feel the benefit and receive the comfort of them And questionlesse that peremptory promise Ioh. 20. 23. Quorumcunque peccata remiseritis whosoever sins ye remit they are remitted doe signifie much more then the bare complement of an indifferent usage and Ceremony The same day she departed which was Ianuary 26. about three a clock in the afternoon she sent for me four severall times to go to prayers with her thrice in the morning and once in the afternoon at which last time all her children one onely excepted which was not in Town were present and joyned in prayers together with us Soon after that I was called to her again to perform my last Ministeriall Office the recommendation of her soul into the hands of Almighty God and then indeed and not before her senses began to fail her and within few minutes after in much peace and sweetnesse she concluded her last breath I doe here willingly passe over many other most remarkable carriages of hers during the time of her sickness as her most Christian Charity her constant Devotion her stupendious Silence Patience even to a miracle the amazement of beholders Her perfect Weanednesse from the world her continuall thoughts and discourses of the joyes and happinesse of heaven and indeed in this latter God Almighty was exceeding gracious to her for she would often wish that if it might stand with the good will and pleasure of God as he dealt with his servant Moses and gave him a little before his death a sight and view of the land of promise so he would also some time before her departure hence vouchsafe her some sensible tastes and feelings of the joyes and happinesse of heaven And truly in this she had her request granted and God was in most signal manner as good to her as her desires for her soul was full of the glory of God and of the joyes and happinesse of heaven and she was in a manner caught up into Paradise and saw in her spirit strange sights and heard words of joy and peace not to be uttered and did sensibly feel new comforts every day breaking in fresh and more upon her soul and lived to see all her former fears vanished and doubts satisfied and objections answered and scruples resolved and hopes evidenced and in a word her whole mind most sweetly composed and settled into a heavenly posture of pious confidence and assurance so that now she had nothing left to do but to resolve with holy David Psal 4. 8. To lay her down in peace for the Lord had graciously made her to dwell in safety Accordingly a few dayes before her death she was pleased to utter her self to me in these or I am sure such like words Oh Sir what a gracious God have I how rich in his mercees towards me how favourable in his corrections of me The thing which I so greatly feared a painfull torturing death he has turned into ease and comfort And my wordly cares and thoughtfulnesse for the provision of my children he has also in great measure taken off of my hand And now what doe I lingring and tarrying here any longer all my work is done and the world has no further need of me why may I not forthwith goe to my God Is it not much better for me to be dissolved and to be with Christ These and such like heavenly sayings were her frequent and usuall discourses with me so that it was an exceeding joy and comfort to me when at any time she did send for me neither doe I know that I ever went to her and did not learn somewhat remarkable from her And indeed every speech and posture of hers was a most fruitfull Sermon to all those who had the happiness to attend about her to minister unto her did either hear the one or observe the other the one a visible Sermon of patience the other an audible Sermon of devotion But I see I am now entred into a large Field and may say with Elihu in Iob chap. 32. 18. I am full of matter and the spirit within me constraineth me And indeed I can very hardly wind my self out but I must have regard to my promise of brevity Take all therefore which I shall adde further in these few words and believe it they are not the words of vanity or flattery but of truth and soberness uttered in the fear presence of God I have in my time been with severall dying persons have seen their piety observed their patience taken speciall notice of their whole carriage and behaviour yet never in all my life did I see such an uniform Samplar of piety nor a whiter Soul return to its maker One thing was very notable and I beseech God to make us truly thankfull to him for it as being a most signall instance and evidence of his goodnesse to her and which indeed considering the condition of her disease may justly deserve the name of a miraculous mercy It was this Though her sicknesse as I said before was very painfull and grievous yet it pleased God for some dayes before her death to deliver her from any sense of pain at all so that she had her thoughts very free and at liberty and made a most Christian use and advantage of that freedome Yea when we and her self too by reason of the little rest which she took greatly feared that her sicknesse might at last grow into some kind of distemper It pleased Almighty God to secure her from that also so that she enjoyed her understanding and memory and all her senses very quick and perfect to the last even so long as she had any occasion or need to make use of them And thus have I at length given you the whole world in a Map a brief account and history of the holy Life and Death of our most excellent Lady See for all the world as she