May in its motion grow irregular The Sunne forget to yeeld his welcome flame To th' teeming earth yet she remaine the same And in my armes if Poets may divine I once that world of beauty shall intwine And on â—er lips print volumes of my love Without a froward checke and sweetely move i th' Labyrinth of delight If not I le draw Her picture on my heart and gently thaw With warmth of zeale untill I heaven entreat To give true life to th' ayery counterfeit Eccho to Narcissus In praise of CASTARA'S discreete Love SCâ—rn'd in thy watry Vrne Naâ—cissus lye Thou shalt not force more tribute from my eye T' increase thy streames or make me weep a showre To adde fresh beauty to thee now a flowre But should relenting heaven restore thee sence To see such wisedome temper innocence In faire Castara's loves how shee discreet Makes causion with a noble freedome meete At the same moment thou ld'st confesse fond boy Fooles onely thinke them vertuous who are coy And wonder not that I who have no choyce Of speech have praysing her so free a voyce Heaven her severest sentence doth repeale When to Castara I would speake my zeale To CASTARA Being debarr'd her presence BAnisht from you I charg'd the nimble winde My unseene Messenger to speake my minde In am'rous whispers to you But my Muse Lest the unruly spirit should abuse The trust repos'd in him sayd it was due To her alone to sing my loves to you Heare her then speake Bright Lady from whose eye Shot lightning to his heart who joyes to dye A martyr in your flames O let your love Be great and firme as his Then nought shall move Your setled faiths that both may grow together Or if by Fate divided both may wither Harke 't was a groane Ah how sad absence rends His troubled thoughts See he from Marlow sends His eyes to Seymors Then chides th' envious trees And unkinde distance Yet his fancie sees And courts your beauty joyes as he had cleav'd Close to you and then weepes because deceiv'd Be constant as y' are faire For I fore-see A glorious triumph waits o' th victorie Your love will purchase shewing us to prize A true content There onely Love hath eyes To Seymors The house in which CASTARA lived BLest Temple haile where the Chast Altar stands Which Nature built but the exacter hands Of Vertue polisht Though sad Fate deny My prophane feete accesse my vowes shall flye May those Musitians which divide the ayre With their harmonious breath their flight prepare For this glad place and all their accents frame To teach the Eccho my Castara's name The beautious troopes of graces led by love In chaste attempts possesse the neighb'ring grove Where may the Spring dwell still May every tree Turne to a Laurell and propheticke be Which shall in its first Oracle divine That courteous Fate decrees Castara mine To the Dew In hope to see CASTARA walking BRight Dew which dost the field adorne As th' earth to welcome in the morne Would hang a jewell on each corne Did not the pittious night whose eares Have oft beene conscious of my feares Distill you from her eyes as teares Or that Castara for your zeale When she her beauties shall reveale Might you to Dyamonds congeale If not your pity yet how ere Your care I praise 'gainst she appeare To make the wealthy Indies here But see she comes Bright lampe o th' skie Put out thy light the world shall spie A fairer Sunne in either eye And liquid Pearle hang heavie now On every grasse that it may bow In veneration of her brow Yet if the wind should curious be And were I here should question thee Hee 's full of whispers speake not me But if the busie tell-tale day Our happy enterview betray Lest thou confesse too melt away To CASTARA STay under the kinde shadow of this tree Castara and protect thy selfe and me From the Sunnes rayes Which shew the grace of Kings A dangerous warmth with too much favour brings How happy in this shade the humble Vine Doth 'bout some taller tree her selfe intvvine And so growes fruitefull teaching us her fate Doth beare more sweetes though Cedars beare more state Behold Adonis in yand ' purple flowre T' was Venus love That dew the briny showre His coynesse wept while strugling yet alive Now he repents and gladly would revive By th' vertue of your chaste powerfull charmes To play the modest wanton in your armes To CASTARA Ventring to walke too farre in the neighbouring wood DAre not too farre Castara for the shade This courteous thicket yeeld hath man betray'd A prey to wolves to the wilde powers o th' wood Oft travellers pay tribute with their blood If carelesse of thy selfe of me take care For like a ship where all the fortunes are Of an advent'rous merchant I must be If thou should'st perish banquerout in thee My feares have mockt me Tygers when they shall Behold so bright a face will humbly fall In adoration of thee Fierce they are To the deform'd obsequious to the faire Yet venter not t is nobler farre to sway The heart of man than beasts who man obey Vpon CASTARA'S departure VOwes are vaine No suppliant breath Stayes the speed of swift-hâ—el'd death Life with her is gone and I Learne but a new way to dye See the flowers condole and all Wither in my funerall The bright Lilly as if day Parted with her fades away Violets hang their heads and lose All their beauty That the Rose A sad part in sorrow beares Witnesse all those dewy teares Which as Pearle or Dyamond like Swell upon her blushing checke All things mourne but oh behold How the withered Marigold Closeth up now she is gone Iudging her the setting Sunne A Dialogue betweene NIGHT and ARAPHIL NIGHT. LEt silence close thy troubled eyes Thy feare in Lethe steepe The starres bright cent'nels of the skies Watch to secure thy sleepe ARAPH The Norths unruly spirit lay In the disorder'd Seas Make the rude Winter calme as May And give a lover ease NIGHT. Yet why should feare with her pale charmes Bewitch thee so to griefe Since it prevents n'insuing harmes Nor yeelds the past reliefe ARAPH And yet such horror I sustaine As the sad vessell when Rough tempests have incenst the Maine Her Harbor now in ken NIGHT. No conquest weares a glorious wreath Which dangers not obtaine Let tempests 'gainst the shipwracke breathe Thou shalt thy harbour gaine ARAPH Truths Delphos doth not still foretâ—ll Though Sol th' inspirer be How then should night as blind as hell Ensuing truths fore-see NIGHT. The Sunne yeelds man no constant flame One light those Priests inspires While I though blacke am still the same And have ten thousand fires ARAPH But those sayes my propheticke feare As funerall torches burne While thou thy selfe the blackes dost weare T' attend me to my Vrne NIGHT. Thy feares abuse thee for those lightâ— In Hymens Church shall shine When he by
warre Should blast my youth Should I not be thy feare CAST. In flesh may sickenesse horror move But heavenly zeale will be by it refin'd For then wee 'd like two Angels love VVithout a sense imbrace each others mind ARAPH VVere it not impious to repine 'Gainst rigid Fate I should direct my breath That two must be whom heaven did joyne In such a happy one disjoyn'd by death CAST. That 's no divource Then shall we see The rites in life were tipes o' th marriage state Our soules on earth contracted be But they in heaven their nuptials consumate To the Right Honourable HENRY Lord M. My Lord. MY thoughts are not so rugged nor doth earth So farre predominate in me that mirth Lookes not as lovely as when our delight First fashion'd wings to adde a nimbler flight To lazie time who would to have survai'd Our varied pleasures there have ever staid And they were harmelesse For obedience If frailty yeelds to the wild lawes of sence VVe shall but with a sugred venome meete No pleasure if not innocent as sweet And that 's your choyce who adde the title good To that of noble For although the blood Of Marshall Standley and ' La Pole doth flow VVith happy Brandon's in your veines you owe Your vertue not to them Man builds alone o th' ground of honour For desert's our ovvne Be that your ayme I 'le vvith Castara siâ— i th' shade from heat of businesse VVhile my vvit Is neither big vvith an ambitious ayme To build tall Pyramids i th' court of fame For after ages or to win conceit o th' present and grow in opinion great Rich in our selves we envy not the East Her rockes of Diamonds or her gold the West Arabia may