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A68914	Iuuenilia. A collection of those poemes which were heretofore imprinted, and written by George wither	Wither, George, 1588-1667.; Elstracke, Renold, fl. 1590-1630, engraver.	1622 (1622)	STC 25911; ESTC S120366	76,243	209

doubts haue beene in vaine And that thou mean'st yet to returne againe It saies thy absence from some cause did grow Which or I should not or I could not know It tels me now that all those proofes whereby I seem'd assur'd of thy disloyalty May be but treacherous plots of some base foes That in thy absence sought our ouerthrowes Which if it proue as yet me thinkes it may Oh what a burden shall I cast away What cares shall I say by and to what height Towre in my new ascension to delight Sure er'e the full of it I come to try I shall eu'n surfet in my ioy and die But such a losse might well be call'd a thriuing Since more is got by dying so then liuing Come kill me then my deare if thou thinke fit With that which neuer killed woman yet Or write to me before so shalt thou giue Content more moderate that I may liue And when I see my staffe of trust vnbroken I will vnspeake againe what is mis-spoken What I haue written in dispraise of Men I will recant and praife as much agen In recompence I le adde vnto their Stories Encomiasticke lines to ymp their glories And for those wrongs my loue to thee hath done Both I and it vnto thy Pitty runne In whom if the least guilt thou finde to be For euer let thine armes imprison me Meane while I 'le try if misery will spare Me so much respite to take truce with care And patiently await the doubtfull doome Which I expect from thee should shortly come Much longing that I one way may be sped And not still linger 'twixt aliue and dead For I can neither liue yet as I should Because I least enioy of that I would Nor quiet die because indeed I first Would see some better daies or know the worst Then hasten Deare if to my end it be It shall be welcome cause it comes from thee If to renew my Comfort ought be sent Let me not loose a minute of Content The precious Time is short and will away Let vs enioy each other while we may Cares thriue Age creepeth on Men are but shades Ioyes lessen Youth decaies and Beauty fades New turnes come on the old returneth neuer If we let our goe past 't is past for euer FINIS A Metricall Paraphrase vpon the CREEDE SInce it befits that I account should giue What way vnto saluation I beleeue Of my profession here the summe I gather First I confesse a Faith in God the Father In God who without Helper or Pertaker Was of himselfe the Worlds Almighty Maker And first gaue Time his being who gaue birth To all the Creatures both of Heauen and Earth Our euerlasting wel-fare doth consist In his great mercies and in Iesus Christ The second person of that Three in one The Father's equall and his onely Sonne That euer-blessed and incarnate Word Which our Redeemer is our life Our Lord. For when by Sathans guile we were deceiued Christ was that meanes of helpe which was conceiued Yea when we were in danger to be lost Conceiued for Vs by the Holy Ghost And that we might not euer be for-lorne For our eternall safety he was Borne Borne as a Man that Man might not miseary Euen of the substance of the Virgin Mary And loe a greater mercy and a wonder He that can make All suffer suffered vnder The Iewish spite which all the world reuile at And Romish tyrannies of Pontius Pilate In him doe I beleeue who was enuied Who with extreamest hate was Crucified Who being Life it selfe to make assured Our soules of safety was both dead and buried And that no seruile feare in vs might dwell To conquere Hee descended into Hell Where no infernall Power had power to lay Command vpon him but on the third day The force of Death and Hell he did constraine And so in Triumph He arose againe Yea the Almighty power aduanc'd his head Aswell aboue all things as from the dead Then that from thence gifts might to men be giuen With glory Hee ascended into Heauen Where that supreame and euerlasting throne Which was prepar'd he climb'd and sitteth on That blessed seate where he shall make abode To plead for vs at the right hand of God And no where should he be enthroned rather Then there for he is God as is the Father And therefore with an equall loue delight I To praise and serue them both as one Almighty ●et in their office there 's a difference And I beleeue that Iesus Christ from thence