lived so she died she lived in peace and she died in peace her whole life here was as a man would say one continued act of piety and good works and as for her death that in like manner was a conclusion of most heavenly sweetnesse and comfort The Lord in mercy give us grace who survive so to frame our lives according to the example of her piety that when it shall come to our turns to die we also may share in like feelings of comfort All the farther application which I shall now make hereof is to you that are here present and particularly to those who were her dearest relations Her right Noble and Honourable Children most earnestly beseeching them to consider and call often to mind these pious Parents of theirs to endeavour to tread in their steps and to follow the example of their piety and not give themselves the liberty of committing those sins which they were so carefull to prevent or lightly neglect any of those wholsome customes practises whither in their private Closets or Families which they made
And indeed for her own part she evermore made a most Christian emprove of these providentiall intermixtures and would ever and anon be chiding the sudden ebullition motion of an angry passion in her with holy Iob's calm and pious reply ch 2. 10. What shall I receive good at the hand of the Lord and shall I not receive evil shall I take his judgements unkindly and not much rather his mercies thankfully A most exact and punctuall observer she was evermore of Family duties and wholsome Orders and though in all other respects a most gracious and obliging Lady to her Servants a pregnant proof and testimony whereof she hath left behind her to the view of the world in her last will and Testament yet herein if any of her Servants made a transgression and she perceived them at any time absent from Prayers unlesse upon the just excuse of necessary businesse they were sure to have a severe and sharp reproof from her And she would often tell me that she never pleased her self in her Family duties nor thought she did serve God acceptably and as was fit unlesse she had all her Family about her just of Ioshuah's pious resolution for all the world chap. 24. 15. As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. I have hitherto given you a character of this most excellent Ladies life during the time of her health I shall come now to her last act of all her most Christian carriage and deportment during the whole time of her sicknesse and here I shall report nothing more then what mine own eyes and ears were observers and witnesses of for as I had the honour to attend her for many years together in the time of her health So in the whole time of her sicknesse I had the happinesse to minister to her spirituall occasions in the proper way and Office of my Function And so as I had the fittest opportunity of any other I did in like manner make it my businesse to take as exact an observation of her as I could It pleased God indeed who best knowes what is good for his Children to visit her with a long and tedious sicknesse and that too sharpned with many bitter accents of pain and torment for severall moneths together But blessed be his holy name for it her patience all that whole while continued equall and no whit inferiour to her pain so that Standers by could more easily guesse out the pains and torments which she must needs lie under by a consideration of the kind and nature of her disease then by any either repining language or impatient complaints from her own mouth One time indeed and never but that once when I was with her I found her labouring under some inward conflicts and thoughtfulnesse touching her spirituall state and condition but those such as right well became the pious hope and humility of a Christian whereupon when I desired her that if any particular scruple did trouble her thoughts and lay heavy upon her spirit she would please to ease her mind of it and let me know it that I might the better fit and order my applications to her To which she returned me this answer that she had been very faithfull in her examination of her conscience and had desired God to assist and direct her in that search and yet could not find out any one particular sin which did afflict her spirit more then other But however confessed herself a great sinner before God What an heavenly speech was here not one partcular sin more then other and yet a great sinner just in St. Paul's words for all the world 1 Cor. 4. 4. I know nothing by my self yet am I not hereby justified She was it seems very desirous to take as much shame and guilt to herself as was possible that so she might leave the more glory for the free grace and pardon of God And accordingly still as shee cast down one eye upon sin at any time she was ever carefull to keep the other firmly and stedfastly fixt upon her Saviour the infinite price of his Bloud the alsufficient merit of his Satisfaction neither could any either clamours of sin or temptations of Satan or aggravations and conscience of unworthinesse in her selfe draw her at any time out of this strong hold of Faith or pluck her out of the armes of her Saviour or force her to let go her hold of the horns of this Altar resolving it seems with holy Iob chap. 13. 15. Yea though he slay me yet will I trust in him And would very often repeat over to her self the Apostles melancholly Question Rom. 7. 