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PIA DESIDERIA:
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R,
Divine AddreiTes^
In Three
Illuftrated
BOOKS.
with XLVII. Copper-Plates.
1
Written
'
in Latine
by Herm. Hugo.
Engli[hed hj
EDM. ARWAKER, M.^
The Second Edition^ with Alter at iGns and Additions,
LONDON,
Printed by J.L. for Hexry Bonrvicke, at
the Red-Lioft in St. PaitPs Church-
Yard,
MDCXC.
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^^tUr^S II
THE
PREFACE.
FROM
my firfi acquaintance
with thisjiuthor^
which was as early as I was able to underhand
him^ J found him fo pleafing and agreeable^
that I wifi'Pd he were taught to fpeah^ Englifh, that
thofe who could not underfi and him in his own language
might by that means partake of the [atisfa^ion and
^advantage /, at leafi^ received in my converfation with
^him. And finding that not any Ten had been employ'*
^^ about
'
the IVork^ (for
Emblems,
to prefix
Mr, Quarks
them
to
much
only
borronPd his
inferiour fenfe)
and Juch an ex^
^celtent piece of Devotion be lofl to thofe who wou^d
yprifeitmof}^ the Religious Ladies of our Age: /
^refblv*dto engage in the attempt \ and the rather^ be^
iicaufe the Subjed was futableto my Calling, as a
>Clergyman^a6 the Senfe was to my Fancy, as an hum^
ile Admirer 0/ Poetry, efpecially fuch as is Divine,
But on a more confederate perufal of the Book, in
torder to a Tranflation, / found fome thing in it
'^rather than
it
fhould remain undone^
^
fWhich put a ft op
to
my
proceeding^ that even
my
zeal
me to nnder^
I
Author^
^jak§ the Work. Por my
found^ was a little
i^too much a Poet^ and had infer ted fever al fictitious
-fiories in his Poems ^ which did much Icffen their gravis
"<ty^ and very ill become their Devotion \ and which^
Xindeed^ wou'*d take from them that pre^alency which
^they ought to have^ as ferious AddrelTes from the
^fo have
Soul to
them.
done^ cou^d fcarce prevail with
God,
JSfit
over the affeUions of
at lafi
my inclination to the
A
2
that
^d
Wo/k'}
^^^^
all
m
'
\
The
Preface,
Vie rcfolve rather wholly to omit thofe Ficlions whtr-e I
rnet
my defign. And accormy hupnefs to leave them always
them^ than recede from
dingly I have
made
it
OHt, only where 1 copPd think
of an afpfite example
out of the Scriptures^ I have iifed
tious one omitted. As in thefirfi
it
injteadofthefiiii'
Poem of the ftcond
in Phaeton as an ex-
Book^ where the Author brings
ample of Mens dtfiring Liberty in choofing^ tho"* their
choice proves oftentimes their ridne ^ / have nfed the
Prodigal Son^ as more
am fure
fnitable
in that defign^
and I
of the Poem, Andfuch another
alteration I have made in the fecond Poem of the third
to the gravity
Booky where^ inflead of Cydippc'j being deceiv'^d by
Acontius with an Apple ^l have mentioned EveV being
fa deluded by the Serpent. And inftveral other places
J have done the llke^ where thofe fabulons fiories came
in
my way^
may find^
04
whoever has the curiofity
to enquire^
by comparing the Englifh and the Latine.
And in all this ^
I
I have rather done
think^^
thor a kindnefs than an injury.
Bnt there
is
my Auanother
thing for which fome of the Author's Friends m^y
that is, for omitting
perhaps call me to an account
•,
feveral hiflorical pajfages taken from the Legends of
Saints and Martyrologies
turn in
my own behalf^
regard
to^
Perfons
of whom
:
that
And for
it
this I
or prejudice againfi the Saints
the account
muft re^
was not oat of any dif-
is given ^
and
holy
nor that I fu-
however fomt percredit them ^ but
the true reajuns of fny leaving out the mention of them
were thefe : Firfl, becaufe I knew that great part of
perfiitfoujly disbelieve their ft ories^
haps
may
wit ^4 too
much fnperftition
the Readers would be ft rangers to their Hiftories^
and
tnuft
UIUC
'-
^
The
Preface.
a bfs in underft anding the
Secondly, hccaufe the trnth of the reUtms
is not [o evident as to render them unqueftionable^ I
thought them better left om^ efpec tally fince they areon^
/y bare recitals offuch f^^ffagesy withont any improvement of Fancy, or hickinejs of Thought upon them^
snufi confequemly he at
Poems.
h
being omitted^
which conld not injure the Book,
whereod the inferting that part might prtjudice fome
^nd^ which was
nice judgments againfi the whole
my third reafon ./night he a hindrance to the Jmprejfion,
Bnt however they
they will not take
cal part
j'nay cenfitre
it ill
me for
this,
/ hope
that J have left out the Satyri-
of the fecond Poem of thefirft Booky wherein
Monks and
the jinthor reflects on the
deed I thought
it
and
Friars in their
them ^ for infomething too nncharit^ihle to have
variety of Hubits^
contefts about
any room in fo divine a Poem, And now I am apologizing for omilTions, let me -not forget to acqnair.t the
Reader that I have left out fome of the Author* s fen fe^
particidarly in the eighth
Poem of
and in
the third
the fecond Book.,
Book- In tijefirft
of which he recounts all the fever al forts of Perfumes
he can think^of^ and in the Ir.tter makes along recital
the ftcond
of the various
tire than
Poem of
ki'.ds
ddight
of Flowers^ both which rather
and he mnft be unkind
the Reader ^
But f^ill
me^ that I have made bold
if he does not thanh^me for omitting them.
it
may
be objected agai?ift
my
At'.thor^ in varying from him, and fomeadding to him "^Tis true^ I have done both j
as in thethiid Poem of the fir
ft Book^for inftance,
where, infteadofmer:tioning Podalirius and Melampus, and the other Phxficians^ I have ftfed ten lines
with
times
••
B
3
of
!
The
!
Preface.
of my own
^ and in' the fifth Poem of the fame Eooh^
J have given an account of MarPs Creation fomething
different from that in my Author (both which^ oi all
the other variations and additions may be known to
the Englijh Reader by their being printed in the Italick
Charader.J But whether J have
impair'^d the fenfe^
whether done for the better or the worfe^ I miifhjub'
mit my felf to the judgment of the Learned^ whofe
far don I mufl beg for whatever is amifs^ and particularly if in any thing 1 have injured the worthy An*
thor^ to
J
am
tions^
whom I am
willing to make all the reparation
And^ifl have injur'^d him in other addihave done him a kindnefs in that ef the tenth
able,
J
Poem of
the third Book, where he feems to apologize
for Self-murther
away
all pojfibility
;
for what I have there added takes
of miflaking him^
who I am
confi-
dent was too good a Chriflian to deftgn any thing of
that kind^ and we find he fufficientlj condemn d all
fnch attempts by
this
Vtrfe
:
Oquoties qusefita fugce fuit anfa pudenda
which I have rendred^
How oft woulM 1 attempt a fhameful flight
where the Epithet he gives to ^[ght^proves that he had
no good opinion of it. And this gives me the hint to
fay fomething of his wijhing for death in the eighth
Poem of the fame Book^ which is not any way meant
in favour of Self-murther^ but a pious defire of the
to be freed from the captivity of the Body^ that
might enjoy its Saviour ^ which is no more than
Soul
it
St. Paul tells us of himfelf^ that he had a deto be dilToked, and to be with Chrift. More
what
fire
might be y.r£d in behalf of my Author on
this acconnty
but
The
ha that
Preface.
he needs no apology^ and I have enough to do
to excufe myfelf^
for
'*tis
not improbable
I flja/l
be'ac^
CHs^d of an indecorum as to Chronology^ in the fourth
Foem of the jirft Booh^ in bringing in the glorious
Martyr King Charles /. with mr late
Monarchy for examples of the misfortune that oftentimes attends the greateft and befl- of men ^ infiead of
Menelaus and Dionyfius bnt I defre the Reader to
give me leave to inform him^ that I defign my Tranflation to reprefent the Book^ai if now but fir ft written^
and where then could I produce 7nore apt examples of
Saint and
:
and the fnjferings of good
men^ than thofe Princes were^ xohofe Vnhappinefsj
like their -Excellencies^ had no parallel ^ I am fure
the infiahility of Fortune^
Th^Y mnfi
be more
fhit able
than Dionyfius, whofe
And having
tyranny made him unpitied in his mifery.
told
my Reader my
defign^ 1 hope he will not blame
for changing the 7 th. of
my
me
May
Author"*s Birth-da'^) to
my own^ and applying
(which I fuppofe xx>as
the 27th. of July (which
all that part of
and theft I am
confident I fjjall not be condemn d on any hand for that
digre(fion in the fourteenth Boim of the fame Beo'i^
woi
the eighth
Toem
to
myfelf
in the third Book'-,
I conceive
the joyful reception of his facred
Majefly King Charles the Firf^s Soul into Hraveit^
and the great fatisfaslion which his Son'^s Succtffion
wherein
to the
Crown brought
to thofc
Coskflid Spirits^ who
beirg lovers of Right and Equity^ mnfl- be exceedingly
pleased to have his undoubted Title take place^ for
that they are affecied with
low^
is
is
feme tranfaEiions here be^
evident from our Saviour'^s wordsy
joy in
That there
Heaven among the Angels over fmners
that
^.
The
Preface.
and why not then over the JhJI that
that repent
are rewarded ?
I would not willingly tire my Reader with a long
Preface^ and therefore flnll only add a word or two in
behalf both of my Author avdmy felf,
^Tis true the
•,
Title-page in the Latin e declares him of the Society
but his Bookjhews nothing'either of his Or-
of Jefus,
der, or particular Opinion in Religion^ but that he
is an excellent Chrifiian in the main : and indeed he
feems tome to have defignedly avoided
offence to his Readers
of a
all
occa/ion
different judgment
of
for
iho^ tn the fourteenth Poem of the firft Book^he had a
fair opportunity of mentioning Purgatory, he wholly
declines
And
and takes no
it,
in the twelfth
-^
not ice at all of fach aplace.
Poem of
the third
Book he fays
nothing of Tranfubftantiation, tho'^ he had occafion
And this
to mention the Sacrament of the Eucharifi.
particularly I thought neceffary to offer ^ left
fome may
thinl^Ihave mif-render^d him in thofe places^ which
if they confult himfelf^ they II fee I have had no occa-
Thus having made my excufe for fome
fion for it.
which
I
things
fear'^d might he carpt at, if I have any
other faults^
let
J Jhall detain the Reader
no longer^ but
him go on to find them.
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T O
CO
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TO THE
DESIRE
THE
OF
Eternal Habitations,
JESUS CHRIST,
Whom the
Lordj
Angels defire to pry
thoti knoivefi
groaning
is
all
not hid
my
from
m~
and
dejire^
thee^
into.
Plal. j
verf. 9.
BY
no
difcov'ry did I e'er impart
The fecret fantings of my love-JickJrLtvct i
Whofe clofe retejfes to no other eye
But that ^r^^?^ Pow/s that fram'd them, open lie:
He only views my thoughts in their undrefs,
And His
bright beams k^xch thro' their nakednefs
To Him each (ecret ligh, each filent groan,
To him the bottom of my Soul is known.
B
2
Whe
(4)
Who Call his fenfet'another's ears convey,
Unlefs himfelf his
own
defigns betray
Yet, cou'd Difcovry gratifie
?
'
my wifh,
'Concealment Ihoyld not Icng defer the BHfs
But no
relation can
Or limits to my
.*
my wants relieve,
bonndlefs wiilies giv^.
Racioel ^\s\\\h did her loft Sons deplore,
But
finding Tears in vain, fhe w^ept
Thus Fire emits, and then
And on
its
devours
no more.
Seeds,
its
Off-fpring the wild Parent feeds.
Thus, when the Clouds have empty'd
They
And
And
drink
thus
up
all their
Rain,
the exhaufted ftock again.
I beft receive
the tears I flied.
turn the Streams back to their Fountain-head.
{GROAN,
Then, what
Only
What
my
to me, and
I
Thoughts
him
are
I love,
is
,
while
known
I deeply^
j
deilgn in every filent VOiV,
Only my
[elf,
and my Beloved know
^
And my thick SIGHS ^ my ft ick Language
Unknown to all but me and Him I love
How oft have I,
prove,
with pions Fraud and Art,
In a diflimbled look bely'd
my heart
?
rUafftrc
(5)
Plenfure and Mirth without deludes the fight,
While
all
within
is
Torment in the height.
No Faith in Tears, for Tears have learnt deceit.
No Faith in Smiles, unlefs your felf you'd cheat.
I weep^ the hafty
I Lutgh^
World
and they
as
fall:
How little fhows my
I [mile
Not
believes I'm fad
conclude
Face
when grievdy when
every wifh
None knows my
and
Minds intent
p/eas'^d^
I
more than
the Camelion changes
Whofe
my
;
me glad.
nioil Ur/^eyit.
thofe,
new Mafciuerades expofe
fecret
GROANS,
?
and
•
'-,
VO IV S,
SIGHS,
None but wtf
7m7<?,
and only 7w
Heb.
iv.
fuifice.
