' a Glimps None to a Half can rise Had He more Tongues than HEAV'N has Eyes Such nothing see as would in Words this SIGHT comprize LXXXVI Can Measures such UNMEASURABLES hold Can Time INFINITIE unfold Superlative DELIGHTS may be admir'd not told LXXXVII When GLORIES Heav'n is all one Sunny Blaze That flowing RADIANCE doth amaze While on That inconceivable RESULT we gaze LXXXVIII What King would not court Martyrdome to â—old In Capite a Citie ' of Gold Where look how many Gates so many Pearls are told LXXXIX The Structure's Square A firm Foundation Twelve-fold for Each a precious Stone The LAMBS APOSTLES Names engraven therupon XC There sparkles forth the verdant Emerald The blew-ey'd Saphyr therein wall'd The Topaz too with that Stone which from Gold is call'd XCI There Jasper Chaloedon Chrysoprase shine There Sardonix and Sardius joyn There Beryl Hyacinth and Amethyst combine XCII No sympathizing Turkise there to tell By Palenesse th' Owner is not well For Grief 's exild to Earth and Anguish groans in Hell XCIII The Streets with Gold perspicuous are arrai'd With blazing Carbuncles inlaid Yet All seem Night to GLORIES from the LAMB desplay'd XCIV For
LXV Insunt Virtuti sua Balâ—ama 〈◊〉 Intensè NUMEN Gladii mollire 〈◊〉 Aetatis Ferro sic AUREA 〈◊〉 profatur LXVI Ingruit O NUMEN Vâ—â—â—RANDUM dira Procella Coccina purpureae cum velant Crimina Vestes Effuso tinctae pretioso Sanguine Vitae LXVII Orbis Aquis cinctus fortunatissimus olim O deplorandum quantum mutatus ab illo Pax ubi floruerat pia Mors ibi prodiga regnat LXVIII Rubrum deprompsit Vinum Mavortius Ardor Conserves Arcam DEUS in Torrente Timorum Aut tua subsidat Lachrymis tum Sanguine SPONSA LXIX Est Panem Lachrymata suum Gemitusque resorbet Lumina pro Potu sua sunt in Flumina versa Ipsa immersa Malis ad TE Se languida confert LXX Ad Modulos Compone graves PATER Orbis acutos Hybernae Chelios quaevis Discordia Concors Esto Scoti fuerit super aut Insignibus Angli LXXI Non inter Socios saevo Formido Leoni Vel praedabundis inter se convenit Vrsis Mutua Pernicies lacerat Vir CORPUS IESU LXXII Si modò fert Animus pugnetis Fulmina Martis Turcico invisam Labaro deducite Lunam Sacra relinquentes Fidei Confinia rectae LXXIII Agminibus Thracum densis contendite quamvis Sclopporum seu Truncus iners Caro vestra deorsùm Tendat summa petent Animae de more Globorum LXXIV NUMINIS in mediis si sit Praesentia Castris In TEMPLO residet multò magis ILLE sacrato Haeresin ut pellat perversaque Schismata purget LXXV Haec Tunicam rupêre Tuam Dolor undè Bonorum Zelotae quamvìs raucâ TE Voce fatigant Voto indignaris civili Sanguine mixto LXXVI Fallaces potuêre Bonum suadere fuisse Praecones per Diluvium vadare Cruoris Praestigiis uti Summosque resolvere Nexus LXXVII Inde Catechismi neglecti sacra Synaxis Herbae hinc sylâ—estres seu Ranae Vere Palustres Athea Schismatici Corruptio pessima Cleri LXXVIII Praetextus fugiant speciosos sunto fideles Cultu divino repetantque PRECAMEN IESU Foederis aut valeant Mysteria dira trisexti LXXIX Sic seduxerunt illos Insomnia vana Vilescant illis adeâ—ut NATALIA CHRISTI Nemo tenet Nodis mutantem Protea Vultum LXXX FESTUM Festorum supremae dulce COHORTI Inclinat COELUM hîc Terris hinc Gaudia SANCTIS Judice Relligione Dies primarius Anni LXXXI Factus Homo bonus est primùm tum degener IPSE SERMO Caro Factus nostra haud Commercia vitans Pejor ut is nihilo meliori Sorte fruatur LXXXII Audetis Verum profiteri Pabula pascunt Fuci aliena merum Pigmentum Papiliones Tettix deperdit redemit sibi Tempora Myrmex LXXXIII Mellea dum repetunt Vespae Spelaea rapaces Illis Insidiis structis merguntur in Ollâ Corporis haud tanti sint ac Munimina Mentis LXXXIV Kirk-Int'rest kenimus Leges revocate Draconis Instaurate vetus Templum Sunt Moenia Sancti Seu Tubus est Pastor Fons Gratia Gluten Amorque LXXXV Vobis praeteritos ignoscat Musa Furores Singula propitio condant Oblivia Velo De Rebus moveat si Vos Metanoea peractis LXXXVI