best by Tears is woo'd LXV THOU Who one Shoarless Sea of All did'st make Except one floating Isle to take Vengeance on Guilt My Salt Flood rais'd drown Sin i' th' Lake LXVI O how these Words Arise to Judgement quell On Wheels in Torments broke I 'd dwell So as by Grace I might be sav'd from endlesse Hell LXVII To Angel-Intercessor I 'm forbid To pray Yet pray to ONE that did Pray to ANOTHER for HIMSELF when 's Blood-drops slid LXVIII FATHER Perfections Self in CHRIST does shine Thy Justice then in HIM confine Through 's Merits make thy Mercies both are endless mine LXIX See not but through's abstersive Blood my Sin By which I being cleans'd within Adde Perseverance 'T is as hard to hold as win LXX Her Eyes are Centinels to Pray'r to Moans Her Ears her Nose courts Charnel-bones Her Hands Breast-hammers are her constant Food is Groans LXXI Her Heart is hung with Blacks with Dust she cloyes Her golden Tresses Weds Annoyes Breeds Sighs bears Grief which Ibis-like Sin-snakes destroyes LXXII Thus mounts she drizling Olivet the Plains Of Iericho she leaves While Rains The Farmer wet they fully swell his earing Graines LXXIII She her own Farmer stockt from HEAV'N is bent To thrive Care 'bout the Pay-day's spent Stange She alone is Farmer Farm and Stock and Rent LXXIV The Porcupine so 's Quiver Bow and Darts To ' her self alonâ—e has all Wars Arts Her own Artillery needs no Aid from forreign Parts LXXV Sad Votaresse thy Earth of late oregrown With Weeds is plough'd till'd harrow'd sown The Seed of Grace sprouts up when Nature is kept down LXXVI Thy Glebe is melow'd with Faith-quickning Juice The Furrows thence Hope-blades produce Thy Valley cloth'd with LOVE will Harvest Joyes diffuse LXXVII Live Phenix from self-Self-death I' th' Morn who dies To Sin does but immortalize Who studie Death ere dead ere th' Resurrection rise LXXVIII Rachel thy Children Goal and Crown have won Ere they had Skill or Will to run Blest who their whole Dayes Work in their Lifes Morn have done LXXIX Like misty Morn She rose in Dew so found She ne're was till this Sicknesse sound Till Sin in Sorrows flowing Issue Tears lay drownd LXXX Souls Life-blood Tears prevailing Pleaders tame Such Rebels as by Eve did shame Mans Glory only These the old faln World new frame LXXXI Lust causeth Sin Sin Shame Shame bids repent Repentance weeps Tears Sorrow vent Sorrow shews Faith Faith Hope Hope Love Love Souls Content LXXXII Thus from bruis'd Spiceries of her Breast doth rise Incense sweet-smelling Sacrifice Whilst she lifts up to HEAV'N her Heart her Hand her Eyes LXXXIII I 'm sick with trembling sunk with mourning blasted With sinning and with sighing wasted New Life begins to breath O Ioy too long untasted LXXXIV Twice did'st new Life by Breath by Death bestow On Man prevaricating Who By yielding to a Woman made Man yield to Woe LXXXV Then did'st his Soul restore as first inspire With second Grace renewing Fire Whence He hath part again in thy Coelestial Quire LXXXVI Once more for this Heav'n-Denison did'st get A never-fading Coronet Which was with two bright Iewels Grace and Glory set LXXXVII 'T was at my bloud-stain'd Birth Thy Love said Live Links of Thy praevious Chain revive Ev'n crumbled Dust So Thou my Soul from Death reprive LXXXVIII CHRIST Th' Vnction art Salvation IESVS in Thy Death Redemption Blood for Sin Gives Satisfaction Thy Ascension Hope does winne LXXXIX Thy Session Comfort Though I did offend LORD Fears disband give Grace t' amend That Hope which reaps not shame may rise Peace descend XC My Pardon signe The Spear pierct THEE 's the Pen Thy Bloud the Ink Thy Gospel then The Standish is O let my Soul be Paper clean XCI Kinde angry LORD since Thou dost wound yet cure I 'l bear the Yoak the Crosse endure Lament and Love and when set free keep Conscience pure XCII Thus mourns she and in mourning thus she joyes Ev'n that adds Comfort which annoyes Sighs turn to Songs Tears to Wine Fear Fear destroies XCIII As holy Flame did from her Heart arise Dropt holy Water from her Eyes While Pray'r her Incense was LOVE her SACRIFICE XCIV Arm Arm She breaks in with strong ZEAL The Place Sin quitts now garison'd by GRACE Illustrious Triumphs do the Steps of Victors trace XCV When the loud Volleyes of her Pray'rs begin To make a Breach they soon take in The Parapets Redouts and Counterscarps of Sin XCVI At once she works and fights With Lamp she waits Midst Virgins at the BRIDEGROOMS Gates With HIM to feast Her with his BRIDAL DELICATES XCVII To HEAV'N now goes she on her Knees which cry Loud as her Tongue much speaks her Eye HEAV'N storm'd by Violence yields Eyes Tongue and Knees scale high XCVIII My Last crave Pardon for my First Extreams Be prais'd who crown'st my Morn with Beams Converted Age sees Visions erring Youth dreamt Dreams XCIX RELIGION's its own Lustre Who This shun Night-founder'd grope at midday Sun Rebellion is its own self-tort'ring Dungeon C. Mans restlesse Minde GODS Image can't be blest Till of this ONE This ALL possest THOU our Souls Center art our everlasting REST Pars superata Freti Lucem praebentibus Astris Longior at nostrae Pars superanda Viae Da DEUS ut Cursus suscepti nostra propinquet Meta laboranti grata futura Rati Magnificat Anima mea DOMINUM THEOPHILA'S LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO III. The Restauration ARGUMENT Laetior una Dies IESV tua SACRA Canenti Quà m sine TE melicis Secula mille Lyris Vt paveam Scelus omne petam super Omnia COELUM Da mihi Fraena TIMOR Da mihi Calcar AMOR The Authors Rapture GRACE is prais'd a Flood Of Tears is pour'd for Albions Blood Shed in a Mist for smot Micaiahs PEACE is woo'd STANZA I. MUSE twang the pow'rful Harp brush each String O' th' warbling Lute and Canzons sing May ravish Earth and thence to HEAV'N in Triumph spring II. Noble Du-bartas in a high-flown Trance Observ'd to start from 's Bed and dance Said Thus by me shall caper all the Realm of France III. As viscous Meteors fram'd of earthy Slime By Motion fir'd like Stars do clime The woolly-curdled Clouds there blaze out their Time IV. Streaming with burnisht Flames yet Those but ray To spend Themselves and light our Way And panting Windes to cool ours not their own Lungs play V. So my enliv'ned Spirits ascend the Skies Wasting to make the Simple wise Who bears the Torch himself shades lightens others Eyes VI. As Lust for Hell ZEAL sweats to build for HEAV'N When fervent Aspirations driv'n By all the Souls quick Pow'rs to that high Search are giv'n VII High is the Sphear on which FAITHS Poles are hing'd Pure Knowledge Thou art not restring'd Thy Flames enfire the bushie Heart yet leave 't unsing'd VIII Suburbs of PARADISE Thou Saintly Land Of Visions Woo'd by WISDOMS Band By dull Mules in gold-trappings
