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-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
place XL. One Word did th' All-surrounding Skie-roof frame With all its Starrie sparkling Flame Not all created Wisdom can spell out THY NAME XLI Supreme COMMANDER of the rowling Stars Thy LAW sets to their Progresse Bars Does Epicycle their obliquely gliding Cars XLII No Lines Poles Tropicks Zones can THEE enthrall First MOVER of the Sphearick Ball Above Beneath Without Within Beyond them All XLIII What could but thy All-potent HAND sustain Those Magazines of Hail Snow Rain Lest They should fall at once and deluge All again XLIV By Them THOU Plenty dost to Earth distill And Mans dependent Heart dost fill Windes are Van-Curriers Postilions to THY WILL XLV 'T is That the ominous Cause of Earth-quakes bindes In Subterranean Grotts That findes Strange Ruptures to enfranchise th' ever-strugling Winds XLVI Thy Sandy Cord do's proudest Surges bound And Seas unfathom'd Bottoms sound Thy semi-circling Bow i' th' Clouds thy Covenant crown'd XLVII Earths Hinges hang upon thy Fiat set Midst Air-surrounding Waters yet Stand fixt on That like Which what is so Firm so Great XLVIII Yet Earths fast Columns at thy Frown do quake And Oceans dreadful Horrors make Flints melt the Rocks do rowl the airie Mountains shake XLIX Yea HEAV'NS SELF trembled and the Center shook With thy amazing PRESENCE strook When POWER of Pow'rs on Sina's Mount His Station took L. Each Ens as linkt to PROVIDENCE thy Chain Is govern'd by thy FINGERS Rein THOU seeing us we GRACE we THEE do GLORY gain LI. WHO hast no Eyes to see nor Ears to hear Yetâ—eest â—eest and hear'st All-EYE All-EAR WHO no where art contain'd yet art THOU every where LII The optick Glass we of thy PRAESCIENCE may Call th' Ark where all Idaeas lay By which each Entitie THOU dost at first pourtray LIII Future Events are praeexistent here As if they lately acted were Then any new dissect Anatomy more clear LIV. Each where at once THOU totally art still The same unchang'd yet at thy Will THOU changest All Who though THOU art unmov'd dost fill LV. Things that are most remote In whose Forecast Contingencies do crowd so fast As if past Things were now and Things to come were past LVI Though Acts on Earth crosse to thy WILL are done Besides thy WILL yet acteth None Preceding and succeeding Will in THEE are One LVII Of whose vast MANNOR all the Earth's Demains Though Earth nor Air nor HEAV'N contains Yet each obscurer Grott thy OMNIPRESENCE gains LVIII Though nought accrues to Thy unbounded STATE From Spirits which THOU didst create Yet They thy GOODNES and thy LOVE shall still dilate LIX THOU who mad'st All mad'st neither Sin nor Death Mans Folly first gave them their Breath That did â—base whole Nature with it self beneath LX. But Sin to cure THOU in a Crib gav'st Man EMANUEL DIVINE humane WHO diffâ—ring Natures joyn'd Whose REIGN no Ages scan LXI And THOU O MEDIATOR THOU whose PRAISE Like Morning Dewes to first of Dayes Was sung by Heav'nly CHORISTERS in SERAPH LAYES LXII GOD by the HOLY â—HOST begat THEE LORD Flesh took by the ETERNAL WORD Whose Self-Eternal EMANATION None record LXIII As thy Eternal EMANATION's past So to ETERNITY shal't last In the beginning was the WORD shews still THOV wast LXIV There GOD in ESSENCE One in PERSONS Three Here NATURES two in One agree THOU sitting in the Midst of TRINAL-UNITY LXV At Heav'ns High Councel-Table dart'st such Rayes As strike ev'n CHERUBS with amaze Of which the School disputing All it nothing sayes LXVI Search we the Ages past so long ago None None this MYSTERY could show Till in that Maiden-Birth t was acted here below LXVII A Dove hatch't in that Nest THY SELF did build A LAMB that Thine own Flock does shield A Wintersp FLOW'R that fram'd from whence it sprung the Fieldâ— LXVIII The Iewish Shepherds all affrighted are When HERALDS THEE proclaim'd