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A49980	The temple of vvisdom for the little world in two parts. The first philosophically divine, treating of the being of all beeings, and whence everything hath its origins as heaven, hell, angels, men and devils, earth, stars and elements. And particularly of all mysteries concerning the soul, and of Adam before and after the fall. Also, a treatise of the four complexions, and the causes of spiritual sadness, &c. To which is added, a postscript to all students in arts and sciences. Second part, morally divine, containing abuses stript and whipt, by Geo. Wither, with his description of fair virtue. Secondly. A collection of divine poems from ... Essayes and religious meditations of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight. Collected, published and intended for a general good. By D.L.	Leeds, Daniel, 1652-1720.; Wither, George, 1588-1667. Abuses stript, and whipt.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1688 (1688)	Wing L915; ESTC R224149	138,032	220

of wanton Lust Nor did we then mistrust The poyson in the sweet Our Bodies wrought So close we thought B●…use our Souls should meet But Kissing and imbracing we So long together staid Her touches all enflamed me That I had almost straid My hands presum'd so far they were too bold My Tongue unwisely told How much my Heart was chang'd And Virtue quite was put to flight Or for the time estrang'd Oh what are 〈◊〉 if in our strength We over boldly trust The strongest sorts will yield at length And so our Vir●…s must In me no force of Reason had prevail'd If she had also sail'd But ere I further stray'd She sighing kist my naked Wrist And thus in Tears she said Sweet heart quoth she if in thy Breast Those Virtues real be Which hitherto thou hast profest And I believ'd in thee Thy self and me oh seek not to abuse Whilst thee I thus refuse In ●…tter Flames I frye Yet let us not our true love spot Oh rather let me dye ●…or if thy Heart should fall from good What would become of mine As strong a Passion stirs my Blood As can distemper thine Yet in my Breast this rage I smother would Though it consume me should And my desires ●…tain For where we see Such breaches be They sedom stop again Are we two that have so long Each others Love imbrac't And never did Affection wrong Nor think a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And shall oh shall we now our matchless joy For one poor touch destroy And all content forego Oh no my dear Sweet-heart forbear I will not lose thee so For should we do a deed so base As it can n●…ver be I could no more have seen thy Face Nor wouldst thou look on me I should of all our Passions grow ashamed And blush when thou art named Yea though 〈◊〉 constant wert I being 〈◊〉 A jealous thought Would still torment my Heart What goodly thing do we obtain If I consent to thee Bare Joys we lose and what we gain But common Pleasures be Yea those some say 〈◊〉 are 〈◊〉 lust inclin'd Drive Love 〈◊〉 of the mind And so much Reason miss That they admire what kind of Fire A chaste Affection is No vulgar bliss I aimed 〈◊〉 When first I heard thee woe I 'll never prise a ma●… for that Which every Groom can doe If that be Love the basest men that be Do love as well as we Who if we bear us well Do pass them as Angels men In glory do excell Whil●… thus she spoke a cruel band Of Passions ceas'd my Soul And what one seemed to command Another did controul Twixt 〈◊〉 and ill I did divided lie But as I 〈◊〉 mine Eye In her me thought I saw Those Virtues 〈◊〉 whose rays div●… First gave 〈◊〉 a Law. With that I felt the blush of shame Into my cheek return And love did with a chaster flame Within my Bosom burn My Soul her light of Reason had renew'd And by those beams I view'd How slily Lust ensnares And all the Fires of ill desires I quenched with my Tears Go wantons now and flout at this My coldness if you list Vain Fools you never knew the bliss That doth in love consist You sigh and weep and labour to enjoy A shade a dream a toy Poor folly you persue And are unblest Since every 〈◊〉 In pleasure equals you You never took so rich conte●… In all your wanton play As this to me hath Pleasure lent That ●…haste she went away For as some Sins which we committed 〈◊〉 Sharp stings behind them leave Whereby we vexed are So ill supprest begetteth rest And Peace without compare The Childs Apology in case of Espousals CHildren owe much I must confess 't is true And a great Debt is to the Parents due But yet my Parents should not be so cruel As to take from me that high priz'd Jewel Of Liberty ●…n choice whereon depends The main