Bassa fuere nec tibi magis arrideant cerussatae Laudes calamistrata Encomia quà m sincerae sacrosanctae Amoris Anhelationes Seculi delectatiunculas devita Coelorum Jubilo recreaberis delicatula nimis es si velis gaudere cum Mundo postea regnare cum CHRISTO Amarescat Mundus ut dulcescat DEUS Quamdiù est in te Aegypti Farina Manna coeleste non gustabis Gustat DEUM cui Libido Seculi Nauseam parit Exinanitio nostra plenitudinis Coeli capaces reddit Si vis frui Sole verte dorsum Umbrae nec amaris à Mundo nisi à CHRISTO repulsa nec à CHRISTO nisi à Mundo spreta Dejicit se de Culmine Majestatis qui à DEO ad Consolatiunculas Creaturulae confugit O quâ—am contempta recula est homo nisi supra humana se erexerit Beatum nil facit Hominem nisi qui fecit Hominem minimum enim Dei omnis Orbis Magnitudine est magnificentius Paucis nec tibi ignominiosum sit pati quod passus est CHRISTUS nec gloriosum facere quod fecit Judas Morere Mundo ut vivas DEO Quicunque cum DEO habet Amicitiam Felicitatis tenet Fastigium Haec unica Laus hic Apex Sapientiae est ea viventem appetere quae morienti forent appetenda Mortis ergò Meditationi Aeternitatis Contemplationi Lucernulae tuae Oleum impendas Vale. STorms on the Minde from Honours Hill descend Titles external Beams adde not to Blisse The Poor wants much the Covetous All. My Soul No painted Praise nor flowr'd Encomiums prize Equal to pious Breathings of pure Love Eschew the petty Pleasures of the Time And Heav'ns Refreshments make thy Jubilie Imagine not to swim in worldly Pomp And afterwards to reign with CHRIST in Blisse Earth must be Gall that GOD may Honey prove He the best Relish hath of Heav'n who most Disdains the base Licentiousness o' th' Age We must be empty'd of our Selves before We can have Entrance into th' Heav'nly Court If we desire Fruition of the Sun Then must our Backs upon the Shade be turn'd Disclaim'd by CHRIST are those the World doth love And those whom CHRIST do's love the World contemns He of his Greatnesse doth Himself divest Who goes from GOD and Creature-comforts seeks O what a mean dispised thing is Man Unless he raise Himself above the Earth Since nought but his CREATOR makes him high Let 's think 't no Shame t' endure what CHRIST endur'd Nor glory to do that which Judas did Dead to the World let 's be alive to GOD Who gain his Favour are supremely blest This is the Height of Wisdom to desire Those things in Life which Thou wouldst dying crave Then on the Thoughts of Death thy Lamps Oyl spend And muse upon that State which nere shall end Mundo immundo NOn possum non Arte loqui Furor addit Acumen Crimina taxantur Nomina salva latent Munde quid hoc sibi vult tantò longinquiùs erras Quantò plùs graderis Te Cacoethes habet In quos Schismaticas torsisti saeviùs Hastas Quà m quos Virtutis coelitùs Vmbo tegit Protege me Coelum Quis adest Oppressor avarus Cui prior est NUMMUS Numine LIBRA Libro Numme potens Deus es Sic undique supplicat AURO Omnipotens veluti Numen inesset Ei Aurum Nequitiae Pater est Filius Orci Os promit Nectar Mens Aconita vomit Hic vorat utque rapax ruit in nova frusta Molossus Vasta Sitim pariunt Aequora Terra Famem Tota nec explerent Pellaeas Aequora Fauces Terraque sat tantae non erit una Fami Perfida quisquis amat se perdit odit amando Plus habet Ille DEI qui minus Orbis habet Dum captat capitur Daemon licèt Omnia spondet Dat Mundus magnum praeter inane nihil Plena Fames mellita Lues Persuasio fallax Gloria Flos Pulvis Gaza Tiara cinis Tendiculas Pigmenta Dolos Crepitacula Fumos Has rauco Merces Gutture laudet Anus Insatiata Fames rapto superincubet Auro Porcus aggestas grunniat inter Opes Littera R hebraea pelasga latina notabunt Quòd malus eR-RO-RES h nil nisi Mundus habet THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD CANTO X. The Abnegation ARGUMENT What 's potent Opulencie What 's remiss Voluptuousness World what 's All This To That the SOUL' 's created for ETERNAL BLISSE STANZA I. VArious are Poets Flames Some Eclogues write Others describe a horrid Fight Some Lyrick Strains and some the Epick do delight II. But here my sharpned Muse shall entertain The Scourges of Satyrick Vein To lash the World in which such Store of Vices reign III. No Grandee Patron court I nor entice Love-glances from enchanting Eyes Nor Blandishments from lisping Wantons vocall Spice IV. No such trite Theams our fired Genius fit Of which so many Pens have writ Prudential Souls affect sound Reason not sleight Wit V. Blest Talents which the