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duty_n	david_n	psalm_n	sing_v	985	5	9.2598	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47404	Ben. Johnson's poems, elegies, paradoxes, and sonnets; Selections. 1700	King, Henry, 1592-1669.	1700 (1700)	Wing K497; ESTC R17230	44,767	174

her bred Hath in your way as yet adventured I cannot less in justice from her look Then that she henceforth Canonize your book A Rule to all her travellers and you The brave example from whose equal view Each knowing Reader may himself direct How he may go abroad to some effect And not for form what distance and what trust In those remoter parts observe he must How he with jealous people may converse Yet take no hurt himself by that commerce So when he shall imbark'd in dangers be Which wit and wary caution not foresee If he partake your valour and your brain He may perhaps come safely off again As you have done though not so richly fraught As this return hath to our Staple brought I know your modesty shuns vulgar praise And I have none to bring but onely raise This monument of Honour and of Love Which your long known deserts so far improve They leave me doubtfull in what style to end Whether more your admirer or your friend To my honoured Friend Mr. George Sandys IT is Sir a confest intrusion here That I before your labours do appear Which no loud Herald need that may proclaim Or seek acceptance but the Authors fame Much less that should this happy work commend Whose subject is its licence and doth send It to the world to be receiv'd and read Far as the glorious beams of truth are spread Nor let it be imagin'd that I look Onely with Customes eye upon your book Or in this service that 't was my intent T'exclude your person from your argument I shall profess much of the love I ow Doth from the root of our extraction grow To which though I can little contribute Yet with a naturall joy I must impute To our Tribes honou● what by you is done Worthy the title of a Prelates son And scarcely have two brothers farther borne 〈◊〉 Fathers name or with more value worne Their own then two of you whose pens and feet Have made the distant Points of Heav'n to meet He by exact discoveries of the * Sr. Edw● Sandys survay of religion i● the West West Your self by painful travels in the East Some more like you might pow'rfully confute Th'opposers of Priests marriage by the fruit And since t is known for all their streight vow'd life They like the sex in any style but wife Cause them to change their Cloyster for that State Which keeps men chaste by vowes legitimate ●or shame to father their relations Or under Nephews names disguise their sons This Child of yours born without spurious blot And fairly Midwiv'd as it was begot Doth so much of the Parents goodness wear You may be proud to own it for your Heir Whose choice acquits you from the common sin Of such who finish worse then they begin You mend upon your self and your last strain Does of your first the start in judgment gain Since what in curious travel was begun You here conclude in a devotion Where in delightful raptures we descry As in a Map Sions Chorography Laid out in so direct and smooth a line Men need not go about through Palestine Who seek Christ here will the streight Rode prefer As neerer much then by the Sepulchre For not a limb growes here but is a path Which in Gods City the blest Center hath And doth so sweetly on each passion strike The most fantastick taste will somewhat like To the unquiet soul Job still from hence Pleads in th' example of his patience ●ob The mortify'd may hear the wise King preach ●cl siast●s When his repentance made him fit to teach Nor shall the singing Sisters be content To chant at home the Act of Parliament ●re Act of ●arliament ●r publick ●●a●ks gi●ing on the ●●th of No●●mb set to ●●tune by 〈◊〉 Dod a tradesman of London at the end of his Psalmes which sto●●●om the Press Anno Domini 1620. Turn'd out of reason into rhime by one Free of his tr●de though not of Helicon Who did in his Poetick zeal contend Others edition by a worse to mend ●ere are choice Hymnes and Carolls for the glad Hymns Lament at Psalmes ●ith melancholy Dirges for the sad ●nd David as he could his skill transfer ●eaks like himself by an interpreter ●ur Muse rekindled hath the Prophets fire ●nd tun'd the strings of his neglected Lyre ●aking the Note and Duty so agree ●ey now become a perfect harmonie I must confess I have long wisht to see ●●e Psalmes reduc'd to this conformity ●ieving the songs of Sion should be sung 〈◊〉 phrase not diff'ring from a barbarous tongue 〈◊〉 ●f by custome warranted we may ●●g that to God we would be loth to say ●r be it from my purpose to upbraid ●eir honest meaning who first offer made ●at book in Meeter to compile which you ●●ve mended in the form and built a new ●●d it was well considering the time ●hich hardly could distinguish verse and rhime ●t now the language like the Church hath won ●●re lustre since the Reformation None can condemn the wish or labour spent Good matter in good words to represent Yet in this jealous age some such there be So without cause afraid of novelty They would not were it in their pow'r to choose An old ill practise for a better lose Men who a rustick plainnesse so affect They think God served best by their neglect Holding the cause would be profan'd by it Were they at charge of learning or of wit And therefore bluntly what comes next they brin● Course and unstudy'd stuffs for offering Which like th' old Tabernacles cov'ring are Made up of Badgers skins and of Goats haire But these are Paradoxes they must use Their sloth and bolder ignorance t' excuse Who would not laugh at one will naked go ' Cause in old hangings truth is pictur'd so Though plainness be reputed honours note They mantles use to beautify the coat So that a curious unaffected dress Addes much unto the bodies comeliness And wheresoere the subjects best the sence Is better'd by the speakers eloquence But Sir to you I shall no trophee raise From other mens detraction or disraise That Jewel never had inherent worth Which askt such foils as these to set it forth If any quarrel your attempt or style Forgive them their own folly they revile Since ' gainst themselves their factious envy shall Allow this work of yours Canonicall Nor may you fear the Poets common lot Read and commended and then quite forgot The brazen Mines and Marble Rocks shall wast When your foundation will unshaken last 'T is fames best pay that you your labours see By their immortal subject crowned be For nere was writer in oblivion hid Who firm'd his name on such a Pyramid The Woes of Esay VVOe to the worldly men whose covetous Ambition labours to joyn house to house Lay field to field till their inclosures edge The Plain girdling a countrey with one hedge That leave no place unbought no