i' th' Air Yea Magi came t' adore led by a new-born Starre LXIX Yet though thus wond'rously begot thus born SPONSOR for us faln Race forlorn T'ingratiate us with GOD becam'st to Man a Scorn LXX The GRACE SELF th' Honour t' Evangelize The sacred FUNCTION as a Prize Thou took'st yet That not on till call'd in Aarons Guize LXXI Which GOD t' Apostolize did bring to passe By th' HOLY GHOSTS Descent at Face Of Jordans then blest Streams of Which John Witness was LXXII Thence led by th' HOLY GHOST to th' Wilderness There tempted by the Fiends addresse Him overcam'st by Scriptum est Hence our Release Then forth thou wentst LXXIII Thy SERMONS Oracles ACTS Wonders were THOSE Faith begot THESE OTHERS Fear By BOTH thus wrought in us to THEE our selves we rear LXXIV THOU gav'st the Lame swift Legs the Blinde clear Eyes THOU heal'dst all humane Maladies THOU mad'st the Dumb to speak THOU mad'st the Dead to rise LXXV And art to Dead Men LIFE to sick men HEALTH SIGHT to the Blinde to th' Needy WEALTH A PLEASURE without Pain a TREASURE without Stealth LXXVI LORD in not of this World Thy KINGDOM is Thy chos'n Apostles preacht thy Blisse That none of all thy Creatures might SALVATION misse LXXVII Abra'ham long dead before yet saw THY DAY In Isaack born and Vowes did pay Type first then Antitype and quicknest every way LXXVIII Thy Gospel WISDOMS Academie shew'd Thy Mercy JUSTICE calm'd Life view'd Is TEMPERANCE Thy Death the Flag of FORTITUDE LXXIX Thou Altar Sanctuary Sacrifice Priest Bread of Life do'st All suffice N'ere cloying Feast where Appetite by Food doth rise LXXX And SON of MAN dost Sin of Man forgive To be THY Victimes Hearts do strive Who liv'dst that Life might die and di'dst that Death might live LXXXI Yet dy'dst THOU not but that Spîrit quickned free THOU might'st Saints Paradised see Rejoyc'd Assurance give to Them rejoyc'd in THEE LXXXII And that from thence to Satans gloomy Shades Made Prison for the damned Hades Thou miâ—ht'st Thy CONQUâ—ST shew Thy GLORY that ne're fades LXXXIII Thence loos'd Deaths Chains from BODY up to rear IT That when RAIS'D STATE THOU dost inherit THOU might'st become to us an ever-quickning SPIRIT LXXXIV The FATHER to reveal gives to his SON THEE HOLY GHOST thus THREE in ONE Of All peculiar SANCTIFYER yet not Alone LXXXV The FATHERS Love and SONS Adoptions Seal The SPRING of Sanctitie The WEAL O' th' Church THY SELF in Light of fiery Tongues reveal LXXXVI O LIGHT unscann'd Of Wisdom every Glance Beams only from Thy COUNTENANCE Whose STORE when empty'd most It self most doth advance LXXXVII Whose Fruits are Gentleness Peace Love and Joy All crown'd with Blisse free'd from Annoy Which neither Time World Death Hell Devil can destroy Lâ—XXVIII THOU art a Feast fram'd of that fruitfull Fare Which Hungers wast not but repair A rich Perfume no Windes can winnow into Air LXXXIX A Light unseen yet in each Place dost shine A Sound no Art can e're define A pure Embrace that Times Assault can n'ere untwine XC Flouds of unebbing Joyes from THEE do rowl Which
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-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
to gild thy Way conspire 17. Love may Them lead by Verse whom Sermons fright Bring Them where Faith comes not into Heav'ns Light 18. O may our Numbers in sweet Musick flow Nor the least Harshnesse of Elisions know 19. Shade me ô LORD I seek not Virgils Tree Hence Springs prophane Glide Siloam by me 20. Trampling vain Labours with loose Wits defil'd The Hallow'd BRAIN brings forth a Spritely Childe 21. What 's Life a Vapour Beauty Ashes Gain An Idol Honour Bubble the World vain 22. Life flits away and Beauty wanes at full Gold cheats and Honour fades the World is dull 23. Life Pleasure's short and Pleasures Life is vain It knowes not highest Blisse GODS LOVE to gain 24. That Torch which flam'd so bright in Hero's Room Did light her lov'd Leander to