place XL. One Word did th' All-surrounding Skie-roof frame With all its Starrie sparkling Flame Not all created Wisdom can spell out THY NAME XLI Supreme COMMANDER of the rowling Stars Thy LAW sets to their Progresse Bars Does Epicycle their obliquely gliding Cars XLII No Lines Poles Tropicks Zones can THEE enthrall First MOVER of the Sphearick Ball Above Beneath Without Within Beyond them All XLIII What could but thy All-potent HAND sustain Those Magazines of Hail Snow Rain Lest They should fall at once and deluge All again XLIV By Them THOU Plenty dost to Earth distill And Mans dependent Heart dost fill Windes are Van-Curriers Postilions to THY WILL XLV 'T is That the ominous Cause of Earth-quakes bindes In Subterranean Grotts That findes Strange Ruptures to enfranchise th' ever-strugling Winds XLVI Thy Sandy Cord do's proudest Surges bound And Seas unfathom'd Bottoms sound Thy semi-circling Bow i' th' Clouds thy Covenant crown'd XLVII Earths Hinges hang upon thy Fiat set Midst Air-surrounding Waters yet Stand fixt on That like Which what is so Firm so Great XLVIII Yet Earths fast Columns at thy Frown do quake And Oceans dreadful Horrors make Flints melt the Rocks do rowl the airie Mountains shake XLIX Yea HEAV'NS SELF trembled and the Center shook With thy amazing PRESENCE strook When POWER of Pow'rs on Sina's Mount His Station took L. Each Ens as linkt to PROVIDENCE thy Chain Is govern'd by thy FINGERS Rein THOU seeing us we GRACE we THEE do GLORY gain LI. WHO hast no Eyes to see nor Ears to hear Yetâ—eest â—eest and hear'st All-EYE All-EAR WHO no where art contain'd yet art THOU every where LII The optick Glass we of thy PRAESCIENCE may Call th' Ark where all Idaeas lay By which each Entitie THOU dost at first pourtray LIII Future Events are praeexistent here As if they lately acted were Then any new dissect Anatomy more clear LIV. Each where at once THOU totally art still The same unchang'd yet at thy Will THOU changest All Who though THOU art unmov'd dost fill LV. Things that are most remote In whose Forecast Contingencies do crowd so fast As if past Things were now and Things to come were past LVI Though Acts on Earth crosse to thy WILL are done Besides thy WILL yet acteth None Preceding and succeeding Will in THEE are One LVII Of whose vast MANNOR all the Earth's Demains Though Earth nor Air nor HEAV'N contains Yet each obscurer Grott thy OMNIPRESENCE gains LVIII Though nought accrues to Thy unbounded STATE From Spirits which THOU didst create Yet They thy GOODNES and thy LOVE shall still dilate LIX THOU who mad'st All mad'st neither Sin nor Death Mans Folly first gave them their Breath That did â—base whole Nature with it self beneath LX. But Sin to cure THOU in a Crib gav'st Man EMANUEL DIVINE humane WHO diffâ—ring Natures joyn'd Whose REIGN no Ages scan LXI And THOU O MEDIATOR THOU whose PRAISE Like Morning Dewes to first of Dayes Was sung by Heav'nly CHORISTERS in SERAPH LAYES LXII GOD by the HOLY â—HOST begat THEE LORD Flesh took by the ETERNAL WORD Whose Self-Eternal EMANATION None record LXIII As thy Eternal EMANATION's past So to ETERNITY shal't last In the beginning was the WORD shews still THOV wast LXIV There GOD in ESSENCE One in PERSONS Three Here NATURES two in One agree THOU sitting in the Midst of TRINAL-UNITY LXV At Heav'ns High Councel-Table dart'st such Rayes As strike ev'n CHERUBS with amaze Of which the School disputing All it nothing sayes LXVI Search we the Ages past so long ago None None this MYSTERY could show Till in that Maiden-Birth t was acted here below LXVII A Dove hatch't in that Nest THY SELF did build A LAMB that Thine own Flock does shield A Wintersp FLOW'R that fram'd from whence it sprung the Fieldâ— LXVIII The Iewish Shepherds all affrighted are When HERALDS THEE proclaim'd i' th' Air Yea Magi came t' adore led by a new-born Starre LXIX Yet though thus wond'rously begot thus born SPONSOR for us faln Race forlorn T'ingratiate us with GOD becam'st to Man a Scorn LXX The GRACE SELF th' Honour t' Evangelize The sacred FUNCTION as a Prize Thou took'st yet That not on till call'd in Aarons Guize LXXI Which GOD t' Apostolize did bring to passe By th' HOLY GHOSTS Descent at Face Of Jordans then blest Streams of Which John Witness was LXXII Thence led by th' HOLY GHOST to th' Wilderness There tempted by the Fiends addresse Him overcam'st by Scriptum est Hence our Release Then forth thou wentst LXXIII Thy SERMONS Oracles ACTS Wonders were THOSE Faith begot THESE OTHERS Fear By BOTH thus wrought in us to THEE our selves we rear LXXIV THOU gav'st the Lame swift Legs the Blinde clear Eyes THOU heal'dst all humane Maladies THOU mad'st the Dumb to speak THOU mad'st the Dead to rise LXXV And art to Dead Men LIFE to sick men HEALTH SIGHT to the Blinde to th' Needy WEALTH A PLEASURE without Pain a TREASURE without Stealth LXXVI LORD in not of this World Thy KINGDOM is Thy chos'n Apostles preacht thy Blisse That none of all thy Creatures might SALVATION misse LXXVII Abra'ham long dead before yet saw THY DAY In Isaack born and Vowes did pay Type first then Antitype and quicknest every way LXXVIII Thy Gospel WISDOMS Academie shew'd Thy Mercy JUSTICE calm'd Life view'd Is TEMPERANCE Thy Death the Flag of FORTITUDE LXXIX Thou Altar Sanctuary Sacrifice Priest Bread of Life do'st All suffice N'ere cloying Feast where Appetite by Food doth rise LXXX And SON of MAN dost Sin of Man forgive To be THY Victimes Hearts do strive Who liv'dst that Life might die and di'dst that Death might live LXXXI Yet dy'dst THOU not but that Spîrit quickned free THOU might'st Saints Paradised see Rejoyc'd Assurance give to Them rejoyc'd in THEE LXXXII And that from thence to Satans gloomy Shades Made Prison for the damned Hades Thou miâ—ht'st Thy CONQUâ—ST shew Thy GLORY that ne're fades LXXXIII Thence loos'd Deaths Chains from BODY up to rear IT That when RAIS'D STATE THOU dost inherit THOU might'st become to us an ever-quickning SPIRIT LXXXIV The FATHER to reveal gives to his SON THEE HOLY GHOST thus THREE in ONE Of All peculiar SANCTIFYER yet not Alone LXXXV The FATHERS Love and SONS Adoptions Seal The SPRING of Sanctitie The WEAL O' th' Church THY SELF in Light of fiery Tongues reveal LXXXVI O LIGHT unscann'd Of Wisdom every Glance Beams only from Thy COUNTENANCE Whose STORE when empty'd most It self most doth advance LXXXVII Whose Fruits are Gentleness Peace Love and Joy All crown'd with Blisse free'd from Annoy Which neither Time World Death Hell Devil can destroy Lâ—XXVIII THOU art a Feast fram'd of that fruitfull Fare Which Hungers wast not but repair A rich Perfume no Windes can winnow into Air LXXXIX A Light unseen yet in each Place dost shine A Sound no Art can e're define A pure Embrace that Times Assault can n'ere untwine XC Flouds of unebbing Joyes from THEE do rowl Which
