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
how do'st sleighted stand IX Whose World 's a frantick Sea more crosse Windes fly Than Sailers Compasse knows SAINTS ply Their Sails through airy Waves anchor still on HIGH X. 'T is HOLINES lands there where None distasted Rave with Guilts Dread nor with Rage wasted Nor Beauty-dazled Eyes with Femal Wantons blasted XI No childish Toyes no boyling Youths wilde Thirst No ripe Ambition no accurst Old griping Avarice no doting Sloth there 's nurst XII No Glutt'nies Maw-worm nor the Itch of Lust No Tympanie of Pride nor Rust Of Envie no Wraths Spleen nor Obdurations Crust XIII No Canker of Self-Love nor Cramp of Cares No Schism-Vertigo nor night-Mares Of inward Stings affright here lurk no penal Snares XIV Hence Earth a dim Spot showes where Mortals toil For shot-bruis'd Mud-walls childish broil For pot-gun-cracks 'gainst Ant-hill-works ô what a Coil XV. Where Glutt'ny is full gorg'd where Lust still spawns Where Wrath takes Blood and Avarice pawns Where Envy frets Pride struts and dull Remisness yawns XVI Where Mars th' Ascendant's How Realms shatter'd lie With scatter'd Courts beneath mine Eye Which shew like atoms chac'd by Windes Inconstancie XVII Here th' Vniverse in NATURES Frame doth stand Upheld by TRUTH and WISDOMS Hand ZanzuÌ„mims shew from hence as Dwarfs on Pigmy land XVIII How vile's the World Fancie keep up thy Wings Ruffled in Bussle of low Things Toss'd in the common Throng then acquiesce 'bove Kings XIX Thus Thou being rapt and struck with Enthean Fire In SKIES Star-chamber strike thy Lyre Proud Rome not all thy Caesars could thus high aspire XX. Mans spirit'ual State enlarg'd still widening flowes As th' Helix doth A Circle showes Mans nat'ral Life which Death soon from its Zenith throwes XXI HEAV'NS Perspective is over-reas'ning FAITH Which Soul-entrancing VISIONS hath Truths Beacon fir'd by Love Ioyes Empire open lay'th XXII This All-enforming LIGHT i' th pregnant Minde The Babe THEOPHILA enshrin'd GRACE dawns when Nature sets Dawn for fair Day design'd XXIII Breathe in thy dainty Bud sweet Rose 'T is Time Makes Thee to ripened VIRTUES clime When as the SUN of GRACE shall spread Thee to thy Prime XXIV When her Lifes-Clock struck twelve Hopes Noon so bright She beam'd that Queen admir'd her Sight Viewing through Beauties Lantern her intrinsick Light XXV As when fair Tapers burn in Crystal Frame The Case seems fairer by the Flame So do's HEAV'NS brighter LOVE brighten this lovely Dame XXVI Her Soul the Pearl her Shell out-whites the Snow Or Streams that from stretcht Udders flow Her Lips Rock-rubies and her Veins wrought Saphyrs show XXVII Attractive Graces dance about her Lips Spice from those scarlet Portals skips Thence Gileads mystick Balm Griefs sovâ—ragin Balsam slips XXVIII Such precious Fume the incens'd ALTAR vents So Gums in Air breath Compliments So Roses damaskt Robe prankt with green Ribbons sents XXIX Her Eyes amaze the Viewers and inspire To Hearts a warm yet chast Desire As Sol heats all yet feel they in Themselves no Fire XXX Those Lights the radiant Windows of her Minde Who would pourtray as soon may finde A way to paint the viewless poise the weightless Winde XXXI But might we her sweet Breast LOVES Eden see On those Snow mountlets Apples be May cure those Mischiefs wrought by the forbidden Tree XXXII Her Hands are soft as swannie Down and much More white whose temperate Warmth is such As when ripe Gold and quickning Sun-beams inly touch XXXIII Ye Syrens of the Groves who pearcht on high Tune gutt'ral Sweets Air-Minstrels why From your Bough-Cradles rockt with Windes to HER d' ye flie XXXIV See Lilies gown'd in Tissue simper by Her With Marigolds in flaming Tire Green sattin'd Bayes with Primrose fring'd seem all on Fire XXXV Th' art silver-voic'd Teeth pearl'd thy Head 's gold-thatcht Natures Reviver Flora's patcht Though trickt in Mayes new Raiment when with Thee She 's matcht XXXVI THOU chast as fair Eve ere she blusht From Thee The Libe'ral Arts in Capite The Virtues by Knight-service Graces hold in Fee XXXVII A gratious Soul figur'd in Beauty is Best Pourtrayture of