be happy in the death Of her reviving Phaenix In the breath Of coole Favonius famous be the grove Of Tempe while we in each others love For that let us be fam'd And when of all That Nature made us two the funerall Leaves but a little dust which then as wed Even after death shall sleepe still in one bed The Bride and Bridegroome on the solemne day Shall with warme zeale approach our Vrne to pay Their vowes that heaven should blisse so farre their rites To shew them the faire paths to our delights To a Tombe TYrant o're tyrants thou who onely dost Clip the lascivious beauty without lust What horror at thy sight shâ—otes through each sence How powerfull is thy silent eloquence Which never flatters Thou instruct'st the proud That their swolne pompe is but an empty cloud Slave to each wind The faire those flowers they have I'resh in their cheeke are strewd upon a grave Thou tell'st the rich their I doll is but earth The vainely pleas'd that Syren-like their mirth Betrayes to mischiefe and that onely he Daâ—es welcome death whose aimes at vertue be Which yet more zeale doth to Castara move What checks me when the tombe perswades to love To CASTARA Vpon thought of Age and Death THe breath of time shall blast the flowry Spring Which so perfumes thy cheeke and with it bring So dâ—rke a mist as shall eclipse the light Of thy faire eyes in an eternall night Some melancholly chamber of the earth For that like Time devoures whom it gave breath Thy beauties shall entombe while all who ere Lov'd nobly offer up their serrowes there But I vvhose griefe no formall limits bound Beholding the darke caverne of that ground VVill there immure my selfe And thus I shall Thy mourner be and my ovvne funerall Else by the vveeping magicke of my verse Thou hadst reviv'd to triumph o're thy hearse To the Right Honourable the Lord P. My Lord. THe reverend man by magicke of his prayer Hath charm'd so that I and your daughter arâ— Contracted into one The holy lights Smil'd vvith a cheerefull lustre on our rites And every thing presag'd full happinesse To mutuall love if you 'le the omen blesse Nor grieve my Lord 't is perfected Before Afflicted Seas sought refuge on the shore From the angry Northvvind Ere th' astonisht Spring Heard in the ayre the feather'd people sing Ere time had motion or the Sunne obtain'd His province o're the day this vvas ordain'd Nor thinke in her I courted wealth or blood Or more uncertaine hopes for bad I stood On th' highest ground of fortune the world knowne No greatnesse but what waited on my throne And she had onely had that face and mind I with my selfe had th' earth to her resign'd In vertue there'â— an Empire And so sweete The rule is when it doth with beauty meete As fellow Consull that of heaven they Nor earth partake who would her disobey This captiv'd me And ere I question'd why I ought to love Castara through my eye This soft obedience stole into my heart Then found I love might lend to th'quick-ey'd art Of Reason yet a purer sight For he Though blind taught her these Indies first to see In whose possession I at length am blest And with my selfe at quiet here I rest As all things to my powre subdu'd To me Ther 's nought beyond this The whole woâ—ld is she His Muse speakes to him THy vowes are heard and thy Castara's name Is writ as faire i th' Register of Fame As th' ancient beauties which translated are By Poets up to heaven each there a starre And though Imperiall Tiber boast alone Ovids Corinaa and to Arâ— is knowne But Petrarchs Laura while our famous Thames Doth murmur Sydneyes Stella to her streames Yet hast thou Severâ—e left and she can bring As many quires of Swans as they to sing Thy glorious love Which living shall by thee The onely Sov'ragine of those waters be Dead in loves firmament no starre shall shine So nobly faire so purely chaste as thine To Vaine hope THou dreame of madmen ever changing gale Swâ—ll with thy wanton breath the gaudy saile Of glorious fooles Thou guid'st them who thee court To rocks to quick-sands or some faithlesse port Were I not mad who when secure at ease I might i th' Cabbin passe the raging Seas Would like a franticke shipboy wildly haste To climbe the giddy top of th' unsafe mast Ambition never to her hopes did faine A greatnesse but I really obtaine In my Castara Wer'â— not fondnesse then T' embrace the shadowes of true blisse And whenâ—â— My Paradise all flowers and fruits doth breed To rob a barren garden for a weed To CASTARA How happy though in an obscure fortune WEre we by fate throwne downe below our seare Could we be poore Or question Natures care In our provision She who doth afford A feather'd garment fit for every bird And onely voyce enough t' expresse delight She who apparels Lillies in their white As if in that she 'de teach mans duller sence Wh'are highest should be so in innocence She who in damaske doth attire the Rose And man t'himselfe a mockery to propose 'Mong whom the humblest Iudges grow to sit She who in purple cloathes
fate shall rob us of so great a wealth Vndone in thriftd while we be sought his stay Ten of his fellow moments fled away To CASTARA Of the knowledge of Love WHere steepes the North-vvind when the South inspires Life in the spring and gathers into quires The scatter'd Nightingales whose subtle eares Heard first th'harmonious language of the Spheares Whence hath the stone Magneticke force t' allure Th'enamourd iron From a seed impure Or naturall did first the Mandrake grow What powreith ' Ocean makes it ebbe and flow What strange materials is the azure skye Compacted of of what its brightest eye The ever flaming Sunne what people are In th' unknowne world what worlds in every star Let curious fancies at this secret rove Castara what we know wee 'le practise Love To the Right Honourable the Countesse of C. Madam SHould the cold Muscovit whose furre and stove Can scarse prepare him heate enough for love But view the wonder of your presence he Would scorne his winters sharpest injury And trace the naked groves till he found bayse To write the beautious triumphs of your prayse As a dull Poet even he would say Th' unclouded Sun had never showne them day Till that bright minute that he now admires No more why the coy Spring so soone retires From their unhappy clyme It doth pursue The Sun and he derives his light from you Hee 'd tell you how the fetter'd Baltick Sea Is set at freedome while the yee away Doth melt at your approach how by so faire Harmonious beauty their rude manners are Reduc't to order how to them you bring The wealthiest mines below above the Spring Thus would his wonder speake For he would want Religion to beleeve there were a Saint Within and all he saw was but the shrine But I here pay my vowes to the devine Pure essence there inclos'd which if it were Not hid in a faire cloud but might appeare In its full lustre would make Nature live In a state equall to her primitive But sweetly that 's obscur'd Yet though our eye Cannot the splendor of your soule descry In true perfection by a glimmering light Your language yeelds us we can guesse how bright The Sunne within you shines and curse th' unkind Eclipse or else our selves for being blinde How hastily doth Nature build up man To leave him so imperfect For he can See nought beyond his sence she doth controule So farre his fight he nere discern'd a soule For had yours beene the object of his eye It had turn'd wonder to Idolatry The harmony of Love AMphiâ—n O thou holy shade Bring Orpheus up with thee That wonder may you both invade Hearing Loves harmony You who are soule not rudely made Vp with Materiall eares And fit to reach the musique of these spheares Harke when Castara's orbs doe move By my first moving eyes How great the Symphony of Love But 't is the destinies Will not so farre my prayer approve To bring you hither here Lest you meete heaven for Elizium there T is no dull Sublunary flame Burnes in her heart and mine But something more then hath a name So subtle and divine We know not why nor how it came Which shall shine bright till she And the whole world of love expire with me To my honoured friend Sir Ed. P. Knight YOu 'd leave the silence in which safe we are To listen to the noyse of warre And walke those rugged paths the factious tread Who by the number of the dead Reckon their glories and thinke