Shall in the great and vniuersall doome Returne and that with Angels He shall come To question such as at his Empire grudge Euen those who haue presumed him to iudge And that blacke day shall be so Catholicke As I beleeue not onely that the quicke To that assise shall all be summoned But he will both adiudge them and the dead Moreouer in the Godhead I conceiue Another Person in whom I beleeue For all my hope of blessednesse were lost If I beleeu'd not in the holy Ghost And though vaine Schismatickes through pride folly Contemne her power I doe beleeue the holy Chast Spouse of Christ for whom so many search By markes vncertaine the true Cath'like Church I doe beleeue God keepe vs in this vnion That there shall be for euer the Communion Of Gods Elect and that he still acquaints His Children in the fellowship of Saints Though damned be Mans naturall condition By grace in Christ I looke for the remission Of all my foule misdeeds for there begins Deaths end which is the punishment of sinnes Moreouer I the Sadduces infection Abhorre and doe beleeue the Resurrection Yea though I turne to dust yet through God I Expect a glorious rising of the body And that exempted from the cares here rise I shall enioy perfection and the life That is not subiect vnto change or wasting But euer blessed and for euerlasting This is my Faith which that it faile not when It most should steed me let God say Amen A Metricall Paraphase vpon the Lords Prayer To whom that he so much vouchsafe me may Thus as a member of his Church I pray LOrd at thy Mercy-seat ourselues we gather To doe our duties vnto thee Our Father To whom all praise al honor should be giuen For thou art that great God which art in heauē Thou by thy wisdome rul'st the worlds whole frame For euer therefore Hallowed be thy Name Let neuer more delayes diuide vs from Thy glories view but let Thy Kingdome come Let thy commands opposed be by none But thy good pleasure and Thy will be done And let our promptnesse to obey be euen The very same in earth as 't is in heauen Then for our selues O Lord we also pray Thou wouldst be pleased to Giue vs this day That food of life wherewith our soules are fed Contented raiment and our daily bread With eu'ry needfull thing doe thou relieue vs And of thy mercy pitty And forgiue vs All our misdeeds in him whom thou didst please To take in offering for our trespasses And for as much O Lord as we beleeue Thou so wilt pardon vs as we forgiue Let that loue teach vs wherewith thou acquaints vs To pardon all them that trespasse against vs. And though sometime thou findst we haue forgot This Loue or thee yet helpe And leade vs not Through Soule or bodies want to desperation Nor let abundance driue into temptation Let not the soule of any true Beleeuer Fall in the time of tryall But deliuer Yea saue him from the malice of the Diuell And both in life and death keepe vs from euill Thus pray we Lord And but of thee from whom Can this be had For thine is the Kingdome The world is of thy workes the grauen story To thee belongs the power and the glory And this thy happinesse hath ending neuer But shall remaine for euer and for euer This we confesse and will confesse agen Till we shall say eternally Amen Thou shalt write them vpon the postes of thy house and vpon thy Gates Deut. 6. 9. FINIS * ●ere re●ers and ●ibes the Winter 〈◊〉 was so ●…ing 〈…〉 The reason of the 〈◊〉 Winter 〈◊〉 cause of all 〈◊〉 dangers as 〈◊〉 during 〈◊〉 distempera●… of the ayre He noteth the most 〈◊〉 alteration of 〈◊〉 weather a 〈◊〉 before these Nuptials The 〈…〉 preparation 〈◊〉 this 〈◊〉 the state wh●●… of ●is here ●●…gorically 〈◊〉 * Meaning the 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 of 〈…〉 on 〈◊〉 water which 〈◊〉 most 〈…〉 〈…〉 workes 〈…〉 a He declares what vs● is to be made of these showes and triumphes and wha● meditations the minde may be occupied about when 〈◊〉 behold them * Fire-workes The Marriage being on S. Valentines day the Author showes it by beginning with the salutation of a supposed Valentine a 〈◊〉 b Wales a Tyber 〈◊〉 the Ri●er which 〈…〉 Rome b White-●all Semel in anno ridet Apol. a Abuses stript and whipt He noteth the mildnesse of the winter which excepting that the beginning was very windy was as temperate as the spring Moft men 〈◊〉 of opinion ●hat this ●ay euery ●ird doth ●huse her ●ate for 〈◊〉 yeer a By these he means the two Masques one of them being presented by the Lords the other by the Gentry * Hopes See Pro. 30. 8. 9.