thousand Suns make an Eclipse to THOSE The Diamond there for Pavement growes As on its glitt'ring Stock and all its Sparkles throwes XCV And there on every Angel-trodden Way Loose Pearls instead of Pebbles play Like duskie atoms in the Suns embrightning Ray. XCVI Had I a Quill sent from a SERAPHS Wing And Skill to tune't I could not sing The Moity of that Wealth which That All-glorious KING XCVII Of HEAV'N enstates Those in who follow Good And prizeâ—t above their vital Blood HEAV'N my be gain'd on Earth but never understood XCVIII As when the Sun shakes off the Vail of Night And scatters on the Dawn his Light He soon takes Pris'ner to Himself th' engaged Sight XCIX So when I view those indeficient BEAMS O They in overfulgent GLEAMS Like Diamonds thaw'd to Air embubble forth in Streams C. Ev'n SPIRITS who have disrob'd their Rags of Clay Lay'd up in Ward-robe till that Day Orecome They dazled are by each IMPERIOUS RAY Sexta repercussi Pars antepenultima Ponti Imparibus restat perficienda Modis Quam si praestiterit Mentem DEUS OPTIMUS addam Flammiferos Phoebus cum jug at ortus Equos Ex obscuro spectabile COELUM THEOPHILA'S LOVE-SACRIFICE CANTO VI. The Association ARGUMENT Panduntur COELI juvat hinc invisere Divûm Atria mortali non adeunda Pede Hîc Animae pennis advecta THEOPHILA cernit Agmina COELICOLÛM ducere fancta Choros HEAV'NS Order Beauty Glory is descry'd Here read the State o' th' GLORIFY'D Which THEOPHIL i' th' Heraldry of HEAV'N had ey'd STANZA I. THose happy Mansions glorious SAINT discover Where the bright Host of Spirits hover Bring down all HEAV'N before the Eyes o' th' HEAV'NLY LOVER II. Frail Man with Zeal and Wonder here behold Clay cast into a Heav'nly Mold Faith did now VISION does BEATITUDE unfold III. The Tenants in This splendid FRAME are They Whose grosser and unpolish Clay Calcin'd in Graves now Robes of GLORY do array IV. Here MARTYRS sit enthron'd who late did bleed Sap from their fertil Wounds to feed With Oyl the Churches Lamps and with red Dew her Seed V. These ovant Souls KNIGHTS of Saint VINCENT are For high Atchievements gain'd each Scar To make a golden Constellation seems a Star VI. Not by inflicting but receiving Blowes By suff'ring They ore-came their Foes How long LORD ere THOU do'st avenge their Blood on Those VII These own their Bliss sprung from the Word Will O' th' LAMB by Whom They conquer'd still Themselves and that revolted Band that Hell do's fill VIII Therefore Each prostrate Casts with th' Elders down At the LAMBS Feet their Palm and Crown Beholding round all Eminencies but their own IX Th' APOSTLES here with Him in whose sweet Tongue The Lute of high-tun'd LOVE was strung When through so many Regions He the GOSPEL sung X. The loving lov'd EVANGELIST here lives On LOVES pure Influence and gives No Bounds to 's flaming Love but how to heighten 't strives XI LOVE was his only Theme SHE here is crown'd Who neer Deaths Tomb Life risen found Whose Eye-bowl was Tear-brimm'd whose Towel Hair unbound XII Parcht Africks GLORY born in 's Mothers Eyes An happier Off-spring of her Cries Than of her Womb here to ecstatick LOVE does rise XIII The Bounds are boundless of divine AMOUR Love hopes and yet hath all Things for In HEAV'NS eternal Heraldry true LOVE is Or. XIV Fruition LOVE enfires thence Zeal's renu'd LOVE hath the SPIRITS Plenitude Burning with Flames in SPLENDOR of BEATITUDE XV. LOVE caus'd the SON of GOD from 's Throne dismount And make HIMSELF of no Account Become a Man of Sorrows Who of Ioy 's the Fount XVI This LOVE by Quire of HEAV'N scarce understood Could so much Ill cause so much Good For Mans Redemption that GODS SON should shed His Blood XVII THOU LOVE when as my guilty Soul did dwell In Nest of Ruine did'st unshell My Spirit fledg'd with GRACE from that disord'red Cell XVIII And having crusht the outward Film of Earth Gav'st Her new form'd with GLORY Birth That She might stye to th' SEAT of Beatifick Mirth XIX And praise THEE with those VIRGIN-SOULS who in The Cloysters of their Flesh have bin Washt in their SAVIOURS Bath of Blood from Spots of Sin XX. Flow'rs on our Heads as on their Stems do grow Which into fadeless Colours flow Nor Cold to blast nor Heat to scorch nor Age they know XXI Scenting 'bove thousand precious Ointments shed On consecrated AARONS Head Above pearl'd Dew on Hermons ever-fragrant Bed XXII How far immaculate FLAMES do You excell All that in Thoughts high Turret dwell What then can Opticks see What then can Volumes tell XXIII If Beauties Self we could incarnate see Teeming with Youth and Ioy yet She Would not so beauteous as the VIRGIN-MOTHER be XXIV Who like a full-orb'd Moon our Stars out-shin'd In glorious Fulgurance of Minde For whose surpassing Splendour I this Ode desig'nd XXV Hail blessed VIRGIN-SPOUSE who did'st bequeath Breath unto HIM Who made Thee breathe And gav'st a Life to HIM Who gave the Life from Death XXVI Who bor'st HIM in thy Womb Whose Hands did stack The studded Orbs with Stars and tack The glowing Constellations to the Zodiack XXVII And what improves the Mystery begun New Mysteries from Thee were spun HE did at once become thy Father Spouse and Son XXVIII Conceiving HIM as by the Womb so th' Ear th' ANGELS Tongue HEAV'N cast Seed there Thou heard'st believ'dst thence didst breed thence didst bear XXIX Thou only may'st so it be humbly boast To have brought forth the ETERNAL HOST By mystick OBUMBRATION of the HOLY GHOST XXX By Thee did GOD and Man embrace Each other Thus HEAV'N to Earth became a Brother Thus Thou a VIRGIN to thy MAKER wast a MOTHER XXXI Thy Fleece was wet when all the Ground lay drie Drie when all moist about did lie As AARONS rootless Rod so didst Thou fructifie XXXII Thou art from whence FAITHS Burgeon sprang the Ground Before in after Birth was found Purenesse untoucht with VIRGIN-MOTHERS Honour crown'd XXXIII Thou Shrine of GLORY Ark of BLISSE Thou high Fair Temple of DIVINITY In Thee the Master-peece of Nature I descry XXXIV My ravisht Soul said She extols His NAME Who rules the HEAV'NS expansed Frame Whose MERCIE rais'd me up to magnifie the SAME XXXV Who can anatomize the glorious List Of Heirs to GOD Coheirs with CHRIST Who Royalize it There by GRACES high Acquist XXXVI Whose several GLORIES admirable are And yet as INFINITE as Fair Where Alls's enjoy'd at Full where every Thing is rare XXXVII The Ioy of EACH ONE is the Ioy of ALL BEATITUDE'S reciprocall They drink CHRISTS Cup of flowing Wine who pled'gd his Gall XXXVIII Silence most Rhet'rick hath and GLORIES best Do pourtray forth that Royal FEAST At which each blessed SAINT is an Eternal GUEST XXXIX Nor can a Thought of earthly Friends Annoyes Extenuate one Grain of JOYES While MERCY saves the Wise while JUSTICE Fools destroyes
