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A glance at the glories of sacred friendship. By E.B. Esq.
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Benlowes, Edward, 1603?-1676.
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1657
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Wing B1872; Thomason 669.f.20[66]; ESTC R212115
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A Glance at the Glories Of SACRED FRIENDSHIP By E. B. Esq THE ADDRESS WHere 's Friendships Residence To what unknown New Planet-World is That rare Phoenix flown Great and Good GOD Who did'st so low descend As to become ev'n to Thy Foes a FRIEND My Genius so inspire that what I sing Glory to THEE Good-Will to Men may bring So may these Lines the Depths of Friendship sound As Love being sunk may rise more practis'd more renown'd The World 's a Lott'ry which does comprehend A thousand Blanks for One choice Prize A FRIEND THE PÖEME I. FRIENDSHIP thy sacred Feet ne're tread the Path Of vap'ring Gallants or the Sonnes of Wrath Nor sitt'st Thou thron'd in Beauties wanton Eyes Such short-liv'd Page'antry as Fondlings prize Thy inner Glory Vertues brighter Grace Shines in the Soules not in the Bodies Face Nor on Thy nobler Score may be allow'd Til ' Inconstant Envious Covetous or Proud Nor the Suspicious for when such rude Swine Root up Thy thriving Fence who 'l trust them with Loves Vine II. SHould Friendship ask or grant or act what 's Ill It would like Saturn in Conjunction still Sad Influence send If Guile might plead Loves Rites It were The COVENANT then of Hypocrites No but It's Way like Innocence should be The Via Lactea of Sinceritie 'T is so divine as not to be exprest With what the Braine produces but the Breast 'T is such an Eminence of Minde as tends To Inexpressibles ev'n All that 's Good of Friends III. IT is the Marriage of Affections so Of Fortunes Interests and Counsels too It is Loves golden Chain and doth imply Delight Respect Care Prudence Constancy It is Loves Unison where Two agree In well-tun'd Mindes Angel-like Harmonie It is infus'd by Heav'n by Vertue fed Preserv'd by Merit by sweet Nature spred It is begun with Iudgement does persever With Grace and shall conclude with Glory so with Never IV. DOwn from on High It 's Radiations beam 'T is the Realitie of Iacobs Dream The Scale of Intellectuall Heav'n which hath For two chief Luminaries Truth and Faith Whose Orb is blest with each benigner Star Humility and Worth it's Gemini are As Spheares in Spheares so harmonize so move Hearts on those Poles of Friendship Peace Love To whose sweet Consort other Musick 's flat Think such a Thought as none but Friends can think 't is That V. GReat Pow'r of Friendship with what active Fire Inflam'st Thou first then crown'st each high Desire Were 't not for Thee thick Darkness would be hurl'd As a black Veile over the broad-fac'd World For if eclipsed were Thy gracious Light Though thousand Suns did shine it still were Night As fragrant Fumes from Coales of Incense rise So by ascending Thou perfum'st Allies That Thou may'st freely to thy Friends dispense Thy Magazins of Wealth Art Nature Excellence VI IN These Olympicks 't is the maine Contest Who shall ore-come by loving Most and Best Thou when Deaths Harbinger accosts thy Friend Thy Bodies and Soules Faculties dost lend Thus Turtles are by Friendships Union Although in Bodies two in Love but one Thus holy Fire like That on Altars should Perpetually be cherisht to uphold The sacred Flames of Friendship which regards More to deserve and give than to receive Rewards VII REciprocall Beneficence yet makes Loves Helix and a cheerfull Giver takes With GOD and Men Obligements give Extent To growing Zeal and banish Complement When from the warmer or the temperate Zone Bad Times may drive a Friend to th' frozen One Then one reviving Smile of Friendships Shine Makes that Yce Water and that Water Wine Such spritely Flavour of a sparkling Minde Can sooner cease to be than it can be unkinde VIII HOw rarely Brethren to This Height ascend More than in Brother is imply'd in Friend Fraternitie but in Cognation lyes Of Bodies Friendship hath sublimer Tyes Which by their innate Energie bring forth Seed Buds and Fruit of Soul-inriching Worth As free from all Antipodes of Love As is the Lamb from Guile from Gall the Dove Thus can the Bosome of a Friend afford A fruitfull Paradise without a flaming Sword IX SEcurely plac'd on High to view below How the cross Thunders of a Batail go Or from a Promontory to behold Storm-lab'ring Ships by Neptunes Trident rowl'd May please rough Mindes Such bitter-sweets are toyes Ballanc'd with wel-fixt Amicitiall Joyes Brave Ionathan was Master in Loves Art By Ovids wanton Muse profan'd each Part He Princely taught who priz'd before his own The Wel-fare of his Friend That Friend before a Throne X. PHoenix of Princes Thou did'st Friendship keep Inviolate when the King his Wrath did steep In gall against Thee and the fatall Starres Sign'd thy Friends Rise in Peace thy Fall in Warres Thy Second-self Thee 'bove Himself did raise His Tears proclaim'd Thy Love his Tongue Thy Praise Twin-Souls Who like two glorious Cones of Light Rose up and pointed in One high and bright O blest Conjunction This where Spirits blend And Each is breath'd into his Other-Self his Friend XI BEst Paire what Union what Communion still With Eminence of Worth and Strength of Will Were in the Center of Endearments met To make your Faith more firm your Fame more great Like Needles toucht by the Magnetick Stone Both joyntly mov'd at the Remove of One Such Love-Sweets rais'd on Vertues Interest Were Ante-past to Heav'ns Eternall Feast An Height like This no State of Mortals knowes The Worlds Stage than such Friends more Kings more Emperors showes XII PSalms flow when GRACE tunes Natures Harp which hath Intrinsick Quintessence in-Heav'n'd by Faith Angels blesse GOD because not only He Crowns Them with Glory to Eternitie But being the Source of Goodness to Their KING They Halleluiah Halleluiahs sing His Greatness Wisedome Power their Wonders be His GRATIOUSNESS wings Loves Activitie Their Wills to Each Above are cleer and ev'n Love 's the Resplendency of Friendships Region Heav'n XIII FRiendship the Sun in our Horizon flies Still through the Zodiack of the Good and Wise Who have espous'd their Eagle-Thoughts to high Engagements and above what 's mortall fly Who when Aurora rides curl'd brightly drest Perfum'd from her Star-Chamber in the East Spreading her Beames her Glories round the Ayre Their Souls then twining Flames court Heav'n in Prayer O may We thus unload each burthen'd Soule Of every Grief break our Mindes to keep them whole XIV SArza the Liver opens Steel the Spleen Sulphur the Lungs Castoreum's Vertue 's seen So on the Braine but no Receit we finde Like a true Friend for an obstructed Minde Crush into One all Sweets receiving Birth From the exhaustless teeming Womb of Earth Which done extract and oft distill from thence It 's most refined Spirit and Quintessence Which turn to Nectar All 's but Wormwoods juice Compar'd with what Soul-feeding Friendships Fruits produce XV THen could I with That Belgick Floud drink Towns Make the Earth tremble rend Imperiall Crownes From their just Owners