24. But then with his comfortable resolution annexed to it O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death I thank God through Iesus Christ our Lord. And this was the right complexion and constitution of her piety an equall mixture and temperament of fear and hope of humility and confidence as her hope was evermore a fearing hope so was also her fear alwayes a believing hoping fear She carried too deep a sense of sin in her conscience to be proud of any virtue or worthinesse of her own and was alwayes even under her greatest conflicts and agonies too good a Christian to despair of pardon Toward the latter end of her sicknesse for the better setling and strengthning of her Faith She twice received that heavenly viaticum the blessed Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ and both times with marvellous expressions and significations of devotion and reverence and particularly the first time which was some while before her decumbency when though her strength was very much decayed and her pain at the same time very fierce and sharp upon her yet would She not otherwise be perswaded but would needs receive upon her knees resolving as she told me so long as God lent her the use of her knees to use them in that solemn service as a testimony of her unfeigned humility and reverence of the majesty and dreadfulnesse of those sacred mysteries During the time of her decumbency though she had constantly sent for me before yet then she more frequently repeated her messages to me She now saw and felt the time of her departure drawing nigh and so was very loth and unwilling to lose any time but be continually dressing and fitting her self for her change Three dayes before her departure She desired and accordingly received the Churches last comfort and blessing the comfort of absolution which She took with very great thankfulnesse and satisfaction and I could sensibly perceive in her a present return of most heavenly comfort and perfect quietnesse of mind thereupon This I adde the rather for the example and practice of others These great Offices of holy Church have doubtlesse more virtue and efficacy in them then ordinary apprehensions do rate them at and though living we doe contemn them and set light by them yet dying people do
Instar nihili even as nothing just as a point to the circumference of the widest circle and not so much as the smallest drop to the main Ocean Holy Iobs resemblance of our lives to a flower Chap. 14. 2. is elegant and very expressive which in the morning is green and groweth up but in the evening is cut down dryed up and withered see betwixt green and withered flourishing and fading growing up and cut down what a small space and distance of time there is but the respite of a day at most the space of a few hours at longest just such is the brevity and fadingnesse of our lives here Our growing up in the morning of our childhood our flourishing in the high noon of our mans estate and then soon after it growes to be evening with us and we begin to fall into our declensions and first our senses begin to droop next our memories to fail next our strength to decay and grow weak after that our heat to retire inward and thus we continue dying by little and little untill at length death comes with his Sickle and cuts down the flower and we die for good and all Oh that men would think seriously on these things doubtlesse it must needs make them more frugall of their time and mightily work them off of the world and make them lesse delighted and enamoured with this present life and daily more longing and desirous and thirsting after heaven where they shall be sure to have a longer time of stay and continuance and shall ever be with the Lord and not be thus hastily hurried and posted away as here they are When holy David would fain have obteined favour and respite from God Almighty he useth this very argument to him Psal 89. 47. Oh remember how short my time is In like manner were I to perswade any man unto piety and devotion unto abstinence and mortification unto a contempt of the world and a love and desire of heaven I should repeat over the same words unto him Oh man remember how short thy time is how few dayes thou hast to live in the world how little time to lay in thy provision and to doe thy work and businesse of Eternity oh then sin away none idle away none and if it were possible loose none of this precious time thou seest it is but short at most but a little in all and thou canst full ill spare any of it for sin and vanity which when best emproved is but just enough if indeed enough for thy work Herodotus relates a story of one Mycerinus King of Egypt who being told by the Oracle that he should live but twelve years longer used this device with himself he sits up all night and spends that whole time in feasting and jollity and thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sayes the story turning as it were his nights into dayes thought by this means he had doubled the number of his years and so cheated the Oracle Now the device of this heathen King I shall not commend unto you at this time especially not in this way and manner of practice but yet why may we not by the way borrow a Iewell of this Egyptian and emprove his policy into an item of seasonable instruction and admonition And howbeit I cannot premptorily tell any of you as the Oracle did him that yet within twelve years and ye shall all die yet this I think I may say how soon God knows but not long hence we our selves by experience and the example of others may probably conclude and know that it will be necessary for us to die and give over living any longer Oh then let us up and to work let us lay out providently and bestir our selves as speedily as may be to double the number of our dayes even by turning our nights into dayes Not in the manner of that heathen King in practises of excesse and intemperance but in exercises altogether of piety and devotion turning our nights of vanity into dayes of sobriety our nights of intemperance into dayes of mortification our nights of slumber and idlenesse into dayes of vigilance and diligence take it in the Apostles words Rom. 13. 11. Knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep let us cast off the works of darknesse and let us put on the armour of light Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkennesse not in chambering and wantonnesse not in strife and envying But putting on the Lord Iesus Christ putting on his justifying righteousnesse by application of faith and putting on his sanctifying righteousnesse by imitation of practise and so doing we shall make a long life of a short As holy Hierom reports of one Nebridius a young man ad Salvinam Epist 9. In brevi aetate tempora multa complevit He continued but a little while here but yet lived a long life meaning as I suppose that the pietie of his life did farre surpasse and exceed the paucitie and tendernesse of his years Let this also suffice for the second importance of this dutie of numbring our daies implying Meditationem brevitatis an often meditation of the shortnesse and brevity of our lives A second importance is recogitatio incertitudinis a frequent recogitation of the inconstancy and uncertainty of our beings here to day and gone to morrow and what a next hour may bring forth or do hang over our heads every moment we cannot tell God knows The utmost that any present comfort or enjoyment can afford us is onely a probability of hope for to be sure certainty it affords none and we see the fairest hopes do many times miscarry in their issues not unlike promising blossomes either the frost nips them or the wind blows them down ere they can come to ripen into fruit and maturity Speras pecuniam sayes holy Augustine Enar. in Psal 3. 8. incertum est an proveniat speras filios incertum est an nascantur nati sunt incertum est an vivant vivunt incertum est an proficiant quocunque te verteris incerta sunt omnia Doest thou hope to be rich it is uncertain whether thou shalt grow to be so doest thou expect children it is uncertain whether they will be born are they born it is uncertain whether they will live do they live it is uncertain whether they will prove dutifull and towardly whether soever thou turnest thy self all things are uncertain Holy David doubtlesse in the midst of his great honour and prosperity thought himself very secure and certain for so if you will believe him he tells us Psal 30. 6. I said in my prosperity I shall never be removed but yet you see at what uncertainties he then stood and how soon the scene was changed with him and presently a new face of things appeared upon the stage vers 7. thou didst hide thy face from me and I was troubled Oh! that this meditation were deeply engraven on all our hearts and
of her progenitours was that learned and prudent Knight Sr. Richard Morisin a person whose great judgement and experience in the Civil affairs and matters of State and Government had gained him severall times the Honourable Employment of Ambassadour unto forreign Kingdomes and Princes which also he as faithfully discharged with as much honour and renown Her immediate Father was that most accomplished and generous person Sr. Charles Morisin One whose singular affability and hospitality made him generally beloved of his neighbours so that he was commonly called the Darling of his Countrey and wanted nothing but the opportunity of a longer life to have equalled him in honour to any of his predecessours This worthy person joyning himself afterward in mariage to the most virtuous and delicate Lady the Lady Mary Hicks second Daughter to the Lord Viscount Cambden was by her blest with the promises of a fair and goodly issue But so it pleased God all of them this onely excepted proved but tender Buds plucked off and gathered by death long before they came to ripen into maturity So that now they had but one onely child remaining and that a Daughter and yet could they not complain for want of children for in her alone they had the worth and value and I am sure the comfort and happinesse of many children Am not I more worth to thee then ten sons said Elkanah you know to his Wife Hannah 1 Sam. 1. 8. and if ever Parents might have said so of one single child They might of Her And now having Her onely remaining you cannot but imagine Her to be a very precious Iewell accordingly their great care was to have her well set with all the advantages of Honour and Lustre that could be This after she was grown up to an age and stature fit and proper for Mariage and onwards of her seaventeenth year made them greatly solicitous and inquisitive after a proper match for her and at last after much search and enquiry and refusalls of many by a most wise and excellent choice they happily found out one who if the whole Kingdome afforded any was indeed a fit and proper Husband for her And He a person not to be named without a preface of honour reverence The truly Noble Honourable Arthur Lord Capell late Baron of Hadham One who had he been