GOSPELS PEARL do buy Frail Hopes that on the World rely Where None are sav'd by Faith but by ' Infidelitie VI. The way to gain more Ground is to retreat Our Flight will be our Foes Defeat Minds conqu'ring great Delights triumph in JOYES more great VII Pull me not World nor can nor will I stay Iugler I know what thou canst say Thy magick Spells charm easie Sense but to betray VIII Wits toil to please Thee Sables yield their Skins The Silk-worm to thy Ward-robe spins Rocks send their Gems Seas Pearls to purvey for thy Sins IX Thou brightnest Cupboards with throng'd massy Plate Heap'st Ermin'd Mantles of Estate Shew'st rich caparison'd champing Coursers at thy Gate X. Thou cull'st of Natures Spoil from Air Earth Seas The wing'd hoof'd finnie Droves to please Gluttons who make themselves Spittles of each Disease XI And shall like Dives a sad Reckning pay Feasts hastned on his Fun'ral Day Death brought the Voider and the Devil took away XII Tell me no more Th' art sweet as spicie Air Or as the blooming Virgin fair And canst with jovial Mirth resuscitate from Care XIII Boast not of Rubie-Lips and diamond-Diamond-Eyes Rose-Cheeks and Lilie-Fronts made Prize With dimpled Chins the Trap-pits where a Fondling lies XIV Deaths Serjeant soon thy courted Helens must Attach whose Eyes now Orbs of Lust The Worms shall feed on till they crumble into Dust. XV. Boast World who unto Revels dost decoy Thy Fav'rites that they 'r bath'd in Ioy Disdaining Saints who pretious Time in PRAY'R employ XVI Who where they come with purer Rayes of Light Dazle thy bat-ey'd Legions quite Rage Impudence and Ignorance the Imps of Night XVII Fool thy Attractives in no Limits pent Indulge to Surfets not Content And but illude the Minde not give It Ornament XVIII Gild o're thy bitter Pills with guilefull Arts Sweet Potions brew for frolick Hearts When most thou smil'st thou actest most perfidious Parts XIX With Thee dwells fawning Craft and glozing Hate Th' Allurements of Imperious State Which
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
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
And Fruits of Glory bud A Glimps of HEAV'N the Place XXIII This the Spring-Garden to spiritual Eyes Which fragrant Scent of Gums out-vies Three Kings had thence their triple mystick Sacrifice XXIV O happiâ—â— Walks where CHRIST and none beside Is Journeies End and Way and Guide Where from the humble Plains are greatest Heights descry'd XXV Heav'nward his Gaze. Here does a Bower display His Bride-room and SCRIPTURIA Her self is Bride Each Morn presents his Marriage-Day XXVI What Ecstasie's in this delicious Grove Th' unwitnest Witnes of his Love What Pow'r so strongly can as flam'd Affections move XXVII The Larks wing'd Travellers that trail the Skie Unsoyl'd with Lusts aloft do fly Warbling SCRIPTURIA SCRIPTURIA on high XXVIII T' have been affected by a Virgin Heir Rich young and chast wise good and fair Was once his first Delight but HEAV'N restrain'd that Care XXIX Thou Providence dist both their Wills restrain Thou mad'st their Losses turn to Gain For Thou gav'st Heav'n to her on him dost Blessings rain XXX But stop pleas'd Thoughts A high'r Love 's here design'd Fit in each Breast to be enshrin'd Bright Angels do admit no Sex nor do's the Minde XXXI To all her Lovers thousand Joyes accrew And Comforts thicker than Mayes Dew Shour down on their rapt Souls as Infinite as new XXXII Her Oracles directing Rules declare Unerring Oracles Truths Square Her Soul-informing Light does Earth for HEAV'N prepare XXXIII All beatizing Sweets as in their Hive At her fair Presence do arrive Which are to drooping Spirits best Restorative XXXIV To whose Sight Eagles paralell'd are blinde Had Argus thousand Eyes he 'd finde Darknesse compar'd with her illuminating Minde XXXV The Sun does glean his Splendor from her Eyes Thence burn we ' in Sweets as Phoenix lies Glowing on Sols Ray-darted Pile of Spiceries XXXVI From pretious Limbeck sacred Loves distill Such Sublimations as do fill Mindes with amazed Raptures of their Chimick Skill XXXVII That such Soul-Elevations still might stay We'd bear and do both vow and pay And serve the LORD of Lords by her directive Way XXXVIII Soon as our Ear drinks in His Command Be 't acted by our Heart and Hand Under his Banner we shall Satans Darts withstand XXXIX May He accept the Musick of our Voice While on his Goodnesse we rejoyce And while each melting Psalm makes on His GRACE its Choice XL. On Feast-Dayes from that Bour