contentment that Heaven here lends For if my Parents him I loath should chuse 'T is lawful yea my duty to refuse Else how shall I lead so upright a Life As is enjoyned to the Man and Wife For I do think it is not only meant Children should ask but Parents should consent And that they err their Duty as much breaking In not consent●…ng as they for not sp●…aking Would Parents in this Age have us begin To take by their Eyes our Affections in Who quite forgetting they were ever Young Would have us Children dote with them on Dung. It is imposible it should be thus For we are rul●…d by Love not Love by us Now with what follows thus conclude we do And we have Reason for 't and Conscience too No Parent may his Child 's just sute deny On his bare Will without good reason why Nor he so us'd be disobedient thought If unapproved he take the match he sought The pretious time is short and will away Let us enjoy each other while we may Care thrives Age creepeth on men are but shades Joys lessen Youth decays and Beauty ●…ades New turns come 〈◊〉 the old returneth never If we let our's go past 't is past forever A SONG NOw young man thy Days and thy Glorics appear Like Sun-shine and Blosoms in Spring of the year Thy vigor of Body thy Spirits thy VVit Are perfect and sound and imtroubled yet Now then O now then if safety thou love Mind thou O mind thou thy Maker above Mispend not a Morning so excellent clear Never for ever was Happine●…s here Thy Noon-tide of Life hath but 〈◊〉 delight And Sorrows on Sorrow will follow at Night Now then O now then if safety thou love Mind tho●… O mind thou thy Maker above That strength and those Beauties that grace thee to day To morrow may perish and vanish away Thy VVealth or thy Pleasure s or Friends that now be May waste or deceive or be Traitors to thee No then O now then c. Mind thou O mind thou c. Thy Joynts are yet nimble thy Sinnews unslack And marrow unwasted doth stregthen thy back Thy Youth from Diseases preserveth the Brain And Blood with free passages plumps every Vein Now then O now then c. But trust me it will not forever be so Those Arms that are mighty shall feebler grow Those 〈◊〉 that so proudly 〈◊〉 thee now VVith Age or Diseases will ●…agger and bow Now then O now then c. Then all those rare Features now graceful in thee Shall plowed with times Furrows quite ruin'd be ●…ose Fancies that 〈◊〉 with Dreams of delight ●…ill trouble thy quiet the comfortless night Now then O now then c. Those 〈◊〉 of Hair which thy Youth doth adorn VVill look like the Meads in a winterly Morn And where Red and White intermixed did grow Dall paleness a deadly Complexion will show Now the●… O now then c. Thy Fore-head imperions wher●…on we now view A smoothn●… and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with blew VVill loose that Perfection which Youth now maintains And

change it for hollown●… for wrinkles and stains Now then O now then c. Those Eyes which so many so much did admire And with strange Affections set many on Fire Shut up in that Darkness which Age will constrain Shall never see Mortal no never aga●…n Now then O now then c Those Lips whereon Beauty so fully discloses The colour and sweetness of Rubies and Roses Instea●… of that here will a gashliness weare And none shall believe what Perfection was there Now then O now then c. Thy Teeth that stood firmly like Pearls in a row Shall rotten and scatter'd disorderly grow That gate and those gestures that win thee such grace VVill turn to a feeble and staggering pace Now then O now then c. By these Imperfections old Age will prevail Thy Marrow thy Sinnews and Spirits will fail And nothing is left thee when those are once spent To give or thy self or another content Now then O now then c. That Lust which thy Youth can so hardly fore-go VVill leave thee and leave thee Repe●…tance and Wo And then in thy ●…olly no joy canst thou have Nor hope other rest then a comfortless Grave Now then O now then c. For next shall thy Breath be quite taken away Thy ●…esh turn'd to Dust and that Dust turn'd to Clay And those that thou hast loved and share of thy store Shall leave thee forget thee and mind thee no more Now then O now then c. And yet if in time thou remember not this The slenderest part of thy Sorrow it is Thy Soul to a torture more fearful shall wend Hath ever and ever and never an end Now then O now then if safety thou love Mind thou O mind thou thy Maker above A Passage taken out of Witber's Motto WHat if America's large tract of Ground And all those Isles adjoyning lately found VVhich we more truly may a Desert call Then any of the World 's more civil pale