greatnesse stood Vnsafe till it was built on blood Secure i th' wall our Seas and ships provide Abhorring wars so barb'rous pride And honour bought with slaughter in content Le ts breath though humble innocent Folly and madnesse Since 't is ods we nere See the fresh youth of the next yeare Perhaps not the chast morne her selfe disclose Againe t' out-blush th' aemulous rose Why doth ambition so the mind distresse To make us scorne what we possesse And looke so farre before us Since all we Can hope is varied misery Goe find some whispering shade neare Aâ—ne or Poe And gently 'mong their violets throw Your wearyed limbs and see if all those faire Enchantments can charme griefe or care Our sorrowes still pursue us and when you The ruin'd Capitoll shall view And statues a disorder'd heape you can Not cure yet the disease of man And banish your owne thoughts Goe travaile where Another Sun and Starres appeare And land not toucht by any covetous fleet And yet even there your selfe you le meet Stay here then and while curious exiles find New toyes for a fantastique mind Enjoy at home what 's reall here the Spring By her aeriall quires doth sing As sweetly to you as if you were laid Vnder the learn'd Thessalian shade Direct your eye-sight inward and you 'le find A thousand regions in your mind Yet undiscover'd Travell them and be Expert in home Cosmographie This you may doe safe both from rocke and shelfe Man 's a whole world within himselfe To CASTARA GIve me a heart where no impure Disorder'd passions rage Which jealousie doth not obscure Nor vanity t'expence ingage Nor wooed to madnesse by queint oathes Or the fine Rhetoricke of cloathes Which not the softnesse of the age To vice or folly doth decline Give me that heart Castara for 't is thine Take thou a heart where no new looke Provokes new appetite VVith no fresh charme of beauty tooke Or wanton stratagem of wit Not Idly wandring here and there Led by an am'rous eye or eaâ—e Aâ—ming each beautious maâ—ke to hit VVhich vertue doth to one confine Take thou that heart Castara for 't is mine And now my heart is lodg'd with thee Observe but how it still Doth listen how thine doth with me And guard it well for else it will Runne hither backe not to be where I am but 'cause thy heart is here But without discipline or skill Our hearts shall freely 'tweene us move Should thou or I want hearts wee 'd breath by love To CASTARA Of true delight WHy doth the eare so tempt the voyce That cunningly divides the ayre VVhy doth the pallaâ—e buy the choyce Delights o th' sea to enrich her fare As soone as I my eare obey The Eccho's lost even with the breath And when the sewer takes away I 'me left with no more taste then death Be curious in pursuite of eyâ—s To procreate new loves with thine Satiety makes sence despise VVhat superstition thought divine Quicke fancy how it mockes delight As we conceive things are not such The glow-worme is as warme as bright Till the deceiâ—full flame we touch VVhen I have sold my heart to Iust And bought repâ—ntance with a kisse I find the malice of my dust That told me hell contain'd a blisse The Rose yeelds her sweete blandishment Lost in the fold of lovers wreathes The violet enchants the sent When earely in the Spring she breaths But winter comes and makes each flowre
on earth Et alta a longè cognoscit DAVID TO the cold humble hermitage Not tenanted but by discoloured age Or youth enfeebled by long prayer And tame with fasts th' Almighty doth repaire But from the lofty gilded roofe Stain'd with some Pagan fiction keepes a loofe Nor the gay Landlord daignes to know Whose buildings are like Monsters but for show Ambition whither wilt thee climbe Knowing thy art the mookerâ— of time Which by examples tells the high Rich structures they must as their owners dye And while they stand their tennants are Detraction flatt'ry wantonnesse and care Pride envie arrogance and doubt Surfet and ease still tortured by the gout O rather may I patient dwell In th' injuries of an ill-cover'd cell Gainst whose too weake defence the haile The angry winds and frequent showres prevaile Where the swift measures of the day Shall be distinguisht onely as I pray And some starres solitary light Be the sole taper to the tedious night The neighbo'ring fountaine not accurst Like wine with madnesse shall allay my thirst And the wilde fruites of Nature give Dyet enough to let me feele I feele I live You wantons who improverish Seas And th' ayre dispeople your proud taste to please A greedy tyrant you obey Who varies still its tribuâ—e with the day What interest doth all the vaine Cunning of surfet to your sences gaine Since it obscure the Spirit must And bow the flesh to sleepe disease or lust While who forgetting rest and fare Watcheth the fall and rising of each starre Ponders how bright the orbes doe move And thence how much more bright the heav'ns abovâ— Where on the heads of Cherubins Th' Almightie sits disâ—aining our bold sinnes Who while on th' earth we grâ—veling lye Dare in our pride of building tempt the skie Universum statum ejus versasti in infirmitate ejus DAVID MY Soule When thou and I Shall on our frighted death-bed lye Each moment watching when pale death Shall snatch away our latest breath And 'tweene two long joyn'd Lovers force An endlesse sad divorce How wilt thou then that art My rationall and nobler part Distort thy thoughts How wilt thou try To draw from weake Philosophie Some strength and flatter thy poore state 'Cause t is the common fate How will thy spirits pant And tremble when they feele the want Of th' usuall organs and that all The vitall powers begin to fall When 't is decreed that thou must goe Yet whether who can know How fond and idle then Will seeme the misteries of men How like some dull ill-acted part The subtlest of proud humane art How shallow ev'n the deepest sea When thus we ebbe away But how shall I that is My fainting earth looke pale at this Disjointed on the racke of paine How shall I murmur how complaine And craving all the ayde of skill Finde none but what must kill Which way so ere my griefe Doth throw my fight to court releefe I shall but meete despaire for all Will prophesie my funerall The very silence of the roome Will represent a tombe And while my Childrens teares My Wives vaine hopes but certaine feares And councells of Divines advâ—nce Death in each dolefull circumstance I shall even a sad mourner be At my owne obsequie For by examples I Must know that others sorrowes dye Soone as our selves and none survive To keepe our memories alive Even our fals tombes as loath to say We once had life decay Laudate Dominum de caelis DAVID YOu Spirits who have throwne away That enveous weight of clay Which your caelestiall flight denyed Who by your glorious troopes supply The winged Hierarchie So broken in the Angells pride O you whom your Creators sight Inebriates with delight Sing forth the triumphs of his name All you enamord soules agree In a loud symphonie To give expressions to your flame To him his owne great workes relate Who daign'd to elevate You 'bove the frailtie of your birth Where you stand safe from that rude warre With which we troubled are By the rebellion of our earth While a corrupted ayre beneath Here in this World we breath Each houre some passion us assailes Now lust casts wild-fire in the blood Or that it may seeme good It selfe in wit or beauty vailes Then envie circles us with hate And layes a siege so streight No heavenly succor enters in But if Revenge admittance finde For ever hath the mind Made forseit of it selfe to sinne Assaulâ—ed thus how dare we raise Our mindes to thinke his praise Who is Aeternall and immens How dare we force our feeble wit To speake him infinite So farre above the search of sence O you who are immaculate His name may celebrate In your soules bright expansion You whom your vertues did unite To his perpetuall light That even with him you now shine one Wâ—ile we who t' earth contract our hearts And onely studie Arts To shorten the sad length of Time In place of joyes bring humble feares For hymnes repentant teares And a new sigh for every crime Qui quasi flos egreditur To the Right Honourable the Lady Cat. T. FAire Madam You May see what 's man in yoâ—d ' bright rose Though it the wealth of Nature owes It is opprest and bends with