his Tomb. 25. To Death a thousand Wayes to Life but one For Sin who groans not he for Sin shall groan 26. Arm'd Wrath perfidious Tyrants throwes from high They conquer Right Sin Them Th' AVENGER'S nigh 27. Sinners first Steps Sins Seed and Fruit avoid Many by neer Infection are destroy'd 28. Kill Vice i' th' Egge Iohn Ioseph Robelesse fly Peter Thou stay'st and stay'st but to deny 29 By Night and Day at Home and when Abroad Guilt stings the Soul and thereon layes its Load 30. Of Decalogue Creed Supper of the LORD Though Laws speak loud our Church hath scarce a Word 31. Hence Flocks are pin'd The JUDGE in Time will come Unthought of Neer to Guilt 's the AVENGERS Doom 32. Nor Pray'r nor Price nor Fraud nor Rage nor Art Can help Ah fear then Flames eternal Smart 33. Wet-cheekt how oft I 've moan'd to THEE my DEAR All Night awake alone ô Cure appear 34. Seest THOU and suff'rest Stop Sins Course Birth Let not that Hand bear Arms that sowes the Earth 35. LOVES Pow'r's infus'd from GOD a free-giv'n Grace THEOPHILA from Love takes Name and Race 36. Thou burn'st pierc't THEOPHIL with firie Dart If blessed Heat enflames thy vigorous Heart 37. The more Thou burn'st the more be Bellows still As thy Flames grow Let those Flames Others fill 38. Heat the Luke-warm to Those more hot give Fire Bless GOD Refresh with GRACE enflame Desire 39. The Poets Pharos be that sets forth sail While he steers sheet-fill'd with a holy Gale 40. Pure Wit 's the Sails quick Iudgement Oars Thou th' Star Pilot the Scribe Sea Vein the Ship Hymns are 41. I give Wits Tackling to thy guiding Hands Honour in giving Love in taking stands 42. Binde up what 's loose what 's rash new-mold refell What 's ill lame help smooth rough depress what swell 43. Thou slight'st Earths ratling Squibs with Sulphur fill'd Kingdoms such Nests are as the Birds do build 44. Above all Worldly Wealth thy Riches rise Thy Microcosm the Macrocosm out-vies 45. Thou lay'st out hoarded Gold the Poor to aid So with GODS Love thy Love to GOD's repaid 46. Thy sacred Skill imparted Reverence breeds Thy Worship's Practise and thy Words are Deeds 47. Fiends Hate Saints Prize whence Lyrick Strings sound clear Of spotless Faith pure Minde to th' HIGHEST dear 48. The Emerald-Grove envies thy golden Hair Whose Curls make GRACES blush Themselves more fair 49. As many Ioyes thy starry Beauties shed As Bees in Attis Gems in Skies are spred 50. The Diamond sparkleth Rage at thine Eye-Beams Whose chast Orbs brandish thence their sacred Gleams 51. The Coral Die is blankt at Lips so red And livid Grapes at rosie Cheeks hang head 52. I 'd gaze o' th' Lili'd Cheek and the Lips Rose But ô thy Cheek thy Lip surpasseth those 53. Grace pours sweet-flowing Words from charming Lips Sparkling 'bove Nectar which i' th' Crystal skips 54. Rare PSALTRESSE with Heav'n-drops inebriate What Sweets to Mouth and Ear dost Thou create 55. Sweet Violets Saffron Balm Myrrhe from Thee flowes Bdell Incense Cedar Cinn'amon Nard the Rose 56. The Rose Swains Spice Such Heav'n-dew'd Verse dost frame As sweet as Honey-comb as bright as Flame 57. While Combs and Flames divine from THEE are cast I 'm fed as fir'd Ev'n Flames do nurse my Taste 58. The Swan pines at thy Neck This Milkie Way Doth Steps begun to th' Holy LAMB display 59. There fals on thine Alp-Breasts a lasting Snow To which Snow's black Swans foul the Goose a Crow 60. The hoary Frost turns Durt vi'd with thy Hand And where thy Fooot does tread it prides the Land 61. On Lilies Milk on Violets Purple throw On Saffron Gold Scarlet o' th' Rose bestow 62. Wreaths worthy Thee fair Flora ne're can weave Nor can our highest Strains THEE higher heave 63. With all-bred Flowr's glitt'ring Buds THOU beam'st As if t' have cropt all Paradise THOU seem'st 64. Each Vertue 's in thy Life so pois'd so fine What 's first This That or T'other since All shine 65. Love to thy Soul deriv'd is