13.
is there any Creature that is not mamfeji in his jigbt^ but all things are ^iaked
and opened ro the eyes of him with )Vbom
Neither
tve
have
to do.
B
3
SIGHS
(O
Wil7i 77iy
f/zcc-
271
omil have. J^eJv'^e?
f/i& 711^ hi-.
Jja:
^^- fj-
T.^
:
(7)
SIGHS
OF THE
penitent
BOOK
^ouU
theFirfi.
I.
fVifh my Soul have I defired thee in the nighty
Ifa. xxvi. 9.
HOW
And
clo
my wAndring thoughts miftake their way,
in a
Maze of darkfom
Loft in vvhofe difmal Lab'rinth^
Th' %^gypian VUgue
is
in
All cloudy, fearful, horrid
I
Err(,r ftray
?
conclude
my Soul renewed.
3
not one (park
Of Day a Night for Night it felf too dark.
No ScythUn or CimmerUn Sky fb black,
s
/Cikc*
Tho' Heav*ns bright Lamps thofe gloomy Shades forEv'n Hell^ where Night in
Yields to the terror of
lable
Triumph
my darker OHs
B 4
dwells.
For
!
( 8
For
tho'
no fav'ouring Star imparts
To banifh thence the
Yet thereto
As
y
much
infc/ifible:
There the fad Shades bewail
And
And, when the Scjthians
Th'- expected
But
I
am
And what
their
dim Cimmerians
ev'n the
Day
want of Light
fee
'tis
j
Ni^kt,
dark Moons have fpent,
fix
returns fromvBanifliment
to eternal
Night
fhou'd guide me,
There's not one
:
their piinifliment they fee!/
them be
will not let
its ligiit.
tlrnkfahftamial Night
confin'd,
is it
felf llruck
ghmmering Bear/t
bhnd.
that dares invade
The fetled Horror of the gloomy Shade.
Nor can I hope but that I Ml muft lliay,
Since I perceive not
But
how
I lofe
my way
love th' unhappy darknefs where I
And Nights foul Shades,
-,
err.
to Buys bright
Lamp
prefer.
my wandringmind,
my Judgment blind:
Loves foft Enchantments my weak Heart entice
His /(^^///^ J/Vff/ delude my dazled Eyes.
For Prides
falfe light
And vain Ambition
mifguides
ftrikes
j
"When
The
My
thefe black
my thoughts poffcls.
darknefs and the horror
Eyes have
And Heav'n
Oh
Images
\
that
their fuccelTive
allows
my
ftill
increafe.
Night and Day,
Th^m an alternate fway
:
SohI as happy were as Thej
That
: ;
!:
!
(9)
That ReafG^oiniiy might with
Whofe
office
'tis
TViii prefide<
the ftragling Mi?id to guide
They more are grieve'd wlio cannot ufe their
Tlun they, who never yet enjoy 'd the Light s
And
he that in Nights fhades has
loft his
Salutes with greater joy th' approaching
But
that's a
Which
Sights
way.
Day
Night too tedious to be born,
never will admit the grateful Morn.
When the bright Sun
We hafte,
returns to cheer our Eyes,
like Perfians^ to adore his Rife
Thither cur early homage
we
;
addrefs,
And.ftrive whofirft fhallhis kind Influence blc§.
Thus
oft,
From
Pole to Pole, and thus as oft have pray'd
on
Shine, fhine,
high, I Heav'ns bright
my
rife,
furvey'd
Sun^ bright Object of my Song,
Thou that haft left my
Rife,
Orb
watchful Eyes too long
or half thy beautious Face difplay
!
If that's too much, indulge me one fhort i?^>
Yet, if that Blifs
O let
it
is
too fublime
be enough to
foi-
've rvljhid for
me,
Thee
\
Bernard in Cant. Serm. 75.
The World ha.s its Nights^ and thofe mt afetv. Ala^
why do Ifaj its Nights 3 Jince it felf is almoft one continual Night J
md alwajs ovcrffre^d with Darknefs ?
11.
OGody
(lo)
jihcily ^
mid
7712^
/iid./ro77t f/icc
.
fciiItJ /zr^ 7iai:
TJal:6^q.^.
::
(.1)
11.
God^ thou knowefi my fimplkity , and my
faults are not hid from thee^ Pfal. Ixix, 5.
thou our childifh FoUies canft not bte.
IFThou,
things by wife Comfels^ott
who doft
all
Who
Since none
Nor
who
can accepted,
from
Folly ^
fcapes, alas, the
This Poyfon, of fo
i
can pardon'd be.
none from Faults arc
free?
moft exalted mind
fubtil, ftrange a
kind
All whirl'd about by the fame giddy wind.
Tis vain to hide our
faults,
Folly's our Birth-Right
Since our
And
fii'ft
all
They
for
been
fraii
5
Parents went themfelves aftray.
taught hs too to fool our Blifs
an Affle
all
Mankind
Was e'er a more imprudent
Nor
we've
by a long Entail,
Efan's Folly has
Who, Wretch
!
away
betray'd
bargain
5
made ?
its parallel,
devour'd his Birth-Right at a Meal.
Ev'n He,
Whom Sheb/Cs ^een for Wifdom did prefer,
(Strange weaknefs /
)
afted Folly ev'n with
Her^
Which
:
ri2)
/C/V^'s Gracious
Wliich proves that
Who
fays, that Foo/s are
Nor was
Sentence true,
mm'rous^ Wife-men few.
the prudent Jiiofess wifh in vain,
When he of Mans deftru6lion
did complain
''
O that unthinkmg Mortals wou'd be wiie,
''
And
place their
End before their heedful
eyes
!
>
" Then Sins fhort pleafures they wou'd foon defpife,
" Nor yield, hke Wax, to ev ry Stam^ of Vice.
.
Wou'd any but
a ftrange beibtted
Rout,
Th' Rxiftence of a God deny, or doubt
Tlyefe, that in fin
they
?
may uncheck'd go
on,
Perfwade themlelves to a belief of iY^?;?^.
Our
And
very Crimes t'improve our Fo/iy
Nor
does the growing frenzy here give
we*re infatuate^
But from
this III
e'er
we
teiad.
dare offend
;
o're.
runs headlong on to more
:
We Cailles build in this inferiour Air,
As if to have Eternal Beings here:
But when unthought-of-D^^r/?fhall
We then
With
iliall
endlels
own the
fond Improvidence,
and unprofitable
toil
We ftrive
t'enrich
This
which. we muft leave at
Soil,
and
fnatch us hence>
beautifie the Soil
To thofe^r whom our
laft
;
behind
pains were ne'er defign'd.
;
!:
;5
;
How does our toil refemble Childrens play,
When
they ere 61 an Edifice of Clay ?
Hem idly bufie and
imploy'd they are
Here, fome bring Straw
3
?
there,- others Sticks
prepare
This loads his Cart with Dirt 5 thnt in a Shell
Brings Water, that
it
may be
tempered' well
And in their work themfelves they
While Age the
Soon
^^r^Heav'n with contempt looks down,
our
And with
What
a breath our Babel-ToTvYs o'rethrown.
o^Gems^ what thirft o^GoId,
ftrange defire
Thofe, drops of Rain congeal'd
Yet fhefe Co
That they
Ah
No
j
all
Mold
l
much mens nobler Souls debafe.
mean trifles place.
!
can your choice approve.
more exalted Objefts of your
That
that^ ripned
their blifs in fuch
foolifh Ign rants
!
fondly pride,
chlldljh Fahrich^diOts deride
love.
your time in their purluit you fpend.
As {{Salvation did on them depend
Heav n may be
?
purchas'd at an eaiie rate
how few bid any thing for That
Unthinking Men who Earth to Heav'n prefer.
And fading Jeys to cndlefs Glory there !
The Crime of fuch an inconfidVate choice
But, oh
!
I
Ought not pretend
to Pardon, ev'n in
Boys
For
:
For They from Counters currant money knowi
Almoft as fbon as they have
But^<f» (ohfhame)
learnt to
go
prize counterfeit delights
Before the Joys to which kind Heav'n invites.
Oh
!
for
EVemore
fome Artift to
degrees
retrieve their fenle,
of Folly they commence
\
But by Heavns piercing Eye we|are difcry'd.
Which does our fins with
He's pleased to
And feeing
Follies
Mantle
wink at Errors too
in
hide.
me,
feems as tho' he did not fee.
He knows I've but a flender flock
of
fVit,
And want a Guardian too to manage it.
Othen, fbme kind Pro/^^<^/c;;, Lord,
This Ide9t Soul! But
'twill
ailign
be beft in Thine.
Chryfoft.
(IS)
Chryfoft. in Joann. Horn. 4.^
I'hey art no better than Foolsj wjjo
are e'ver^ as
it
earthly things^
ivercy
dreaming of
and of Jbart
conti-
nuance.
III. Hitie
(14)
f
7- 7111^
z
Irc^icS a7^c vc^xcP.TJnho.
:
:
(I?)
III.
Have
Lord, for I am
heal we, for mj Bonts
mtrcy upon mt^
fvcAk
Lord
:
J
art ^vtxedy Pfal. vi. 2.
SHall my
juft grief be
querulous, or mute.
Full of Difiafe, of Phyfick^ deftitute
I
?
thought thy Love fo conftant heretofore.
That
J^oirs
were needkfs to confirm
me more
And can'ft thou now abfent, and (light my pain ?
What fault of mine has caus'd this cold Dlfdain >
O
befi:
Whofe
Phyfttian cf
fight alone will
Thou who haft
\'\
my
love-f,ck^ Souly
make thy
Patient whole 3
canid, canft thou forget
hich only from
its
Author feeks
Slooud they rehofe Art gave dfing
my grief,
relief?
Tame nerp hrenth
d their furvlving Names fror/i Death
And
refcu
They
in -whofe fight no bald Bifeafe durfl flandy
But trembling zaniOod
at their leaft
command
•
:
-^
They who each Similes fo:^' rein Virtue k^ewy
And to their
ends cottd well affly them
C
tQ9
Shoud
:
:
:
(iS)
Shond
they their skill In tedlom Confult try,
wond
All^ all
my
fail to eafe
mifery
\
All their Prefcriptions -without Thine are vain^
Thine
only
fnit the
Thou who haft
nature of
Which only from
See !
my Pain.
cans'd^ canft ^o\x forget
its
my griefj
Author feeks relief?
my parch'd Tongue my inward heat declares,
And my
quick Vulfe proclaims inteftine Wars
3
While fo much Blood "s profufely fpent within,
That not one drop
And the fame
my
can- in
Beats a dead Afar eh in
my deje6led Arms
DoBors figh^ and fhrugging
2iiy
And me
to
lofi
healthy
and
their fuccefslefs skilL
when ev n
Difcourages the loft Phyjlcians care
fubtle Poyfon creeps through
And in my Bones the fierce
My
drooping Head flies
But by the
feeble
heqpieath.
they the fatal (enfe I feel
W'liat can the Patient hope,
The
:
take their leave.
Heav'n and a cold Grave
While more than
Of my
Cheeks be feen
Pulfe that once gave brisk Alarms,
Props
to
is
all
defpair
1
my Veins,
contagion reigns
my Hands
for aid.
foon betrayed
Now my laft breath is ready to expire,
And I muft next
to Death's dark Cell retire.
Vainly
;
,
:
;
:
('9)
\'^ainly I ftrive
my other pains
to
teli,
Becaufe their number s unaccountable.
In
this forlorn unpiry'd ftate I lie,
While he who can
My
Face
all
relieve
me,
lets
me die.
changed, and out of knowledge grown,
'tis my own.
My Eyes have fhrunk for fhelter to my Head,
And on my Cheek the Rofe hangs pale and dead.
Ev'n I
anfi fcarce
No pow'r
Kor
perfwaded
cou'd drive the
fierce
force th' infulting Vi6lor
Difeafe away,
from
his prey.
My Bed I loath nor can it ileep procure
My feftring Womds no Surgions hands endure*
5
(heart,
My Womds— But oh
The
!
that
word
my
has pierc*d
very mention does renew their fmart;
My Wounds gape wide,
And make quick
as they wou'd let in Death,
paiTage for
my flitting breath
Nor can they ev'n the lighted touch endure.
But dread the Hand that wou d attempt their Cure,
For, Lord,
That
my
TVouyds are from the Darts of Sin,
rage and torture ray grievM Soul within
Here an hydropick third o{ Riches
And their
Prides fiatuous
reigns,
humor fwells my Veins
Next
frantick Fajfioff plays th^ Tyrants part,
And
Lcz-es o'er-fpreading Cancer
C
2
gnaws
my Heart
Oft'
: ;
(20)
Oft' to the leam'd I
made my
Oft'
try'd their skill,
Not
all
the virtue
Without
fuffrings
known,
but found redrefs from none:
o^ Bethefdds
thy help J could ever
Pool,
make me whole.
Then to what healing Altar £hou d I flie.
But that whofe frofirate ViUims never die ?
To Thee,
Health-giver
to the fVorld,
Who moft canft pity what thy
There's no found part in
But, ifthoH
Tvilt,
all
I kneel,
felf didft feel
my tortur d Soul
Lord, thou canfi wake
me whoU.