Veri Cultores balantes pascite CHRISTI Agnos quippè Merum SANGUIS CARO dapsilis Esca Illos pascentes semper spectate CORONAM LXXXVII Dispensatores SPONSO Sponsaeque fideles Nos sacra diuini ducant ORACULA Veri Relligione Status floret data GLORIA Fidis LXXXVIII Cùm JUDEX veniet Merces erit ampla Labori Pro Lachrymis Vobis manabunt Gaudia Rivis Auratae surgunt Spicae sementibus udis LXXXIX Laesis Omnipotens VINDEX certò aequa rependes Illis qui sese foedo maculâre Reatu Sanguinis innocui cum sit Detectio fusi XC Aurea Pax aures Verunque appellat amicum Lumina non Phoebi latebris tam grata Borusso Urbibus exersis Homines vel Littora Fractis XCI O si coelestis vel tandem TURMA secunda Nobis Bellorum diris Cruciatibus haustis Grata salutiferae resonaret Cantica PACIS XCII PAX Domus est fessis PAX ad NATALIA CHRISTI Cantio prima fuit Terris suprema VOLUNTAS PAX Bonitatis amans PAX Sanctis vera Voluptas XCIII Martyribus fulcimen AMOR ceu stramen Achates Attrahit ad nostrum sic nos perducis AMANTEM Elixir Auri verum Compendia Legis XCIV Ullanè Divinum narret Facundia Amorem Quippè redemptus Homo Naturas nobiliores Angelicas superat Tanti sit Passio CHRISTI XCV Hîc demùm tacuit Lachrimarum Flumina manant Ex oculis illi Mundus Cadus esse videtur Gaudia falsa Merum Stultorum portio Faeces XCVI Et nunc Laetitiae vivae de Fonte micanti Pura vbì perpetuo Chrystalla fluentia Cursu Mens erit aethereas conscendere Raptibus Oras XCVII Hinc Documenta sibi Zelus malesanus habebit Ardores Cujus tradunt in Praelia saevi 〈◊〉 fera depositis mitescant Secula Bellis XCVIII Aurâ—bus exhibeas Epulum selecta VENUSTAS Dum siâ— cantat AMOR Reges dulcedâ—â—e capti GRATIA Naturae Nervos intendit AMORE XCIX Horrisonas Amor ipse potes sedare Procellas Cantibus placare tuis immania Cete Quae Dominatrici diverrunt Marmora Caudâ C. Si tua VIRGO nequit compescere Erotica Musa Incumbens Aevo Fatum miserabile nostro Pro Scriptis Lachrymae Nam Gensâ—est danda FURORIâ— Provecti tandèm Latiales linquimus Oras Te petimus Patrium Terra Britanna Solum Hîc ubi Nemo citis designet Littus Ocellis Egressae faveant Fluctus Aura Rati Vpon the Vanitie of the World LOng have I sought the Wish of All To finde And what it is Men call True Happiness But cannot see The World hath It which It can be Or with It hold a Sympathie He that enjoyes what here below Frail Elements have to bestow Shall finde most sweet bare Hopes at first Fruition by Fruition's burst Sea-water so allayes the Thirst. Who ever would be happy then Must be so to Himself for when Judges are taken from without To Judge what we are fenc'd about They do not judge but guesse and doubt His Soul must hug no private Sin For that 's a thorn conceal d i' th' Skin But Innocence where She is nurst Plants valiant Peace So Cato durst Evâ—n then be best when Rome was worst GOD-built He must be in his Minde That is Divine whose Faith no Winde Can shake when firmly â—e relies Upon the ALMIGHTY He outflies Low Chance and Fate of Destinies As Fountains rest not till they lead Meandring high as their first Head Sâ— Man rests not till He hath trod Deaths Height then by that Period He rests too rais'd in Soul to GOD. Owen Feltham POtestas Culminis est Tempestas Mentis Splendorem habet Titulo cruciatum Animo desuntque Inopiae multa Avaritiae omnia Ne petas igitur devota Anima esse qualis in Anglia DUX Buckingamiae in Aula Caesaria Princeps ab Eggenberg in Hispania Comes D' Olivares in Imperio Ottomanico Mustapha