from Above Where Honour reigns sparks Beauty triumphs Love 66. In Chymick Art Thou my Elixir be Convert to Gold the worthlesse Dross in me 67. Fire makes of Ashes Glass makes Metals shine This Fire my Body may to Spirit calcine 68. Enamour'd Ir'on does to the Magnet flie Yea Sparks in hardest Flints concealed lie 69. Nothing more hard than Stone more soft than Fire Yet Stones are melted by inflam'd Desire 70. Is 't so who 'd not dissolve in Flames of Love Be THOU the Grace Thou my Thoughts Loadstar prove 71. Mindes Gemme Eyes Apple Hearts intenser Flame THOU shew'dst the Way I 'll prosecute the Same 72. For GOD created bright in VIRTUES Train Weigh'st Right quell'st Passions o're Deeds dost reign 73. GOD is thy Life Law Virtue Glorie CHRIST HIM who leads Thee by Love Thou lov'st HIM high'st 74. CHRIST to endure the Cross what did THEE move The Pledge of Bitterness was Pledge of LOVE 75. IS GOD both Meat and Lover CHRIST thy Food What Banquet is This LOVER As Sweet as Good 76. CHRIST's Spice Thou say'st Light Triumph Praise to me Musick Wine Feast Fame Crown GOD All to Thee 77. LORD Thou art All in All Thou lost All 's nought How base seems muddy Earth where HEAV'N is sought 78. Earth's Exile Death the Gate my Home's Above My Staff's Hope Faith Companion Leader Love 79. Turn Indie into Iewels HEAV'N to Verse Nor Indie can thy Worth nor HEAV'N reherse 80. Let me Thee fear and love Fear Loves Heat blowes Fear is DEVOTIONS Fount whence LOVE o'reflowes 81. Thy Word 's my Rule I cleave to THEE my Vine LORD Thou art All to me I 'm wholly Thine 82. O hear my Pray'r my Suff'rings bear my Task Take off redresse my Wrongs grant what I ask 83. With Pray'r Desire Faith Zeal Hope Deed I call Laud seek love pray worship THEE All in All. 84. If I behold THEE I 'm all flaming Spice If not behold THEE I 'm congeal'd to Ice 85. Adde Flames to Flames that I may melt away Be I belov'd of THEE or else Deaths Prey 86. Sweet Seas light
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-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
please nor Sea nor Shore LXI His Pulse beats Cupids March and 's itching Vein Must vent loose Lines whence Souls are slain Which by augmenting Lust will but augment his Pain LXII Ah might too forward Sin be checkt by Fear But what may cure that Eye that Ear Which being blinde and deaf brags best to see hear LXIII Thy Iuno's but a Cloud She is not She Thy fond Esteem makes Her to be Her Basilisks double Eye-sight kills with viewing Thee LXIV She murthers Poysons thence Complexion 's found To murther Hearts O Joyes unsound From light-bred Daughters though they weigh ten thousand pound LXV Tell me not simpring Lais that thy Ray Can Bloud turn'd Ice unfreeze like May Whose spotted Face to Vertue does Soul spots betray LXVI Cerusse not Lilies there thy blushing Rose Its Tincture to Vermilion owes Curs'd be those civil Wars LOVES ROYALTY oppose LXVII Say not a noble Love to thee he bears While 's Hand writes Odes his Eye drops Tears That tim'rously he 's bold burns freezes dares and fears LXVIII Nor tell me Nymphadoro that Loves Throes For her robbe thy Repast Repose Thou peul'st not to repent but to bebrine thy Woes LXIX Woes worse then Waitings at the five Mens trade Worse than when sick through Sloughs to wade In Stormy Night hard jolted on a dull tir'd Jade LXX Shake off these Remoras would thee undo The VIRTUOUS loveli'est are GRACE woo What Jeweller for Glass will orient Pearl forgo LXXI The Soul that Beauteousnesse of GRACE exquires And to decline By-paths Desires Must inward bend the Rayes of his selected Fires LXXII Unmuffle ye dim Clouds and disinherit From black usurping Mysts his Spirit From Rocks that split vain Hopes to Heav'nly Comforts rear it LXXIII B'entrencht ere midnight Larums undergoe The Pennance of repentant Snow Which melting down will quench cleanse as it doth flow LXXIV Repentance Health is