Heavenly Bliss Drawn to the Life Wit-feign'd Pandora vails to This. XXXVIII So Cynthia seems Star-chambers President With crescent Splendor from Sol lent Rallying her starrie Troop to guard her glittering Tent. XXXIX Pearl'd Dews add Stars yet Earths Shade shuts up soon Her Shop of Beams Whose Cone doth run 'Bove th' horned Moon beneath the golden-tressed Sun XL. Wh ' on Skie Clouds Seas Earth Rocks doth Raies disperse Stars Rainbows Pearls Fruits Diamonds pierce The Worlds Eye Sourse of Light Soul of the Universe XLI Who glowes like Carbuncles when winged Hours Dandle the Infant-Morn which scours Dame Luna with her twinkling Spies from azure Tow'rs XLII Thee THEOPHIL Dayes sparkling Eye we call Thy Faith 's the Lid thy Love the Ball Beautying thy graceful Mein with Form ANGELICAL XLIII That Lady-Prioress of the cloyster'd Skie Coacht with her spangled Vestalls nigh Vails to this Constellation from DIVINITIE XLIV Vertue ' s her Spring of Honour her Allies Are Saints Guard Angels HEAV'N her Prize Whose Modestie looks down while thus her Graces rise XLV Eugenia Wit Paidia Art affords Eusebia Truth for Her uphords Poets have Legislative Pow'r of making Words XLVI Her Heart 's a Court her richly-temper'd Breast A Chappel for Loves regent GUEST Here feasts She sacred Poets SHE Herself a Feast XLVII Ye Bay-crown'd Lords Who dig from Wisdoms Pits The Oar of Arts and with your Wits Refine't who prop the doaâ—â—ng World in stagg'ring Fits XLVIII And in Fames Court raise Obelisks divine Such Symphonies do ye combine As may inspirit Flesh with your Soul-ravishing Wine XLIX While Winter Autumn Summer clasps the Spring While tenter'd Time shall Paeans sing Your Eagle-plumes that others waste shall ymp Fames Wing L. The rampant Juice of Teneriffe recruits Wildely the routed Spirits So Lutes Harps Viols Organs ah and Trumpets Drums Flutes LI. Though Art should humour grumbling Bases still Tortring the deep-mouth'd Catlins till Hoarse-thundring Diapasons should the whole Room fill LII Yet those But string this LADIES Harp She 'l trie Each Chords tun'd Pulse till She descry Where mosts harmonious Musicks mystick Soul do's lie LIII Now Grace with Language chimes Thrice blest who tast Their HEAV'N on Earth in Lifes Book grac't Who leaving Sense with Sense their Spirit with SPIRITS have plac't LIV. With those divine Patritians who being not Eclips't with Sense or Bodies Spot Are in the Spring of living FLAME Seraphick hot LV. One TASTE gives Joyes Joyes at which Words but rove Schools purblinde grope at Things Above Cymmerian-like on whose Suns brow Clouds darkly move LVI HEAV'NS Paths are traceless by Excess of Light O're-fulgent Beams daz'd Fyes benight Say Ephata and Clay ' s Collyrium for my Sight LVII Transported in this Extasie befriend Me like the Stagirite to end My Thoughts in That Euripus None can comprehend LVIII This mystick Chain ô lengthen't still imparts Links fett'ring 'bove all
Time-born Arts Such sweet Divisions from tun'd Strings may ravish Hearts LIX Best Tenure holds by th' Ear In Saul disguis'd When Satan oft Tarantuliz'd The Psalming Harp was 'bove they swaying Scepter priz'd LX. This Hymn ZEALS burning Feaver do's refine My gross hydropick Soul Divine Anthems unbowel BLISSE and ANGELS down encline LXI ANGELS shot forth the happiest CHRISTMAS Newes Ev'n CHRIST to warble Hymns did use When Heav'ns high'st DOVE do's soar He Wings of Verse doth chuse LXII No Verse no Text. Since Verse charms All Sing on Let Sermons wait till PSALMS be done Soul-raisers ye prevent the RESURRECTION LXIII But ah in War Wraths Midwife which do's tire Yet never fills the Jaws of Ire Keen as the Evening Wolf can She yet use her 〈◊〉 LXIV Yes She 's unmov'd in Earth-quakes tun'd in Iars Fear argues Guilt She stands in Wars And Storms of thund'ring Brass bright as corusâ—ant Stars LXV Vertue ' s a Balsam to It self Invoke She MERCIE did to oyl steels Yoke Thus in an iron Age This golden VIRGIN spoke LXVI Dread GOD Black Clouds surcharg'd with Storms When Pâ—ple Robes hide Scarlet Sin Ingrain'd from that Life-blood which moâ—ted their Souls 〈◊〉 begin LXVII Our Sea-girt World once