Bassa fuere nec tibi magis arrideant cerussatae Laudes calamistrata Encomia quà m sincerae sacrosanctae Amoris Anhelationes Seculi delectatiunculas devita Coelorum Jubilo recreaberis delicatula nimis es si velis gaudere cum Mundo postea regnare cum CHRISTO Amarescat Mundus ut dulcescat DEUS Quamdiù est in te Aegypti Farina Manna coeleste non gustabis Gustat DEUM cui Libido Seculi Nauseam parit Exinanitio nostra plenitudinis Coeli capaces reddit Si vis frui Sole verte dorsum Umbrae nec amaris à Mundo nisi à CHRISTO repulsa nec à CHRISTO nisi à Mundo spreta Dejicit se de Culmine Majestatis qui à DEO ad Consolatiunculas Creaturulae confugit O quâ—am contempta recula est homo nisi supra humana se erexerit Beatum nil facit Hominem nisi qui fecit Hominem minimum enim Dei omnis Orbis Magnitudine est magnificentius Paucis nec tibi ignominiosum sit pati quod passus est CHRISTUS nec gloriosum facere quod fecit Judas Morere Mundo ut vivas DEO Quicunque cum DEO habet Amicitiam Felicitatis tenet Fastigium Haec unica Laus hic Apex Sapientiae est ea viventem appetere quae morienti forent appetenda Mortis ergò Meditationi Aeternitatis Contemplationi Lucernulae tuae Oleum impendas Vale. STorms on the Minde from Honours Hill descend Titles external Beams adde not to Blisse The Poor wants much the Covetous All. My Soul No painted Praise nor flowr'd Encomiums prize Equal to pious Breathings of pure Love Eschew the petty Pleasures of the Time And Heav'ns Refreshments make thy Jubilie Imagine not to swim in worldly Pomp And afterwards to reign with CHRIST in Blisse Earth must be Gall that GOD may Honey prove He the best Relish hath of Heav'n who most Disdains the base Licentiousness o' th' Age We must be empty'd of our Selves before We can have Entrance into th' Heav'nly Court If we desire Fruition of the Sun Then must our Backs upon the Shade be turn'd Disclaim'd by CHRIST are those the World doth love And those whom CHRIST do's love the World contemns He of his Greatnesse doth Himself divest Who goes from GOD and Creature-comforts seeks O what a mean dispised thing is Man Unless he raise Himself above the Earth Since nought but his CREATOR makes him high Let 's think 't no Shame t' endure what CHRIST endur'd Nor glory to do that which Judas did Dead to the World let 's be alive to GOD Who gain his Favour are supremely blest This is the Height of Wisdom to desire Those things in Life which Thou wouldst dying crave Then on the Thoughts of Death thy Lamps Oyl spend And muse upon that State which nere shall end Mundo immundo NOn possum non Arte loqui Furor addit Acumen Crimina taxantur Nomina salva latent Munde quid hoc sibi vult tantò longinquiùs erras Quantò plùs graderis Te Cacoethes habet In quos Schismaticas torsisti saeviùs Hastas Quà m quos Virtutis coelitùs Vmbo tegit Protege me Coelum Quis adest Oppressor avarus Cui prior est NUMMUS Numine LIBRA Libro Numme potens Deus es Sic undique supplicat AURO Omnipotens veluti Numen inesset Ei Aurum Nequitiae Pater est Filius Orci Os promit Nectar Mens Aconita vomit Hic vorat utque rapax ruit in nova frusta Molossus Vasta Sitim pariunt Aequora Terra Famem Tota nec explerent Pellaeas Aequora Fauces Terraque sat tantae non erit una Fami Perfida quisquis amat se perdit odit amando Plus habet Ille DEI qui minus Orbis habet Dum captat capitur Daemon licèt Omnia spondet Dat Mundus magnum praeter inane nihil Plena Fames mellita Lues Persuasio fallax Gloria Flos Pulvis Gaza Tiara cinis Tendiculas Pigmenta Dolos Crepitacula Fumos Has rauco Merces Gutture laudet Anus Insatiata Fames rapto superincubet Auro Porcus aggestas grunniat inter Opes Littera R hebraea pelasga latina notabunt Quòd malus eR-RO-RES h nil nisi Mundus habet THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD CANTO X. The Abnegation ARGUMENT What 's potent Opulencie What 's remiss Voluptuousness World what 's All This To That the SOUL' 's created for ETERNAL BLISSE STANZA I. VArious are Poets Flames Some Eclogues write Others describe a horrid Fight Some Lyrick Strains and some the Epick do delight II. But here my sharpned Muse shall entertain The Scourges of Satyrick Vein To lash the World in which such Store of Vices reign III. No Grandee Patron court I nor entice Love-glances from enchanting Eyes Nor Blandishments from lisping Wantons vocall Spice IV. No such trite Theams our fired Genius fit Of which so many Pens have writ Prudential Souls affect sound Reason not sleight Wit V. Blest Talents which the GOSPELS PEARL do buy Frail Hopes that on the World rely Where None are sav'd by Faith but by ' Infidelitie VI. The way to gain more Ground is to retreat Our Flight will be our Foes Defeat Minds conqu'ring great Delights triumph in JOYES more great VII Pull me not World nor can nor will I stay Iugler I know what thou canst say Thy magick Spells charm easie Sense but to betray VIII Wits toil to please Thee Sables yield their Skins The Silk-worm to thy Ward-robe spins Rocks send their Gems Seas Pearls to purvey for thy Sins IX Thou brightnest Cupboards with throng'd massy Plate Heap'st Ermin'd Mantles of Estate Shew'st rich caparison'd champing Coursers at thy Gate X. Thou cull'st of Natures Spoil from Air Earth Seas The wing'd hoof'd finnie Droves to please Gluttons who make themselves Spittles of each Disease XI And shall like Dives a sad Reckning pay Feasts hastned on his Fun'ral Day Death brought the Voider and the Devil took away XII Tell me no more Th' art sweet as spicie Air Or as the blooming Virgin fair And canst with jovial Mirth resuscitate from Care XIII Boast not of Rubie-Lips and Diamond-Eyes Rose-Cheeks and Lilie-Fronts made Prize With dimpled Chins the Trap-pits where a Fondling lies XIV Deaths Serjeant soon thy courted Helens must Attach whose Eyes now Orbs of Lust The Worms shall feed on till they crumble into Dust. XV. Boast World who unto Revels dost decoy Thy Fav'rites that they 'r bath'd in Ioy Disdaining Saints who pretious Time in PRAY'R employ XVI Who where they come with purer Rayes of Light Dazle thy bat-ey'd Legions quite Rage Impudence and Ignorance the Imps of Night XVII Fool thy Attractives in no Limits pent Indulge to Surfets not Content And but illude the Minde not give It Ornament XVIII Gild o're thy bitter Pills with guilefull Arts Sweet Potions brew for frolick Hearts When most thou smil'st thou actest most perfidious Parts XIX With Thee dwells fawning Craft and glozing Hate Th' Allurements of Imperious State Which