giv'n in bitter Pill Best Rectifier of the Will The Joy of Angels Love of GOD the Hate of Ill. LXXV Action 's the Life of Counsel Bathe thy Soul I' th' LAMBS red Laver in Dust roul Before Despair Hells Serjeant comes drink Sorrows Boul. LXXVI Ere th' icie Mantle of a wrinkled Skin Candies the Bristles of thy Chin Repent ere chap-faln Door shall let Deaths Terrors in LXXVII Never too late does true Repentance sue Yet late Repentance seldom 's true Who would not when they might may when they would It rue LXXVIII For Minutes of impertinent Delight Loose not ô loose not INFINITE Scorn to be Vassal to base Sin and hellish Spite LXXIX Why dost out-sin the Devil He ne're soil'd With Lust or Glutt'ny was ne're foil'd With Drink nere in the Net of Slothfulnesse entoyl'd LXXX I may perswade yet not prevail Sin-charms Bewitch him till Wrath cries to Arms Sins first Face smiles her second frowns her third alarms LXXXI Sinners are fondly blinde when they transgresse All Woes are than such Blindenesse lesse That Wretch most wretched is who sleights his Wretchedness LXXXII Presumption slayes her thousands too late then Foe to advise of Danger when Vengeance that dogs their Steps shal worry them in 's Den. LXXXIII Gallants Should Trophies Caesarize your Power Should Beauty Helenize your Flower Should Mammon Danaize ye with his golden Shower LXXXIV Yet when REVENGE shall inward Thunders send And Sodom-Storms on Souls descend Salvation scorn'd what rests but every tort'ring Fiend LXXXV That GOD refus'd who you from Depth of nought To Being nay Well-being brought Ingrate for Talents lent return your selves Sin-fraught LXXXVI Bad Great Ones are Great Bad Ones Foul Defect It is when Pow'r doth Shame protect Such will do what they will but what they ought neglect LXXXVII Virtue by Practise to her Pitch does soar But they who such a Course give ore Shall sadly wish for Time when Time shall be no more LXXXVIII Ye brittle Sheds of Clay resolve ye must Into Originary Dust When swift-heeld Death oretakes you Where 's then all your Trust LXXXIX Men in their Generations live by turns Their Light soon to its Socket burns Then to converse with Spirits they go None returns XC Tomb-pendant Scutcheons pompous Rags of State Those gorgeous Bubbles but relate The thing that was nere liv'd 'T is Goodness gildeth Fate XCI Grace outlasts marble Vaults That crowns Expense Brasse is shortliv'd to Innocence Times greedy Self shall one Day find its Praeter-tense XCII When Heav'ns that had their Deluge-dropsie shall Their burning Feaver have When All Is one Combustion when Sol seems a black burnt Ball XCIII When Nature 's laid asleep in her own Urn When what was drown'd at first shall burn Then Sinners into quenchless Flames Sins Mulct shall turn XCIV Nere shall a cooling Julep Such appease Whom Brimstone Torrents without Ease Enrage i' th dungeon of dark flames and burning Seas XCV In Center of the terrible Abysse Remotest from supernall Blisse That horrid hideous gloomy endlesse Dungeon is XCVI Fools who hath charm'd you Sue betimes Divorse From your vain World where power did force A Rape there let not Choice make Marriage which is worse XCVII Man is a World and more For this huge Masse Shrunk as a Scroul away shall passe Whil'st His pure Substance is as everlasting Glasse XCVIII The World is like the Basilisks fell eyes Whos 's first sight kills first seen it dies Man by a brave Disdain its poys'ning Venom flies XCIX Gay World who Thee adores thou great wilt make Pearl may he quaff and Pleasures take Of Sense but must descend into the Sulph'ry Lake C. Is Hell the Upshot thou to thine canst lend Crawl groveling Trifles to your End Vanish beneath my Scorn Goe World recant amend Provehimur Portu Terramque relinquimus illam Quae natum Gremio prima rigente tulit O felix Oculus Portum visurus Amantis Sit licet in Lacrymas naufragus ipse suas Dedignor Indigna In lenocitantes