Fort'nate Isle O Change Deplorable t' It self seems strange Vnthrifty Death has spread where thriving Peace did range LXVIII War hath our luke-warm Claret broacht with Spears LORD save thy Ark from Floods of Fears Or thy sad Spouse may sink as deep in Bloud as Tears LXIX She chaws Bread tleept in Woes gulpt down with Cries She drinks the Rivers of her Eyes Plung'd in Distress for Sin to THEE She fainting flies LXX Tune th' Irish Harp from Sharps to Flats Compose Whatever vitious Harshnesse grows Vpon the Scottish Thistle or the English Rose LXXI No ramping Lion its own Kind do's fear No tusked Bore no rav'ning Bear Man Mans Apollyon doth CHRISTS mystick Body tear LXXII Ye Sons of Thunder if You 'l needs fight on Lead your fierce Troops 'gainst Turkish Moon Out of the Line of FAITHS Communication LXXIII The large-commanding Thracian Force defie Like Gun-stocks though your Corps may flie To Earth Your Souls like Bullets will ascend on HIGH LXXIV If GOD be then i' th' Camp much more will HE In 's Militant Church His Temple be To chasten Schism and pervicacious Heresie LXXV LORD rent's thy Coat Loves Type This sads the Good Though Presters rudely fierce fain wou'd Be heard THOU hat'st uncivil Pray'r and civil Blood LXXVI Ah could dissembling Pulpeteers cry't Good To wade through Seas of native Blood Break greatest Ties play fast and loose beneath Smects Hood LXXVII By Such were Catechisms Communions Creeds Disus'd As March spawns Frogs so Weeds Sprung hence Worst Atheist from corrupted Church-man breeds LXXVIII Vse the LORDS Pray'r be th' Publican recant The Pharisee Or else avant With your six-hundred-sixtie-six-six-hundred-sixtie-six-word Covenant LXXIX LORD they through faithlesse Dreams the Feast disown Of thy SONS INCARNATION Then whether will such Proteus-tants at last be blown LXXX That FEAST of Feasts Archangels Ioy Heav'n here Espous'd to Earth Saints Blisse most dear Prerogative o' th' Church The Grand Day of the Year LXXXI Man first made Good Himself unmade and then The WORD made Flesh must dwell with Men That Man thus worse then nought may better'd be agen LXXXII Dare to own Truth Drones seiz'd the Bees full Bow'r All 's paint that Butterflies deflowr As Ants improve so Grashoppers impair their Hour LXXXIII When Pirat-wasps sail to the hony'd Grot They 'l finde a Trap-glasse Death i' th' Pot Levites sleight not your Breast-work for vain Out-works got LXXXIV We ken Kirk-Interest Draco's Laws recall Repair the old Church Saints the Wall True Pastors Conduits Grace the Font Love cements All. LXXXV Passe freely would we of Oblivion An Act and pardon all by-gone Would you smite Hand on Thigh and say What have we done LXXXVI Truths Pensioners your Flocks bleat Food they need CHRISTS Flesh their Meat Blood Drink indeed View GLORIES Crown In Season out of Season feed LXXXVII Ye Friends to th' BRIDEGROOM Stewards to the Bride With Oracles of Truth us guide Truth blesseth Church and State Faithful till crown'd abide LXXXVIII So when the JUDGE with his Reward appears You 'l reap in Joy what 's sown in Tears Moyst Seed-times crown the Fields with golden-bearded Ears LXXXIX JUDGE-ADVOCATE to th' wrong'd sure THOU to Guilt Which would unmake thy Creatures wilt Be just when Inquisition's made for Blood that 's spilt XC At our Ears Port land Peace and Truth O then Welcome as Sol to th' Russ in 's Den As Shoar to shipwrackt as to Towns dismantled Men XCI O might a second ANGEL-QUIRE nere cease To Worms worn out with Wars Distress To sing in all Mens hearing their blest Song of PEACE XCII Peace Home of Pilgrims first Song at CHRISTS Birth Peace His last Legacie on Earth Peace gen'ral Preface to all Good Peace SAINTS true Mirth XCIII Love Thou Support to Martyrs as Iet Straw So Vs to our BELOV'D dost draw Thou art Golds true Elixir Thou summ'st up the Law XCIV Who can Divine Love speak in words of Sense Since Man as ransom'd Angels thence Transcends Such is CHRISTS Passions high Preheminence XCV Here did She seal her Lips unsluce her Eyes To flowing Rhet'rick and descries The World 's a Cask its Wine false Mirth its Lees Fools Prize XCVI And now by lympid Spring of