Barks like Calms invite unto a Shipwrackt Fate XX. Guile rule the World that doth in Madness roul Great Things the Better oft controul Where Pride is coacht Fraud shopt Taverns drown the Soul XXI Follie in ruffling Storms with Frenzie meets Ebbing and flowing ore the Streets O' th' care-fill'd pompous Citie which exiles true Sweets XXII O fretting Broyls in populous Bussle pent Where still more Noise than Sense they vent And now as much to Gold as late to Battles bent XXIII World reason if thou canst Thy Sports leave Stings Thy Scenes like Thee prove empty Things Thou glorious seem'st in Paint from whence all Falshood Springs XXIV So Rainbow Colours on Doves Necks have shone In Hiew so divers yet so one That Fools have thought them all the Wiser knew them none XXV I 'l countercharm thy Spells that SOULS e're thee May trust wilde Irish Seas Who flee Distrest to thy Relief Thou say'st What 's that to me XXVI Fawn and betray and Treasons self outdare T' o'rethrow by raising is thy Care But I 'l ungull thy Minions undisguize thy Ware XXVII Thy Gold's Drosse glitt'ring Troubles are thy Bliss By Pomp thou cheat'st thy All 's amiss Thou art Sins Stage the Devil prompts Flesh Actor is XXVIII Spectator Sense applauds each witching Gin But unto Reasons Eye within Thou seem'st Hells Broker and the servile Pimp of Sin XXIX Thus Peaches do rough Stones in Velvet tire Thus rotten Sticks mock Starrie Fire Thus Quagmires with green Emeralds crown their cheating Mire XXX So Mermaids lovely seem in Beauties Guize With Voice and Smiles draw Ears and Eyes But whom they win they sink those never more shall rise XXXI Thy Shop 's but an Exchange of apish Fashion Thy Wealth Sports Honours are Vexation Thy Favors glistring Cares sweet Surfets woo'd Damnation XXXII Base Proverbs are thy Counsels to enthrall Each for himself and God for All Young SAINTS I dread to speak it to old Devils fall XXXIII Rain on thy Darlings Head a Danaen Shour Let him be drencht in Wealth and Poure What then Th' hast Storm'd seiz'd on All in one short hour XXXIV O thou Prides restless Sea swoln Fancies blow Thee up dost blew with Envie grow Brinish with Bloud like the Red Sea with Lust dost flow XXXV Remorceless Rage thou in thy fift Acts Breath When Bloud does freeze to Ice of Death And Life 's jail'd up for Natures Debt where art Beneath XXXVI World ev'n Thy Name a whirling Storm implies Where Men in Generations rise Like Bubbles dropsy'd Bladders of the rainie Skies XXXVII Some strait sink down whom VVaters Sheet do's hide Some floating up and down abide The longest are so circumvolv'd as Rest's deny'd XXXVIII So have we rid out Storms when Eol's Rave Plough'd up the Ocean whose each Wave Might waken Death with Noise and make its Paunch a Grave XXXIX The sick Ship groan'd fierce Windes her Tacklings rent The proud Sea scorn'd to be Shoar-pent VVe seem'd to knock at Hell and bounce the Firmament XL. Clouds then ungilt the Skies when Lightnings Light Flasht thousand glimmering Dayes t' our sight But Thunders Canons soon turn'd those flasht Dayes to Night XLI Thus art thou World Lifes Storm at Death Distress Starving's the Bottom of Excesse Thy Self a piteous Creature how can'st me redress XLII No had'st lesse cruel been th' hadst been less kinde Oyl 's in thy Gall to heal my Minde Thus Hell may help to HEAV'N Satan a Soul befriend XLIII A good Cause with good Means some use yet fare But ill when Others of thy Care Whose Cause is bad and Means ill us'd successful are XLIV No Wonder Sins Career uncheckt runs on Since here Lifes Joy it hath alone Which though thou bragg'st is giv'n no sooner 's giv'n than gone XLV Pomp Pleasure Pelf idolatriz'd by Fools Dispute we now in WISDOMS Schools Ambitions quenchless Fire i' th Spring of Iudgment cools XLVI Pride bladders tymp'nous Hearts till prickt by Fear Soon they subside by venting there Unsafe Ascents to Pow'r do watching Dangers rear XLVII Fearfull and fear'd is Pomp Ambition steep Does Envie get and Hatred keep High State wants Station Honour-thirsting Minds can't sleep XLVIII Summon ASPIRO with his Looms of State To weave Prides Web in spite of Fate Who once got up throwes down the Steps did elevate XLIX He hates Superiors 'cause Superiors and Inferiors lest they's Equals stand And on his Fellows squints that are in joynt Command L. Th' Ambitious treach'rous are and hoodwinkt quite Their giddy Heads have dazled Sight For Iealousie clothes Truth in double Mists of Spite LI. His Eye must see and wink his Tongue must brave And flatter too his Ear must have Audience yet carelesse be Thus acts he KING Slave LII So brightest Angel blackest Devil hides High'st Rise to lowest Downfall slides A Mathematick point thus East and West divides LIII Bright Wisdom sends dark Policie to School Proves the Contriver but a Fool Who builds his Maxims on a Precipice or Pool LIV. Great Ones keep Realms from Want They 'l you from Hate Life 's not so dear as Wealth For That Holds single Bodies This the Body of the State LV. Who bad Desires conceive they soon wax Great With Mischief then bring forth Deceit So brood They Desolation till it grows compleat LVI Let such as sail 'gainst VIRTUES Winde use Skill To tack about for what 's first Ill Grows worse by Use and worst by Prosecution still LVII Ev'n That to which Prides touring Project flies When graspt soon by Fruition dies Great Fears great Hopes great Plots great Men make Tragedies LVIII Achitophel and Absalon prov'd This Whose Brains of their Designs did misse Teaching deep Machavels Fraud worst to th' Plotter is LIX Fallacious They and fallible have been Who made RELIGION cloak their Sin Mans greatest Good or greatest Ill is from Within LX. Those Policies that hunt for Shadowes so As let at last the Substance go Which ever lasts make wretched End in endless Wo. LXI Had'st for thy Householdstuff the Spoil of Realms Could'st thou engross Cathaiahs Gems And more then triplicate Romes triple Diadems LXII Could'st with thy Feet toss Empires into Air And sit i' th Universall Chair Of State were Pageants made for Thee the whole Worlds Mayor LXIII Yet those but Pageants were Thou Slave to Sense To him not's own all Things dispence But Storms Thou happier wast i' th' Preterperfect Tense LXIV Steward give up th' Account the Audit's neer To reckon how and when and where Where much is lent there 's much requir'd Day 's severe LXV Thus proud Ambition is by Conscience peal'd Vapours sent up a while conceal'd In thundring Storms pour down at length when All 's reveald LXVI Though Prides high Head doth brush the Stars yet shall Its Carkass like a Sulphur Ball Plunge into Flames Abyss Pride concav'd Satans Hall LXVII The Mighti'st are but Worms pale Cowards they Abasht shall stand at that GREAT DAY When Conscience King of Terrors shall