dew Which shewes though fate May promise still to warme our lippes And keepe our eyes from an ecclips It will our pride with teares abate Pâ—ore â—illy flowre Though in thy beauty thou presume And breath which doth the spring presume Thou may'â—t be cropt this very houre And though it may Then thy good fortune be to rest o th' pillow of some Ladies brest Thou 'lt wither and be throwne away For 't is thy doome However that there shall appeare No memory that thou grew'st heere Ere the tempestuous winter come But flesh is loâ—th By meditation to fore see How loath'd a nothing it must be Proud in the triumphes of its growth And tamely can Behold this mighty world decay And weare by th' age of time away Yet not discourse the fall of man But Madam these Are thoughts to cure sicke humane pride And med'cines are in vaine applyed To bodies far 'bove all disease For you so live As th' Angels in one perfect state Safe from the ruines of our fate By vertues great preservative And though we see Beautie enough to warme each heart Yet you by a chaste Chimicke Art Calcine fraile love to pietie Quid gloriaris in malicia DAVID SWell no more proud man so high For enthron'd where ere you sit Rais'd by fortune sinne and wit In a vault thou dust must lye He who 's lifted up by vice Hath a neighb ' ring precipice Dazeling his distorted eye Shallow is that unsafe sea Over which you spread your saile And the Barke you trust to fraile As the Winds it must obey Mischiefe while it prospers brings Favour from the smile of Kings Vselesse soone is throwne away Profit though sinne it extort Princes even accounted good Courting
be interr'd so neere her eye Who would feare the sword to have Such an Alabaster grave O're which two bright â—apers burne To give light to the beauteous Vine At the first Castara smil'd Thinking Cupid her beguil'd Onely coâ—nterfeiting death But when she perceiv'd his breath Quite expir'd the mournefull Girle To entoâ—be the boy in Pearle Wept so long till pittious Iove From the ashes of this Love Made ten thousand Cupids rise But confin'd them to her eyes Where they yet to shew they lacke No due sorrow still we are blacke But the blacks so glorious are Which they mouâ—ne in that the faire Quires of starres looke pale and â—â—et Seeing themselves out shin'd by jet To Fame FLy on thy swiftest wing ambitious Fame And speake to the cold North Castara's name Which very breath will like the East wind bring The temp'rate warmth and musicke of the Spring Then from the Articke to th' Antarticke Pole Haste nimbly and inspire a gentler soule By naming her â—th ' torrid South that he May milde as Zephorâ—â— coole whispers be Nor let the West where heaven already joynes The vastest Empire and the wealthiest Mines Nor th' East in pleasures wanton her condemne For not distributing her gifts on them For she with want would have her bounty meete Loves noble charity is so discreete A Dialogue betweene ARAPHILL and CASTARA ARAPH DOst not thou Castara read Am'rous volumes in my eyes Doth not every motion plead What I 'de shew and yet disguise Sences act each others part Eyes as tongues reveale the heart CAST. I saw love as lightning breake From thy eyes and was content Oft to heare thy silence speake Silent love is eloquent So the sence of learning heares The dumbe musicke of the Spheares ARAPH Then there 's mercy in your kinde Listning to an unfain'd love Or strives he to tame the wind Who would your compassion move No y' are pittious as y 're faire Heaven relents o'recome by prayer CAST. But loose man too prodigall Is in the expence of vowes And thinks to him kingdomes fall When the heart of woman bowes Frailty to your armes may yeeld Who resists you wins the field ARAPH Triumph not to see me bleede Let the Bore chaâ—ed from his den On the wounds of mankinde feede Your soft sexe should pitty men Malice well may practise Art Love hath a transparent heart CAST. Yet is love all one deceit A warme frâ—st a frozen fire She within her selfe is great Who is sâ—ave to no desire Let youth act and age advise And then love may finde his eyes ARAPH Hymens torch yeelds a dim light When ambition joynes our hands A proud day but mournefull night She sustaines who marries lands Wealth slaves man but for their Ore Th' Indians had beene free though poore CAST. And yet wealth the fuell is Which maintaines the nuptiallfire And in honour there 's a blisse Th' are immortall who aspire But truth sayes no joyes are sweete But where hearts united meete ARAPH Roses breath not such a sent To persume the neighb'ring groves As when you affirme content In no spheare of glory moves Glory narrow soules combines Noble hearts Love onely joynes To CASTARA Intending a journey into the Countrey WHy haste you hence Castara can the earth Aglorious mother in her â—lowry birth Shew Lillies like thy brow Can she disclose In emulation of thy cheeke a Rose Sweete as thy blush upon thy selfe then set Iust value and scorne it thy counterfeit The Spring 's still with thee But perhaps the field Not warm'd with thy approach wants force to yeeld Her tribute to the Plough O rather let Th' ingratefull earth for ever be in debt To th' hope of sweating industry than we Should starve with cold who have no heat but thee Nor feare the publike good Thy eyes can give A life to all who can deserve to live Vpon CASTARA'S departure I Am engag'd to sorrow and my heart Feeles a distracted rage Though you depart And leave me to my feares let love in spite Of absence our divided soules unite But you must goe The melancholy Doves Draw Venus chariot hence The sportive Loves Which wont to wanton here hence with you flye And like false friends forsake me when I dye For but a walking tombe what can he be Whose best of life is forc't to part with thee To CASTARA Vpon a trembling kisse at departure TH' Arabian wind whose breathing gently blows Purple to th' Violet blushes to the Rose Did never yeeld â—n odour rich as this Why are you then so thrifty of a kisse Authoriz'd even by custome Why doth feare So tremble on your lip my lip being neare Thinke you I parting with so sad a zeale Will act so blacke a mischiefe as to steale Thy Roses thence And they by this device Transplanted somewhere else force Paradice Or else you feare lest you should my heart skip Vp to my mouth t' incounter with your lip Might rob me of it and be judg'd in this T' have Iudas like betraid me with a kisse In CASTARA Looking backe at her departing LOoke backe Castara From thy eye Let yet more flaming arrowes flye To live is thus to burne and dye For what might glorious hope desire But that thy selfe as I expire Should bring both death and funerall fire Distracted Love shall grieve to see Such zeale in death For feare lest he Himselfe should be consum'd in me And gathering up my ashes weepe That in his teares he then may steepe And thus embâlm'd as reliques keepe Thitheâ— let lovers pilgrims turne And the loose flames in which they burne Give up aâ— offâ—rings to my Vrne That them the vertue of my shrine By miracle so long refine Till they prove innocent as mine Vpon CASTARA'S absence T' Is madnesse to give Physicke to the dead Then leave me friends Yet haply you 'd here read A lecture but I 'le not dissected be T' instruct your Art by my anatomie But still you trust your sense sweare you discry No difference in me All 's deceit o th' eye Some spirit hath a body fram'd in th' ayâ—e Like mine which he doth to delude you weare Else heaven by miracle makes me survive My selfe to keepe in me poore Love alive But I am dead yet lâ—t none question where My best part rests and with a sigh or teare Prophane â—he Pompe when they my corps interre My soule imparâ—dis'd for 't is with her To CASTARA Complaining her absence in the Country THe lesser people of the ayre conspire To keepe thee from me Philomel with higher And sweeter noteâ— wooes thee to weepe her rape Which would appease the gods change her shape The early Larke preferring 'fore soft rest Oâ—sequious duty leaves his downy nest And doth to thee harmoniâ—us tribute pay Expecting from thy eyes the breake of day From which the Owle is frighted and doth rove As never having felt the warmth of love In uncouth vaults and the chill shades of night Not biding the bright lustre