Life-joy where Crystal is lymbect all the Year To GOD She would her Heav'n-ascending Raptures rear XCVII Taught hence misguided Zeal whom Heats dispose To Animosities may close And bloody Furies CONVERTS be by pond'ring Those XCVIII Harmonious Beauty feast our Ear They 're Kings At least who hear when LOVE thus sings LOVE to high Graces Key skrues up low Natures Strings XCIX Love Thou canst Ocean-flowing Storms appease And such oregrown Behemoths please As tax the scaly Nation and excise the Seas C. If THEOPHIL thy LOVE-SONG can't asswage The Fate incumbent on this Age No Time to write but weep For we are ripe for Rage Ite sacrosanctae Tabulata per Alta Carinae Non opus est Fluviis Lintea pando Mari. Ite Rates Ventis quo vos rapit Aura secundis Brittica Cymba pias findat AMORIS Aquas Animarum Sponsus IESUS The Soule against Complations fights Whom Death and Hell present with â—ights The World with 〈◊〉 ca lt and â—onour couâ—ts The Fleshes Glass invites to Spouts But THEOPHIL by Faith her Shield And Hopes firm â—nchoâ— stands the Field Accompanyâ—d with GRACE and LOVE By ANGELS SHE does upward move THEOPHILA'S LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO IV. The Inammoration ARGUMENT O DEVS aut nullo caleat mihi Pectus ab Igne Aut solo caleat Pectus ab Igne Tui Languet ut Illa DEO mihi Mens simul aemula languet Coelitùs ut rapitur me Violenta rapit She Onset makes first with Love-darts aloof Then with ZEALS Fire-works storms HEAV'NS Roof Whose FAITHS Shield SALVATIONS Helmet
XL. Strangely their Intellects enlightned be Natures Compendium did not see One half yea ere He tasted the forbidden Tree XLI If that Sea-parting PRINCE from cleft Rocks Space Viewing GODS Back-parts thought it Grace What Honour is it then to see HIM FACE to FACE XLII WHO doth inspirit the indeficient Ray Not dimm'd with a minute Allay Where though no Sun ere rose yet 't is ETERNAL DAY XLIII Where ALL are fill'd yet ALL from Food abstain Where ALL are Subjects yet ALL reign ALL rich yet have no Bags that stifled Wealth contain XLIV Where each SAINT do's a glorious Kingdom own Where each KING hath a starry Crown Each CROWN a Kingdom free from the rude Peoples Frown XLV Where Each hath All yet more than All They owe All Subjects yet no KINGS They know Save KING of Kings LORD of Lords who quel'd their Foe XLVI Where highest JOY is their perpetual Fare Their Exercise HOSANNAS are SPIRITS the Choristers the Subject PRAISE and PRAYER XLVII The Laureate KING his Psalming Voice doth raise And sings to 's solemn Harp high Layes Being HIMSELF the Organ to His MAKERS Praise XLVIII Enflam'd with holy Zeal and high Desire Encircled with the Enthean QUIRE Warbles This Epinician Canzon to his Lyre XLIX Thou CROWN of BLISSE whose Footstool's Earth whose Throne Outshines ten thousand Suns in One Who art the Radi'cal LIFE of all true JOY alone L. Royal PROTECTOR when in THEE Lights Sun Mortals wou'd deem the last Hour run We finde no Wane of Day but a SOLSTITIAL Noon LI. When We Times Volumes of past Thousands scan Thy ORIGEN with Time to span We finde no Track in Infant Age when It began LII ANCIENT of DAYES to WHOM all Times are Now Before Whom SERAPHIMS do bow Though highest CREATURES yet to their CREATOR low LIII Who art by Light-surrounded POWERS obey'd HEAV'NS Host Thy ministring SPIRITS made Cloath'd with UBIQUITY to WHOM all Light is Shade LIV. Whose Thunder-clasping HAND do's grasp the Shole Of total Nature and unroul The spangled Canopy of HEAV'N from Pole to Pole LV. Who on the Clouds and Windes thy Chariot rid'st And brideling wildest Storms them guid'st Who moveless All dost move Who changing All abid'st LVI The Ocean Thou begirt'st with misty Shrouds That Monster wrapt'st in swathing Clouds And with thy mighty WORD controul'st tempestuous Flouds LVII Earth-circling Oceans Thy DISPLEASURE flee Mountains dismounted are by THEE Those airy Giants smoak if THOU incensed be LVIII Innumerable Troops of Joyes do stand Before Thy boundless PRESENCE and Vncessantly attend Thy ever-blissefull HAND LIX Thou LORD Good without Quality dost send Blisse to All Thine Great without End Whose