See where, to cruel Thieves, a helplefs prey,
Wounded and rob'd I'm left upon the way.
O Good Samaritan ! my Heart revive
With Wine my Wounds fome Balm ofGilead give.
Tijen take me home, left if I here remain.
;
My Toes
return, and
make thjfuccour
vain,
Aug.
(2l)
Aug. dc Verb. Dom.Serm. 55. cap. 55.
The
rvhole
veryfick
World, from Eafi
;
to
but to cure this very
Weft, lies
World,
(ick
there defcends an Omnipotent Phyfttian,
fpho humbled himfdf even to the A^tm-
ftion of amort
into the
d Body,
as if he had gone
Bed of the Difeafed.
C
J
IV. Look
.
(82)
Sc?^y Ui?id fcn^^iirc f/nc a/l 7ntr Sift
y.t
!
(23)
IV.
Look upon my
CAN
And
all
and mijery^ dndfor-
adverfity
my fin
give me aU
Pfal.
^
xxv. 17.
my Suff'rings no compafllon move,
wou'dil: thou yet perfwadc
Thas oft been
faid, belie\^e it
That thofc who Love, each
For
my redrefs
See
what a
?
he that will
orhei's
my grief,
Canft thou behold
•
torment
feel.
my Neck fuftains,
my Soul
is
Had my
parallel,
afflictions
any
fains
a Punlfimerit,
{hou'd bear them
Taught by Exa?KpIe^
I
And
my woes,
'twou'd, amidft
its
wcu'd be con rent,
But one whofc Scandal
ueK
bring ibme
:
relief.
have mireficpAciersto H-ipport the grief:
For bravell Heroes
Of
^^''^
!
and feek no way
Whofe P?ame is more afflicting than
To
thou doft
True Love brooks no dda}'.
fervile Toak^
With any task
me
their injurious
eft'
Thus OHT fam'd Martyr,
BcTfPdto a Rebel
have
felt
the weight
Step-dame For nine's hate.
ir,
Ax Hi^
his
MurdVers/^,?^,
Sacred
C 4
He^
5
/r/?/7<?
:
:
!
(24)
Tf^hile
His great Son, a Prince of high Renow/ty
The Heir
of His bright Fathers
Name and Crown j
InanohfcHre^ ignoble Banifhment,
T>id His
own
and Rebels Guilt fr event.
Fate,
Sad inftances of Man s uncertain
Yet
But
'tis
ftate
no Crime to be unfortunate
my bafe Slav ry
is
alone
my
blame.
And lefs to be bewail'd with tears, thm/hame
And to a heavier fum my woes amount,
Since I muft place them to my own account.
Like captiv d Samffca I am driv'n about,
The drudge and fcorn of an infulting Rout.
Around I draw
And find mj
Within
Im
!
the heavy reft lefs Wheel^
endlefs task^ beginning fiill:
this Circle byftrange
flill in
O
that
j
motion, yet
Magick^boundy
I gain
no ground.
fome ufnal Labor were injoyn d,
And not the Tyrant F/V^ enflav'd my mind!
No weight of Chains cou'd grieve ray captive hands,
Like the loath'd Drudg'ry of
By this a double mifery I
Ev n I condemn the hated
Vet of my Chains
But
that I
flill
am
Tm not
its
bafe
Commands
\
contrail,
Ills I
fo
aB,
weary grown.
putting others on.
For
Sin has always this attending Curfe,
To
back the firfi TranfgreJJion with a worfe
This
!
:
!
:
(25)
This to
my
ibiTOW, I too often find
my heedlefs mind.
and Ftrtue do my Soul divide,
Experience warns
Yet no
Thus Vice
Like a Ship
toft
Pleafptre^ the
There, Griefs
between the f^tnd and TUe.
Bawd to Vice,
its Fallffwr^
here draws
me
pulls
me
in,
back from Sin
Yet Pleafure oft comes Conqueror from the Field,
Whilft
I
to Vice, inglorious
Tho' Grief does
Placd, like a
Thus
Homage yield.
with Vice
SUve by
in
that great
triumph
ride,
Conjurors
fide.
Vice and Virtue have alternate fway,
While
And
ftill
I,
wdth endlefs labour, Both obey
to increafe
my pains,
Thy heavy hand com.es
Aad with deep
For what
as if too fmall.
in the rear
of all,
piercing ftrokes correfts
me more,
ivas puniih'd in it felf before.
Thusgmlty Souls
in Hell are
fcourgd for Sin 3
Their never-ending Fains thus flill begin.
Canftthou, unkind I behold
Onft
my wretched Fate
Loo|c on,
O fee if caullcfs I complain
hold thy Hand, and mitigate
Aug.
1
J>
thou behold, and notCommiferate?
my
Pain
\
in Pfal. xxxvi.
the World is called a Mill , becaufe it is
turn'd about on the Wheels of Time^ and grinds
and crufhes thofe that moft admire it.
ff^ppofe
V. Remem"
(26)
']^tmml^crIl^Jccc/Li/icc,
jitaJc
7m
.2/
-M^ i^'Aii/^
t/i.it
ii/iiJ
l/ani /laJt
7vilt
t/iiTti
(^/7//.7 771J 771h-^ ^71 St i7i7ai77C^.I'irl^. 7J.iJ.
^—
JP.7,S.
V-
::p
:
(^7)
V.
Remember^ I hefeecb thee, that thou hafi
made me as the CUy, and wilt thoH hrtTJg
me into Dtiji again ? Job x. 9.
HAOr
does
That the
great Author
S Providence regard to things below
it (light
what
to
Thee are
?
not fleas" d to
know ?
of this brittle Frame
Forgets from what Original
Ages,
its
hm
it
came?
as yefterday
And canfl thoff. Lord, forget thy humble Clay ?
Formd with a touch, and quickened with a breath 5
In o»e Jhort moment made,
Jf thou h^fl
The firange
<i;?^
this forgot^ receive
doom'd to death.
hem me
relation of the Hiftory.
fVhen this great Fahick^of the
World was
reared,
A}idits Or/gV^/ Nothing difaff ear d.
Then,
in the clofe of the Sixth hufie day.
Thou with a glance
And f
leased
didfi the
whole Werkfurvey^
with that fair frodu5l of thy PowV,
JVou'dfi: cofy^t o'>er
again in
Miniature
5
ThcR
:
:
(28)
Then was with all the Art of Heav'n defign*d,
The mortal Image oi^ immoptal Mind.
Bleft: Bden was the place which gave him Birth,
And as he
lightly leapt
Pleas'd Heav'n
And
him welcome
bid
Hard by
Stealing
Path along the Grafs
wondrous Tidings wide away.
of deff {cable Earthy
(the lefs, hnt
Nobler World)
Nobler, fince in his
once the
But
s
fiercely hurl'd.
in four ftrcams to diflant Regions ftray.
bear the
Had Man
At
Waves more
New-born Mafter of the World
Herefrom a Lump
The
into Paradife,
head-ftrong
its
To view the
And
his rife.
a iilver Stream ^6. gently paft.
its fecret
But foon
Thence
from Mother Earth,
and Nature fmiling greet
fmall Frame
his Btrth^
fve vierp
World and its Creator too.
^
things of fineft texture fir
And Heavnf great
Mafter- fiece
Riiind by that ivhich does
its
decay^
is brittle
Clay
^
wortb advance.
And daflid to fieces by the leaft mifchance.
This frail^ this tranfitory thing
JVho only
live, to
So foon fhall Tate
am
/,
learn the -way to die
to its fir
ft
Matter
'
turrty
The curious Stru^ure of this living Vrn.
Thus China- Veflels,
ror ought with
Are, mthout either, turnd
to
Art and Pain^
Dufl again.
Such
:
(29)
Such
Is tJo
mcertalnty of humane fiate,
Fate
Sfich the deflruEihe hafte of necefarj
I
Why then, my God, does {\vift-pac d Time betray,
What of
it
felf s fo fubjeft to
decay
?
All to the Grave^ their Centre^ freely bend,
And thither^
with
preft
their
own weight,
defcend;
Fate neseds not any hafty vi'Ience ufe,
To
which unurg'd they
chufe.
more temper'd matter
fhare^
force a motion,
Did
I the Stars
Till they firft fell, I
Or
no decay fhou'd
cou'd I like th'unbody
d
fear
Arjgels be,
Like them, I'd triumph o'er Mortality.
But
/, like
Trom fame
Infers ^
f^'^^f
derive
my Birth
Plebeian, futrifying Earth.
Why did not Heav'n an Iron temper grant,
Dr hew me from a Rock of Adamant
But how dare I with Heav'n cxpoftulate,
?
Dr blame
t4ie frailty
of my mortal
N^or
ought proud Clay
>Jor
fcorns he that
its
ftate?
Potter eer upbraid,
weak Veflel which he has made.
Rupert, in Jerem.
lib.
i
.
cap. 4.
Dares the iwhapjy Clay hlafpheme the fingers of its
Potter f How fo ! hecattfe the Potter contracltTig
his fingers.,
hofjd^
it is
and
firikjf^g the Vcffel with his
violmlf daf,?d
to
whole
peceu
VI. I have
(?o)
I /mvjiJm?ic7,iv/iatshalllJc^ unlcr
haStfhcni Jet me aS{n
ZV'. 7.
'.
1>C.
mai'^a^dmMcc
JP. 3<i-
:
(30
Vf.
/ have finmd^ xvhut {hall I do unto thee^
thou Preferver of M^n f Why hafi thou
fet
''T^I
me as a Mark againfi thet ? Job vij.20.
S
juft,
nor will
I
longer hide
my jfhame,
A
But own my felf egregioufly to blame
My Sins to flich a mighty fumm amount,
That hope of Pardon wou d inaeafe
And
the black Cat'logue of their
Calls for
I
tli'
account j
uhwip'd
fcore,
more Plagues than Vengeance has in
own it,
Lord, nor
Since piblic\
juil
Pumfhrn^m
Here, at thy Feet,
I
Dijhonour fear
ftorc,
\
I ought to bear.
humbly
proftrate
bow,
And beg my Sentence from thy Mouth to know.
Shall my own Hand thy dread Revenge fr event.
And make my felf my own fad Monfim€r.t H
Shall I with Gifts thy leaden Altar
Or facrifice the Beaft, my felf,
(
Tho^ fare
my Blood rvond that
Jftdgiv^ what
it
crown,
thereon?
bleft
fUce frofhane,
fh<iHd clemfe n fofiler fiaw. )
All
:
::
(30
Ail
this,
and more, ifpoflfibleto do,
Wou'd fall far fhort to pay the Debt I owe.
But thou art not fevere, nor hard to pleafe,
Whom Blood and Slaughter
only can appeafe
Thy Sword thy conciuerd Foe has often fpar'd.
And thence the bell, the nobleft Trophies reared.
No tyrant PafTion
But
the
rages in thy Breaft,
meek Dove
builds there her peaceful Neft
Kind Guardian of the Woirld
5
our Help, our Aid,
!
To whom the \''ows of all mankind are made
Who when thou wou'dfl: thy height of anger £how,
A fudden Calm unbends thy threatning brow
How kindly dod tiiou raife the proftrate Foe,
j
With the fame hand
Wou dft
Can with
Yet
let
that fhou'd have ftruck the blow
thou permit— But oh
fuccefs appear in
mc. Lord, plead
my
I qonfefs
what Eloquence
defence ?
for myfelf^
Left ev'n thy Caufe^ as mine^
Lord,
!
may
and Thee^
injur'd be.
Fve finnd^ but not
dlone
;
Wilt thou impute a common Guilt to One
Thy bare-fac d
As
if thoH
Rebels
ftill
?
?
iinpunifh'd go,
mindedft nothing here below.
Men^ the brutiih
Unplagu'd,
/Ik^ other
iVallorv i'th'
fowl excefs of Luft and Wine
Srp'ine^
Yet
(??)
Vet doft thou flop thy Arrores on the
Arrefl thy brandi/h^d Thnnder
Sheath thy r^^ Sword,
And
room mild
in its
But evry
[li^^
on the
jufl lifted for
firing,
Wing
5
the blow,
Olive-branches (how.
each inadvertencie.
Is magnify d to'injpfffrabte in
me.
I am the Mark of evry wounding flroke.
As if I only did thy wrath provoke.
This
I confefs^ All
O hear my Pray V,
I,
can do:
alas!
with
my
Confeffion
Accept the good Effeds of an
And
!
Caufc,
Pardon Sin, that gains thee moft- apflaufe,
" Forgive me, ConquVor
**
ill
too
Had
!
fince
thou
mud confefs,
noc Err'd, thy Glory had been
I
'
Greg, in 7 cap. Job,
lib. 8.
Icfs.
cap. 23.
Man ^
a mark^ agalnfi him, when
fets
by finning has forfaken God : But cur jufi
Creator fet him as a mar\ againfi him ^ becauff
he thought him his Enemy by hvs naughtinefs.
Then God
Man
D
vn. Whm-
(34)
^/icrcfcn-c /n^cSt i/wn
(^
/"^^^
:
.
.
(35)
VII.
Wherefdre
me for
emmy
t
Job
24.
xiij.
mji great Error, or thj fmall Refpecl,
IS't
That I
I
hidejl thou thy face^ a.rd holdtfi
thine
am treated
with
this cold >iegieB ?
thought thy frowns were but di^embled heat.