Barks like Calms invite unto a Shipwrackt Fate XX. Guile rule the World that doth in Madness roul Great Things the Better oft controul Where Pride is coacht Fraud shopt Taverns drown the Soul XXI Follie in ruffling Storms with Frenzie meets Ebbing and flowing ore the Streets O' th' care-fill'd pompous Citie which exiles true Sweets XXII O fretting Broyls in populous Bussle pent Where still more Noise than Sense they vent And now as much to Gold as late to Battles bent XXIII World reason if thou canst Thy Sports leave Stings Thy Scenes like Thee prove empty Things Thou glorious seem'st in Paint from whence all Falshood Springs XXIV So Rainbow Colours on Doves Necks have shone In Hiew so divers yet so one That Fools have thought them all the Wiser knew them none XXV I 'l countercharm thy Spells that SOULS e're thee May trust wilde Irish Seas Who flee Distrest to thy Relief Thou say'st What 's that to me XXVI Fawn and betray and Treasons self outdare T' o'rethrow by raising is thy Care But I 'l ungull thy Minions undisguize thy Ware XXVII Thy Gold's Drosse glitt'ring Troubles are thy Bliss By Pomp thou cheat'st thy All 's amiss Thou art Sins Stage the Devil prompts Flesh Actor is XXVIII Spectator Sense applauds each witching Gin But unto Reasons Eye within Thou seem'st Hells Broker and the servile Pimp of Sin XXIX Thus Peaches do rough Stones in Velvet tire Thus rotten Sticks mock Starrie Fire Thus Quagmires with green Emeralds crown their cheating Mire XXX So Mermaids lovely seem in Beauties Guize With Voice and Smiles draw Ears and Eyes But whom they win they sink those never more shall rise XXXI Thy Shop 's but an Exchange of apish Fashion Thy Wealth Sports Honours are Vexation Thy Favors glistring Cares sweet Surfets woo'd Damnation XXXII Base Proverbs are thy Counsels to enthrall Each for himself and God for All Young SAINTS I dread to speak it to old Devils fall XXXIII Rain on thy Darlings Head a Danaen Shour Let him be drencht in Wealth and Poure What then Th' hast Storm'd seiz'd on All in one short hour XXXIV O thou Prides restless Sea swoln Fancies blow Thee up dost blew with Envie grow Brinish with Bloud like the Red Sea with Lust dost flow XXXV Remorceless Rage thou in thy fift Acts Breath When Bloud does freeze to Ice of Death And Life 's jail'd up for Natures Debt where art Beneath XXXVI World ev'n Thy Name a whirling Storm implies Where Men in Generations rise Like Bubbles dropsy'd Bladders of the rainie Skies XXXVII Some strait sink down whom VVaters Sheet do's hide Some floating up and down abide The longest are so circumvolv'd as Rest's deny'd XXXVIII So have we rid out Storms when Eol's Rave Plough'd up the Ocean whose each Wave Might waken Death with Noise and make its Paunch a Grave XXXIX The sick Ship groan'd fierce Windes her Tacklings rent The proud Sea scorn'd to be Shoar-pent VVe seem'd to knock at Hell and bounce the Firmament XL. Clouds then ungilt the Skies when Lightnings Light Flasht thousand glimmering Dayes t' our sight But Thunders Canons soon turn'd those flasht Dayes to Night XLI Thus art thou World Lifes Storm at Death Distress Starving's the Bottom of Excesse Thy Self a piteous Creature how can'st me redress XLII No had'st lesse cruel been th' hadst been less kinde Oyl 's in thy Gall to heal my Minde Thus Hell may help to HEAV'N Satan a Soul befriend XLIII A good Cause with good Means some use yet fare But ill when Others of thy Care Whose Cause is bad and Means ill us'd successful are XLIV No Wonder Sins Career uncheckt runs on Since here Lifes Joy it hath alone Which though thou bragg'st is giv'n no sooner 's giv'n than gone XLV Pomp Pleasure Pelf idolatriz'd by Fools Dispute we now in WISDOMS Schools Ambitions quenchless Fire i' th Spring of Iudgment cools XLVI Pride bladders tymp'nous Hearts till prickt by Fear Soon they subside by venting there Unsafe Ascents to Pow'r do watching Dangers rear XLVII Fearfull and fear'd is Pomp Ambition steep Does Envie get and Hatred keep High State wants Station Honour-thirsting Minds can't sleep XLVIII Summon ASPIRO with his Looms of State To weave Prides Web in spite of Fate Who once got up throwes down the Steps did elevate XLIX He hates Superiors 'cause Superiors and Inferiors lest they's Equals stand And on his Fellows squints that are in joynt Command L. Th' Ambitious treach'rous are and hoodwinkt quite Their giddy Heads have dazled Sight For