Magnitude no Quantity can comprehend LX. What 's worthlesse Man what his earth-crawling Race That THOU shouldst such a shadow grace And in unspeakable triumphant GLORY place LXI Who may thy MERCIES Height Depth Breadth extend In Height It do's to HEAV'N ascend Confirms the ANGELS and in Depth doth low descend LXII Lessening the Pains o' th' damned ev'n in HELL In Breadth from East to West do's swell And over all the World and all thy WORKS excell LXIII Immense EXISTENCE HEAVN'S amaz'd at thy INCOMPREHENSIBILITIE INTELLIGENCIES dread Thine All-commanding-EYE LXIV Ye winged HERO'S whom all BLISSE embow'rs To HIM in Anthems strain your pow'rs Whose Sea of Goodness has no Shoar whose Age no How'rs LXV Then ore the trembling Cords his swift Hand strayes And clos'd All with full Diapaze As in a sounding Quire the well-strook Consort playes LXVI Victorious Iubilies when Eccho'd clear From the Church-Militant are dear To HEAV'NS triumphing QUIRE Such no gross Ear can hear LXVII Musicks first Martyr Stradas Nightingale Might ever wish poor Bird to fall On that excelling HARP and joy i' th Funeral LXVIII Had it but heard Those AYRS where Musick meets With Raptures of Voice-warbled Sweets Flowing with ravishing EXCES in SIONS STREETS LXIX All what Symphonious Breaths inspire All what Quick Fingers touch compar'd sound flat Could I but coyn a Word beyond all Sweets 'T were THAT LXX What Orders in NEW-SALEMS HIERARCHIE In what Degrees They ' enstated be Are Wings that mount my Thoughts to high Discovery LXXI Blest Sight to see HEAV'NS order'd HOST to move In Legions glist'ring ALL Above Whose Armour is true ZEAL whose Banner is pure LOVE LXXII Bright-harnessed INTELLIGENCIES Who Enucleate can your ESSENCE so As Men may both your mighty Pow'r Nature know LXXIII Invisible impassive happy fair High incorporeal active rare Pure scientifick and illustrious SPIRITS You' are LXXIV Guesse at their Strength by ONE Was not almost Two hundred thousand of an Host By ' an ANGEL slain when Assurs Chief 'gainst HEAV'N did boast LXXV In Brightness They the Morning Star out-vie In Nimbleness the Windes out-flie And far surpasse the Sun-beams in Subtilitie LXXVI ARCHANGELS Those superiour SPIRITS are GODS LEGATS when he will declare His Minde to 's Chosen GABRIEL did thus prepare LXXVII GODS Embassie when his BELOV'D did tie Our Flesh to his DIVINITIE GRACE was the Kisse the UNION was the Ring from High LXXVIII ANGELS the Posie sung This made our Clay O're Empyraean Courtiers sway When as the SPOUSE his mystick NUPTIALS did display LXXIX No sooner shal That great ARCHANGEL sound His wakefull Trump of Doom to th' Ground And Eccho shall as banded Ball make quick Rebound LXXX But pamper'd Graves with all their Iawes shall yawn And Seas Flouds Nurse strange Shoals shall spawn Of Men to wait o' th' dreadfull JUDGE at 's Iudgements Dawn LXXXI To Incorruption then Corruptions Night Shall turned be for That strange Sight Inebriates Souls with deepest Woes or high'st DELIGHT LXXXII Then shall my Ear my Nose my Hand Tongue Eye Alwayes hear smell feel taste espye Hosanna's Incense Off'rings Feasts Felicitie LXXXIII To act GODS WILL ore sublunary Things The DOMINATIONS sway as Kings He curbs Aerian Potentates by th' POW'RS HE wings LXXXIV The PRINCIPATES of Princes take the Care T' enlarge their Realms or to empair VIRTUES in acting of his WILL have their full Share LXXXV THRONES HIM contemplate nor from 's Presence move To CHERUBS HE reveals Above Hid Things He SERAPHINS enflames with ardent Love LXXXVI Praecelling SERAPHS shew GODS ARDOR still Wise CHERUBS his ABYSSE of SKILL In Governing of ALL beatious THRONES instill LXXXVII To us his STEDDINES in 's blessed THRONE Ever unalterably ONE Powr's Virtues Principates to his Commands are prone LXXXVIII Dominions own his REGAL SWAY and so ARCHANGELS ANGELS swiftly show Agilitie that from the DEITIE do's flow LXXXIX Their Number 's numberlesse not half so few As orient Pearls of early Dew Like Aromatick Lamps THEY in HEAV'NS TEMPLE shew XC And yet of THEM though vast the Number be The Thing that most do's glorifie Their MAKER's This THEY differ specifically XCI Of the first Machine THEY the Parcels are Yet if we Them with GOD compare Then w th their Wings they skreen Themselves though else most fair XCII Lawlesse Desire do's never pierce