behold the seasons of the yeare Springs in my hope and Winters in my feare And sure I 'me 'bove the earth Fâ—r th' highest star Shoots beames but dim to what Castara's are And in her sight and favour I even shine In a bright orbe beyond the Christalline If then Castara I in Heaven nor move Nor Earth nor Hell where am I but in Love To my honoured Friend Mr. E. P. NOt still i th' shine of Kings Thou dost retire Sometime to th' Holy shade where the chaste quire Of Muses doth the stubborne Panther awe And give the wildenesse of â—is nature law The wind his chariot stops Th' attentive rocke The rigor doth of its creation mocke And gently melts away Argus to heare The musicke turnes each eye into an eare To welcome thee Endyâ—ion glorious they Triumph to force thâ—se creatures disobey What nature hath enacted But no charme The Muses have these monsters can disarme Of their in nated rage No spell can tame The North-winds fury but Castara's name Climbe yonder forked hill and see if there i th' barke of every Daphne not appeare Castara written And so markt by me How great a Prophet growes each Virgin tree Lie downe and listen what the sacred spring In her harmonious murmures strives to sing To th' neighb'ring banke ere her loose waters erre Through common channels sings she not of her Behold yond' violet which such honour gaines That growing but to emulate her veines It 's azur'd like the skie when she doth bow T' invoke Castara heaven perfumes her vow The trees the water and the flowers adore The Deity of her sâ—x and through each pore Breath forth her glories But unquiet love To make thy passions so uncourtly prove As if all eares should heare her praise alone Now listen thou Edymion sings his owne To CASTARA DOe not their prophane Orgies heare Who but to wealth no alâ—ars reare The soule 's oft poys'ned through the eare Castara rather seeke to dwell i th' silence of a private cell Riâ—h discontent's a glorious hell Yet Hiâ—dlip doth not want extent Of roome though not magnificent To give free welcome to content There shalt thou see the earely Spring That wealthy stocke of nature bring Of which the Sybils bookes did sing From fruitlesse Palmes shall honey flow Anâ— baâ—ren Winter Harvest show While Lillies in his bosome grow No North winde shall the corne infest But thâ— soft spirit of the East Our sent with perfum'd banquets feast A Sâ—tyre here and there shall trip In hope to purchase leave to sip Sweete Nectar from a Fairies lip The Nimphs with quivers shall adorne Then active sides and rouse the morne With the shrill musicke of their horne Wakenâ—d with which and vievving thee Faire Daphne her faire selfe shall free From the chaste prison of a tree And with Narâ—lssuâ— to thy face Who humbly will ascribe all grace Shall once againe pursue the chase So they whose wisdome did discusse Of these as fictions shall in us Finde they were more then fabulous To CASTARA Softly singing to her selfe SIng forth sweete Cherubin for we have choice Of reasons in thy beauty and thy voyce To name thee so and scarce appeare prophane Sing forth that while the orbs celestiall straine To eccho thy sweete note our humane eares May then receive the Musicke of the Spheares But yet take heede lest if the Swans of Thames That adde harmonious pleasure to the streames o th' sudden heare thy well-divided breath Should listen and in silence welcome death And ravisht Nightingales striving too high To â—each thee in the emulation dye And thus there will be left no bird to sing Farewell to th' Waters welcome to the Spring To a Wanton IN vaine faire sorcerâ—sse thy eyes speake charmes In â—aine thou mak'st loose circles with thy armes I 'me 'bove thy spels No magicke him can move In whom Castara hath inspir'd her love As she keepe thou strict cent'nell o're thy eare Lest it the whispers of sofâ— Courtiers heare Reade not his raptures whose invention must Write journey worke both for his Patrons lust And his owne plush let no admirer feast His eye o th' nâ—ked banquet of thy brest If this faire president nor yet my wâ—nt Of love to answer thine make thee recant Thy sorc'ries Pity shall to justice tâ—rne And judge thee witch in thy owne flames to burne To the Honourable my much honoured friend R. B. Esquire WHile you dare trust the loudest tongue of fame The zeale you beare your Mistâ—esse to proclaim To th' talking world I in the silenst grove Scarce to my selfe dare whisper that I loâ—e Thee titles Brud'nell riches thee adorne And vigorous youth to vice not headlong borne By th' tide of custome Which I value more Thâ—n what blind superstitious fooles adore Who greatnâ—ssâ— in the chaire of blissâ— enthrone Greatnesse we borrow Verâ—ue is oâ—r owne In thy attempt be prosperouâ— and when ere Thou shalt prefix the houre May Hymâ—n weare His bâ—ightest robe where some fam'd Persian shall Worke by the wonder of her needle all The nupâ—iâ—ll joyes which if we Poets be True Propheis bounteous heaven designes foâ— thee I envie not but glory in thy fate While in the narrow limits of my state I bâ—und my hopes Which if Castara daigne Once to entitle heâ—s the wealthiest graine My earth untild shall beare my trees shall grone Vnder their fruiâ—full burthen and at one And the same season Nature forth shall bring Riches of Aâ—tumne pleasures of the Spring But digge and thou shalt finde a purer Mine Then th' Inâ—ians boast Taste of this generous Vine And her blood sweeter will than Nectar prove Such miracles wait on a noble love Bâ—t should she scorne my suite I 'le â—rend that path Which none but some sad Fairy beaten hath There force wrong'd Philomel hearing my mâ—ne To â—igh my greater griefes forget her owne To CASTARA Inquiring why I loved her WHy doth the stubborne iron prove So gentle to th magnetique stone How know you that the orbs doe move With musicke too since heard of none And I will answer why I love 'T is not thy vertues each a starre Which in thy soules bright spheare doe shine Shooting their beauties from a farre To make each gazers heart like thine Our vertues often Meteoâ—s are 'T is not thy face I cannot spie When Poëts weepe some Virgins death That Cupid wantons in her eye Or perfumes vapour from her breath And 'mongst the dead thou once must lie Nor is 't thy birth For I was ne're So vaine as in that to delight Which ballance it no weight doth beare Nor yet 〈◊〉 objâ—ct to the sighâ— But onely fils the vulgar eare Nor yet thy fortunes Since I know They in their motion like the Sea Ebbe from the good to the impious flow And so in flattery betray That raising they but overthrow And yet these attributes might prove Fuell enough t'enflame desire But there was something from above Shot without reasons guide this
fire I know yet know not why I love To CASTARA Looking upon him TRansfix me with that flaming dart Iâ—h ' eye or brest or any part So thou Caâ—taâ—a spare my heart The cold Cymâ—rian by thâ—t bright Warmâ— wound i th' darknesse of his night Might both recover heat and light The rugged Scythian gently move i th' whispering shadow of some groâ—e That 's consecrate to sportive Love December see the Prim rose grow The Rivers in soft murmurs flow And from his head shake off hâ—s snow And crooked age might feele againe Those heates of which youth did complaine While fresh blood swels each withered veyne For the bright lustre of thy eyes Which but â—o warme them would suffice May burne me to a sâ—crifice To the right honourable the Countesse of Ar. WIng'd with delight yet such as still doth beare Chast vertues stamp those Children of the yeere The dayes hast nimbly and while as they flie Each of them with their predecessors vie Which yeelds most pleasure you to them dâ—spence What Time lost with his cradle innocence So â— if fancie not delude my fight See often the pale monarch of tho night Diana 'mong her nimphs For every quire Of vulgar starres who lend their weaker fire To conquer the nights chilnesse with their Queene In harmelesse revels tread the happy greene But I who am proserib'd by tyrant love Seeke out a silent exile in some grove Where nought except a solitary Spring Was ever heard to which the Nimphs did sing Narcissus obsequies For onely there Is mufique apt to catch an am'rous eare Castara oh my heart How great a flame Did even shoot into me with her name Castara hath betray'd me to a zeale Which thus distracts my hopes Flints may