hujus Tempestatis Venerillas Juvenum Scrobes Animarum Voragines IN nova fert Animus mutatas dicere Formas Spectra salax quarum Mente Libido furit Ludicra depicti jam prodit Imago Theatri En hîc Scena vafris insidiosa Dolis Ergò mihi nunquam nisi Personata videnda es Si vis Personam sumere sume tuam Cui loquor Ipse tuâ deludor Imagine Vera Quid facies cùm vel fallere picta potes Picta Genas discincta Sinus nudata Papillas Albor Cerufsâ fit Minioque Rubor Vendere si non vis Carnem conclude Macellum Nec Lupa mentitâ decipe Carne Procos Nunc emere haud fas est quia Quadragesima Carnes Venales Mammas ergô Lanissa tege Affigis Maculas dum Signa loquacia Malis Mercandum Pretio Corpus adesse notas Quae primam extenuat Culpam rea saepè secundae est Saepiùs è primâ Labe secunda venit Plurima compositos conservat capsa Colores Sic Faciem tibi cum caetera vendis emis Suavia viscosis renuo libare Labellis Ne teneat Fucus
Rage seem Natures Consort tun'd by Love LVI VVee to their hoarse Laments lend listning Ears And sympathize with them in Tears Sadly remembring British Sions acted Fears LVII Then our sad Hearts are prickt whence spring forth Cries From those drain'd through the bruis'd Soul rise Faith-fumes by Heav'ns Fire drawn which drop through melting Eyes LVIII Cause hungry Swords devour'd Mans Flesh like Food And thirsty Spears were drunk with Blood LORD how thy Spouse turns mummy'd Earth her Gore a Floud LIX Edge-hill with Bones lookt white with Blood lookt red Maz'd at the Number of the Dead A Theam for Tears in unborn Eyes to be still shed LX. How many bound with Iron who did scape The Steel and Death commits a Rape On them in Jayls who Her defy'd in warlike Shape LXI Cross-biasnesse to Grace our Ruine spinn'd Harrow'd with Woes be HEAV'N our Friend Sodome 'gainst Nature We 'gainst Light of TRUTH have sinn'd LXII This draws Eye-tribute from Compunctions Den GRACE guard thy prostrate Suppliant then VVho am the Chief of Sinners and the Worst of Men LXIII My Guilt before thy MERCY-SEAT I lay For HIS sake save me who gave way To dye for Sinners Ah Sin kills HIM every Day LXIV Sin n'ere departs till humbled in deep Fears Embalm'd in Pray'rs and drown'd in Tears The fragrant Araby breathes no Perfume like Theirs LXV More fruitfull Those unwitnessed appear Gems are too cheap for every Tear Deep Sorrow from It-Self doth its high Comfort rear LXVI Salt Tears the pious Converts sweetest Sport To hopefull Joyes the entring Port Ye waft blest Mariners to Sions glorious Court LXVII But whether stray'st thou Grief Pearld Dew arraies As yet the Virgin-Meads whose Gaies Unbarb'd perk up to prank the curled Stream that plaies LXVIII By rushy-fringed Banks with purling Rill Meandring underneath the Hill Thus Stream-like glides our Life to Deaths broad Ocean still LXIX The pleasant Grove triumphs with blooming May While Melancholy scuds away The painted Quire on motly Banks sweet Notes display LXX Earths flow'r-wov'n Damask doth us gently woo On her embroyder'd Mantle to Repose where various Gems like Constellations shew LXXI Our selves here steal we from our selues by Qualms Of Pleasure rais'd from new-coyn'd Psalms When Skies are blew Earth green and Meadows flow with Balms LXXII We there on grassie tufted Tapistries In guiltlesse Shades by full-hair'd Trees Leaning unpillow'd Heads view Natures Ants Bees LXXIII Justly admiring more those agile Ants Than Castle-bearing Elephants Where Industrie epitomiz'd no Vigour wants LXXIV More than at Tusks of Bores we wonder at This Moths strange Teeth Legs of this Gnat Passe large-limm'd Gryphons Then on Bees we musing sat LXXV How Colonies Realms Hope they breed Proclaim Their King how Nectar-Courts they frame How they in waxen Cels record their Princes Fame LXXVI How Kings amidst their Bands in Armour shine And great Souls in small Breasts confine How under strictest Laws they keep up Discipline