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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00926	The affections of a pious soule, unto our Saviour-Christ Expressed in a mixt treatise of verse and prose. By Richard Flecknoe.	Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?	1640 (1640)	STC 11032; ESTC S115106	11,653	64

THE AFFECTIONS OF A PIOUS SOULE UNTO OUR Saviour-Christ Expressed in a mixt Treatise of Verse and Prose By Richard Flecknoe LONDON Printed by Iohn Raworth for William Brooke dwelling at the upper end of Holborne in Turpins Rents 1640. To the truly Noble and Vertuous Lady The Lady Nevill Brooke Madame BEhold my one weeks Meditation which is yours all the yeer so I presume it may not come unseasonable to you now though that dolorous time be past and a more joyfull one ensued Even so it is by the way of sorrow we must arive to joy which none in the next life can perfectly participate of with our Saviour Christ without part of his paine and sufferings in this Though not by Passion yet by Compassion at least So where the effect wants if the will want not it is sufficient You Madam are we know of more Eminency of Fortune then to feele the one but of such Eminent devotion as the other you are not without tender feeling of which makes me with more Confidence approach this to your fair hands who yeild to none in truly honouring you RICH FLECKNOI To The Towne-Reader TO tell thee true I am both sorrie and ashamed to have spent so many idle houres with thee and therefore to avoyd the expence of more have retired me from the Towne This then to thee is in part of acknowledgement of it as of purpose to amend and as this shall find acceptance so expect at convenient leisure to heare from me againe For my disposition if thou knowest it not thou mayest from this Ode of mine 1 Free as I was borne I 'll live So should everie wise man do Only fools they are that give Their freedoms to I know not who 2 If my weaknesse cannot save it But 't must go what e're it cost Some more strong than I shall have it Can make good what I have lost 3 Still some excellencie should be More i' th' Master than the Slave Which in others till I see None my libertie shall have 4 Nor is 't excellencie enough Time nor Chance can mar or make But 't must be more lasting stuffe Shall from me my freedome take 5 Wherefore beautie never shall On my libertie intrude And proud greatnesse least of all Cause 't is proud once to conclude 6 Those to whom I 'll give away That which none too deare can buy Shall be made of better clay And have better souls than I. For the Treatise it selfe by reason there are but too many of that depraved pallate to whom all seems insipid and disgustfull that is seasoned with any taste of pietie to occur to such infirme appetites I have served up their meat in little pieces thus cut up unto their hands which in greater perhaps they would not like so well To make it a more spreading work if I would I could have beat it thinner the matter was plyable enough unto the hammer but I like not works of that raritie defined by the Philosopher Sub magna quantitate substantia parva And hold in books as in coyne those of most value in least quantitie the best That I am so frequent in Latin citation those I am sure who are verst in the language will easily pardon it the rest I hope will not be difficile when they shall find in the reading the sense compleat without it If any demand why then I inserted it I answer works of this fabrick consolidate and built upon authority of holy Writ without frequent Texts of it for foundation and cement are worthily esteemed but weake and loose-written things Now that I chose the Latin to any other vulgar I presumed as a builder they would give me leave to provide my materials when I supposed them at best hand to be got But I detaine thee too long in the porch unlesse with Malchus thou thinkest much to have an eare in the passion Enter the work and if thou receivest but as much profit in reading as I entended thee in writing we shall both be happy in it Farewell R. F. THE AFFECTIONS OF A PIOUS SOUL TO OUR Saviour Christ UPon that day never to be forgotten nor ever without teares to be remembred which stands markt to all posteritie with the black note upon it of his death who is the life of all it chanced a pious soule from those remoter parts of Gallilee consining with the sea came up to Hierusalem in search of our Saviour Christ Where being arived shee found all in noyse and uprore most part with thronging haste flocking towards the Temple and whispering somewhat of strange and admirable as they past along the rest in the streets effused and waving up and downe with the tide of severall passions here one exulting with insolent joy another there as much depressed with griefe this silently weeping that lowdly jocund so as you would have imagined both joy and griefe had inhabited there together as their extremes they say do neere confine And if as Painters note the same lines serve to delineate both weeping and laughter too you had seene them both exprest unto the life in one piece there both yet set off with a deep shadow of admiration Whereupon she meeting with none of whom seasonably shee might demand the cause of such discrepant affection And easily conjecturing him she sought the exactest rule of order there no where to bee found where such disorder was retired her selfe to that part of the Citie where Mount Calvary like a swelling tumour arises on its side both after so long journey to repose her wearied limbs as also in silence and solitude of the place to recollect a while from noyse and clamour of the Citie multitude Here she was no sooner come but behold a strange and horrid spectacle met her amazed eye It was of three crosses erected on the Mount whereon Death it seemes had affixed in trophie of that daies victorie three persons crucified one of which hee whose Crosse stood in the middest more eminent than the rest as one of more regard was circumstanced with a lamentable and lamenting sort of women weake of sex yet of mightie griefe few in number but equall to many in affliction the woes of a thousand being in every one At sight of whom she straight drew towards the place led by compassion animating her on with this noble thought how she being a member of the universall body the griefe of everie one was in part her own Where being arived shee might perceive Mary the mother of Iesus Mary her sister of Cleophas and Mary Magdalen to be three of them with whom being long conjoyned in affection by holy sympathy shee soone became familiar with their griefe ere with their cause of grieving and wept to see them weep So long she cōtinued weeping as long ignorant why griefe having so stopt up the passages of their voyces they could not arive to words and her teares drawne such a watry curtaine before her eyes shee could not discerne who