refin'd it doth It self abroad display IV. Mount Fancie then through Orbs to GLORIES Sphere Wilde is the Course that ends not there You who are VIRTUES Friends lend to her Tongue an Ear. V. Let not the wanton Love-fights which may rise From vocal Fifes Flame-darting Eyes Beauties Munition Hearts w th Wounds unseen surprize VI. Whose Basilisk-like Glances taint the Air Of VIRGIN purenesse and ensnare Entangled Thoughts i' th' Trammels of their Ambush-hair VII Loves Captive view who 's Daies in warm Frosts spends On 's Idol dotes to Wit pretends Writes blots rends nor heeds where he begins or ends VIII His Stock of Verse in Comick Fragments lies Higher than Ten'riffs Pique He flies Sols but a spark Thou outray'st all Diamonds of the Skies IX Victorious Flames glow from thy brighter EYE Cloud those twin-lightning ORBS They 'l â—rie Anice-vein'd Monk cloud Them or PLANET-struck I die X. Indians pierce Rocks for Gems Negro's the Brine For Pearls Tartars tohunt combine For Sables Consecrate all Off'rings at HER SHRINE XI Crouch low -O Vermeil-tinctur'd CHEEK for thence The Organs to my Optick Sense Aredazled at the Blaze of so bright ANGELENCE XII Does Troy-bane Hellen Friend with ANGELS share All Lawlesse Passions Idols are Frequent are fuco'd Cheeks The Virtuosa's rare XIII A Truth authentick Let not skin-deep white And red perplex the nobler Light O' th' Intellect nor mask the SOULS clear piercing Sight XIV Burn Odes Lusts Paperplots Fly Playes its Flame Shun guileful Courtisms Forge for Shame No Chains Lip-traffick and Eye-dialogues disclaim XV. Hark how the frothy empty Heads within Roar and carouse i' th' jovial Sin Amidst the wilde Levalto's on their merry Pin XVI Drain dry the ransackt Cellars and resign Your Reason up to Riot joyn Your Fleet sail by Sugar-rocks through Floods of Wine XVII Send Care to dead Sea of Phlegmattick Age Ride without Bit your restive Rage And act your Revel-rout Thus on the tipling Stage XVIII Swell us a lustie BRIMMER more till most So Vast that none may spie the Coast Wee 'l down with ALL though therein sail'd LEPANTO'S Host XIX Top and Top-gallant hoise We will out-rore The bellowing Storms though shipwrackt more Healths are than tempting'st Syrens did inchant of yore XX. Each Gallon breeds a Ruby Drawer score'um Cheeks dy'd in Claret seem o' th' Quorum When our Nose-carbuncles like Link-boyes blaze before'um XXI Such are their Ranting Catches to unsoul And out-law Man They stagger rowl Their â—eet indent their Sense being drunk with Circes Bowl XXII Intombed Souls Why rot ye thus alive Melting your Salt to Lees and strive To strangle Nature and hatch Death Healths Health deprive XXIII The sinlesse Herd loaths your Sense-stifling Streams When long Spits point your Tale Ye Breams In Wine and Sleep your PRINCES are but Fumes and Dreaâ—s XXIV I 'd rather be preserv'd in Brine than rot In Nectar Now to Dice they 're got Their Tables snare in both Then what can be their Shot XXV Yet Blades will throw at Aâ—l sans Fear or Wit Oaâ—hâ— black the Night when â—ice do'nt hit When Winners lose at Play can Losers win by it XXVI Egypts Spermatick Nurse when her spread Floor Is flow'd 'bove sev'nteen Cubits ore Breeds Dearth And Spend-thriâ—ts waste when they enflame the Score XXVII Tell me ye pybald Butterflies who poise Extrinsick with intrinsick Joyes What gain ye from such short-liv'd fruitless empty Toys XXVIII Ye Fools who barter Gold for Trash report Can Fire in Pictures warm Can Sport That stings the mock-sense fill How low's your HEAV'N how short XXIX Go chaffer BLISSE for Pleasure which is had More by the Beast than Man the Bad Swim in their Mirth CHRIST wept nere laught The Best are sad XXX Brutes covet nought but what 's terrene HEAV'NS Quire Do in eternal Joyes conspire Man 'twixt them Both does intermediate Things desire XXXI Had we no Bodies we were ANGELS and Had we no Souls we were unmann'd To Beasts Brutes are all Flesh all Spirit the Heav'nly BAND XXXII At first GOD made them One thus by subjecting The Sense to Reason and directing The Appetite by th' Spirit But Sin by infecting XXXIII Mans free-born Will so shatters Them that They At present nor cohabite may Without â—Regret nor without Grief depart away XXXIV Go cheating World that dancest ore thy Thorns Lov'st what undoes hat'st what adorns Go idolize thy Vice and VIRTUE load with Scorns XXXV Thy luscious Cup more deadly then Asps Gall Empoys'neth Souls for Hell Thou all Times Mortalls dost enchant with thy delusive Call XXXVI Who steals from Time Time steals from him the Prey Pastimes passe Time passe HEAV'N away Few like the blessed Thief do steal SALVATIONS Day XXXVII Fools rifle Times rich Lott'rie Who mispend Lifes peerlesse Gemme alive descend And Antidate with Stings their never-ending End XXXVIII Whose vast Desires engrosse the boundlesse Land By Fraud or Force Like Spiders stand Squeezing small Flies Such are their Nets such their Hand XXXIX When Nimrods Vulture-Talons par'd shall be Their Houses Name soon chang'd you 'l see For their Bethesda shall be turn'd to Bethanie XL. Better destroy'd by Law than rul'd by Will What Salves can cure if Balsams kill That Good is worst that does degenerate to Ill. XLI Had not GOD left the BEST within the Power Of Persecutors who devoure We had nor MARTYRS had nor yet a SAVIOUR XLII SAINTS melt as Wax Fools-clay grows hard at Cries Of that scarce-breathing Corse who lies With dry Teeth meager Cheeks thin Maw hollow Eyes XLIII GOD made Life Give 't to Man By opening Veins Death's sluc'd out and Pleuretick Pains Make GOD thy Pattern Cure thy self Alms are best gains XLIV HEAV'NS GLORIE to atchieve what scantling Span Hath the frail Pilgrimage of Man Which sets when risen ends when it but now began XLV Who fight with outward Lusts win inward Peace Iudgements against Self-Iudges cease Who face their Cloaks with Zeal do but their Woes increase XLVI The Mighty mighty Torments shall endure If impious Hell admits to Cure The best Securitie is ne're to be secure XLVII Oaks that dare grapple with HEAV'NS Thunder sink All shiver'd Coals that scorch do shrink To Ashes Vap'ring Snuffs expire in noysom Stink XLVIII Time strip the writhel'd Witch Pluck the black Bags From off Sins grizly Scalp the Hags Plague-sores shew then more loathsom than her leprous Rags XLIX 'T was She slew guiltlesse Naboth 't was she curl'd The painted Iezabel she hurl'd Realms from their Center She unhing'd the new-fram'd World L. Blest then who shall her dash 'gainst Rocks her Grones Our Mirth and wash the bloody Stones With her own cursed Gore repave them with her Bones LI. By Salique Law She should not reign Storms swell By her which Halcyon Dayes dispell Nought's left that 's good where she in Souls possest does dwell LII 'T was her Excesse bred Plagues Infecting Stars Infesting Dearth Intestine Wars Surfeit with Graves the Earth 'mongst Living