dubitetur an haec illa vel ista praeit 65. Desuper extat Amor Tibi Mens contermina Coelo Regnat Honor radiat Forma triumphat Amor. 66. Illud es Elixir Chymicâ quod protinùs Arte Mutet in auratas me rude Pondus Opes 67. Igne Cinis fit agente Vitrum micat Igne Metallum Corpus hoc fieri SPIRITUS Igne potest 68. Magneti salit è Ferro celer Ignis Amoris Imò Silex faculas quis putet intus alit 69 Durius at Saxo nil est nil mollius Igne Dura sed ignitus Saxa resolvit AMOR. 70. Haec meditans quis non Facibus soluatur Amoris Tu Charis es Studiis Tu Cynosura meis 71. Gemmula Mentis Ocella Sinûs pia Flammula Cordis Incepi Duce Te Te Duce caepta sequar 72. Sponsa creata DEO Virtutum fulgida Caetu Jus colis Affectus supprimis Acta regis 73. Est Tibi Vita DEUS Pietas Lex Gloria CHRISTUS Expetis HUNC Tibi Qui semper AMORE praeit 74. Quid Te CHRISTE Crucem perferre coegit Amoris Ardor Amaroris Pignus Amoris erat 75. Factus Amans fit Esca DEUS Te nutrit IESUS O BONITAS Quales Hoc in AMANTE Dapes 76. Est mihi CHRISTUS ais Laus Splendor Aroma Triumphus Musica Vina Dapes Fama Corona DEUS 77. Omnia Tu JESUS prae TE nihil Omnia COELUM Exploraturae quà m mihi sordet Humus 78. Orbis es Exilium Mors Ianua Patria COELUM Dux sit Amor Baculus Spes Comes alma Fides 79. Diffluat in Gemmas Oriens in Carmina COELUM Nec Meritis Oriens nec POLUS aequa ferat 80. Fac timeam fac amem Quae Te timet acriùs ardet Nempe tui Cultûs Fons Timor Amnis Amor. 81. Vox tua Norma mihi Tibi Palmes adhaereo VITI Totus es IPSE mihi sim tua tota DEUS 82. Comprecor exaudi patior succurre molestor Auxiliare premor protege flagro fave 83. TE voco laudo rogo colo diligo quaero REDEMPTOR Affectu Prece Re Spe Pietate Fide 84. Si TE contueor liquefio perusta Favillis Ni TE contueor sum glaciata Gelu 85. O Facibus superadde Faces ut Tota liquescam Sim vel Mortis Odor sim vel Amantis Amor. 86. Grata Procella jugum mihi gratum gratus Ignis Me quibus immergit deprimit urit AMOR 87. Non mea sum sed Amore DEI languesco Sorores Me stipate Rosis languet Amore Sinus 88. Nil Animantis habet quae Pectore vivit Amantis Hoc in Amore mihi sit mora nulla mori 79. Unio sit Nobis Animamque liquamur in unam Vnaque Vita Duos stringat Amorque Duos 80. Tu super Omne places Tua sum Tu noster Ambos Mutuus Ardor agit possidet unus Amor. 81. Uror â—o Redamatur Amor Votoque fruiscor Dum quod Amans redamor dum quod Amante fruor 82. O quid Amare Quid est Redamari GAUDIA nacta Tanta stupendo tacet Tanta tacendo stupet 83. Vivo DEO morior Mundo moriendo resurgo Indè catenato Dite triumphat AMOR. 84. Sic amet omnis Amans sic immoriatur Amanti Vt Lyra Lusciniae Vitaque Morsque fuit 85. Si mea Lumen habent si Nomen Carmina Lumen Ex Oculo SPONSI Nomen ab Ore venit 86. Argus eat qui Talpa venit radiatus Amore Vates Sperati fidus Amoris ero 87. Cingant THEIOPHILAE potiùs mea Tempora Lauri Quà m gemmans Capiti sit Diadema meo 88. Nam quid erunt Animae Damno Diademata Mundi Celsa ruunt fugiunt Blandula prava necant 99. Vt praesens novit sic postera noverit Aetas Sivc premamus Humum Sive premamur Humo 100. Finis Fine caret nec Terminus ullus Amantem Terminat Hîc Modus est non habuisse Modum Imus in Albionis Freta per Latialia Littus Siste Britannales Hâc Vice Musa Pedes Anglica num praestent Latiis Briticisve Latina Scire velim Placeant quae magìs Illa dabo THEOPHILAS LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO IX The RECAPITVLATION And Pourtrait of a Heav'nly breathing Soul Whoso delights to burn in holy Fire Of VIRGIN fair THEOPHILA Joy Salamander in that Flame Thou so Pirausta born may'st like the Phoenix burn That to ETERNITIE thou rise Not losing Life but sowing well the same A holier Ovids smoothed Verse With Eyes of Heart with Heart-all-Eyes behold Such sacred Flames by Adamantine Hand Ought to be plac't in lasting Vrns But 'cause these Writings needed Aid of Pens Virtue than Birds more swift unto the Scribe lend Wing And let the Readers Care more