conceale In their cold veynes a fire But I whose heart By Love 's dissolv'd ne're practis'd that cold art But truce thou warring passion for I 'le now Madam to you addresse this solemne vow By Vertue and your selfe best friends I finde In the interiour province of your minde Such government That if great men obey Thâ— example of your order they will sway Without reproofe for onely you unite Honour with sweetenesse vertue with delight Vpon CASTARA'S frowne or smile LEarned shade of Tycho Brache who to us The stars propheticke language didst impart And even in life their mysteries discusse Castara hath o'rethrowne thy strongest arâ— When custome struggles from her beaten path Then accidents must needs uncertaine be For if Castara smile though winter hath Lock't up the rivers Summer's warme in me And Flora by the miracle reviv'd Doâ—h â—ven at her owne beauty wondring stand But should she frowne the Northerne wind arriv'd In â—idst of Summer leads his frozen band Which doth to yâ—e my youthfull blood congeale Yet in the midst of yee still flames my zeale In CASTARA All fortunes YE glorious wits who finde then Parian stone A nobler quarry to build trophies on Purchast 'gainst conquer'd time go court loud fame He wins it who but sings Castara's name Aspiring soules who grow but in a Spring Forc't by the warmth of some indulgent King Know if Castara smile I dwell in it And vie for glory with the Favourit Ye sonnes of avarice who but to shaâ—e Vncertaine treasure with a certaine care Tempt death in th' horrid Ocean I when ere I but approach her find the Indies there Heaven brightest Saint kinde to my vowes made thee Of all ambition courts th' Epitome Vpon thought Castara may dye IF she should dye as well suspect we may A body so compact should ne're decay Her brighter soule would in the Moone inspire More chastity in dimmer starres more fire You twins of Laeda as your parents are In their wild lusts may grow irregular Now in your motion for the marriner Henceforth shall onely steeâ—e his course by her And when the zeale of after time shall spie Her uncorrupâ— i th' happy marble lie The roses in her checkes unwithered 'T will turne to love and dote upon the dead For he who did to her in life dispence A heaven will banish all corruption thence Time to the moments on sight of CASTARA YOu younger children of your father stay Swift flying moments which divide the day And with your number measure out the yeare In various seasons stay and wonder here For since my cradle I so bright a grace Ne're saw as you sâ—e in Castara's face Whom nature to revenge some youthfull crime Would never frame till age had weakened Time Else spight of fate in some faire forme of clay My youth I de bodied throwne my sythe away And broke my glasse But since that cannot be I 'le punish Nature for her injurie On nimble moments in your journey flie Castara shall like me grow old and die To a friend inquiring her name whom he loved FOnd Love himselfe hopes to disguise From view if he but covered lies i th' veile of my transparent eyes Though in a smile himselfe he hide Or in a sigh thou art so tride In all his arts hee 'le be discride I must confâ—sse Deare friend my flame Whose boasts Castara so doth tame That not thy faith shall â—now her nâ—me T were prophanation of my zeale If but abroad one whisper steale They love betray who him reveale In a darke cave which never eye Could by his subtlest raâ— descry It doth like a rich minerall lye Which if she with her flâ—me refine I 'de force it from that obscure Mine And then it like pure gold should shine A Dialogue betweene HOPE and FEARE FEARE CHecke thy forward thoughts and know Hymen onely joynes their hands Who with even paces goe Shee in gold he rich in lands HOPE But Castara's purer fire When it meetes a noble flame Shuns the smoke of such desire Ioynes with love and burnes the same FEARE Yet obedience must prevaile They who o're her actions sway Would have her in th' Ocean saile And contemne tâ—y narrow sea HOPE Parents lawes must beare no weight When they hâ—ppinesse prâ—vâ—nt And our sea is not so streight But it roome hath for content FEARE Thousand hearts as victims stand At the Altar of her eyes And will partiall she command Onely thine for sacrifice HOPE Thousand victims must returne Shee the purest will designe Choose Castara which shall burne Choose the purest that is mine To CVPID Vpon a dimple in CASTARA'S cheeke NImble boy in thy warme flight What cold tyrant dimm'd thy sight Hadst thou eyes to see my faire Thou wouldst sigh thy selfe to ayre Fearing to create this one Nature had herselfe undone But if you when this you heare Fall downe murdered through your eare Begge of Iove that you may have In her cheeke a dimpled grave Lilly Rose and Violet Shall the perfum'd Hearse beset While a beauteous sheet of Lawne O're the wanton corps is drawne And all lovers use this breath Here lies Cupid blest in death Vpon CVPID'S death and buriall in CASTARA'S cheeke CUpids dead Who would not dye To
of thy â—ight With him my fate agreeâ— Not viewing thee I 'me lost in mists at best but meteors see To THAMES SWift in thy waâ—ry chariot courteous Thames Hast by the happy error of thy streames To kisse the banks of Marlow which doth show Faiâ—e Scymors and beyond that never flow Then summon all thy Swans that who did give Musicke to death may henceforth sing and live For my Castara She can life restore Or quicken them who had no life before How should the Poplar else the Pine provoke The stately Cedar challenge the rude Oke To dance at sight of her They have no sense From nature given but by her influence If Orpheus did those senslesse creatures move He was a Prophet and fore sang my love To the right honourable the Earle of Shrewes MY Muse great Lord when last you heard her sing Did to your Vncles Vrne her off'rings bring And if to fame I may give faith your eares Delighted in the musicke of her teares That was her debt to vertue And when e're She her bright head among the clouds shall reare And adde to th' wondring heavens a new flame Shee 'le celebrate the Genius of your name Wilde with another raâ—e inspir'd by love She charmes the Myrtles of the Idalian grove And while she gives the Cyprian stormes a law Those wanton Doves which Cytherâ—ia draw Through th' am'rous ayre Admire what power doth sway The Ocean and arrest them in their way She sings Castara â—hen O' she more bright Than is the Starry Senate of the night Who in their motion did like straglers erre Cause they deriv'd no influence from her Who 's constant as she 's chaste The Sunne hath beene Clad like a neighb'ring shepheard often seene To hunt those Dales in hope then Daphnes there To see a brighter face Th' Astrologer In th' interim dyed whose proud Art could not show Whence that Ecclipse did on the sudden grow A wanton Satyre eager in the chase Of some faire Nimph beheld Castara's face And left his loose pursuite who while he ey'd Vnchastely such a beauty glorified With â—uch a vertue by heavens great commands Turn'd marble and there yet a Statue stands As Poet thus But as a Christian now And by my zeale to you my Lord I vow She doth a flame so pure and sacred move In me imp ety ' twâ—re not to love To CVPID Wishing a speedy passage to CASTARA THank es Cupid but the Coach of Venus moves For me too slow drawne but by lazie Doves I lest my journey a delay should finde Will leape into the chariâ—t of the wind Swift as the flight of lightning through the ayre Hee 'le hurry me till I approach the faire Bâ—t unkinde Seymors Thus he will proclaime What tribute winds owe to Castara's name Viewing this prodigie astonisht they Who first accâ—sse deny'd me will obey With feare what love commâ—nds Yet câ—nsure me As guilty of the blackest â—orâ—ery But after to my wishes mâ—â—deâ— provâ—â— When they know this the miracl◠〈◊〉 lâ—ve To CASâ—Aâ—â— Of â—oâ—e HOw f 〈…〉 And ore th' obedient elements command Hee 's lame as he is blinde for here I stand Fixt as the earth Throw then this Idoll downe Yee lovers who first made it which can frowne Or smile but as you please But I 'me untame In rage Castara call thou on his name And though hee 'le not beare up my vowes to thee Hee 'le triumph to bring downe my Saint to me To the Spring Vpon the uncertainty of CASTARA'S abode FAire Mistresse of the earth