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A34424 Carmina vestalia being three epistles to Harmonia, Corinna, and Sophronia, &c. / by a person of quality ; to which are added several poems by another hand. Person of quality. 1700 (1700) Wing C603; ESTC R40306 8,444 16

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Carmina Vestalia BEING THREE EPISTLES TO HARMONIA CORINNA AND SOPHRONIA c. By a Person of Quality Ab Jove Principium Musae Jovis omnia plena Ille colet Terras ille mea carmina curae P. Verg. Palaemon To which are added several POEMS by another Hand The CONTENTS 1. To Harmonia Mrs. P son 2. To Corinna Mrs. B ny 3. To Sophronia Mrs. S mes 4. On the young Duke of Holstein which I saw at the Acadamy in Holland in the Year 1692. 5. To a young Gentleman who recommended Sir Philip Sidney's Pembrooks Arcadia to my reading 6. Thirsis and Corydon 7. To a young Lady who desired me to send her Pastor Fido. 8. Vpon a young Lady playing on the Espinette 9. Vpon a young Lady leaving England 10. Vpon the Death of Mrs. Anne P ch 11. The VISIT 12. Philomela 13. To make a Married Life happy 14. A Dream 15. The Miseries attending Mankind 16. To Himself 17. On a Lady Stabbing her self LONDON Printed and Sold by J. Nutt near Stationers-Hall 1700. To Cesaria and her Sister THE Design of these insuing Epistles was at once to show the Misfortune of the Poet and by three Illustrious Virgins the supreme Excellency of the Female Sex in the glorious and elevated Rank of which both Myrtilla and your self claim the highest respect Homage and Adoration that possibly can be paid to the Transcendent and ingageing Charmes of Beauty Innocence or Goodness Man in his first State in the delightful and exuberant Garden of Eden where as Milton expresses it He was on every side surrounded with enormous Bliss yet notwithstanding all those paridisaical Pleasures he injoy'd there was something still wanting to add too and compleat his Happiness Wherefore upon the mature and deliberate Thought of Heaven what should this remaining part of his Felicity be but the privation or absence of his afterwards So admired Eue and verily the best and greatest of Men in all Ages of the World since the Times of the original Pair have ever acknowledg'd as justly due the greatest difference to Your most beautious Sex For indeed let the smaller Poets discant never so much on the Praise of Mau or let the Orators by the Eloquence of the Chair magnifie him to the highest Degree and pitch they are able yet I will be bold to Affirm Woman in Beauty does as far surmount and exceed Man as the more pure and bright Regions above surpass these the more thick and gross here below Kings have laid their Crowns Princes their Scepters and Generals their Wreaths at the Feet of the fair Cleopatra Numa who instituted the Holy Fire had his Mountain Nymph and if I may be allow'd to say as much it being my aim only I assure you by Apollo and his silver Bow to manifest the extream force and power of Beauty Henry the Second of England had his admir'd Rosamond and from whose very Room out of which she went to Woodstock Bower and was there Poisoned by Queen Elinor I am now writing to you this Epistle yet Cleopatra the delight of Emperors and joy of Kings was inferiour to and had not envious Time the mortal Enemy to all Beauty's by placing these two lively Images of the Deity at so great a distance the one from the other put it out of the reach and height of compare Cleopatra surely might have borrow'd Charmes from the more beautiful Cesaria and Rosamond have supply'd with the clear shining Light and Fire of Myrtilla's Eyes those of the yet infinitely more feeble and languid Flames of her own nay even the Grecian Hellen were it possible for her to behold in these sweet Arcadian Groves the noble and exquisite Form of the incomparable Cesaria with the no less wonderful Myrtilla would easily confess and readily grant that the united Charmes of the whole fair Sex together was immensly visible in these two Virgin Sisters nay almost wholly consisted in Cesaria's and Myrtilla's Eyes Wherefore fair Nymphs may it please you to accept of and Patronise these few Poems and by the condescending to which request you will greatly oblige him who is with all imaginable Zeal Sincerity and Respect O immaculate Nymphs and fairest of all Women Your most Humble most Obedient and intirely Devoted Servant and Vassel Carmina Vestalia Being Three Epistles c. To Harmonia Mrs. P son O SACRED Image of divinest Love Emblem of those all-glorious Saints above Which i' th bright the purest Tracts of Heaven move As thine less melting were * Title of Venus Cyllenias Charms When Cupid slept within her tender Arms Playing about the Hive a Queen-Bee stung His Finger who complaining of the wrong She kist the Wound and prest him to her Breast Where the God gently lean'd his Head to rest Around her balmy Neck his Hands were laid Pure as the Thought of an unspotted Maid On whose soft Bosom lull'd in sweet delight He sooth'd his pain and vanquish'd all his fright Once * Another of Venus her Tiles Cytherea Queen of Beauty reign'd Tho' now Harmonia's Eyes the prize have gain'd Ador'd through all the wide Arcadian Plain Joy of the Nymphs delight of ev'ry Swain So exquisite her Form and Beauty is That she in poppy Groves dispences bliss Rejoyces all those Meads where e're she treads Makes Junk●les smile and Lupines bend their Heads Toying with Nymphs upon the flowry Green When we Harmonia view observe her Mein Her words all Honey and her Face serene The more we look the more we all admire So dangerous it is t' approach the Fire Of sweet Harmonia's Eyes more soft and bright Than all the glitt'ring Stars that shine by Night Directing Lovers in the pathless Grove Where they fulfil the Misteries of Love To you bless'd Nymph form'd with the utmost care Of the same make that brightest Angels are Whose Sacred Breast was never seen to move And tho' all Harmony untouch'd to love I who through Seas and Desart Lands must go Where none the pow'r of Love or Beauty know Unto rude Storms expos'd and Winds which be No less unconstant faithless as the Sea * Thalia about whom there is a mighty puther and stir is esteem'd by Hefiod as one of the Graces but by Homer as one of the Muses Thalia a Nymph of the inspir'd Train And Chief of them which on Parnassus reign Begs your Assistance o're the wat'ry Main That you the Queen of Heav'n wou'd move by Prayer To take this Nymyh into her sacred Care To Corinna Mrs. B ny O Thou Celestial Nymph within all bright Without thy form all-beautious to the sight Than your snowy Breasts not April Flow'rs are More lovely to the Eye or half so fair When they in all their glitt'ring Pomp appear Put on a May-days dress serenely smile As when * A Countrey Nymph Aletta did the Swain beguile Make glad those Banks those Shades where Lovers meet And words are melting as the Looks repeat The Pink the * Honey-suckle Wood-bind and the