And
all
thy threatijing looks an amorom cheat,
As4:ender Mothers
To urge their
draw the Bread away.
pretcy Innocents to play
Or as the Nurfe feems to de-fjy a Kifs,
To make the fonda- lij^liant fte4 the
1
So
I beheve
And
(alas )
I
taller
tis
follow thee.
cMicefldW,
if
we
had.
coldly entertain
never fhou'd be Friends again
And w ith fuch eagei- hafte my
As Men from
As
I
not pretended Au'^^v, hut dejign'd:
My kind Embrace you
As
Blifs
thou didft abfcond, and nee
Only to make me
But now,
5
if
:
prefence fhun,
A<fonfters or InfeUlon
run
\
ray looks wou'd turn you into Stone
But fear mt
that, the TvorJ(s alreadj done
^
5
!
So cold you dre\ fo
fenfelcfs
my fmartj
of
Some Magick^ftire has petriffd your
O
:
heart,
me know what Crime I muft deplore,
me fee your dear-lovd Face no more
Ah why that Face muft I no longer fee,
Which ne'er, till now, once lookt unkind on me ?
let
That
lets
!
my breath>
my Eyes dart unavoided Death.
Sure you believe there's poylbn in
Or
that
Prevent the danger with thy conqu nng Eye^
Vnfheath its Rays, and let
Or
elfe
th^
Tor more than Death lyour
Your Eyes are
The
Offender die
difcharge a frown, and flrike
all I
wiih,
Sun, unmift by me,
me
:
dead.
Dilpleaflire dread.
let
them be mine.
may
ceafe to fhine
:
Fair Cynthia^ beautious Eyes, I can contemn,
Tho'
But
all
if,
the Lamps of Night fetch
my Life, my
Beams from them
Soul, thou Thine deny,
Heart-broke, in darlmels and dcfpair I dye.
And if thy
very
Ahfence
caufe fuch pain,
Gueis what my Torment is to Lrve^ but lAfve in vain t
Amh.
(?7)
Amb. Apolog. pro David.
Jf any of our Servants offend u$^ we art
wont not to look u^on thtm
If this he
thought a funifhment among Men, how
much more with God ? for you fee that
:
God
turned away his face from the
Off^er-
ingofQdin.
P
5
VIII.
(5S)
^fiiohir 7i'cev
day(a7id 7Ui./Al:J^7^.t7.^
.
(?9)
VIII.
and mine
Eyes a fountain of TearSy pfut I might
mep Day and Night ! Jer. ix. i
my Head
that
OH
were Waters
,
my Head were one vaft fource of tear s^
With dubling/r^^w/as num'roiisas my hdirs
!
tbat
\
My Face a Plain, which briny Floods Ihould drown.
And fcorning banks, come
proudly rolling down.
That grief with inexhanfiible faff lies ^
JVoudfill the
aft ems of my
flowing Byes
i
Till the fierce torrents tvhich thofe fprings imj^art
FUwdown
Not
all
the tears the
With which
Nor
thofe
On the
Nor
his
Couch was
w/(/Z?W, himfelfwas/i?^?
which once the weeping Alary pour'd.
which drown d the great Jpeftles Bread,
boafted Zeal fhrunk at th' affrighting Teft 3
iVbrthefe, nor
To
Royal Pfalmift fhed.
dear Feet of her forgiving Lord-,
thofe
Whofe
.
myBreafi^ and ft agnate round my Heart,
more than
cleanfe the ftains of
thefe,
my
can eerfffffice.
Impieties,
D
4
Give
(4°)
Give me the undifcover d fource of Nile,
That with fevn Streams
Ory Noah
Till
/
let
o'erflows th* tAigyftlan Spilj
thj Deluge be renew d.
I am drown din
the impetuous Flood;
TillTow'rSy and Trees, and Hills appear no more
j
All one vafi Defert Sea, without a Shore.
O that
woud their
tbefe Fountains
And flow usfafi
courfe begin,
as I made haflt to Sin
The weeping Limbecks never fhou'd give o^er.
I
had empty d
Till their laft drop
H^tppjf
all their ftore,
yc Fountains which for ever
JVhofe endlefs Streams no
O that my
Drouth
flow,
or
Summer
Eyes had all the Drops which
From
this fair Spring, or that eternal fVeIII
How
do
I grudge
the Clouds their
envyd Rain
Mffw wifh the boundlefs Treafures of the
Then Jhou'd my Tears,
And
Nor
like that, jufl
Ifhou'd takeaflrange delight
the fwift current of
Till in the
Waves
my
this Jittle
kyfow,
fell
to
Main
\
\
motion keep.
weep
:
grief forbid.
World were
hid-.
Hid, as the neighboring Valleys are o'erfpread,
When
the
warm Sun
'The great Aflyrian,
A happy
melts Pindus fnowy head.
found
MecCcine for
in
JordanV Seas,
his foul Difeale
5
Bui
:
(
40
Bnt what kind Torrent mil my Cure hegut^
And cleanfe my filthier Leprofic of Sin ?
See
!
from my Saviour V fide
/// bath myfelf in that
That healing Torrent
To ypajlo my
flidns^
ci
flream of Blood
Redeeming Flood
;
tpoa oh fur^ofe ffilt^
and expiate
That ever-flowing Ocean
all
my guilt.
yolll ftiffice
For the defeB of my exhaufted Eyes.
Hieron. in Jerem. cap.
9.
Tears ^ and thofe not
only fbme few drops, hut an Ocean or a
Deluge, / IbouU never rveep enough.
Jfltvere
all dijfolv*d to
IX,
Tk
(42)
mc., fhc S?urcS
of J^catfi
cn-a^tacrJc
T.^4.-
(43)
IX.
The pains of Hell came about me
of Death overtook me^ P(al.
WHile
this (ad diftrels
ill
Methinks
my
:
the flares
xviij. 4.
fclf I view,
make that Heathen Fable ti-ue^
I
Of him whole bleeding mangled Carcafs lay.
To his own Hounds exposed a helplds prey.
Long
I the pleafures
of the f^bod purCu'd,
my felf grew wild and rude
my care,
Till, like its Beails,
;
I hop'd with Hunting to divert
But almoft
fell
my
felf into the fiiaie.
Yet CO ihofe Woods
Whofe
(
alas
'.
)
I did
not go,
inn'cent Sports give health ^nd pleafure too.
I fpread
no Toils to take the tim'rous Deer^
Nor aim'd my
Javlin at the rugged Bear.
Happy, had
my
Nor had
I
I
I
been by
tim.e fo well imploy'd,
my own Game deitroy d
my youthful days,
:
had not then mif-fpent
Nor
torn
my flefh among fliarp thorny ways.
But
:: :
;
:
:
(44)
But I
nine,
(alas ) ftill ply'd the fparkling
!
Tbat poys'nous
of the pernicious Vine
Juice
-,
Dart,
And
me
The fal(e betray'r of my unguarded heart
Thou Love^ haft thy fly Nets, and fubtle charms s
this exposed
Nor
are thy
to Loves
Bow and Dart
fatal
thy only Arms.
And treacherous fVine does fatal weapons bear
The Giafs is more deftru6live than the S^ear.
Thus
SatKffon^
by
Dali/a betray d,
his
Was Hers, and then his Enmies
Thus^ -when
He ypho
too freely
Noah had usd the
Vine^
efcafd the Flood, lay drown d in Wine.
Thus Loye^ by me
Seized
made
Captive
my loft
purfli'd (alas )
!
Soul, and prey'd on
too
faft.
me at laft
,
Within whofe clofeincircling Toils befet,
I feem'd a Beaft juft falln into the
Dcftroy d by what
As Birds by
my inclination
fought.
their frequented Lime-trpigs
For Death around,
its
caught
s
fubtle Nets does fpread,
Fine as the texture of the Spiders
And
Net
Web
as ferdne that watchful Robber
His buzzing prey the better to
But, taught by motion
when
lies.
furprize
5
the booty's nigh,
Leaps out, and feizes the entangled Fly
Or
:; :
(45)
Or
as a Fowler,
While to
He
with
t entrap
Contrives
conceal
his hidden Snare,
the Racers of the Air
and further the
deceit,
ftrows the ground with his deftruftive meat
s
And faftens Birds of tiie fame kind, to (ing.
And weakly flutter on their captive wing
So Peath the Wretch into
And with
Above
But
his Snare decoys.
pretended happinefs deftroys
the Nets
we think a
head-long drop into
Amb.
lib. 4.
leap to take.
th' infernal
Lake.
in cap. 4. Lucse.
The reward of Honours^
the height of Power^ the delU
the beauty ${ an Harlot^ are the
cacy of Diet, and
fnAres fifthe Devil,
Idem, de bono mortis.
If^llfi thoufeekefi Pleafures, thou runnefi tntoSnzres
for the Eye of the Harlot
is
the Snare of the
;
A-
dulterer.
X, Enter
(40
thy 6erranr^{J.7:,ori. TSal:i4^y2,.
(47)
Ertter not into
Judgment with thy Servanty
Lordy Pfal.
TH E
Mafiers
That
And
calls his
tho' the
Where s
cxliij. 2.
gains to a (mall
Servant to a
fum amount.
ftri6l
account s
Servant has not wrong'd his
truft.
the applaufe of being only Juft f
Vainly the Mafter does a Suit begin,
Tc gain a Vi6lVy he muft bluili to win
Andiflm over guilty made, no doubt
.•
I muft^o feek^Jome other Mafler out.
Believe me, Lord^
to be
fevere
mth me.
Will wrong thee more than mj offending
I
am
fo
much
too
mean
Twill leflen thee to mind
thee.
for thy regard.
how I
have err d.
What! muft thy Regi(tries ih^fleadingsihoyiy
Swoln with the HilVry of my overthrow ?
Or can I hope my
Caufe fhou'^d Thine out- do.
Where, Thou fit'ft Jttdge, that art the Plant iff too t
What Eloquence can plead with fach fuccefs,
To
free the
wretch that does
his debt confefs ?
Alas
J
(48)
what Advocate
Alas
Can
weakett Thine, or re- inforce
Ah
!
not too
ftriftly
Nor for Abatements
Laws,
beft read in
!
my Canfe
my Accounts
let
me
r
furvey,
vainly pray.
Both Heav'n and Earth thy boundlefs Mercy know,
To Pardon,
eafie \
and to Punijh^
£v^n when our Crimes
'Tls rather grief,
Jlotv:
pull thj juft Vengeance down^
than anger, makes thee frown
when thou doft our Punifhment
:
And
Thou feeil our ftripes with more concern than wei
And doft chaftife us at fo mild a rate,
That what we bear, we fcarce wou'd deprecate:
And tho' our felves we had the Judges been,
decree.
We hardly fhou*d have lightlier touch't our Sin.
But
CharaBer
tho' this
is
All thy due.
Let me thy lightefi Cenfures undergo
For tho' thy Mercy does no hmits know.
-,
Thy
Juj^iee
muft have fatisfaBion
too.
Thefe Attributes in equal ballancc lye,
And neither muft the others Right deny.
No melting PalTion can afted thy breaft,
Nor
Nor
foft intreaties
*
reft
:
baffled Eloquence dares here engage.
But wants
No J>^,
Can
charm thy hand to
it
felf fbme happier Patronage.
no Bribe, no Trlckjn
all the
Laws,
e er prevail to carry fuch « Caufe.
'TIs
,
!
(49)
*Tis vain with Thee^ Lord, to
Whofe awful
commence ^
No other Judge lb terrible can bcj
To make me fear his fin'^eft fcrutinie
But Thy Tribunal^ Lord, with dread
Where thou art
Where, when
No
P/aintijf, Judge,
and
I
view,
my Sentence from Thy mouth is
How this dread place augments the
fo
;
TVitjiefstoo
much awe and gravity
:
come.
Doom.
Plea can urge Thee to reverfe the
Where
Suit,
prefence ftrikes all Pleaders mute.
Guilty
s fear,
appear
Ev n He whofe Reasoning did this Truth aflert,
And {hot a trembling^ into Felix Hearty
Who did not his cw/i
judgment Seat
decline,
Cou'd without trembling never think q{ Thine.
And Wtfdoms famous Oracle denies
The pureft Souhinbl?mifh'd in Thy Eyes
Whofe
pious Father
Declares Thy
And
7^/5'
(
after thine
Wra\h the
bed:
of Man's
affures us, that the ^r^^r/,
Chears with kind
Tho' glorious
infi'ence
all in
3
own heart )
defert.
whofe Light
our admiring fight
our dim Eyes they fhine.
Are only fmall O^acous Orbs
How then can weaker
in thine.
Beams fupport
that weight,
Wliich fhoOkk thefe Pillars with fuch flrange
Or how can humble
Hyffof keep
When Lihms's ilatelieft Cedars
E
its
affriglit
?
Wall,
fall
?.
Wheii
;
when I behold my large unblotted (core,
And think what Plagues thy Vengeance has in (lore
3
An icy horror chills my freezing blood,
And ilops the aclive motion of its flood.
Asfomefale Captive, when condemn d to
Loath
to refign,
evn
his lajt gaff of breathy
Beholds, with an intent
andf eddy
eye.