within And then my Mind that spight of prison's free When ere she pleases any where can be Shee 's in an houre in France Rome Turky Spaine In Earth in Hell in Heauen and here againe Yet there 's another comfort in my woe My cause is spread and all the world may know My fault 's no more but speaking Truth and Reason No Debt nor Theft nor Murther Rape or Treason Nor shall my foes with all their Might and Power Wipe out their shame nor yet this fame of our Which when they finde they shall my fate enuie Till they grow leane and sicke and mad and die Then though my Body here in Prison rot And my wrong'd Satyres seeme a while forgot Yet when both Fame and life hath left those men My Verse and I 'le reuiue and liue agen So thus enclos'd I beare afflictions load But with more true content then some abroad For whilst their thoughts doe feele my Scourges sting In bands I 'le leape and dance and laugh and sing Alexis Why now I see thou droup'st not with thy care Neither exclaim'st thou on thy hunting day But dost with vnchang'd resolution beare The heauy burthen of exile away All that did truely know thee did conceaue Thy actions with thy spirit still agree'd Their good conceit thou doest no whit bereaue But shewest that thou art still thy selfe indeed If that thy mind to basenesse now descends Thou 'lt iniure Vertue and deceiue thy friends Willie Alexis he will iniure Vertue much But more his friends and most of all himselfe If on that common barre his minde but touch It wrackes his fame vpon disgraces shelfe Whereas if thou steere on that happy course Which in thy iust aduenture is begun No thwarting Tide nor aduerse blast shall force Thy Barke without the Channels bounds to run Thou art the same thou wert for ought I see When thou didst freely on the Mountaines hunt In nothing changed yet vnlesse it be More merrily dispos'd then thou wert wont Still keepe thee thus so other shall know Vertue can giue content in midst of woe And she though mightines with frownes doth threat That to be Innocent is to be great Thriue and farewell Alexis In this thy trouble flourish Cuddy While those that wish thee ill fret pine and perish The Shepheards Hunting The fourth Eglogue THE ARGVMENT Philaret on Willy calls To sing out his Pastorals Warrants Fame shall grace his Rimes Spight of Enuy and the Times And shewes how in care he vses To take comfort from his Muses PHILARETE WILLIE Philarete PRethee Willy tell me this What new accident there is That thou once the blythest Lad Art become so wondrous sad And so carelesse of thy quill As if thou had'st lost thy skill Thou wert wont to charme thy flocks And among the massy rocks Hast so chear'd me with thy Song That I haue forgot my wrong Something hath thee surely crost That thy old wont thou hast lost Tell me Haue I ought mis-said That hath made thee ill-apaid Hath some Churle done thee a spight Dost thou misse a Lambe to night Frowns thy fairest Shepheards Lasse Or how comes this ill to passe Is there any discontent Worse then this my banishment Willie Why doth that so euill seeme That thou nothing worst dost deeme Shepheards there full many be That will change Contents with thee Those that choose their Walkes at will On the Valley or the Hill Or those pleasures boast of can Groues or Fields may yeeld to man Neuer come to know the rest Wherewithall thy minde is blest Many a one that oft resorts To make vp the troope at sports And in company some while Happens to straine forth a smile Feeles more want and outward smart And more inward griefe of hart Then this place can bring to thee While thy mind remaineth free Thou bewail'st my want of mirth But what find'st thou in this earth Wherein ought may be beleeu'd Worth to make me Ioy'd or grieu'd And yet feele I naithelesse Part of both I must confesse Sometime I of mirth doe borrow Otherwhile as much of sorrow But my present state is such As nor Ioy nor grieue I much Philarete Why hath Willy then so long Thus forborne his wonted Song Wherefore doth he now let fall His well tuned Pastorall And my eares that musike barre Which I more long after farre Then the liberty I want Willy That were very much to grant But doth this hold alway lad Those that sing not must be sad Did'st thou euer that Bird heare Sing well that sings all the yeare Tom the Piper doth not play Till he weares his Pipe away There 's a time to slacke the string And a time to leaue to sing Philarete Yea but no man now is still That can sing or tune a quill Now to chant it were but reason Song and Musicke are in season Now in this sweet iolly tide Is the earth in all her pride The faire Lady of the May Trim'd vp in her best array Hath inuited all the Swaines With the Lasses of the Plaines To attend vpon her sport At the places of resort Coridon with his bould Rout Hath alredy been about For the elder Shepheards dole And fetch'd in the Summer-Pole Whil'st the rest haue built a Bower To defend them from a shower Seil'd so close with boughes all greene Tytan cannot pry betweene Now the Dayrie-Wenches dreame Of their Strawberries and Creame And each doth her selfe aduance To be taken in to dance Euery one that knowes to sing Fits him for his Carrolling So do those that hope for meede Either by the Pipe or Reede And though I am kept away I doe heare this very day Many learned Groomes doe wend For the Garlands to contend Which a Nimph that hight Desart Long a stranger in this part With her own faire hand hath wrought A rare worke they say past thought As appeareth by the name For she cals them Wreathes of Fame She hath set in their due place Eu'ry flowre that may grace And among a thousand moe Whereof some but serue for shew She hath woue in Daphnes tree That they may not blasted be Which with Time she edg'd about Least the worke should rauell out And that it might wither neuer I intermixt it with Liue-euer These are to be shar'd among Those that doe excell for song Or their passions can rehearse In the smooth'st and sweetest verse Then for those among the rest That can play and pipe the best There 's a Kidling with the Damme A fat Weather and a Lambe And for those that leapen far Wrastle Runne and throw the Barre There 's appointed guerdons to He that best the first can doe Shall for his reward be paid With a Sheep-hooke faire in-laid With fine Bone of a strange Beast That men bring out of the West For the next a Scrip of red Tassel'd with fine coloured Thred There 's prepared for their meed That in running make most speede Or the cunning Measures foote Cups of turned