are Hell-proof THEOPHILA'S Soliloquie STANZA 1. WHen Heav'ns LOVE Paramount HIMSELF reveals And to the suppliant Soul her Pardon seals At feard-Hopes doubtful Gate w th trembling fell 2. Who Heav'n-ward sails coasts by the Cape of Hell That Her HE deigns to take She joyes in Woes To have in Labour pass'd the Parturition Throes 3. All Travell-pangs all New-birth Heart-deep Groans All After-births of Penitential Mones Are swallow'd up in living Streams of Bliss 4. When as the Heav'n-born Heir the New-man is By th' quickning SPIRIT of the HIGH'ST reborn Time past hath pas'd her Night present presents her Morn 5. See Ioy in Light See Light in Ioy O see Poor worthless Maid Fruit brought thee from Lifes-Tree By th' SPOUSE SPIRIT Saints sole Supporters Rise 6. Then Hells Apostate and be Heav'nly wise THOU art Lets interpledge our Soul my ONE My ALL though not by UNITIE by Vnion 7. Ineffably mysterious Knot begun Saints mount as Dew allur'd by beckning Sun Loves faithful Friends what parallels your Guard 8. Where Truth is Sentinel and Grace the Ward The Way is Flow'r-strown where the Guide is Love His SPIRIT with you below your Spirit with HIM Above 9. Reciprocal Excesse of Ioy Then soar My Soul to HIM Who Man became Nay more Took Sin it self to cleanse thy fully'd Clay 10. But took it only to take it away O SELF DONATION peerlesse GUIFT unknown Now since that HE is Thine be never Thou thine own 11. O Prodigie of Great and Good Faith sound This LOVES Abysse that do's so strangly bound ALMIGHTINES IT SELF From Whose Veins see 12. Unsluc't LOVES purple Ocean when His Free Red-streaming Life did vanquish Death Hell That thou might'st live HE dy'd That thou might rise HE fell 13. GOD so lov'd Man that Naturalists may deem GOD to set Man before HIMSELFE did seem When Man with seeing blinde 'gainst GOD arose 14. And slew his only FRIEND GOD sav'd his Foes Sol mour'nd in blacks Heav'ns Vice-roy Nature swounded Excess Loves Reason was Immensitie Love bounded 15. Ye Twins of Light as Sun-flow'rs be enclin'd To th' SUN of RIGHTEOUSNES Let Taste refin'd Like nothing as LOVES Heav'nly Manna and 16. Let all but CHRIST feel rough as Esaus Hand Let nought like 's Garment smell Let Ears rejoyce But in expresles Dictates of LOVES whisp'ring Voice 17. HE 'S thy bright Sun 'twixt WHOM and thy Souls Bliss Thy earthie Body interposed is Whereby such dread Eclipses caused are 18. As fam'd Astâ—â—â—omers can ne're declare Yet oft HE shines Then vanish servile Fears Then Heav'n-ward filial Hopes dry up thy trickling Tears 19 Spiritual Light Spirituals clears In HEAV'N Thou 'lt view that full what now by Glimps like Steph'n Thou canâ—st but spy There shalt thou Face to Face 20. His Light His Ioy His Love His Pow'r His Grace And His ALL-FILLING GLORY clearly see In optick Emanations from ETERNITIE 21 I' th' RING of boundless LUSTER from whose Ray This petty World gleaneth its peep of Day Thou shalt be Crown'd with Wreaths of endless Light 22. Here oft's an Enterview in Heat and Might By Inter-lucidations from ABOVE Twining Embraces with 's ensphearing ARM of LOVE 23 Most blessed Souls to whom He do's appear Folded within your Arms chast Hemisphear O Condescend How 's LIPS shed Love Life Merit 24. He makes his Angels Court of Guard By 's SPIRIT HE crowns you with his Grace So with his BLOOD When HE Redeem'd you and consign'd His FLESH for Food 25 Meat came from th' Eater from the Strong did Dew Sweetnesse when as incomparably true OMNIPOTENCIES SELF did largely shed 26. His mystick Oil of Ioy upon thyâ— Head Then trample Sin in Babylons golden Cup Treasures away She trifles Trifles treasures up 27 Oyl of this Lamp obsequious Soul lights Thee To thine approaching HEAV'N In Sanctiâ—ie Be actuated then Being up assumâ—d 28. By this bright Sun with this rich Oyl perfum'd Th' art prepossest with Heav'nly Comforts which With their Soul-chearing Sweets both ravish and enrich 29 Poor panting Heart Loves Seat yearn for Ioys Pith To have thy highest Bliss Communion with The FATHER the SON one SPIRIT with CHRIST 30. And One in THEM as THEY are One Thou fly'st Through Grace to GLORY VISION shall sublime Thy Faith FRUITION Hope ETERNITâ— thy Time THEOPHILA'S LOVE-SONG STANZA 31. SELF ô how mean an Harmonie it breeds JESUS All Names this NAME of Names exceeds This Name 's GODS Mercie at full Sea 't is LOVES 32. High Tow'r Ioyes Loadstone This my Spirit moves Hark Rise my Love my Fair One Come away Lingring breeds Losse I am thy Leader Light and Way 33. What Speed Speeds self can make Soul flie withall GREATNES and GOODNES most Magnetical Shoot like a Flashof Fire to th' ruby Wine 34. His precious BLOOD transcendently Divine How poor those costly pearls were drunk by Some My LORD drink Blood to me Let It to th' Worlds Health come 35 All Hope 's unanchor'd but in THAT THOU art 'Bove Indies Womb rich to my Love-sick Heart Flesh-fair Endowments are but Skin-deep Brags 36. Varnisht Corruption Wealth is but Cares Bags The Bag impostom'd choaks Gold Beauty Fame Are sublunary Mysts to SAINTS Seraphick Flame 37 JESUS THIS fans my Fire which has at best But Grains of Incense Pounds of Interest Go Int'rest Take the Principal Thine own 38. Divine LOVE loves thy LOVELINES alone What Flames to THINE proportionable be LORD had'st not first lov'd Man Man could not have lov'd THEE 39 Why lov'st us but because THOU would'st O why For Lepers would the UNDEFILED die That Pen was dipt i' th' Standish of thy Blood 40. Which wrot th' Indenture of our termless Good O LOVE 'bove Wish Never such LOVE enroll'd Who think their utmost Flames enough for THEE are cold 41. Whose HIGHNES did not to be low disdain Yet when at Lowest Highest did remain Who bow'dst HEAV'NS Altitude refresh with Flowrs 42. With JESSES Sov'raign Flow'r my fainting Pow'rs Which sink as shaft-struck Hart embost twixt Grief And Ioy Grief for my Sin Ioy for thy free Reliefâ— 43. Wrackt is with bitter-sweet Extreams my Minde Shell'd sheath'd cag'd coffin'd in her treacherous friend Her always tempting mass of Flesh She bears 44. Her Hopes did they not sprout from Thee were fears HOPE Thou Perfume of LOVERS for thy Sake LOVE'S generous throws at All Life 's but a petty Stake 45 Scarce worth the Prize LOVE makes two Spirits but one Me Counterpart to thy Indenture own I active then as Light tread Air and Flame 46. Without or Wing or Chariot and disclaim All the faint Sweets of Earth Thy SPIRIT views How in Loves torrid Zone thy sweltring Martyr stews 47 Row me ye Dove-wingd Oars whom Hope do's buoy To wisht-for Hav'n flowing with Tides of Ioy Yet wish I not my Joy thy Ioyes Above 48. Meerly for Ioy nor Pleasures of thy LOVE Only for Love of Pleasure No let free Spiritual Languors teem Fruitful yet Virgins be 49 Give give me