The dreadful Inftrument of Fate raisd high
Tet fill
Shuns
So,
unvffilling
-with
from
when Ifee thy Book,
Amaz'd,
For
how
World
this
I fly
in
3
:
which are writ
L r^ly
thy Bar
:
to go.
a jlart the difappointed blow
All the blackCrimes
death.
did commit^
-^^
can Sinners that ftri^ place abide,
Whece ev'n the
Right com fcarce are juftify'd
?
Bernard.
^
1
(50
Bernard. Serm. 6. fuper, Bean qui^ Sec.
What can be
of
trotihk
thouglS^fo fearful^ what fo full
and anxitty^ as to ft and to
he judged at [uch a Tribunal^
fe6i an uncertain Sentence
and
to ex-
from [uch a
Judg..^
#
^^R>-
0-
'W*-
^•
E
2
IX. Let
(50
:
(s?)
XI.
Let not the water-flood drown me
me
the deep [wallow
UUconftant
Whofe
neither let
Pfal. Ixix, i6.
«/>,
morion of the
reftlefs Se<^^
Waves
treaclfrous
:
/^j.^y
|
the Sailors hopes be-
So calm fometimes, fo fhining they appear,
No poliih'dChryftal is more fmooth or clear.
Sometimes they
fcera
ftill
Whole modeft Pools no
Sometimes the Waves,
Curl
ftir,
rais'd
their green heads, the
Then,
in foft meaiurcs,
And to
as a {landing
or motion make.
by a gentle breeze.
wandVmg (ight
round the
While thou, kind Sea,
its
dance.
their burthen doft fuftain,
furrows on the Main
on thy yielding back each
Tho'
V^eflels
to pleafes
the Mufick of their Shrouds advance.
Ev n while their beaks plough
Safe
Lake,
\'e{lcl rides,
rude Oars lafh to a foam thy
The groaning Earth
?
(ides.
fcarce weightier burthens feels
From heavy loaden Carts with i'rn- bound wheels
And that none may fufpedl thou wilt betray,
Thy chr>'ftal Waves their rocky breaftsdifplay,
E
3
A^
;
(54)
As if no treac h'yy cou'd be harbour'd ifhere,
Where fuch fak/hows of honeftj appear.
But when the Anchors,
And a
weigh'd, the Salts atripj
kind gale bears on the floating Ship,
Land can be
Soon
as the
And
all relief is diftant as
Then
perceiv'd
no more,
the ihoar,
the rough Winds their boift'rous giifts difchargc,
And fill at once
affa ult
Juft as the furious
the helplefs Barge.
Ljbim Lions
rave,
When eager to devour a Sehtenc'd Slave
Or as a crew of fturdy Thieves prepvire
To feize and plunder fome lone Traveller
;
Then
And
theinfulting Billows proudly
j
rife,
menace, with their lofty tops, the Skies
•
WhilH: the difcolour'd Waters hide their head,
So much th' approaching Tempeft's rage they dread.
And when each jarring Wind infults and raves,
And altogether hover o'er the Waves
Short broken Seas ev'n from themielves are torn,
And different ways
\_All black^heloWy
each crowding Billow born.
above
all foamy -white
\
A horrid darknefs mixt svith dreadful Light
Here
long^ long
There
HiHs^
rollfar ^
and
tvide
3
aicp-ay
;
abrtt^t Vales fright backjh"^ intruding Day.']
Her«
)
(55)
Here
a vafl
Gulph of Ruin opens wide.
And the Ship's fwallowed in the rapid Tide
Or if bom on a Tenth unlutky TVave^
:
The breaking bubble proves its watry Grave.
Thus the falfe Ocean treach'roufly beguiles.
And thus m frowns end its deceitful fm'des.
But
Nor
fufpefted not th' unfaithful Main,
I
did
of
its
I ne'er the fury
Nor on
(
inconftancy complain
the Tempefts boiil:erous rage exclaim
Which
twifts the furly Billows,
And foaming-mad,
Nor
And
\
of the HlyJs did blame,
curft the
till
they
attack the lo wring
5
rile.
Skit's
;
hardy wretch that led the way.
taught the World to perifh in the Sea.
My \''eirel ne'er lanch'd from my native fhoar,
Nor
did the Navigator s Art explore.
I ftudy'd
not the Chard, nor gave
my
mind
To learn to tack and catch the veering Wind.
Too foon thefe Artifts of their Skill repent.
And
peri/h
by
tlie i^rrs
they did invent.
My Life's the Sea, whofe treachVy I declare,
My fe/f the Vefel tofs'd and Shipwrack d ther^
All the loud Storms of the infulting
Arereftlefs P^j^o^z/of
my troubled
:
W^W,
Aifnd.
Thus
:
!
:
(50
Thus
I pafs
harraft in this flu6luating State,
tbm
ftrange Vicljfitudes of Fate,
Deceitful Life
Changed
a
iii
!
whole
filfe ferenity
moment, ends
in mifery
Thou want'ft nofvpeet allurements to
Thy Beauty ever charming, ever gay
betray
;
j
While Love and Luft wrack the diftra6led mind,
No dangVous Sands,
no Rocks, or Shores we
But when
a Tide of Crimes breaks firecely in.
And beats
the Soul
Then, ah too late
In which
Oh!
'tis
on
fatal Shelves of Sin
the difmal
!
Gulph
wretched drowning Men,
that, at leaft like
rife
That, while their grofler parts
and
agen
float
Becomes
men
to
at once theit A-furtlirer
as the wretch, beneath
At
once is
Or
thofe to
So
fare the
fome
rife
and
their
\
the firoke
deceitful Ice ^ives
agen to diftant day
men by Sins fwift
Tomb
Roch^
falling
kUfd and bury d with
In vain wou'd
!
whom the Earths gaping Womb
Or
whom
!
do downward move.
Their pure Devotion wou'd remain above
[uft as
3
it fpies,
plung'd, and funk by treachVous Vice.
ThQ^Q Jinking Souls \\o\xA
But,
find
way.
:
current bom,
Thoughtlels of Heav'n, by Heav n th' are left forlorn.
(?7)
Lord,
See,
how I
with JVmd and Tide engage.
While on each hand uneqij;^ Wai* they.vvage!
5eehow ray head
While
is
bo w'd unto the Cfeve,
I am forc'd to court the drowning Wave
^eeft
thou fny Soul
And
wilt thou not reprive
Behold
J
O Lord
!
lofl in a
And I
flitting
perifh in the Sea
:
by thy Almighty hani-
fhall quickly reach the wifh'd for
Be thou
my
.
br^th?
behold, and pity me.
And leave me not to
O hold me up
double Death,
my
?
Pjiot,
and
Then iSi^fwim m
Land.
my Morion guide.
fpight
ofJVl^dajrATtdk
Ambrc^ Apolog. "p^JDavie^^.
...
-^-
'^
5.
.
^
Thernfiltitudeof^oHr Lufis ratfe a mighty Itempell,
Tvhich fo: tolles them that fail i'/t the Qce^n of the
Badf^ that the
Mind canmt be its own 1?ykJt.
XII. Oh!
rfO
:
:
:
.
(59)
XIL
^h^ that thou would'fi hide
me in
the
Grave
!
that thou would''fi keep mefecret^ until thy
wrath be faji ! Job xiv.- 1 j.
W^
^hofe
H O,
who will grant me a (ecure retreat,
Where I may fhun thy furies fcorching heat
piercing flames whene'er I call to
fear I can
[
rhen
no fafe concealment
I defire the covert
And Caves, whence
?
mind,
find
of the iVood
/
p^^^
Beafts are rang'd to feek their
rhen in Earth's Womb woii'd hide
my fearful head^
Dr in (bmc Sea- worn Rock compofe my Bed
In hilly Caverns then my felf I'd fave,
Or
fly
for refuge to the filent
Or far remote from
Wou'd
Grave
the fair Orbs of Light,
in thick Barknefs dwell,
When
the loud
:
Thunder
and endlefs Night.
rouls along the Sky,
Vlen to the Lawrels fhelter trembling fly
n vain
(alas
!
)
they hope ProteEiion thence^
The helpleis Tree proves not
its
own Dejence 5
Much
:
,
(go)
j\ltich lefs
From an
can that apUce of Refuge ^^
angry Deity,
-all-feeing
Thy Eyes the clofeft: Solitudes invade
And pierce and pry into the darkeft Shade.
The Wretch who took his Ruine from a Tree,
In vain with Leaves wouM hide his fhame from
For while to fhun thy prefence he aflay'd,
Ev n his ahfcondlng his ofence beti'ay'd.
In
vam
(
alas ) to
!
We carry mith us
Caves and Dens
__
Tljee'
run,
vv'e
what we cannot fhun.
The Den that did the Hebrew
When He was freed,
Captive fave,
prov'd his Accufers Grave:
Nor was Lot\ Inceft liidden in liis Cave.
As much in vain we court the Earths dark Womb,
And
fly for flicker
Vengeance, (vn
to the filent
And rife to funifh thofe
Thus
black
As vainly Jona^
wa6 opened by
in the
we
doe.
living
Tomb
obey'd
And caft him back
brittle
Faith is
his
Death.
Sea concealed
'B^Ysfaithlefs flighty ev'n
A
ills
furfue^
vainly Cain ftopt righteous y^^^/'s Breath,
*The mouth ofblood
His
Tomb
thither^ will our flight
by the Sea revealed
:
Heavns great command,
to the foriaken Land.
all
the glaiTy Sea can boaft
(moft.
Tranfparent Waves betray what they fhou'd cover-
Nor
(6t)
Nor
can
we hope
concealment in a
Tomb,
That^ cafts our bones from itso'er-burthen d
In Rocks and Caves
Womb.
we muft no truft repofe,
For their own found the feaet will
difclofe.
And leaves, and Trees themfelves, alike will fade,
And then ex^ofe what they were meant to7^/^^<?.
Nor Sea^ nor Land, not Cave, not Den, nor ^W,
Stars, nor Heavn it [elf can do me good:
Nor
ThoH, Lord, alone can ft hide
my fearful headj:-
Where I no Vengance, nor ev n Thine, can dread.
Whilft
Thy kind Ha-nd alide thy Thunder lays,
\StretchdoHt^ diiarm'd, a fu^pliant Wretch toraife,
Amb.
Iftirher,
that
O Adam
thott
in Jerem. cap. 9.
have thj Tranfgreffions led thee^
thy God, Tohom before thou
That Feoi* ktrayj r/^ CrimCj fto-Flight
!
(hunnft
foughfft t
thy Prevarication.
XIII. Jre
(62)
^7-c
?ici-7ny .^ays fcJV, ccaSc i/ic?i^^^
(63)
XIII.
Are not my
days few
?
Ceafe then^ and
may hew ail my [elf
alone y that I
a,
let
me
little.
Job. X. 20.
a/^w
MUST
Be
minpttes
added to
my days
thought a favour pafTmg thmks or i^redfe ?
Ages^ indeed, might well deferve that namcy
And
render
my
Ingratitude to blame
:
But, the increale of a fsw days to come.
How little adds it to the flender [urn
As well
the
hfant that but
Is faid to leave
it
in a
good old Age.
As well poor hfeBs may be
To whom their Binh-daj
So fading TloroWs
AVhofc
?
treads the Stage,
(aid to live,
does their Twiral give.
their hafty
minutes count,
longejh Life fcarce to one
day amount.
FlowVsj in the morning Boys^ at noon-tide
At
Men^
night, with age, feeble as Boys agen.
Thus in one
And aJJ
{hort-hv'd day they hloom and dify
the diflVence
of pht Ages
try.
Wou'd
.
:
('54)
Wou'd Times o'er-hafty Wheels
their
Motion
(lay,
And the fwifc hours not poft fo fwift away,
The InfeEis then might lengthen too their Song^
And the Flow'rs boaft their day had been fo long.
But Time iseverhaftning to be gone,
Andj
like a
Stream^ the Tear ghdesfwiftly oh.
Succeflive A'fcnths clofely each orher trace,
And meet
the
Sun along his anmtal race^
While fhort-liv'd Days, then
The
either,
(pace.i
marchafwifcer.
harnefl hours are preffing forward
ftill,-
And, mcegonehy^ dxt irretrievable,^
" Thus envious Time loves on it fe to pvey,
if
"
And ftill thro
Its felf purfues,
^nd on
it felf it
its
own
it
fclf
Thus
its
own
it
ever
its
way*
flies,
ever lives and dies.
So wafting Lamps by
And kindle at
Entrails eats
their
own flames
themfelves their
expii'e,
Fmral pre.
courfe the circling Tear puriues,
Till like the Wheels
on which 'tis mov'd it grows.
This Truth the Ancients weightily expreft,
Who made the
lather on his Off-lpring feaft
For Time on Months and Tears.,
its
Children, feeds,
And hills with motion^ what its motion breeds.
Hours wafte their i?^j,the T>ays their Months confume.
And the rapacious yT/i?;^/-^^
their Tf^rj-
entomb.
Thus
:
:
,
!
(<55)
Thus Tears,Months, Days^ and Hours^ ftill keep their
iSomiA,
77// allin vafl Eternity 'are drown'd.