cast upon better conditioned times might happily have lived much longer but hardly have either lived or died more honourably but the times were too base unworthie for his generous soul he could not endure to behold his Master a Looser and himself come off Saver nor hug his private securitie in the choice of an inglorious retirement when he beheld the King his Master exposed to the mercilesse fury of an armed multitude He saw the Arke and Israel and Iudah now in Tents and his pious soul did yearn in him to be after them and to share like fortunes with them And here indeed though otherwise the most affectionate Husband of any other yet he gave the world plainly to see that his zeal and love to his God and Countrey was far superiour to his affections towards his wife A wife indeed is ultimum relinquendum the last temporal comfort that is to be forsaken upon earth and you know how the command runs to this purpose Gen. 2. 24. Relinquet patrem matrem He shall leave father and mother and so also by like proportion brother and sister son and daughter friends and acquaintance agglutinabitur uxort and shall leave to his wife Howbeit when the dispute comes once to happen betwixt our zeal to the truth and cause of God and our affections towards a wife then in such a case Linquenda domus tellus placens uxor all must be forsaken yea a wife together with the rest and we must cleave unto the truth It is a notable saying of his own to this purpose which you have in his 102. observation and which gives you in little the true pourtraicture of his noble spirit I will obey my parents honour my superiours love my equals respect my inferiours Wife and children shall be dearer unto me then my self but none of all these nay nor all these shall be prized by me like truth These were those pious principles which first engaged him in our late unhappy warres Not the ambitious aims of honour and preferment not any covetous designs of gain and profit to enlarge and encrease his estate by this means oh no! his noble and generous soul was farre above these low and little projects as he was clear of it himself so he hated nothing with a more perfect hatred then he did a degenerous and mercenary Loyalty Accordingly he freely and willingly with the first offered himself to the help of the Lord against the mighty and it was the piety and sincerity of his conscience the justice and equity of the cause he engaged in which drew him into the battel and put the first sword into his hands and which though indeed in the end it proved fatal to his life here yet not so to his honour for by it he has gained a good report and his name is as ointment poured forth and smells sweet and fragrant to this very day and people do speak honourably of him and the eyes which never saw him do pay homage to his memory and he is blessed in the gates So that by the invincible courage and fortitude the active zeal and resolution of this incomparable Heroe the very name of Capell is become an entailed badge and Title of Honour and Loyalty upon that numerous family Unto this blessed Martyr was our most excellent Lady here the fruitfull mother of a plentifull issue a good part whereof are to this day happily living and surviving but some are not During the whole time of his life she was his most loving faithfull and obedient wife and when providence had made her his widow she then openly declared and manifested to the world how dearly she loved his person by her signal faithfulnesse to his commands I mean her exceeding care and tendernesse of his children those dear remains and pledges of his conjugal love And here her first and greatest care of all was for their education to water these tender plants with wholesome precepts and examples and to infuse early principles of piety and Religion into their minds She well knew of what great importance it is what liquour the vessel is first seasoned with neither could she think it the onely part and office of a mother to bring forth children to her husband Nay but according to the Apostles command Eph. 6. 4. to bring them up also in the nurture and admonition of the Lord And in this indeed she was most exact and punctual and we live to see the happy fruits and effects thereof now in their riper years For my own part I have had the honour to live for these eight years last past in that noble
such a Conscienc to observe Oh consider Right Honourable that you are born of pious Parents Your Father dy'd a Blessed Martyr and your Mother lived a Precious Saint upon earth and you have great reason to believe that they doe now both of them shine glorious Saints in heaven Think now I beseech you what a lessening of their happinesse will it be there to understand and know that you their dear and naturall Relations which came out of their own bodies Children of so many Prayers and Teares of so much care and tendernesse as you have ever been to them That you I say after their deaths should in the least measure prevaricate and degenerate from the example of their piety They were pleasant Vines oh be not you Thornes and Thistles They were active Christians oh be not you barren and unnfruitfull Know that they that are born of pious Parents as you all are are born under the greatest possible obligations unto piety that may be The bare example of their pious Parents which all have not forcibly provoking and engaging them in like pious practises Would you shine glorious Saints in heaven as they now doe why then live Religious Saints upon earth as they here did and then indeed you will fare much the better for their Piety's sake for every pious Parent doth hoard and treasure up a stock of blessings for his Children but then it is upon a condition of like piety in them and not oherwise Remember what the Prophet Ezekiel sayes to this purpose and consider it and lay it seriously to heart Chapt. 