Rage seem Natures Consort tun'd by Love LVI VVee to their hoarse Laments lend listning Ears And sympathize with them in Tears Sadly remembring British Sions acted Fears LVII Then our sad Hearts are prickt whence spring forth Cries From those drain'd through the bruis'd Soul rise Faith-fumes by Heav'ns Fire drawn which drop through melting Eyes LVIII Cause hungry Swords devour'd Mans Flesh like Food And thirsty Spears were drunk with Blood LORD how thy Spouse turns mummy'd Earth her Gore a Floud LIX Edge-hill with Bones lookt white with Blood lookt red Maz'd at the Number of the Dead A Theam for Tears in unborn Eyes to be still shed LX. How many bound with Iron who did scape The Steel and Death commits a Rape On them in Jayls who Her defy'd in warlike Shape LXI Cross-biasnesse to Grace our Ruine spinn'd Harrow'd with Woes be HEAV'N our Friend Sodome 'gainst Nature We 'gainst Light of TRUTH have sinn'd LXII This draws Eye-tribute from Compunctions Den GRACE guard thy prostrate Suppliant then VVho am the Chief of Sinners and the Worst of Men LXIII My Guilt before thy MERCY-SEAT I lay For HIS sake save me who gave way To dye for Sinners Ah Sin kills HIM every Day LXIV Sin n'ere departs till humbled in deep Fears Embalm'd in Pray'rs and drown'd in Tears The fragrant Araby breathes no Perfume like Theirs LXV More fruitfull Those unwitnessed appear Gems are too cheap for every Tear Deep Sorrow from It-Self doth its high Comfort rear LXVI Salt Tears the pious Converts sweetest Sport To hopefull Joyes the entring Port Ye waft blest Mariners to Sions glorious Court LXVII But whether stray'st thou Grief Pearld Dew arraies As yet the Virgin-Meads whose Gaies Unbarb'd perk up to prank the curled Stream that plaies LXVIII By rushy-fringed Banks with purling Rill Meandring underneath the Hill Thus Stream-like glides our Life to Deaths broad Ocean still LXIX The pleasant Grove triumphs with blooming May While Melancholy scuds away The painted Quire on motly Banks sweet Notes display LXX Earths flow'r-wov'n Damask doth us gently woo On her embroyder'd Mantle to Repose where various Gems like Constellations shew LXXI Our selves here steal we from our selues by Qualms Of Pleasure rais'd from new-coyn'd Psalms When Skies are blew Earth green and Meadows flow with Balms LXXII We there on grassie tufted Tapistries In guiltlesse Shades by full-hair'd Trees Leaning unpillow'd Heads view Natures Ants Bees LXXIII Justly admiring more those agile Ants Than Castle-bearing Elephants Where Industrie epitomiz'd no Vigour wants LXXIV More than at Tusks of Bores we wonder at This Moths strange Teeth Legs of this Gnat Passe large-limm'd Gryphons Then on Bees we musing sat LXXV How Colonies Realms Hope they breed Proclaim Their King how Nectar-Courts they frame How they in waxen Cels record their Princes Fame LXXVI How Kings amidst their Bands in Armour shine And great Souls in small Breasts confine How under strictest Laws they keep up Discipline LXXVII How All agree while their King lives in one But dead the publike Faith 's o'rethrown Their State becomes a Spoil which was so plenteous grown LXXVIII Abstruser Depths here Aristotles Eye That Ipse of Philosophie Natures Professor purblinde was to search so high LXXIX Thinking which Some deem Idlenesse to me It seems Lifes Heav'n on Earth to be By Observation GOD is seen in all wee see LXXX Our Books are HEAV'N above us Aire and Sea Around Earth under Faith 's our Stay And Grace our Guide the Word our Light CHRIST our Way LXXXI Friend view that Rock and think from Rocks green Wound How thirst-expelling Streams did bound View Streams and think how Iordan did become dry Ground LXXXII View Seas think how Waves like Walls of Glass Stood fixt while Hebrew Troops did pass But clos'd the Pharian Host in one confused Mass. LXXXIII These Flow'rs we see to Day like Beauty brave At Ev'n will be shut up and have Next Week their Death then buried soon in Stalks their Grave LXXXIV Beautie 's a Flow'r Fame Puff high State a Gaze Pleasure a Dance and Gold a Blaze Greatnesse a Load These soon are lost in Times short Maze LXXXV As solemn Statesmen sleight meer childish toyl Framing Card-structures ANGELS smile And pitty so when Life strait flits Mans tearing Broyl LXXXVI Search Empires Dawn unwinde Times Ball again Unreel through Ages its snarl'd Skain Run back like Sol on Ahaz Diall See All 's vain LXXXVII This did I from THEOPHILA descry Not her fair-feather'd Speech could fly To Ground but my Ears Pitfall caught it instantly LXXXVIII Though her informing Voice be parted hence Tides of impressive Notions thence Flow soft as Shours on Balm sweet as Frankincense LXXXIX The Conqueror who wades in Bloud for Pow'r Cannot ensure th' ensuing Houre Death soon may his Ovations sweetest Nectar sowre XC All 's vain Th' Assyrian Lion Persian Bear Greek Leopard Roman Eagle-where Where is fam'd Troy that did so proudly domineer XCI Troy's gone yet Simois stayes O Fortunes Play That which was fixt is fled away And only what was ever-flitting still does stay XCII Vast Pyramids uprear'd t'interre the Dead Themselves like Men are sepulchred Ambitious Obelisks Ostents of Pride Dust wed XCIII HEAV'N sees the crumbling Fabrick of Earths Ball That Dust is Mans Original To HIM All Nature is as wither'd Leaves that fall XCIV Terrestrials transient are Kings fight for Clods HEAV'NS HEIRE is mightier PRINCE by odds Ev'n All is His and He is CHRISTS CHRIST is GODS XCV Thoughts dwell on This. Let 's be our own Deaths-Head The glorious Martyr lives though dead Sweet Rose in his own fadelesse Leaves enveloped XCVI HEAV'N was his Watch whose starrie Circles winde All Ages up the Hand that sign'd Those Figures guides them World thy Clocks are false blinde XCVII Time in ETERNITIES immense Book is But as a short Parenthesis Mans Life a point GODS Day is never-setting Bliss XCVIII Could Man summe up all Times so as if there A Moment not remaning were Yet all those close-throng'd Figures seem but Cyphers here XCIX Could Calculators multiply times Glass To Myriads more of Yeers alas Those Sands to This DURATION as a Minute passe C. Such mental Buds we from each Object take And for CHRISTS Spouse of Them we make Spiritual Wreaths nor do we Her own Words forsake CI. Arise ô North and thou ô South-winde blow Let Scent of Flow'rs and Spices flow That the BELOVED may into his Garden goe CII Whose Beauty Flow'rs whose Height made lofty Trees Whose Permanence made Time These Pay Tribute by Returns to HIM as Springs to Seas CIII This steals our Soul from her thick Loom t' aspire To Canzons tin'd with Enthean Fire Taking high Wing to soar up to the Angel-Quire CIV By such like Speculations would we stie To th' SUN of Righteousnesse though I A Star am lesse than least of all the Galaxie CV The Burden to each Hymn is This. Thy Wayes LORD are inscrutable All Dayes All Tongues are