VVhat then if there the VVilderness do lie To which the VVoman and her Son must flie To 'scape the Dragon's fury and there ' bide Till Europe's thankless Nations full of Pride And all A●…ominations scourged are VVith Barbarisin as their Neighbours were The Verses before are these The Eastern Kingdoms had their Times to flourish The Greeci●…n Empire rising saw them perish That fell and then the Roman Pride began Now scourged by the Race of Ottoman VVho live in Sin are all but Thieves to Heaven And Earth they steal from God and take unsiven Good men they rob and such as live upright And being Bastards share the free man's right They 're all as Owners in the Owner's stead And like to Dogs devour the Childrens Bread. Lord what I have let me enjoy in thee And thee in it or else take it from me DIVINE POEMS selected from the Works of Francis Quarls I care not so my Kernel relish well How slender be the Substance of my Shell My heart being virtuous let my Face be wane I am to God I only seem to man. MEDITATION HOw great 's the Love of God unto his Creature Or is his Wisdom or his Mercy greater I know not whether O! th'exceeding love Of highest God that from his Throne above VVill send the brightness of his Grace to those That grope in Darkness and his Grace oppose VVhat thing is Man that God's regard is such Or why should Heaven love rechless man so much VVhy what are men but quickned lumps of Earth A feast for VVorms a buble full of Mirth A Looking glass for grief a ●…ash a Minit A p●…inted Tomb with putrifaction in it A map of Death a burthen of a Song A VVinters dust a VVorm of five Foot long Begot in Sin in darkness nourisht born In sorrow naked shiftless and forlorn His first Voice heard is crying for Relief Alas he comes into a world of Grief His Age is sinful and his Youth is vain His Life 's a punishment his Death 's a pain Death respects Kings and ●…eggars both alike Uncertain when but certain she will strike Death is a minute full of suddain Sorrow Then live to day as thou mayst dye to morrow The VVorld's a body each Man a member is To add some measure to the publick bliss VVisdom is sold for sweet Pleasures for Pain VVho lives but to himself he lives in vain Man in himself 's a little VVorld alone His Soul 's the Court or high imperial Throne VVherein as Empress sits the Understanding Gently directing yet with awe commanding Her hand-maids will affections Maids of Honour All following close and duly waiting on her But Sin that alwayes envied man's condition VVithin this Kingdom raised up Division Vouchsafe Lord in this little VVorld of mine To reign that I may reign with thee in thine Heathen Godds THe Egyptians God did implore Godd Assus the Chal●…eans did adore ●…ibel to the devouring Dragon seeks The Arabians A●…aroth Juno the Greeks The name of B●…llus the Assyrians hallow The Tr●…yjons Vesta Corinth wi●…e Apollo The Arginians Sacrifice unto the Sun ●…o light-foot Mercury bows Macedon To Godd Volumus lovers bend their Knee To Pavor those that faint and fearful be VVho pray for Health and Strength to Murcia those And to Victoria they that fear to lose To Muta they that fear a woman's Tongue To great Lucina Women great with young To Esculapis they that live opprest And such to Quies that desire rest Implore those Godds that list to howl and bark They bow to Dagon Dagon to the Ark But he to whom the Seal of Mercy 's given Adores Jehovah the great God of Heaven Mortality CAn he be Fair that withers at a blast Or he be Strong that airy Breath can cast Can he be VVise that knows not how to live Or he be Rich that nothing hath to give Can he be Young that 's feeble weak and wane So fair strong wise so rich so young is Man. VVhy brag'st thou then thou worm of five Foot long Th' art neither fair strong wise nor rich nor youn●… Like to the Damask Rose you see Or like the blossom on a Tree Or like the dainty Flower in May Or like the morning to the day Or like the Sun or like the shade Or like the Gourd which Jonas had Even such is man whose Thred is spun Drawn out and cut and so is done The Rose withers the blossom blasteth The Flower fades the morning hasteth The Sun sets the Shadow flyes The Gourd consumes and Man he dyes Like to the blaze of fond delight Or like a Morning clear and bright Or like a Frost or like a Shower Or like the pride of Babel's Tower Or like the Hour that guides the Time Or like the Beauty in her prime Even such is man whose glory lends His Life a blaze or two and ends Delights vanish the Morn o'er-casteth The rosts breaks the Shower hasteth The Tower falls the Hour spends The Beauty fades and man's Life ends Of