Iealousie clothes Truth in double Mists of Spite LI. His Eye must see and wink his Tongue must brave And flatter too his Ear must have Audience yet carelesse be Thus acts he KING Slave LII So brightest Angel blackest Devil hides High'st Rise to lowest Downfall slides A Mathematick point thus East and West divides LIII Bright Wisdom sends dark Policie to School Proves the Contriver but a Fool Who builds his Maxims on a Precipice or Pool LIV. Great Ones keep Realms from Want They 'l you from Hate Life 's not so dear as Wealth For That Holds single Bodies This the Body of the State LV. Who bad Desires conceive they soon wax Great With Mischief then bring forth Deceit So brood They Desolation till it grows compleat LVI Let such as sail 'gainst VIRTUES Winde use Skill To tack about for what 's first Ill Grows worse by Use and worst by Prosecution still LVII Ev'n That to which Prides touring Project flies When graspt soon by Fruition dies Great Fears great Hopes great Plots great Men make Tragedies LVIII Achitophel and Absalon prov'd This Whose Brains of their Designs did misse Teaching deep Machavels Fraud worst to th' Plotter is LIX Fallacious They and fallible have been Who made RELIGION cloak their Sin Mans greatest Good or greatest Ill is from Within LX. Those Policies that hunt for Shadowes so As let at last the Substance go Which ever lasts make wretched End in endless Wo. LXI Had'st for thy Householdstuff the Spoil of Realms Could'st thou engross Cathaiahs Gems And more then triplicate Romes triple Diadems LXII Could'st with thy Feet toss Empires into Air And sit i' th Universall Chair Of State were Pageants made for Thee the whole Worlds Mayor LXIII Yet those but Pageants were Thou Slave to Sense To him not's own all Things dispence But Storms Thou happier wast i' th' Preterperfect Tense LXIV Steward give up th' Account the Audit's neer To reckon how and when and where Where much is lent there 's much requir'd Day 's severe LXV Thus proud Ambition is by Conscience peal'd Vapours sent up a while conceal'd In thundring Storms pour down at length when All 's reveald LXVI Though Prides high Head doth brush the Stars yet shall Its Carkass like a Sulphur Ball Plunge into Flames Abyss Pride concav'd Satans Hall LXVII The Mighti'st are but Worms pale Cowards they Abasht shall stand at that GREAT DAY When Conscience King of Terrors shall
their Crimes display LXVIII Giants of Earth Aviso's may you tell That though with envy'd State you swell Yet soon within Corruptions Charnel-house you 'l dwell LXIX Scepters are frail as Reeds who had no Bound Are claspt within six foot of Ground Whose Epitaphs next Age will be Oblivion found LXX Such Yesterday as would have been their Slave To day may tread upon their Grave That flats the Nose Best Lectures dust-seel'd Pulpets LXXI Who tost the Ball of Earth in dark Vaults rest All what that Gen'rall once possest Was but a Shirt in 's Tomb who vanquisht all the East LXXII Invading Cyrus in a Tub of Gore Might quaff his Fill who evermore Had thirsted Blood Him timeless Fate midst Triumphs tore LXXIII Weigh Life's frail Pomp vain remember Paul The way to rise will be to fall In 's high Commission low in 's low Conversion tall LXXIV Soul w'udst aspire to th' High'st clip Tumors Wing To th' Test of HEAV'N thy Axioms bring Best Polit'ick David was Who conquers Sin 's the King LXXV Let raised Elijah-like aspire To be encharioted in Fire Faith Love Joy Peace the Wheels to Saints sublime Desire LXXVI Avaro cite as void of Grace as stor'd With Gold the GOD his Soul ador'd Wealth twins with Fear Why start'st Unlock thy unsunn'd Hord LXXVII I 'l treble't by the Philosophick Stone This makes thee stare Why thus 't is done To Passives Actives joyn in due Proportion LXXVIII Behold vast Sums unown'd Thou hutch-cram'd Chink Art made as Nothing with a Wink Thou bred from Hell with Hell-deeds Souls to Hell dost sink LXXIX Gold is the Fautress of all civil