with garlands crown'd Rise by a lovers charme from the pâ—rtcht ground And shew thy flowry wealth that she where ere Her starres shall guide her meete thy beauties there Should she to the cold Northerne climates goe Force thy affâ—ighted Lillies there to grow Thâ— Roses in those gelid fieldâ— t' appeare She absent I have alâ— their Winter here Or if to th' â—orrid Zone â—er way she bend Her the coole breathing of Favonius lend Thither command the birds to bring their quires That Zone is temp'rate I have all his fires Attend her courteous Spring though we should here Lose by it all the treasures of the yeeâ—e To Reason Vpon CASTARA'S absence WIth your calme preâ—epts goe and lay a storme In some brest flegmaâ—icke which would conforme Her life to your cold lawes In vaâ—ne y'â—ngage Your selfe on me I will obey my rage Shee 's gone and I am â—ost Some unknowne grove I 'le finde whereby the miracle of Love I 'le turne t' a fountaine and divide the yeere By numbring every moment with a teare Where if Castara to avoyd the beames o th' nâ—igh'bring Sun shall wandring meete my streames And tasting hope her tâ—irst alaid shall be Shee 'le feele a sudden flame and burne like me And thus distracted cry Tell me thou cleere But treach'rous Fount what lover 's coffin'd here An answere to CASTARA'S question T' Is I Castara who when thou wert gone Did freeze into this melancholly stone To weepe the minutes of thy absence Where Can greefe have freer scope to mourne than here The Larke here practiseth a sweeter straine Aurora's early blush to entertaine And having too deepe tasted of these streames He loves and amorously courts her beames The courteous turtle with a wandring zeale Saw how to stone I did my selfe congeale And murm'ring askt what power this change did move The language of my waters whispered Love And thus transform'd I le stand till I shall see That heart so ston'd and frozen thaw'd in thee To CASTARA Vpon the disguising his affection PRonounce me guilty of a Blacker crime Then e're in the Large volume writ by Time The sad Historian reades if not my Art Dissembles love to veile an am'rous heart For when the zealous anger of my friend Checkes my unusuall sadnesse I pretend To study vertue which indeede I doe He must court vertue who aspires to you Or that some friend is dead and then a teare A sigh or groane steales from me for I feare Lest death with love hath strooke my heart and all These sorrowes usher but its funerall Which should revive should there you a mourner be And force a nuptiall in an obsequie To the honourable my honoured kinsman Mr. G. T. THrice hath the pale-fac'd Empresse of the night â—ent in her chaste increase hâ—r borrowed light To guide the vowing Marriner since mute Talbot th' ast beene too slothfull to salute Thy exil'd servant Labour not t' excuse This dull neglect Love never wants a Muse. When thunder summons from eternall sleepe Th' imprison'd ghosts spreads o th' frighted deepe A veile of darknesse penitent to be I may forget yet still remember thee Next to my faire under whose eye-lids move In nimble measures beauty wit and love Nor thinke Castara though the sexe be fraile And ever like uncertaine vessels saile On th' ocean of their passions while each wind Triumphs to see their more uncertaine mind Can be induc't to alter Every starre
by A flamed darâ— shot from her eye Sing'd thy wings with wanton fire Whence th' art forc't to hover nigh her If Love so mistooke his aime Gently welcome in the flame They who loath'd thee when they see Where thou harbor'st will love thee Onely I such is my fate Must thee as a rivall hate Court her gently learne to prove Nimble in the thefts of love Gaze on th' errors of her haire Touch her lip but oh beware Lest too ravenous of thy blisse Thou shouldst murder with a kisse To CASTARA Inviting her to sleepe SLeepe my Castara silence doth invite Thy eyes to close up day though envious night Grieves Fate should her the sight of them debarre For she is exil'd while they open are Rest in thy peace secure With drowsie charmes Kinde sleepe bewitcheth thee into her armes And finding where Loves chiefest treasure lies Is like a theefe stole under thy bright eyes Thy innocence rich as the gaudy quilâ— Wrought by the Persian hand thy dreames from guilâ— Exempted heaven with sweete repose doth crowne Each vertue softer then the Swans fam'd downe As exoroists wilde spirits mildly lay May sleepe thy fever calmely chase away Upon CASTARA'S recoverie SHe is restor'd to life Vnthrifty Death Thy mercy in permitting vitall breath Backe to Castara hath enlarg'd us all Whom gâ—iefe had martyr'd in her funerall While others in the ocean of their teares Had sinking wounded the beholders eares With exclamations I without a grone Had suddenly congeal'd into a stone There stood a statue till the generall doome Had ruin'd time and memory with her tombe While in my heart which marble yet still bled Each Lover might this Epitaph have read Her earth lyes here below her soul 's above This wonder speakes her vertue and my love To a Friend Inviting him to a meeting upon promise MAy you drinke beare or that adult'rate wine Which makes the zeale of Amsterdam divine If you make breach of promise I have now So rich a Sacke that even your selfe will bow â—'adore my Geâ—iâ—â— Of this wine should Prâ—nne Drinke but a plenteous glasse he would beginne A health to Shakespeares ghost But you may bring Some excuse forth and answer me the King To day will give you audience or that on Affaires of state you and some serious Don Are to resolve or else perhaps you 'le sin So farâ—e as to leave word y' are not within The least of these will make me onely thinke Him subtle who can in his closet drinke Drunke even alone and thus made wise create As dangerous plots as the Low Countrey state Projecting for such baits as shall draw ore To Holland all the herrings from our shore But y' are too full of candor and I know Will sooner stones at Saliâ—bury casements throw Or buy up for the silenc'd Leviâ—s all The rich impropriâ—tionâ— then let pall So pure Canary and breake such an oath Since charity is sinn'd against in both Come therefore blest even in the Lollards zeale Who canst with conscience safe ' â—ore hen and veale Say grace in Latine while I saintly sing A Penitentiall verse in oyle and Ling. Come then and bring with you prepar'd for fight Vnmixt Canary Heaven send both prove right This I am sure My sâ—cke will disingage All humane thoughts inspire so high a rage That Hypocrene shall henceforth Poets lacke Since more Enthusiasmes are in my sacke Heightned with which my raptures shall commend How good Castara is how deare my friend To CASTARA Where true happinesse abides CAstara whisper in some dead mans eare This subtill quaere and hee 'le point out where By answers negative true joyes abide Hee 'le say they flow not on th' uncertaine tide Of greatnesse they can no firme basis have Vpon the tripidation of a wave Nor lurke they in the caverns of the earth Whence all the wealthy minerals draw their birth To covetous man so fatall Nor i th' grace Love they to wanton of a brighter face For th' are above Times battery and the light Of beauty ages cloud will soone be night If among these Content he thus doth prove Hath no abode where dwels it but in Love To CASTARA FOrsake with me the earth my faire And travell nimbly through the aire Till we have reacht th' admiring skies Then lend sight to those heavenly eyes Which blind themselves make creatures see And taking view of all when we Shall finde a pure and glorious spheare Wee 'le fix like starres for ever there Nor will we still each other view Wee 'le gaâ—e on lesser starres then you See how by their weake influence they The strongest of mens actions sway In an inferiour or be below Wee 'le see Calisto loosely throw Her haire abroad aâ— she did weare The selfe-same beauty in a Beare As when she a cold Virgin stood And yet inflam'd Ioves lustfull blood Then looke on Lede whose faire beames By their reflection guild those streames Where first unhappy she began To play the wanton with a Swan If each of these loose beauties are Transform'd to a more beauteous starre By the adult'rous lust of Iove Why should not we by purer love To CASTARA Vpon the death of a Lady CAstara weepe not though her tombe