Eyes than Argus bring The PORTICO Love to the Master and the Mate Stirs it self feebly in Lifes lowest Sphear That to our Parent and the Bed More large extends and breathes a Life of Sense That to our Countrey and its Sire Self raises loftier in Reasons Air But That to GOD Ravisht with Ecstasie It self transcends Nor Bounds nor Limits would It own But narrow'd That like Lovers kept apart Warms heats yea boyls boyls up and over Longs for th' Eternal sighs for HIM beyond that Lover THE ARGVMENT Blest Muse the Altar builds where LOVE' 's ador'd And throweth down loose Wit thy Nest abhorr'd She Clytie-like to th' Sun of Glory turns GOD is her Sun with Light of ZEAL She burns Distick 1. MVSE canst be silent when each charmed Grove Harbours a thousand warbling Notes of Loue 2 Art whets the Minde and Hymns set Edge on Art Dart up an Epod ZEAL crown thou the Dart. 3. Hope be thy Bowe thy Hand Love Faith the Shaft Let Hope shoot Faith to GOD with Loves strong Draft 4. Sacred's my Theme may my first Fruits HIM please Faith plants Hope nourishes Love ripens These 5. This World 's the Field GOD sows his WORD the Seed Satan the Thief the Good Corn th' Ill the Weed 6. LORD mount me to the Pitch of Larks on High That I as Birds wing'd Oars may cut the Skie 7. SAINTS would know GOD so as they Good may doe Let me both know this Good and act It too 8. HEAV'NS Love not knowledge doth the Palm acquire Who Heav'nly Knowledge gave will give Desire 9. That Ought I will can am is CHRIST from Thee CHRIST what I am can will accept from me 10. No Light Tast Strength without THEE Thou alone Art Health unto my Soul my Salt my Sun 11. Thou Light Way Life who sees walks liveth by That Flame Path Strength does not fall fail nor die 12. Upon thy Altars let my Verses prove The Victime Heart the Altar the Fire Love 13. Pray'r Frankincense Tears Myrrhe be Gold Souls Health The Minds best Work Hearts Laver Loves Wealth 14. I This Verse Hecatomb to THEE do bring As Solomon his numerous Offering 15. The pious Muse courts HEAV'N when highest Things She soars for still She craves BLEST DOVE thy Wings 16. With active Plumes flye up to th' ANGEL-QUIRE Where Chrysolites
Examines tumulet mortua Turba tuos Hoc verbo concludo nec os tibi sublino Nequam es Exitio nisi te corrigis Ipse tibi EHeu quà m Magnificus iste jam aegrotat miserè ecce Linteola Manu contrahit distorto Ore distento Labia dispandit anhelis Pulmonibus difficile spirat longum Vale Mundo dicit tenebrescentes Oculos circumvolvit suburbia Mortis intrat Lectores clarum hîc Speculum Fragilitatis cernite Gregor Magnus Lib. 4. Cap. 38. Dialogorum de Chrysorio Romano tradit Historiam de quo an Divitijs seu Vitijs magis abundaverit incertum fuit Cùm quasi expirans anxiaretur apparuere illi teterrimi Daemones ipsum certatim prensantes traheréque ad Inferna annixi Ille Horrore tremuit seque super Lectum huc atque illuc vertere miseris coepit Modis Nec dubitaret Quisquam Spiritus sibi apparuisse qui probè illius Gestus Lamenta consideraret Postremò ipse cùm jam Amicorum Auxilio desperasset ad Hostes conversus Inducias oro Inducias inquit Inducias vel tantùm usque ad mane cui Daemones Stulte hac nocte eripietur tibi Anima Dum hoc poscendo ingeminat Animam exhalavit Vae vobis miseris qui in ipsis Voluptatum Blandimentis saevis Paâ—perum Oppressionibus iniquis Praeliandi Ardoribus subitò auferimini INstare heu summum Mens tibi crede Diem Actus Fabellae jam tibi quintus adest Namque stat ad Mortis Limina Vita tremens Quid modò dum Muris imminet Hostis agas Te rapiet subitò Mors inopina Gradu An non supremi Iudicis Ora times Mente soporatâ Cuncta quieta fluunt Exagitat saevis evigilante Minis Stat vinctum rigido sons Adamante jecur Undique constrictum Crimine Lege Nece Stare tamen nullo mens queat aegra Loco Afflictum Pectus quis tolerate potest Me Tremor Impietas Flagra Gehenna rotant Totus in Aspectu sum rea Massa Dei Heu quà m terribilis Sontibus Vltor adest Qui Flagellorum millia mille parat Quis dabit hisce Modum quêis Modus omnis abest Supplicium Aeternum Dirus ut ille Sonus Nullis Inferni Flamma domatur aquis Aestus at infusae Gurgite crescit