Jarres Treasons Reward the Nerve of Wars Nurse of Prophaneness suckling Rage that Kingdoms marres LXXX Thou potent Devil how dost thou bewitch The dreggy Soul spott'st it with Itch This Slave to thee his slave was never poor till rich LXXXI Now chest th' all worshipt Ore with rev'rend Awe Sols Gold and Luna's Silver draw Should Hell have these 't would plunder'd be to sate thy Maw LXXXII While Gripes of Famine mutiny within And tan like Hides the shrivel'd Skin O' th' Poor whose pining Want can not thy Pitty win LXXXIII Having their Gravestones underneath their Feet Breath out their Woes to All they meet While thou to them are flintier than their Bed the Street LXXXIV Blinded with Tears with crying hoarse forlorn They seem to be of All but Scorn Death than Delay Wants bloudless Wound is easier born LXXXV Thy Dropsie breeds Consumption in thine Heir Who thus t' himself I 'l ease your Care Measure not Grounds but your own Earth Die now to spare LXXXVI What 's rak'd by Wrong and kept by Fear when mine Shall spread as I 'm Then brood the Shine Penurious Wretch till thou by empty Fulnesse pine LXXXVII Thy Care 's to lessen Cost how slow thy Payes How quick Receipts Lov'st Fasting-Dayes But 't is to save thus starv'st in Store thee Plenty slayes LXXXVIII When shall I rifle every Trunk and Shelf Of this old muckie wretched Elf Who turns as Chymists do all that he scrapes to Pelf LXXXIX O sordid Phrenzie Anxious Maze of Care O gripple Covetize to spare And dream of Gold The Misers Heav'n the Indians Snare XC Oppression is the Bloud-shot in their Eyes Bribes blanch Gehesa till he dies Fool read this Night Death may thy dunghil Soul surprize XCI Think not for whom thou dost thy Soul deceive And injur'd Nature so bereave But still thy knotty Brain with wedg-like Anguish cleave XCII Sruck blinde with Gold brood on thy Rapines till Thou hatch up stinging Cares to th' fill The heaviest Curse on this side Hell 's to thrive in Ill. XCIII Go venture for 't with Sharks haste Miser old To th' Hook because the Bait is Gold Pawn thy Soul for 't as Iudas did when 's LORD he sold. XCIV Possessors are as Saul possest who crosse HEAV'NS Law Gain got by Guile proves Losse Getting begits more Itch Lusts specious Ore is drosse XCV Who sowe to Sin shall reap to Iudgement Train To Hell is Idolized Gain Canst Death or Vengeance bribe If not dread ceaseless Pain XCVI Why so fast poasted by thy strugling Cares And Self-slaying Fraud with all their Snares Stay view thy self Destruction her crackt Glass prepares XCVII His pursie Conscience opens now I 've run On Rocks he houls too late to shun Lost Vse and Principle Gold I 'm by Thee undone XCVIII If to exhort be not too late attend The wholsom Counsel of a Friend Renounce thy Idol and prevent thy wretched End XCIX Sound for Faiths Bottom with Hopes anch'ring Cord Repent Restore large Alms afford The dismall Fraught of sinking Sins cast over-board C. He who returns to 's Avarice left his Sore Growes desp'rate Deadlier than before His Hopes of HEAV'N much lesse his Fears of Hell much more Oceani Monstrum natat infraenabile Lingua Naves saepè pias haec Echeneis habet Cui paro Naumachiam Freta conturbata pererrans Sit Remoque meo Lis Remoraeque tuae Spes rebus affixa fugacibus uno Frangitur Afflatu THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD CANTO XI The Disincantation ARGUMENT Crispulus hic nulli Nugarum Laude secundus Cui Mens Lucisinops Stulta Ruina Domûs Qui Cereri Bromioque litat Luxuque liquescit Huic ne putrescat pro Sale Vita datur Volupto crown'd with Blisse of Fools is bent To Wine Feasts Gauds loose Merriment Runs on in Lusts Career till Grace stops-with Repent STANZA I. O Headlesse heady Age O giddy Toyes As humble Cots yield quiet Joyes So prouder Palaces are Drums of restlesse Noise II. 