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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00002	The brides ornaments viz. fiue meditations, morall and diuine. 1. Knowledge, 2. zeale, 3. temperance, 4. bountie, 5. ioy.	Aylett, Robert, 1583-1655?	1625 (1625)	STC 1000.5; ESTC S115415	64,217	134

either grant vs what we seeke Or giue vs that shall be our greater gaine Mine Heart mine heart Lord doth reioyce amaine Ay in thine House of Prayer to abide Where Swallow's build and Sparrow's are full faine To lay their young ones by thine Altars side Mee neuer let the Spirit of Prayer be deny'd But since I ought to pray continually How should my Pen of Prayer make an end My Sauiour praying on the Crosse did dye With Prayer Steuen his Soule to Heav'n did send But I began with Prayer let mee end With Praises to the Horne of my Saluation Who sure I hope his blessed Spirit did send To guide mee in this holy Meditation Which fills my Tongue with Praise Heart with Admiration FINIS VRANIA OR THE HEAVENLY MUSE LONDON Printed by WILLIAM STANSBY 1625. TO MY EVER HONORED FRIEND M. IOHN MAYNARD one of the Gentlemen of his Maiesties Priuie Chamber in Ordinarie MY deare Vrania wilt thou now forsake My Cottage and to Court thy selfe betake Dost hope thou there as here shalt find retire I cannot but thy simplenesse admire But since thou needs wilt goe I 'le thee commend vnto the Muses most familiar Friend Who had not his great Princes Loue and Grace Him brought from Muses Groues to 's Royall place Might on his Front haue worne thy Crowne of Bays And beene the Prince of Poets in his dayes Hee 'le leaue all profit pleasure honour gaine The heav'nly Muse alone to entertaine Oh happy Court most blessed Courtiers yee That from the Muses Springs transplanted bee This 't is makes Arts and Learning so increase Hence followeth all our happinesse and Peace The Muses needs must dance when Courtiers sing All follow the example of the King Yours truly deuoted R. A. VRANIA ABout the Season Lawyers tongues doe rest And make for Ceres honour long vacation I freed from tumults which me erst opprest Dispose my mind to holy Meditation And thinking how I might a subiect find Delightfull pleasing sweet and profitable My heart to better and inrich my mind And tongue acquaint with Phrases delectable As Traueller that meets with diuers wayes I long deliberate to chuse the best And fairest Path to Mount where Lawrell Bayes The Numbers crowne that are diuinely drest One while I sought in measures Comicall To maske the Graces all vpon the Stage Or in a Tragique Scene vp Ghosts to call Of Worthys slaine by cruell Tyrants rage Anon I would the Vnion celebrate Which made a Damaske Rose of Red and White The fairest Flower of Brittons happy State Which Roses then now Kingdomes doth vnite I thought likewise to sing that happy Peace Our Iland-world enioyeth by this Vnion Which makes our honour riches strength increase And haue with Heav'nly Arts such free communion Then I th' admired Prudence would rehearse Of Brittons Scepter-swaying Solomon Matter which would immortalize a Verse And saue such Splendour from obliuion Prone was my flesh the winged wag to sing Of wanton Venus and her Bitter-sweet That glads the Tast but doth the Bowells wring For chaster eares a Subiect far vnmeet Whilst wauering thus in fruitlesse inquisition Yet vnresolv'd of any course I roue Behold I see an heav'nly Apparition Some Herauld doubtlesse from the Queene of Loue Her gesture and her grace Angelicall With wings whereby her selfe to heav'n shee reares Her countenance faire sweet celestiall Her voyce like Musicke of the heav'nly Spheares A glorious Garland crown'd her golden head Bedeck'd with all the Flowers sweet and gay That could on Tempes Plaines be gathered By learned Sisters in their fairest May. Immortall Flowers which spring and flourish ay And ay their verdure and sweet sent retaine Like heav'nly Arts which neuer doe decay But by their vsing greater glory gaine On shoulders hangs her azure mantle light With siluer spangles all adorned faire Twinkling like brightest Starres in frosty night As they are moued by the gentle aire Her nether parts to hide from vulgar eye A Kirtle like Heav'n Conopy did couer Where all the Signes of Heav'n embroidred fly And all the Graces seeme about to houer I saith shee am Vrania to thee sent From thine adored Mistresse Queene of Loue I rauish Soules aboue the Firmament That they in Numbers like the Spheres may moue With Siluer Key I doe vnlocke the mind Of Mortalls sealed vp in Ignorance That oft their Soules aboue the Stars they find When Bodyes lye on ground as in atrance For I the Spirit am of Contemplation Th' Ehxir of Ambrosia diuine Pure Angells food Soules sweetest delectation The Helicon where both the Sisters nine Art teacheth Art Experience Policy And Practice guild's the tongue with Eloquence But none reach lofty straines of Poesie That haue them not by heav'nly insluence Hence 't is that Clerks which gaine immortall praise By their deepe learned Eloquence in Prose Their numbers cannot to such honour raise As one that scarce the Rules of Grammer knows It is beyond the reach of will or wit A holy Flame of heav'nly Loues pure fire A soaring high transcendent furious fit Whose Life light heate and strength loue doth inspire Loue 's her Beginning and her End is Loue Loue is the Soule and Life of Poesie No Poeme without Loue did euer proue No more then Musicke without Harmony The Loue of Honour and of Cheualry So rais'd the old blind Greeks Heroique quill Hee lifts Achilles valiant acts more high Than his that conquer'd all the world at will The loue of Ciuill and Self-gouernment Him taught to frame such an exact Ulisses That hee who by this Patterne did inuent Roomes glorious author such perfection misses Eglogues of Loue are Muses first delights Till thorough country pleasures shee doth come To sing in state of Honour Armes and Knights And out of old Troys ashes raise vp Rome The wanton all whose speeches were in Verse Who sings in Fictions all Dame natures story In ev'ry sentence doth his Loue rehearse But ah base Lust obscureth all his glory So Loues old rigid Cato vertues lore He makes them dance the measures cunningly To loues Lucretius Dame natures store Hee turnes all Pliny into Poetry And as the obiect of our Loue exceeds So strikes the Muse on high or lower strings Who lowly late did maske in Shepheards weeds In high Heroiques of Armes and Honour sings My Darling Bartas who on Angells wings Beholds the Six Day 's of the Worlds Creation Was so in loue with Heav'n and heauenly things Hee wholly on them fixt his Contemplation And wen he on the Seuenth Day comes to rest He them all orders to his Makers Glory Doubtlesse he fram'd a new world in his brest Whereof he so Diuinely sings the story It was this heav'nly Loue that did incite The warlike Shepheard such sweet notes to sing His loue vnto Gods Statutes day and night Doe strike so loud his Harpe and Violls string And as Wind-Instrument to him repay's That sounds it sweetest musicke for his breath So