appeare Sometime thy griefe to answer with a teare The marble will but wanton with thy woe Death is the Sea and we like Rivers flow To lose our selves in the insatiate Maine Whence Rivers may she ne're returne againe Nor grieve this Christall streame so soone did fall Into the Ocean since shee perfum'd all The banks she past so that each neighbour field Did sweete flowers cherish by her watring yeeld Which now adorne her Hearse The violet there On her pale cheeke doth the â—ad livery weare Which heavens compassion gave her And since she Cause cloath'd in purple can no mourner be As incense to the tombe she gives her breath And fading on her Lady waits in death Such office the Aegyptian handmaids did Great Cleopatra when she dying chid The Asps slow venome trembling she should be By Fate rob'd even of that blacke victory The flowers instruct our sorrowes Come then all Ye beauties to true beauties funerall And with â—er to increase deaths pompe decay Since the supporting fabricke of your clay Is falne how can ye stand How can the night Shew stars when Fate puts out the dayes great light But 'mong the faire if there live any yet She 's but the fairer Digbies counterfeit Come you who speake your titles Reade in this Pale booke how vaineâ— boâ—ast your greatnesse iâ— What 's honour but a hatchment what is here Of Percy left and Stanly names most deare To vertue but a crescent turn'd to th'wane An Eagle groaning o're an infant â—â—aine Or what availes her that she once was led A glorious bride to valiant Digbies bed Since death hath them divorc'd If then alive There are who these sâ—d obsequies survive And vaunt a proud descent they onely be Loud hâ—ralds to
the Violet If thus she cares for things even voyd of sence Shall we suspect in us her providence To CASTARA WHat can the freedome of our love enthrall Castara were we dispossest of all The gifts of fortune richer yet than she Can make her slaves wee 'd in each other be Love in himselfe 's a world If we should have A mansion but in some forsaken cave Wee 'd smooth misfortune and our selves thinke then Retir'd like Princes from the noise of men To breath a while unflatter'd Each wild beast That should the silence of our cell infest With clamor seeking prey Wee 'd fanciâ— weare Nought but an avaritious Courtier VVealth's but opinion VVho thinks others more Of treasures have then we is onely poore On the death of the Right Honourable GEORGE Earle of S. BRight Saint thy pardon if my sadder verse Appeare in sighing o're thy glorious hearse To envie heaven For fame it selfe now weares Griefes Livery and onely speake in teares And pardon you Castara if a whâ—le Your memory I banish from my stile VVhen I have payd his death the tribute due Of sorrow I 'le returne to Love and you Is there a name like Talbot which a showre Can force from every eye And hath even powre To alter natures course How else should all Runne wilde with mourning and distracted fall Th' illiterate vulgar in a well tun'd breath Lament their losse and learnedly chide death For its bold rape while the sad Poets song Is yet unheard as if griefe had no tongue Th' amaz'd marriner having lost his way In the tempestuous desart of the Sea Lookes up but findes no starres They all conspire To darke themselves t'enlighten this new fire The learn'd Astronomer with daring eye Searching to tracke the Spheares through which you flie Most beauteous soule doth in his journey faile And blushing sayes the subtlest art is fraile And but truths counterfet Your flight doth reach Faire Vertue hath an Orbe beyond his reach But I grow dull with sorrow Vnkinde Fate To play the tyrant and subvert the state Of setled goodnesse Who shall henceforth stand A pure example to enforme the Land Of her loose riot Who shall counterchecke The wanton pride of greatnesse and direct Straid honour in the true magnificke way Whose life shall shew what triumph 't is t' obey The hard commands of reason And how sweet The nupâ—ials are when wealth and learning meet Who will with silent piety confute Atheisticke Sophistry and by the fruite Approve Religions tree who 'le teach his blood A Virgin law and dare be great and good Who will despise his stiles And nobly weigh In judgements ballance that his honour'd clay Hath no advantage by them Who will live So innocently pious as to give The world no scandall who 'll himselfe deny And to warme passion a cold martyr dye My griefe distracts me If my zeale hâ—th said What checks the living know I serve the dead The dead who needs no monumentall vaults With his pale ashes to intombe his faults Whose sins beget no libels whom the poore For benefit for worth the rich adore Who liv'd a solitary Pnaenix free From the commerce with mischiefe joy'd to be Still gazing heaven-ward where his thoughts did moveâ— Fed with the sacred fire of zealous love Alone he flourisht till the fatall houre Did summon him when gathering fâ—â—m each flowre Their vertuous odours from his perfum'd nest He tooke his slight to everlasting rest There shine great Lord and with prepitious eyes Looke downe and smile upon this sacrifice To my worthy Cousin Mr. E. C. In praise of the City Life in the long Vacation I Like the greene plush which your meadows weare I praise your pregnant fields which duely beare Their wealthy burden to th' industrious Bore Nor doe I disallow that who are poore In minde and fortune thither should retire But hate that he who 's warme with holy fire Of any knowledge and 'mong us may feast On Nectar'd wit should turne himselfe t' a beast And graze i th' Country Why did nature wrong So much her paines as to give you a tongue And fluent language If converse you hold With Oxen in the stall and sheepe i th' fold But now it 's long Vacation you will say The towne is empty and who ever may To th' pleasure of his Country home repaire Flyes from th' infection of our London aire In this your errour Now 's the time alone To live here when the City Dame is gone T' her house at Braâ—dford for beyond that she Imagines there 's no land but Barbary Where lies her husbands Factor When from hence Rid is the Countrey Iustice whose non-sâ—nce Corrupted had the language of the Inne Where he and his horse litter'd We beginne To live in silence when the noyse o th' Bench Not deafens Westminster nor corrupt French Walkes Fleet street in her gowne Ruffes of the Barre By the Vacations powre translated are To Cut-worke bandâ— And who were busie here Are gone to sow sedition in the shire The are by this is purg'd and the Termes strife Thus fled the City we the civill life Lead happily When in the gentle way Of noble mirth I have the long liv'd day Contracted to a moment I retire To my Castara and meet such a fire Of mutuall love that if the City were Infected that would purifie the ayre Loves Aniversarie To the Sunne THou art return'd great Light tothat blest houre In which I first by marriage sacred power Ioyn'd with Castara hearts And as the same Thy lustie is as then so is our flame Which had increast but that by loves decree 'T was such at first it ne're could greater be But tell me glorious Lampe in thy survey Of things below thee what did not decay By age to weakenesse I since that have seene The Rose bud forth and fade the tree grow greene And wither and the beauty of the field With Winter wrinkled Even thy selfe dost yeeld Something to time and to thy grave fall nigher But vertuous love is one sweet endlesse fire Against them who lay unchastity to the sex of Women THey meet but with unwholesome Springs And Summers which infectious are They heare but when the Meremaid sings And onely see the falling starre Who ever dare Affirme no woman chaste and faire Goe cure your feavers and you 'le say The Dog-dayes scorch not all the yeare In Copper Mines no longer stay But travell to the West and there The right ones see And grant all gold 's not Alchimie What mad man 'cause the glow-wormes flame Is cold sweares there 's no warmth in fire 'Cause some make forfeit of their name And slave themselves to mans desire Shall the sex free From guilt damn'd to the bondage be Nor grieve Castara though 't were fraile Thy Vertue then would brighter shine When thy example should prevaile And every womans faith be thine And were there none 'T is Majesty to rule alone To the Right Honourable and excellently