Then, Lord, allow my^r/V/fome
To mourn xh^ Jhortnefs of my
I
wifh not time for laughter j
httle fpace,
hafty race
if I did,
My circumfianoes and t\iQflace forbid.
AH I defire, is time for ^riV/and/^^^r/,
Let that be all th' addition to my years
Whtch^ tho but jkort^yet hmje been full offin ^
More
Yet
than
my
time was
if thou grant'fl:
They'll
to
repent
it in.
me {bmc few minutes
make amends for myjhort
more.
days before.
Come then, My cruel Hands, and without reft
Or pity, beat my hard, my fencelefs Breaft
Drop then, my eyes, you cannot flow too
faft
While you
delay,
Tis done
my tears have a prevailing force,
And
'
what
Heav'n appeas'd,
precious time is paft
now ftop
?
their eager courfe,
Hieron. ad Paulam, Epift. 12.
firfifinn'^djhe changd Eternity for Mor^
Nine hundredyears^ er thereabouts : Bnt fin
increafingby deguees, Afuns life was contra^fdto 4
when man
talitj^
very/ /%ort fpace,
F
xiy.ok!
(60
'fcs?.
:
!
(67)
XIV.
Oh !
that thty were
xvife^
that they under-
fiood thisy that they would cofffider their
Utter endy Deut. xxxij. 29.
SHame
Is
on
befotted
baffled
mind
to all dangers, but the^efent^ blind
Whofe thoughts are
But
man, whofe
i/is
all
imploy'd on mifchiefs near^
TcnrMe^ ntwtx fore-fee^ ox fear.
The Soldier is prepar d before th' alarm,
The Signal giv n 'twou d be too late to arm.
The Pjhts fore-fight waits each diftant blaft,
And
lofes
no advantage in his hade.
Th' induftrious Hind manures and fows the Field,
Which he expefts
a plenteous Crop fhould yield
The lab'ring Ant
Summer (lores
in
at
home
Age 2ir\dtVwter come.
But, oh! what means Mans ftupid negligence,
Provifion e're old
That ofthefature has no
care or fence?
Does he expeft Eternity below,
A life that fhall no alteration know ?
He's
Tho'
much
it
abus'd
5
inevitable
delays^ will one
DeAth,
day flop his breath \
F2
Sno,
)
::
(68)
Vdln
are the
hopes the
That Tyrant keeps no
firmefl:
Leagues produce.
Faith, regards
no Trnce:
He does not to the Peace he makes indine,
To ta^,^ advAntAge in his whole defign
To him Alluiyice is an empty name,
He does all vnfrefts. But his orpyi, difdaim.
1
>
Sooner the Ice or Snow fhall mix with Flame )
Sooner the
And
faithlefs
Winds and Waves
night and Day, and
Lambs
j
1
agree,
>
for fafety flee
To bloody wolves,then that make Peace with Thee:
Fiercely the greedy fpoiler ftrikes at
A
prey for
Iiis
infatiate
all,
Jaws toofmall
He tears ev'n ten^r Infants from the bread.
And wraps them in a Shrewd, ere for the Cradle drefi.
Nor Sex nor Jge the grim Deftroyer fpares,
Unmov'd ahke by Innocence zndTears.
Here
fprightly Youth, there hoary bending
Sweet Boys, and blooming Virgins glutt
Like common Soldiers, chief Commanders
And like
No
Commanders^ common
fliining
Tho'
all
Duft appears
Soldiers
in Crafu's
Age
his
Rage.
d^^.
lie.
Urn,
he touch'd he feem'd to Gold to turn.
Nor boafts fair Rachels face that Beauty here,
For which the Patriarch ferv'd his twice-fev n
year,]
And: never thought the pleafing Purchafe dear.
Evn
:
Evn Dives here frcm
Laz'rus
lor now Ones Purple,
th'
//
not
^
knmn^
Others Rags are gone.
Each has no Manfion but
his
narrow
Cell,
E<[Hal in colour and alihe in fmelL
Why
then fhou'd man of fuch vain Treafure boaft,
So difficultly ^^/»'^
For, late or ^4r/r,
fo quickly
loft ?
all refign their breath,
Death:
And bend,
fale Viclims to their Conqttror
Each
each Age^ Profejfion^ and Degree,
^^.v,
Moves tow'rds
this
Centre
But did they not a
And
that to die
oti Humanity.
farther Journey go,
were
all
Cou'd but their Souls
they had to d» 3
dillolve as faft
As their corrupting Carcases decay
They a
covet
Death to
away,
j
<f«^ their frefent cares
And for prevention of their future fears
They d
And
to the Grave, as an Afylum run,
fo;^r^
the ftroke which
But Death (alas !) ends not
now
they wilh to fhtm
their mifcries,
The SouFs immortal^
tho' the Body dies.
Which, foon
its
as
from
Pris
n of Clay
At Heav ns Tribunarsy^-^f^^/rV or
Before an awful Pow'r,;/(/?
Round whofe
i
enlarg'd,
difchargd.
znd fevere.
bright head confuming flames appear
5
The
;
!
(7o)
The fhackled
Captive, dazled at his fight,
Dejefted ftands, and fhakes with wild afflright.
While, withftri(^ fcrutiny, the Judge furveys
Its heart,
and
clofe impieties difplays.
The wretch conviEled^ does its guilt confefs.
Nor hopes for mercy for concealment lels
^
While
//<?, th*
Damns it
Where,
j
Accufer^ Jt^^ge^ and IVitnefs too,
to an Eternity of woe
fince
Twou'dfain
j
no hope of an Appeal appears,
diflblve
and drown it
felfin tears.
f
What terrors then
That
finds
no Patron
feize the
for a
forfaken Soul,
Caufe
fo foul
Then it implores fome Mountain to
By a kind
?
prevent,
cruih, ixsjhame Siudpmijhment.
O wretched Soul, juft fuilge, hard Sentence too
What hardened wretch dares fin, that thinks on Ton ?
Vat here,
(alas!)
ends not the fatal
There is another Death, another
A
A Death whence fhall
Life as boundlefs as Eternity
grief,
Life.
;
no Refurreflion
be.
What H^// of Torments fhall in This be found
With what a Heavn of Joys fhall That abound >
?
Here rich caeleftialNe6lar
treats the
Soul
There Fire and Brimftone crowns the flaming Borvl:
!!
That^
fiird
:
with Mufick of th' Angelick Quire,
Shall each bleft Soul with Extafies infpirei
While T/^Af difturb'd,
Shall in the
Damn'd
at ev'rj' hideous yell,
raife
That knows noiliarp
In
7^^ the
a
new
dread of Hell
excefs o^cola or heat^
wretches alwzysfreefe or fwe at.
There reign Eternal Refl, and foft Refofe
Here^ gainful toil
r\o
j
end ot meafure knows.
That^ void of grief, does nought affiiclive fee \
This^
difturb'd,
ftill
from troubles never
free,
O happy Ufe O vaft unequaird B/ifs
O Death SiCcnvs'dl O cndlds Miferies
!
For that or thh muft be the doubtfuU
Nor may we throw agen when once
Be wife
then,
To fhun
'tis
cajl.
pall.
Man, nor will thy care be
the Misery ^ and the BHfs obtain
Give Heav'n thy Hearty
Aug.
if thou its
vain,
j
^
(gain. (
Crown wou dll
j
Soliloq. cap. 3
what more
lamentable and more dreadful c*n be
thought of^ than that terrible Sentence^ Go? What
mere delightful^ than that fleajing Invitation^
Come ? They are two words ^ of which nothing can
be heard more affrighting xhan the
One, nothing
more rejoycing than the Other.
F 4
XV. My
<70
\vid viy y^cars
fiut/i
mmrmfuj.TJaJ.jin
:
.
(7?)
XV.
My
life is
WAxm old
with heavinefs, and
my
years with mournings Pfal. ji. ii.
W^'Usxlowring Star
rul'd
my unhappy
Birth,
And banifh'd thence all days oieafe & mirth ?
While expectation
ftiJl
my mind,
deludes
Pleas'd with vain hope ^om^fmiling hour to find
But
ftill
that fmiling hour forbears to come,
ind fends a row of Mourners in
I
its
room.
hop'd alternate courfes in each day.
And that the/o/s^/ tp/rr/V^r woud give way:
And as the Sun difpels the Clouds of Night,
When he to Heav'n rell:ores his welcom Lights
Or as the Moons kind infl ence brings again
The
So
I,
riling
motion of the low-ebb'd Main:
with unfuccesful Augytrj^
Prefag'd things yo 04
But, oh
!
1 woud h^ve them
my grief exc^ds in length
The Widows Tribute
[s
twice- fix
months
confin'd to
:
and [urn
at her HushixncSs
SheJ when the Author cfher Joy
he
Tomb:
is gone
mourn alone
5
Yet
:
(74)
Yet the
laft
half fhe docs not, as before.
Hide her fmooth Fore-head
But
my years
all
in
are in dee^
a clofe Bendore,
mourmng
fpent,
There's not a months not onejhort day exempt.
No rules give hounds or meafHre to my woes,
But their increafe,
like the feign'd
Hydras grows.
My life fo much in (ighs and tears is fpent,
It
minds that
Tis
true,
But the
leafi, for
which 'twas chiefly meant,
Storms often make the Ocean fwell
moft violent are Jhortefi
ftill
5
^
For when with eager jury they engage^
*They lofe themfelves in their exeefs of rage.
And when
their Winter-blafls difrobe the
Their Summer-airs make
Ifthe rough North doth
When once he's
But
all
Wood,
the trefpafs good
his black
wings difplay
gone, far lovelier grows the Day.
grief does all
Nor grants me one
my
haplefs years imploy,
Parenthefis
of Joy.
My Mufick is mfighs ^n^ groans expred.
With my own hands extorted from my bread
•
is my (bl^^, delight,
My Mufick this by Day, my Song by Night.
How oft' have fighs, while I my words confined,
This fad diverfion
Broke Prifon, and betray'd
my troubled mind
?
How^
:
; :
;
(75)
How oft* have I In tears confum'd the day,
And in
complaints pafs'd the long night away
Oft' you,
my
Friends, did
?
my wild Griefs condemn*
And I as oft' aflay'd to ftiffle them
Let loofe the reins to mirth, you always cry'd
To lofe
the reins,
!
For when with laughter I a
figh fuppreft,
my breaft
to ciofe my eyes.
It rais'd a fatal confli^l in
And if I wifh
Still
a frefh
Then
for fleep
fhowV
its
j
that envy'd blifs denies
if I ftop its courfe,
'Twill force
j
( alas ) in vain I try'd
impetuous grown,
way, and bear the Sluces down.
my tears have made to rifcj
Grove, fiU'd with my mournful cries
Each Brook, whole ftream
Each fhady
5
Each lonely Vale, and
The kind
repeaters
ev ry confcious Hill,
of my forrows
Thefe loiovvthe troubles which
Were by loud
throbbings of
my
I
ftill
i
wifh'd conceal'd
heart reveal'd
5
From fencelefs Woods my Sorrows pitty found.
The Ecchoes oft' repeat tho mournfull found.
My fecret
Bv
turns
moans they vented
we
o're again
wept, and did by turns complain.
4-;
So,
mov'd by
'her Sifter's
lamentable Note,
Sad Philomel unlocks her mournful throat,
f^
(70
As if the 'enifous Rivals were at ftrife
Whofe tongiie fliou d beft cxprefe the height of griefl
The widoypd Turtle fo bewails her Mate,
V/ith. grief unalterahle^ as his Fate,
And
fo the Stars have
That not one minute
And
that
my
By wanting new
Tis
their decree,
my
fad
life
defign'd.
fliou'd be/<?;V or kind.
fbrrows
may
occafions for
not find
relief,
my grief,
That,^/ 7ny Infant-breath
Began whhjtghsyfo IJhotidftghto
death.
Chryfbft,
(77)
Chryfoft. in Pfal. 115.
Ought
tPe not worthily to lament^
are in a jira?ige Country^
nifh'd to a Climate remote
who
and hafrom our
Native Soil?
DESIRES
rjS)
fervent acJirc ihatiirTiaih aUnrayS
!
(79)
DESIRES
THE
OF
RELIGIOUS SOUL.
BOOK
the Second.
L
M]/ foulbreflkah oat for the, 'Very fervent defire that It hath always unto thy Jf*^g'
ments^ Ffal. cxix. 20.
W^Hile Heavn and Earth foliciteme to love.
My doubtful choice is puzzel'd vv^^^ t'approve:
Heav n
cries, obey^
while Earth proclaims, he free
Heav'n urges dutj^ Earth pleads
Call'd hence
liberty,
by Heaven, by Earth I'm
Toft, like a VefTelon the
reftlefs
call'd again.
Main
:
Thefe diiTrent L oves a doubtful
Combat wage,
And thus obftniEi the choice they wou'd engage.
Ah tis enough let my long-harraft mind
!
In the
5
befi choice
a quiet
O my dear God
To any Love, or
!
Haven
find
Let not
my
let that
Love be
Soul incline
thine
/
:
:
( 8o
*Tis true,
'tis
:
).
pleafant to hsfree to chufe,
And when we wiil^ accept when not, refufe.