'T was in the blooming Verdure of the Yeer When through the Twins Sol's Course did steer That a spruce Gallant did on Summons strait appear III. Glitt'ring in Brav'ry like the Knight o' th' Sun Whose Nags in Hide-park Races run This Ev'n 'T is sure Volupto old Avaros Son IV. Hot showes the Day by th' Dust upon his Head And all his Clothes so loosely spread He 's so untrust as if it were not long to Bed V. His Hands keep Time to th' Tune of 's Feet his Pace Is danced Measures and 't is Grace Enough ore's Shoulder to afford a quarter-face VI. Act 'bove French Monkies Antimasks he might Before the Apes Spectators right Such Dops Shrugs Puppet-playes shew best by Candle-light VII How mimick hum'rous Garbs in various kinde Do checquer Whimsies in the Minde As diff'ring Flow'rs on Peru's Wonder Gardners finde VIII Hast thou black Patches too for Shame forbear Smooth Chins should not have Spots but Hair But thou art modish and canst vapour drink swear IX How blazing Tapers waste Lifes blink away In Socket of their mouldring Clay How powder'd Curls do sin-polluted Dust bewray X. As Prudence fram'd Art to be Natures Ape So Pride forms Nature to Arts Shape Corrupted Wine is worst that 's prest from richest Grape XI Wilt Reasons Sense dissolve in senselesse Wine And sing while Youths frail Gem does shine Come
Laughter stretch our Spleen Come Sack in Crystal Shrine XII First Wine shall set next shall a wanton Dame Our Blood on Fire then quench our Flame But Brute Repentance shall or Hell thy wild-fire tame XIII Now with the Gallon ere thou try'st a Fall Think o' th' Hand-writing on the Wall If Bacchus th' Inturn gets down Conscience goes All. XIV Shouldst thou but once the swinish Drunkard view Presented in a Myrrour true Quite souc'd in Tavern Juice in him thy self thou 'dst rue XV. A nobler Birth with an ignoble Breast Rich Corps without a Minde 's a Beast He 's raz'd from Honours Stem who Riot is thy Guest XVI Thy Guests swoln Dropsies and dull Surfets are The Gluttons Teeth their Graves prepare They 're sick in Health living dead whose Maw's their Care XVII Go Corm'rants go with your luxurious Flock Rap'd from three Elements we mock Your muskie Jellie Pheasant candid Apricock XVIII To Arabs that they send their Phoenix write In 's spice Nest be cookt it might Far fetch 't dear bought best suits the Apician Appetite XIX Go with thy Stags embalm'd entombd in Paste On Tenants Sweat feeds rampant Waste We prize 'bove wilde Intemp'rance a Carthusian Fast. XX. Excesse enhanceth Rates Thou on this Score Grind'st 'twixt thy Teeth the starving Poor Who beg dry Crums which they with Tears would moysten ore XXI Laz'rus thy Skin's Deaths Sheet 'twixt that Bone There 's no Parenthesis bemone Dives CHRISTS Members now or thou shalt ever grone XXII Prance pamper'd Stallions to the Grave y' are driv'n Nought satisfies the Soul but HEAV'N Th' art empty World from Morn through Noon to doting Ev'n XXIII In twice-dy'd Tyrian Purple thou dost nest Restlesse with heaving Fumes opprest Which cause tumultuous Dreams Foes to indulgent Rest. XXIV From hence the Spark what pitty ' t is is Ill Grown cropsick Post for Physicks Skill Phlebotomize he must and take the Vomit Pill XXV Doctor the Cause of this Distemper state us His Cachexie results from Flatus Hypocondrunkicus ex Crapulâ creatus XXVI School him whose HEAV'N is Sense whose Reason dim Who wasts his Time as Time wasts him Give ore his Soul Divine Tayler make's Body trim XXVII Now sheath'd in rusling Silks new Suits display Thy Cloaths outworth Thee Wisemen say Hedg-creeping Glow-worms never mount to starrie Ray. XXVIII Yet who 's born under Iupiter shall move I' th Sphear of Honour Riches Love Say Wizards Vnder Jove w' are all born none above XXIX Still to be pounct perfum'd still queintly drest Still to be guarded to a Feast By fawning Looks squinting hearts like an Arrest XXX Still to have toting Waits unâ—eel thine Eyes In Bed at Board when sit when rise Such Card'nal-like their Paris prize 'bove Paradise XXXI Know Worldlings that Prosperitie's a Gin If wantoniz'd breeds