18. 20. The righteousnesse of the righteous shall be upon him and the wickednesse of the wicked shall be upon him The soul that sinnes it shall die Now to God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost be all possible Honour and Glory and Praise now and for evermore Amen Amen 2 Chron. 9. 5 6. And she said to the King it was a true report which I heard in mine own Land of thine Acts and of thy wisdome Howbeit I believed not their words until I came and mine eyes had seen it and behold the one half of the greatnesse of thy wisdome was not told me for thou excellest the fame that I heard FINIS AN ELEGIE Upon the much lamented Death of the Right Honourable and most excellent Lady The Lady ELIZABETH CAPELL DOWAGER ANd was 't thou not afraid bold Death to touch That Heav'n-inspired Saint who had none such But thou thy hands had'st first i' th' martyr'd bloud Of her Dear Lord imbru'd and so grews't proud To snatch of his what else did here remain Though yet her Death prov'd more thy loss then gain To do her mischief thou did'st make her Saint And much against thy will did'st her acquaint With Angels company where now she sets And all her Earthen comforts here forgets At least not wants them Rare felicity Earth's mud exchang'd for Heav'ns Eternity There now she sits and Queen's it pitying much Our sorry Comforts here which we with such Hard pains do gather up as sometimes were Th' Israelites forc'd to wander here and there To pick up Manna in the Wilderness And having got them call them Happiness Hydropick thirstie Happiness no doubt So far from slaking that th' encrease our drought But our blest Saint is got above these toyes And scorns them now feasting on heav'nly Joyes And would not for a World her fingers more Soil with those dirty Comforts we adore Now Riches Honours Friends and Children are To her Rich Soul but so much paltry ware Strong Mans'ons Goodly Pallaces Buildings fair Seem now to her but Castles in the air And here they seem'd so too these little things Were much below her Soul the lofty wings Of her desires soar'd higher all her Bliss And Joy was Heaven which rather then she 'd miss She was resolv'd to dye and so she did But not as we low Souls whose Life is hid And buried in the Rubbish of the Earth Rather she did depart t' enjoy the mirth And melodie of Angels withdrew from hence To th' end she might a glorious Saint commence She willingly uncas'd her Soul that so She might with swifter pace to Heaven goe Her flesh was her incumbrance which to take Away from her did but her freedome make Her Soul was kept close Pris'ner 'till by Thee T' was happily releas'd and so made free And whither did it flie I trow canst ' tell If not I 'le tell thee now 'T is gone to dwell With blessed Saints and Angels there to sing Joynt-praises with them to her Heav'nly King Thus wert thou fool'd weak Death for what by Thee Was meant a mischief prov'd a Courtesie Heavens blest her here with Comforts to her mind But nothing like to what she now does find Oh that we felt what she feels then would we Chuse to die too and bear her Company But stay my Friends Heaven and Happiness Are costly Pennyworths If you sweat less For them then for the world you 'l surely miss Of what she now enjoyes Eternal Bliss She was not born a Saint no more then we No priviledge did her Nativity Give her 'bove us they were her Piety Her virtuous Life her rare Humility Her flaming Zeal her sober Gravity Her yearning Bowels melting Charity Her Faith her Hope her Love her Patience Her Meekness Temp'rance Her obedience To ev'ry Providence not once replying Or yet Oh t is a sore one vainly crying These made her Saint these gain'd her Heaven too And would gain't us as well would we live so Compound of Goodness who by far hadst more Graces in thee then we have names in store What Virtue shall we call thee we can't tell Wh'ther this or that for Thou wert all as well Thine own sole Rival For alas what were Failings in thee they our Perfections are And doubtless we should thy Divinity Have fondly worship'd had'st not chose to dye And so remov'd that doubt But though we call Thee not a breathing Angel yet we shall Strict Votaries resort unto thy shrine And pay Thee Honours next unto Divine Methinks I see now that Majestick Face That Garb that Presence mixt with comely grace Those frowns those looks of hers commanding Eye Heart-breaking softness cutting Clemency Thus chiding Sin Bold Sinners how dare ye I looking on act thus unhandsomely How dares the sawcy darkness of the Night Out-face the presence of the noon-day light Thus was she fear'd and lov'd alike whilst they Who wish't the Sin full well yet chose t' obey And cease from sin though but in Reverence To her grave Aspects charming Influence Thus have I seen erewhiles in winter nights The wanton Stars sporting with twinckling Lights And dancing at the absence of the Sun But that no sooner 'bove the Horizon 'Gan to peep forth but they in trembling wise Strait hid their faces and shut close their Eyes Astonish't at that presence Thus we 're told By th' tell-troth Records of Historians old