;
Freedom of choice endures
on
'Tis ufurfatlon
th'
unbounded
The neighing Steed Thus,
To his lov'd,
reftralnt
loos'd
but
ill 5
will.
from
Bitt,
well-known pafture runs
and
rein
again.
Thus the glad Ox, from the ploughs burthen freed.
Runs lowing on to wanton in the Mead
And when
the
Thii fcorns
Hind their freedom wou'd revoke,
his Harnefs,
l^ox freedom in our choice
Eager to chnfe,
tho' oft
That
^efies the Toak.
we count a bliis
we chufe amifs.
j
So thejoung Prodigal, impatient grown
To manage
his entire Eftate alone.
Takes from
his prudent Father's frugal care
His
Stocky, bj that
improvd and thriving there:
But his own Steward made, with eager
He does the flow-gain'd
Tillfiarv'd by Riot, and with
He feeds with Swine, himfelf
Thus
hafte
Patrimony wdfle,
in Deftru5lion often
Want opprefst.
the greater Bead.
we rejoice.
Pleased with our ruin, fince it
was our
choice.
How do we weary Heav n with different Pray'rsI
Themedly,
fure,
ridiculous appears.
This begs a ^ife, nor thinks a greater
And that's as
blilsj
earneft to be rid of his
This
!
This prays for Children
3
At the
of his Loins.
too fruitful Jjfue
That
!
o'er-ftock'd, repines
This asks his Father's days may be frolon^d
3
That^ ifhis Father Uves^ complains hes wrong'd :
Youth prays
Wou'd caft
Scarce in
{or good old Age^
their Skins,
Ten
Nay, fbme
and aged
'
and fain grow young agen.
thoufand any Tvpo agree
difihe
Men
what they
3
juft v;ijh'd to he.
None know s this minute what lie ought require.
Since evn the next begets i.ncw defire.
So
Women pine with various
When
Longing-fits,
breeding l^s deprav'd their Appetites
The humorfom
3
impertinent Difeafe
Makes that which fleas' d them moft, as much diffleafe.
Oh why, like them, grown reftlefs with defire.
Do my vain thoughts to boundlefs hopes afpire
!
?
Be gone
falfe
hopes, vain wifhes, anxious fears
!
my peaceful years
not my Soul incline
Hence, you difturbers of
O my dear God
To
!
any Love, or
let
let that
Love be
Aug. Sohloq.
thine
cap. 12.
Allure. O Lord^ my defires ixith that fweetnefs which
thou hafi laid up for them that fear thee^ that I
may defire thee with eternal longi/igs lefi the inward relifihy being deceived^ may miflake bitter j^'
3
fiveetj andfrveet for bitter.
G
IL Q
that
<82>
r.Sz.
)
:
(S?)
II.
my ways tvere made fo direct ^ that I
might keep thy Statutes! Pfal. cxix. 5,
that
IN what a maze of Erroiir do I ftray,
M'here various paths confound my doubtful way!
Tliis^
to the right
j
Here, Vales defcend
This has an
5
The treachVy This
rife
:
j
That does
conceals.
lies
Mountains
there fwelling
That a rugged way
eafie^
But whither
That to the left-hand
betray.
thefe fo diff 'rent courfes go,
Their wandring paths forbid, tilltry'd, to know*.
AUanders
ftream a ftreighter motion
Tho' with himfelf the -wand rer
Not
the ficlitious Labyrinth
Did
in
more dubious paths
Here greater
And on
Nor
(
each road
I the
I
of old
its
difBcuIties ftay
(leers,
interferes.
guefts infold
my
5
feet,
thwarting dangers meet,
diffVent windings only fear,
In which the
Artift's skill did
mofl appear
But, more to heighten and increafe
Darknels involves each doubtful ftep
G
2
:
my dread,
I tread.
No
»
:
!
(§4).
No friendly
tracks
my
wandring foot-iieps guide.
other feet th'unirodden ground have try'd.
Nor
And, tho\
With
left
on fome
out-ftretcht
Yet dare
They'
Arms
fatal
I
Rock
grope
I run.
my
paflage
not through Night and danger
I
arreft
my
cautious fteps, and ftop
Like a ftrange Traveller
on s
ftray,
my way.
by the Sun forfook,
And in a road unknown by Night o'er-took,
In
vN'hofe lone paths
no neighb ring Swains
refide,
No friendly Star appears to be his guide,
No fign or track by humane foot-fteps worn,
But
folitary all,
and
all forlorn.
He knows not but each blind-fold ftep he treads
To fome wild Defart or fierce River leads
Then
aloud, andhishoarfe voice does
calls
ftrain,"
In hope of anfwer from fome neighbVing Swain 3
While nought but cheating Eccho
calls again.
Oh who will help a wretch thus gone aftray
What friendly Star direft niy dubious way ?
!
A
glorious
Cloud conducted IfraeFs
By day their
The
cov'rlngy as their
flight,
guide by night.
Eaflern-Kings found Bethlem too from hx,
Led by
the fhining condu8:
Nor coud
of a
Star
j
they in their tedlotu ]ourney erry
fVho hadfo bright a fellow-traveller
Be
;
(85)
Be
Since
See
thou
all
how
And,
m tefs propitious.
my
the wandring
toft
Lord,
to
me.
bus'nefs is to wor/hip Thee.
Croud miftake
about by their
own
their
error, ftray
way,
!
This tumbles head-long from an unfeen Hill
That
lights
on a blind path, and wanders
With Hafi, but not Good fpeed^
That moves' no
While to and
No
fafter
on
j
than a Snail might run.
fro another hafts in vain,
fooner in the right, than out again.
Here one walks on
alone,
Invites another to attend
Till
ftilf.
this hurries
among Thorns
w hofe
him
boafted
ftill
skill,
3
or miry Pools they tread
j
This by his guide. That by himfelf m\\kdi.
Here one
in a perpetual Circle
moves,
Another^ there, in endlefs mazes roves
And w hen he
He finds
Thus
(alas
in
ftill,
Scarce cne
thinks his
!)
weary ramble
3
done.
he has but ]ujl begun.
Droves, the blinded Rabble ftray.
of thoufands heeps or finds the way.
O that my ways direfled were by Thee,
From
the deceits
Till all
my
Swift as
its
of baneful Error
free
f
motion, like a Darfs, became
fi^ht, unerring as
G
3
its
aim,
Thit
(85)
where thy Laws require me to obey,
may not loiter^ nor tniftake the way.
Then be Thou, Lord, the Bow^ thy Law the Hloite^
And / the Arrow deftin d for the flight:
And when thou'rt pleas'd to fhew thy greateft skill.
Make me t\\QpHJh'd Shaft t obey thy Will.
Tliat
I
Aug,
(87)
Aug.
Soliloq. cap. 4*
Lord^ who arP the Light, the Wny, the
Tfufhj and the Life ; in whom there is
no Darkne/^ Error, Vanity, or Deaths
Say the word,
Lord, let there he Lights
that I may fee the Light, and fhtin the
Darkneji ; that I may find the right way^
and avoid the wrong ; that I may follow
Truth, and fie from Vanity ; that I may
obtain Life, and efc ape Death.
III.
hol^
(88)
(7. /lO^/d.
l/t^t
^J
771V iieifl^J
27t l/ll'
;
: :
(89)
III.
hold thou uf
my
s
O
footfiefs
oft will
my going
pf
me my
So often {tumble
not^
in thy pathsy that
Pfal.xvij. 5.
faithlefs
Feet betray.
in fo plain a
way ?
O thou, who all our fteps from Heav n doft
O hold me up, dear Lord, who lean on Thee
The
fee,
!
Stork inftru6ls her timorous young to ftray,
In hidden tracks through Hca\''n^ wide pathleli way
Till the apt Brood,
by bold Example
led.
Perform the daring Flight they us'dto dread.
Tlie Eagles teadi their unfledgd
Around
th'
young to fly,
untroden Regions of the Sky.
Till for their
Aid they
now no
longer care
Butfeailels row, with feather'd Fins, thro' Seas ofAir.
Thus Boys, w^hen firfl
they venture Streams unknown,
On fpungy Cork's light weight,
Till
more improved,
Ambitious
now
fupport their ow^n
tliey thtitfirfi help
throw by.
alone the FKoods to try.
And
:
:
!
(90
And tho' awliile, e'er they have pra^lls'd been,
Too often they'll imwelcoiTie draughts fuck in
Yet they,
at length
And fport and
play,
by
wide-wandring in the Main.
Thou, who from Heav'n
See by
what
obferv'fl
our fteps bdoyvy
thy Servant learns to go
arts
my weight on this ^Ight Engines laid,
wheels that do my motion aid.
the
move
While
I
all
Thus fc^ebk
Is
tWd with
But
I
5
ufe, perfection gain,
tho',
of no
age, fupported bj^a Cane^
that
dear Lord
can
fiilure
I can perceive
No rocky
on which
!
fore d to lean.
'tis
ambiguous terms
I u(e,
my feet accufe:
no imperfe6lion
there^
ways, or thorny roads theyfc^n
The weaknefs of my 7»/Wdifturbs me mod,
Whofe languid jeet have all their motion loft
All its affections lame and hd-ridsn'Cy
(Thofe feet, alas
!
wliich fliou'd
its
mbtion
fteer
j
When it fhou d move in \'irtues eafie road,
Alas
I
'tis tir'd
as foon as
got abroad.
My frail, my bending Knees alTiftance
need,
Weaker than Ruflies, or the bruifed Reed.
Sometimes, but rarelj,
it
j^d eagerly moves
a
o??,
renews the
race,
JeluiV ^ace
But
:
(9i)
Bat, weary of its jouraey, fcarce begun,
Its boafted
tkme
is all
extincl, as fcxni
As fmoaking Flax by rugged Whirlwinds blown.
Yet, left I ihou
I force
my
d too much
fteps
my Qoth betray,
and make feme
But then am cautious how
little
my Feet I
way j
guide
Leaft they (hould chance to trip, or rove afide:
And
the uncharitable world incline
To place it not on Weaknels,
but on WJnr.
My reehng fteps move an indented pace,
As
'twere a Cripple halting o'er a Race.
/ w/7/, / wont I burn, all in a breath ;
And that's Icarce out, e'er Im as cold as death
And then, impatient at my fruitlefs pain,
'^
Tir'd in the mid-way,
I
return again:
my firft place.
feat whence I began my race.
Vet cannot then recover
The pleaUnt
Toft, Hke a Ship on the tempeftuous wave.
Which
neither help
of Sails nor Oars can lave:
While with new vain attempts
And would
'The fmall
repair the lo6 1 did fuftain,
fuccefs too manifeftly proves
My fruitlefs
Thus
I try again.
Slaves,
labor in a circle moves.
condemned to ply a toilfom Mill,
Repeat the fjme reuiming motion ftill:
Tho'
(92)
Tho'
ilill
They by
'
the refllefs Engines hurry'd round,
hafte gain not one foot
its
What fhall
Whofe
a ftranger to the race,
I do,
lazy feet fcarce
move a
Heavn lies remote from
None but
this
Snails flow pace
fhall this
Thy footfteps,
A Gyant s Feet
Thou with
my
,
world, like a
like the Tortoife,
make the
I
way
i
Colojf^ts,
bus'uefs
ftride.
my dull Foot's delay'd.
like the Crab,
of my
But do thou, Lord,
Then
j
lb fwift as they.
moves retrogade.
How can I then hope to that Co^/
I
>
Lord, o'ercbme the rougheft
')
>
5
a ftep doft Eafi and fVefi divide,
And oer the
Or rather,
heavj Chariot do
move not
?
mean Globe helow^
the fwlft and firong can thither go
What then
But
of ground.
life
to run,
to fliun
?
my trembhng feet fuftain,
the Race and the Reward fhall gain.
AmK
(9?)
Amh.
Who
de fuga ficuli, cap.
amo7ig fo
bodj/y
many
i.
troubles
of
the
amofig fo vtany allurements
of the Worldy can h^ep a fafe and
nnerring conrfe ?
IV.
My
.
(90
44^]flcS/i
f7^^77il?let/i
^^7^ fiar /cf'
^/2ec.^a7^dIa^7v afj^aill affhv^7id£j:
77ienls.jE'6alf.iia.
i2c
:
(9S)
I
Myfleflj
V.
tremhkth for fear of thee y and I
am
afraid of thy Judgments^ Plal. cxix. 120.
A
Dread of Heavn was by the Ancients taught.
As the
And he who
firft
on Man's
imprels
underftood
Tis the prime ftep that does to
Informed by
tliis
I
ftill
laid,
Wifdom
lead.
my early childhood grew.
And to fear Heavn was
But
has
beft,
it
infant thought.
the
firft
thing I
fuch dark Oblivion dull'd
my
knew
mind,
could not the repeated Alfha find.
No ftripes can puniih my
Thus unimprov'd
Dull Boys by
t* have
ftripes
out
aimc.
my time.
with Learning are
they read their Letters
They're as familiar as if known before
And tho'
Each
is
infpir'd.
fains ^ with Indnfiry acquired:
By
When twice or thrice
little
neglectful
triffled
o'er.
«:
in colotir all alike appear.
diftinguiih'd
by
its
CharaBer.
May I not hope Age will compleat
The eafie task of tender Infancy ?
in
me
In
:
,
:
(9^)
many things I no In^rnUer fought,
Too apt, (alas!) to pra6lile them untaught.