LXXVII How All agree while their King lives in one But dead the publike Faith 's o'rethrown Their State becomes a Spoil which was so plenteous grown LXXVIII Abstruser Depths here Aristotles Eye That Ipse of Philosophie Natures Professor purblinde was to search so high LXXIX Thinking which Some deem Idlenesse to me It seems Lifes Heav'n on Earth to be By Observation GOD is seen in all wee see LXXX Our Books are HEAV'N above us Aire and Sea Around Earth under Faith 's our Stay And Grace our Guide the Word our Light CHRIST our Way LXXXI Friend view that Rock and think from Rocks green Wound How thirst-expelling Streams did bound View Streams and think how Iordan did become dry Ground LXXXII View Seas think how Waves like Walls of Glass Stood fixt while Hebrew Troops did pass But clos'd the Pharian Host in one confused Mass. LXXXIII These Flow'rs we see to Day like Beauty brave At Ev'n will be shut up and have Next Week their Death then buried soon in Stalks their Grave LXXXIV Beautie 's a Flow'r Fame Puff high State a Gaze Pleasure a Dance and Gold a Blaze Greatnesse a Load These soon are lost in Times short Maze LXXXV As solemn Statesmen sleight meer childish toyl Framing Card-structures ANGELS smile And pitty so when Life strait flits Mans tearing Broyl LXXXVI Search Empires Dawn unwinde Times Ball again Unreel through Ages its snarl'd Skain Run back like Sol on Ahaz Diall See All 's vain LXXXVII This did I from THEOPHILA descry Not her fair-feather'd Speech could fly To Ground but my Ears Pitfall caught it instantly LXXXVIII Though her informing Voice be parted hence Tides of impressive Notions thence Flow soft as Shours on Balm sweet as Frankincense LXXXIX The Conqueror who wades in Bloud for Pow'r Cannot ensure th' ensuing Houre Death soon may his Ovations sweetest Nectar sowre XC All 's vain Th' Assyrian Lion Persian Bear Greek Leopard Roman Eagle-where Where is fam'd Troy that did so proudly domineer XCI Troy's gone yet Simois stayes O Fortunes Play That which was fixt is fled away And only what was ever-flitting still does stay XCII Vast Pyramids uprear'd t'interre the Dead Themselves like Men are sepulchred Ambitious Obelisks Ostents of Pride Dust wed XCIII HEAV'N sees the crumbling Fabrick of Earths Ball That Dust is Mans Original To HIM All Nature is as wither'd Leaves that fall XCIV Terrestrials transient are Kings fight for Clods HEAV'NS HEIRE is mightier PRINCE by odds Ev'n All is His and He is CHRISTS CHRIST is GODS XCV Thoughts dwell on This. Let 's be our own Deaths-Head The glorious Martyr lives though dead Sweet Rose in his own fadelesse Leaves enveloped XCVI HEAV'N was his Watch whose starrie Circles winde All Ages up the Hand that sign'd Those Figures guides them World thy Clocks are false blinde XCVII Time in ETERNITIES immense Book is But as a short Parenthesis Mans Life a point GODS Day is never-setting Bliss XCVIII Could Man summe up all Times so as if there A Moment not remaning were Yet all those close-throng'd Figures seem but Cyphers here XCIX Could Calculators multiply times Glass To Myriads more of Yeers alas Those Sands to This DURATION as a Minute passe C. Such mental Buds we from each Object take And for CHRISTS Spouse of Them we make Spiritual Wreaths nor do we Her own Words forsake CI. Arise ô North and thou ô South-winde blow Let Scent of Flow'rs and Spices flow That the BELOVED may into his Garden goe CII Whose Beauty Flow'rs whose Height made lofty Trees Whose Permanence made Time These Pay Tribute by Returns to HIM as Springs to Seas CIII This steals our Soul from her thick Loom t' aspire To Canzons tin'd with Enthean Fire Taking high Wing to soar up to the Angel-Quire CIV By such like Speculations would we stie To th' SUN of Righteousnesse though I A Star am lesse than least of all the Galaxie CV The Burden to each Hymn is This. Thy Wayes LORD are inscrutable All Dayes All Tongues are