to Church we haste Where HEAV'N dissolves into Repast When we Regalios of the mystick BANQUET taste XLI O Deliccaies infinitely pure To Souls best Nutriment and Cure Where Knowledge Faith and Love Beatitude ensure XLII Poor Solomons Provision poor to This Manna Heav'n-dewing Banquet is Who reigns in Heav'n becomes on Earth our Food and Bliss XLIII O Sacramental Cates divinely drest GOD the Feast-maker CHRIST the Feast The HOLY GHOST Inviter and the Soul the Guest XLIV All Ioyes await the blessed Convives knit All Excellencies are in It This overcomes our Spirits overpowr's our Wit XLV For us poor Worms that â—lories SOVERAIGN dy'd O let our fleshly Barks still ride At Anchor in calm Streams of His empierced SIDE XLVI This is Heav'ns Antepast By Vnion He 's One to â—ll and All to One In Loves intrinsick Mystery to Souls alone XLVII Ecstatick Raptures loose our Hearts on high With Joyes Ineffabilitie Exub'rant Sweets orewhelm as Torrents Tongue Eye XLVIII Such Life-infusing Comforts from Above Our Souls with inward Motions move That totally for GOD we quit all Creature Love XLIX Should HE condemn us yet would Love compell Him down with us and we would dwell Rather than without HIM in Heav'n with HIM in Hell L. Soul of my Soul when I a Ioy receive Disjoyn'd from THEE let my Tongue cleave To 's Palate Me of All not of this Feast bereave LI. Not in the winter Solstice of my Years When shivering Snow surrounds deaf Ears And dreary Languishment Deaths gashly Vizard wears LII When they shall tremble that the House defend The Columns which support it bend The Grinders fail the Watch through Casements Objects blend LIII Then shine dear LORD when quivering Winter Dress Is icicled with hoary Tresse VVhen all Streams frozen are but Tears through Loves Excess LIV. VVhen periwig'd with Snow's each bald-pate VVood Bound in Ice-Chains each strugling â—lood VVhen North-Seas bridled are pris'ning their scaly Brood LV. Then let those freezing How're be thaw'd by Pray'r As VVells in VVinter warmer are By Circumsession of refrigerating Air. LVI That nipt with Cold or parcht with Heat resign We may our Will in each to THINE Be 't lesse or more be 't low or high be 't Storm or Shine LVII After Nights Soot smears Heav'n Day gilds its Face Wet April past sweet May takes place And Calm Air smiles when rufling Winds have run their Race LVIII Who hope for Mines scorn Dross Such only get Who lose a Game to win the Set Wordlings He 's rich who 's Above 's his Cabinet LIX To well-tun'd Tempers Things that disagree Have oft some Likenesse thus we see Winde kindles Fire Discord makes Concord Harmony LX. Affliction tunes the Breast to rise or fall Making the whole Man Musicall We may Affliction Christians second Baptism call LXI Who CHRIST for Spouse his Cross for Joynture has His Hand supports where 's Rod doth passe The LORD of Angels He the KING of Suff'rings was LXII Loves Life took Death that Death Loves Life might gain The Soveraign dy'd that Slaves might reign The World can't Books that should be writ of HIM contain LXIII Those have the greatest Cross who Cross nere bore They 'r rich in Want who GOD adore Who do's supply all Emptiness with His full Store LXIV Saint Paul the Gentiles Doctor rich 'bove Kings And high 'bove Oratories Wings Rapt up to HEAV'N had Nothing yet possest all Things LXV The Rav'n of Birds proves Caterer and feasts Elijah so the Lion of Beasts Was Samsons Purveyor Quails to murm'ring Jews were Guests LXVI Midst Thorns environ'd Love sweet Roses findes Steep wayes lie plain tâ—inamor'd Mindes Love gilds all Chains surpriz'd not thrall'd w th Comfort binds LXVII Then threaten World a Goal shall bolt me in He 's free as Air who serves not Sin VVho 's gather'd in Himself His self is his own Inne LXVIâ—I Then let fierce Goths their strongest Chains prepare Grim Scythians me their Slave declare My Soul being free those Tyrants in the Face I 'l stare LXIX Man may confine the Bodie but the Minde Like Natures Miracles the VVinde And Dreams do's though secur'd a free enjoyment find LXX Rayes drawn in to'a point more vig'rous beam Joyes more to Saints engoal'd did stream Linnets their Cage to be a Grove Bars Boughs esteem LXXI Burnisht to Glory from Afflictions Flame From Prison to a Scepterâ—came The lov'd and fear'd ELIZA-Titles vail t' Her Name HAving reformed Religion established Peace reduced Coin to the just value delivered Scotland from the French revenged domestical Rebellion saved France from headlong