Storms within To Torture turns the Metamorphosis of Sin XXXII Pomp it s own Burthen is Whose slippery State Oft headlong by too rash Debate Tumbles for value of a Straw pulls on its Fate XXXIII His Heart-blood seeths that Blood sends up in Heat Fierce Spirits those i' th' Eye their Seat Fires kindle fiery Eyes like Comets Ruine threat XXXIV Fierce Balaam hold thy Hand and smite no Asse But him i' th' Saddle he alas Wounds through her Sides himself Wrath through the Soul doth pass XXXV Duels for Blood like Molocks Idol gape Thou turn'd a Swine out of an Ape First put'st on Peacocks Pride at last the Tygers Shape XXXVI They 'r gross not Great who serve wild Laws of Blood Such only Great who dare be Good GRACE buoies up Honor which without It sticks in mud XXXVII Make thorough Search As hard to finde thy Cure As Circles puzling Quadrature Or next Way by North-Sea to sail to China sure XXXVIII Lo idle Sloth in Lap of Sodom plac't Here lies He did Occasions wast Invaluable now irreparable past XXXIX Go wanton with the Winde misus'd Hours have A Life no other then the Grave Most for Lifes circumstance the Cause of living wave XL. The privie Councel of the glorious TRINE Did in creating Man combine Angels lookt on and wondred at the Soul divine XLI Which Storehouse of three living Natures is Doth the vast World epitomize Of whom ev'n All we see 's but a Periphrasis XLII Now to what End can we conceive Mans Frame Save to the Glory of GODS Name And his eternal Blisse included in the Same XLIII Fools living die SAINTS dying live Seeds thrive When earth't Who dye to Sin survive So to come richer up Pearl-fishers deeper dive XLIV Now 's Courtesan appears who blowes Loves Fire Her pratling Eyes speak vain Desire To catch this art-fair flie the following Trouts aspire XLV The gamesome Flie that round the Candle playes Is scorcht to Death i' th courted Blaze Thus is the Amourist destroy'd by lustful Gaze. XLVI This Dame of Pleasure does to seem more bright Lattice her Day with bars of Night Spots this fair Sorceress Cloud more to enforce Delight XLVII This Helen who does Beautie counterfeit And on her Face black Patches set Like Tickets on the Door shewes that She may be Let. XLVIII She 'd Coach Affection on her Cheek But why W'ud Cupids Horses climb so high Over her alpine Nose t' orethrow it in her Eye XLIX Truths Apes beware such Wheels your Earth do wear Horses with rugged Hoofe will tear VVho living's coacht with Pride shal dying fall w th Fear L. But noble LADIES VIRGINS chast as fair Sweet modest Sex that Virtuous are Ye First my Honour my Respect ye Second share LI. ANGELICK FORMS far be it to perplex Or cast Aspersion on your Sex Loose Art in Those your native beaming Lustre decks LII So have I seen the Limners Hand design A ruder Peece neer one Divine With this course face to make That other Beauty shine LIII Her Eyes spread Nets her Lips Baits her Arms Enthralling Chains Sense hugs the Charms Of Idlenesse and Pride while Reason's free from Harms LIV. Tempestuous Whirlwindes revell in the Air Of her feig'nd Sighs her Smile 's a Snare Which she as slighly sets as subtly does prepare LV. Scarce is the Toy at Noon to th' Girdle drest Nine Pedlars need each Morn be prest To lanch her forth A ship as soon is rigg'd to th' West LVI At length Shee 's built up with accoutred Grace The Spark's enflam'd with her set Face Her glancing Eye her lisping Lip her mincing Pace LVII On those his optick Faculties do play Like frisking Motes in sunny Day Like gawdy nothings in the Trigon Glasse that ray LVIII On her profusely now he spends his Ore Scarce the Triumvir lavisht more When he did costly treat his stately Memphian Whore LIX Thou inconsid'rate Flash spend'st pretious Dayes In Dances Banquets Courtisms Playes To gain the Shade of Joy which soon as gaind decayes LX. Which barely tasted makes thee long the more Enjoy'd 't is loath'd was lov'd before Thus nor Mirths Flood nor ebbe can