Aquae Nunc Mundi quid Honos Gaza Jocusque valent Vos speciem fumi quicquid habetis habet Perfidiosa sequi Ludicra Mundus amat Tristia sub placido melle Venena latent Quo magis arrident sunt metuenda magis Turgida ventoso Pectora Folle replent Inter Acidalias ceu Sybarita Rosas Crevi Praeda feris discrutianda Rogis Praedonum Paphiâ mitior Ira face Cultorem perdis qui tibi vivit obit Arbore seu Chavae prima Venena necis Arbore sic CHRISTI Vita secunda fluit Hac hac sit nostrâ Meta terenda rotâ Jam nunc Justorum Fata lubire velim Pro Te CHRISTE pati est vincere Vita mori Te peto dum superest Halitus Oro fave Hanc DEUS ex magno mittis Amore Crucem Sum miser ah misero fer miseratus Opem Nunc opus est Precibus nunc Ope CHRISTE tuâ Unus Opem Vulnus qui dedit Ille ferat Poenitet admissi Criminis oro DEUS Sanguinis inspergat Gutta vel una tui â—perem vix ullam Spes ubi cernat Opem Singula baptizem Corporis Acta mei Sint Lachrymae Mentis Gaudia sola meae Quae suaves aliquid Nectaris instar habent Tristia qui spargit Gaudia abindè metet Laetitiae Segetem flebilis Unda parit Langueo sola sones Lachryma Lingua sile Haec Lector siccis quì tueare Genis Mundi Contemptus DEliciae Luxus laqueata Palatia Gemmae Incautos veluti blanda Venena â—ecant In Trabea Livor Gemmâ Timor Ira sub Auro Bullatum his Pectus plurima Pestis agit Est Honor umbra Rei Quid Honoris Spes minus umbrâ Umbram finge umbrae spes id Honoris erit Dum placet illudit dum splendit fallit amoenam Sic referens bullam frangitur illa micans Aurea pacatam turbant Laquearia Mentem Et Vigiles Noctes Purpura saepè trahit Oblongas videt ire vigil sua Taedia Noctes Praeque ipsis longas Noctibus ire Dies Saepè Equitem excussit fractâ Cervice Sedentis Ad Titulos properans Ambitionis Equus Illis sceptrigeri quos lactat Gloria Mundi Auratis Tectis fit peregrina Salus Divitias Avidus per aperta Pericula Ponti Retia quae Mentis concumulare studet Haec mihi ne noceant cauto cretata facessat Ambitio fulvi sordida Cura Luti Felix qui streperi Ludibria rideat Orbis Aspernans Aevi luxuriantis Opes THE SWEETNESSE OF RETIREMENT OR The Happinesse of a Private Life CANTO XII The Segregation ARGUMENT TV mihi Thema Quies Animae sanctusque Recessus Rores dum saturant me Deus alme tui Vera Quies Paucos nosti notissima Paucis Dum fugio Plures te peto vera Quies Carmina Secessum Potiùs Devotio quaerit Sic quadrant Modulis Pectora sancta suis. Turbat Apollineas clamosa Molestia Musas Christicolae Modulos sed magìs illa gravat Sit procul Vrbs prope Vota mihi mihi reddar intùs Plena Fide perstet Mens mea plena Deo Hoc Nemus est Templum patuli Laquearia Rami Fit sacrae Truncus quisque Columna Domûs Pervia Sylva patens est Porta Cacumina Pinnae Baptismi Pignus Rivulus omnis habet Dat Mensam Collis sacram mihi Cespite tectus Pectoris Ara Fides Zelus Amorque focus Si quis Baptistes in Eremo praedicet Ecce Pulpita in arboreâ Sede locata patent Hìc licet elatâ dare Verba precantia Voce Et siâ—e Teste Deo nec nisi Teste loqui Ipsa monent tremulas quatientia Flamina frondes Per nos fundendas Corde tremente Preces Antevolansque cavo Suspiria nostra Susurro Dum gemit Aura levis Tugeme Cultor ait Voce Deum celebro Concordes sponte Choristae Sunt Praecentores dum modulantur Aves Amen subijcio dat Amen quasi Clericus Echo Sylva placet Luxus Desidiose Vale. THE ARGUMENT True Blisse Thou know'st but Few to Few art known While we shun Many Thee alone We court and All enjoy in Thee when All are gon STANZA I. WAste not an other Word on Fools Forsake What grates the Ear pure Notions take Know that the smoothest Hones the sharpest Razors make II. Ill suits it with a Russet Life to write Court Tissue Swayns by thresholds Sight Observe as well as Lords by Clocks of Gold Times flight III. Whose Crystal Shrines like Oysters gape each hour Discov'ring Time by Figures Pow'r That is the nobler Watch foreshowes the threatning Shour IV. While comb'rous Gain does various Cares obtrude The richer Minde courts Solitude And does Guile subtle to beguile it self exclude V. More than high Greatnesse humble Goodness draws Elm Rafters mantled 'Ore with straws Out-blesse Escuriall