What is not Tear as fbon imbib'd, a B.ule
In
So oft explain d
in
Arts Improving School
Why I fhoud flighty
ftill
(to
f
my fhame)
I>^r,
And flight that mofi, which I fhoii'd moft revere.
I fear Mans Eye when I wou'd a(5l a Sin,
But dread
For
But
not Heav'n^ nor the^r^^f Judge within
:
my grofs Body I am ftill in fear.
my fure Soul partakes iM^f my care.
Thus
filly
Birds a harmlels Siare-croKv fhun
Yet boldly to the
fatal
Lime-tmgs
j
run.
The Royal Stag thus Feathers frighten more,
Than the full cry of Plounds, that's juft before.
Thus
the fierce Lion, of falfe fires afraid,
Flies to the To///, in
which he
betrayed.
is
Such vanity has mens dark minds
That
lefs
o'erfpread.
the Thunder than the Clap tliey dread
Think Hell
a Fable, an invented name,
And
its
count
Fire a harmeiefs lamher>t flame.
^^'ith brutifh rage to blackeft
And
But
ills
never fear the wickednefs,
tho' this fear did not their
Twill come, too
reftlels
till
done
Crimes prevent^
fure, to be their punlfhment.
*Then with llrange frights, from
Their
they run,
their loftfenfesdxWny
thoughts run on offended Heav'n
Then
(97)
Then fudden fears
their watchful Thoughts allarni;^
And call them from their lonely beds to arm
While their own fhadows only do them harm.
f
,
Each
httle thing s fo magnify'd
They dread
a Lion,
by
when a Moufe
v
fear,
they hear.
If in the night they hear a gentle breeze
Begin to whifper
With
hair ereft,
in the
murmuring Trees,
and cold unnatural fweat,
They fhrink beneath
the confcious Coverlet.
What do they then, when glaring
And hdlowmg'Thfin^ers roll along
the Sky
They
of death.
think each
a Meifenger
flafli
And at each cracky defpair of longer
At
every noife they in
new
Light nl/igs
fly.
?
breath 5
fears engage,
And ruine from each accident prefage.
Nay,
e'en
of Silence, and
its
felf afraid.
-The troubled minds eternally difmay^d
;-
Such puniihments att'end
afflicting guilt.
Which
own torments
*ThM.<
nevei-
pain like
its
tYcmhling Cain dreads
The fate
his injur
felt.
from each hand he fees
d Brother had from
his.
His crimfon Soul, with AbelV A^arther fiaind^
Sri11 with the bloody Scene is entertain d.
No
more
Than
its
fevere corredion waits
on
lin,
unbrib'd upbraider ftill\vicbin=
H
Then
(82)
Then with thy Darts, Lord, frighteft me from
My Fury wants this kind reftri£lion
Fear timely comes
He
fears
too
late,
i^efore
ill,
ftill.
a fault's begun^
^^t fears
not
till 'tis
done.
Bernard
(8j)
Bernard. Serm, 26.
The holy
Pfalmift defives wifely to be
and healthfully to be wounded^ when he frays to be transfix d
fmitten^
with the fear of
is
an
and
excellent
God
i
for that fear
Dart^ that wounds
dejiroys the lujis
of th» Flejh^
that the Spirit ntay be fafe.
H2
V. Otur;^
( i°o )
O
hwrv
(^wo}^
7/117 ic.
eycS
Ica^l
T. i0o
>
(lOl)
turn away mint eyes,
mtjf
iefi
they
khold
vA'-
Pfal. cxix. 37.
my high Capitof
INKeepconftant
two
Gentries
ftill
wicfit to guard the Citadel:
l^fixdox Tvandring Stars
Tho'
either epithet
Each from
its
^
I
do not know,
becomes them too y
Duty
is
in ftraggling loft,
Yet each maintains immovaiflji
its
Poft
5
Both fwift of motion^ yet bothj^.vV remains
Whsit Sampfin
Ev'n
Toffi
this
dark Riddle can explain
my £jesy
are thefe mj/fterioHS Stars,
Fix'd in my head, yet daily
Who
-tvanderers
plac'd in that exalted Tovp'r
:
of mine,
Like Torches in fome lofty Pharos fhine
Or hke two Watch-men on fome
View
every near, and every diftant pais.
Vet yoq to
Than
3
riling place.
me
lefs
gonftant prove by
far.
thofe kind Guides to their Obfervcrs arc \
H3
Their
;
^
(86)
Their favours only with themfelves expire,
Unlefs the hand that gave, recalls their
You,
like
Will
let
mad Steeds, too headftrong
fire.
for the Reiii,
no pow'r your wandring courfe
ToH^ by whofe guidance
we
Betray us to the Rocks on which
Thus wandring Bina^
reftrain
Ihou'd danger fhun,
we run.
led hyyonrfalfe light
Expos'*d her Honour, to oblige her Sight,
Thus, while
Jeffides
view'dtiie.bathingDamc,
What ceold her heat,
k^ttdledin him aflame.
Thus gazing on the Hebrew Matrons
Made the
Thus
Affyrian's
head her
the fond Elders, by
thftvc
fight milled,
Purfu'd the joys of a forbidden Bed
Nor ootid their luflfnl flame
eyes,
eafie prize.
he
;
difpojfefi.
Till with ajhow'r of weighty
ft ones fuppreft.
More ruin'd Souls by thefe
Then
Then happy
Who
falfe guides are
loll:.
fhipwreck'd Veffels on the rockieft Coafl.
he,
happy
alike
and wife.
made a timely covnant with his
And happier
Torn from
he
who
eyes?
did his guards disband.
their Polls
by
his wife fearlefs
hand
/
So
(87)
So
ill,
f^lfe CentrUs,
you your charge perform,
You favour thefurfriz^^ that fliou*d the Cdmf Allarm.
Did you for this the Cafitol obtain ?
For this the charge of the chief C aft le gain
That you have thus t inferior Earth
Man^s
lofty Soul, for
And do not rather
Above
With
betray d,
nobler Objecls
made ?
raife his thoughts on high.
the ftarry Arches
That Theatre will
?
of the Sky
entertain his
?
hght
various Scenes of fuitable dehght
.*
But you are more on Earth than Heavn intent.
And your
What
induftrious fearch
fhall I doe, (mcejiou
And will no
Oh
!
limits,
downward
bent.
unruly grow,
no confinement know
?
fhut the wandrer's up in endlefs night,
Or with thy
hand, dear God, contrail their fight.
Aug.
^oe
is
Soliloq. cap. 4^
fee not Thee, the Sun that
Heaven and Earth ! woe to the dim
eyes that can-not fee Thee / tvoe to them that turn
away their eyes from beholding Truth woe to them
that turn not away their eyes from beholdingYzxnty
to the blind eyes that
enlighteyfi both
!
!
H
4
VI.
Let
(1^4)
OiUhnyheartheSmLnCini tky
\Statwtej, thatlbenota^tiwneiL
:
(»oO
vr.
let
my
I
heart be found in thy Statutes ^ that
he not ajhamedy Pfal. cxix. 8 9.
COu'd I but hope my Face wou'd pleafe my T^ear^
Thatfkoxidht all my huinefs^dXl my care
My firft concern fhou*d for Comflexien be.
The next^ to keep my Skin from /r^r^fj free:
:
No help of y^r^, or Induftry Td want,
No Beautj-water^ or improving P^/wf.
My Drejfwg-hoxes fhou'd
To make
With
And
decay d oldflejh
Si^aniflj-ypQol^
red as the blooming
Cerfijje, w^hiter
With
all
Who on
Then
the Arts
their
with Charms dhound^
ktmyoung and found
Virgins
thsit ft^diom
I'd corre6l each error
my Glafs,
in all my face.
by
my brow one hair amifs I
That YcryHair fhou'd foon be
l{df^/l
my
Ejes,
Till they their
know.
Beauty too much pains beftoWo
Till not one fault were found
If on
i?<?y?.
than the Mountain Snows :
fpy'd,
rectify 'd.
how loudly Td
wonted
Lf^ftre
complain
wore again
Should
:
(90)
Should but one wrinkle in my Face appear,
I'd cry,
What means this favvcy
wrinkle here
?
Ev'n with each Mole t offend thee I fhou'd fear,
Cou'd
For
I
but think
this
Face to thee were dear.
if the fmalleft ff^^rt thereon flioud
rife,
I doubt 'twou'd feem a Mountain in your eyes.
Nay, the lead Fault
For
my felf
fear that Fault fhou'd be
Thus
wou'd cenfure too,
diflik^d
% you.
every Grace which Nature has deny'd,
By Arfs kind help ihou*d amply be fupply'd
my head,
With Curls and Locks
I
And thick with
my gay TrefTes fpread
With double
Whilft
Jewels
Pearls
wou'd adorn
Td hang my loaded
my white neck vaft
:
ears,
Chains of Rubles wears.
Thus I among the falrefl wou'd be feen.
And
dare vie Beauty^ ev n with Sheba's
But oh
'
no fuch vain toys
affeft
^een.
your mlndy
Thefe meet with no admirers^ but the bllnd^
Who imDrefs
feek Obje6ls
of their love.
Which cnceput off, the Beauties too remove,
Thus the fond Crowd's caught by digay attire-)
The only thing indeed they find t'admire.
But Toti^ my Love, no borrorvd Beauties prize.
No artificial Charms attra6l your eyes.
Dear
(90
Dearas jo/zr
And
ow/t,
you
X2Xq
2i
jpotlefs hearty
for its fake accept each other fart.
Oh that my heart unfpotted were,
From
Then
every tindure of impurity
in
your favour
And hate each
Hugo de
O
I
fhou'd make
ftain by rvhlch
S.
it
and free
!
my boaft,
might he
ViS^ in Arrha
lofl,
animse.
bafe and filthy ffots^ ivhy doe jfOH flicks fo long i?
Begone^ depart^ and frefume no more to offend my
Beloveasjtght,
Chryfoft.
(io8)
CaniC' niyr£clav-edj let uJ go
J?rtftiritxT the JField^rict
*r^v<
^Mrdt/e in
tlieO^iUaoeJ
(top)
XV.
Come
fHy
Beloved J let tis go forth into the
lodge in the FillagtSj Cant,
kt
Fields^
vij.
m
II.
COme,come, my Zot^^^t's leave the bufic throng,
Wc trifle here our precious
Come,
let
ushaften to
time too long.
fome Fie Id or Grove^
The fittefi Theatres for
Scenes of Love.
Strong Walls and Gates the City guard,
Bnt
We'll reap the pleafures of the
true,
oj^en Fields
Which doQsfecurity with freedom
For
'tis
tvhat fecures it thut, confines fV too.
there's
/ know
yield.
not what, fo fafe, fo dear
we ne'er fhou'd light on here
What tho' the City-Toiv'rs the Clouds invade,
Andoer the Fields proie6i: their lofty Ihade?
I'th'
Country, as
Yet thence Content has made a
fir retreat.
And chofe
its feat
(
the humble Cottages
Where fomething more
Altho'all Thatch above,
5
divinely fw^eet they breath,
all
Earth beneath.)
There
: ; :
^94)
There the remoteft Solitudf cn]oys
Thebleffmg of n^ore quiet, and
Ck)methen, nr/Love, and
And leave this hujte
Sec
I
iefs nolfe,
let's retire
from
hence^
fond impertinence.
ev n the Cities cHeft Son and Heir,
Who gets his Gold,
his dear-lpv'd Idol, there
Yet in the Country Ipends
his Citj-gains,
And makes itspleafure recompenee his fains
And tho' the City h^shis fMc\voice,
The Country ever is his frppate choice.
Here
ftill
Unbend
the Eich, the M'/e, and the Great^
their
minds
in
a iecure
retreat
5
And Heavens free Canopy yields more dehght
Th2LVi guilded Roofs
and Fret-workjto the
fight.
Nor cm fenced Cities keep the mind in peace,
So well as open guar diefs
Villages.
Come then, my Love, let's from the City haft,
Each minute we fpend there, is (b much vvalle.
I have a Country-Farm,
whofe
fertile
ground
Soft murmuring Brooks and chry ftal Streams furroundj
A better Air or Soil were never known,
Nor more convenient diftance from the Town
Hither, my Love, if thou wilt take thy flight.
The city will no more thy fenfe delight,
Drivnfrom
thy thouglits as quickly
<^s
thy fight.
Here
!
(9-5)
Here in the fliades I will my Bear cards.
At
leifure to receive
my kind
Here, from the City and
I fhall enjoy
more than
its
Addrefs.
Tumults free,
my felf,
in Thee,
As o'er our Heads, drels'd in tbeir leavy State,
The amorous Turtle wooes his faithful Mate.
No bus'nefs fhall invade our pleafure here.
No rude difhirber of our Joys appear.
.
Here thou thyfecret
And whilper
While in
in
my
fajftons fhalt reveal.
ear. the
pleafing tale
requital I dilclofe
my fhame.
And
in the favVing Shades conceal
Oh
cou'd I fee that happy happy day
I
!
know no blils beyond,
Then
s
my flame.
for which to pray.
to the Country let us, Dear, repair.
For love thrives beft in the clear
opert air.
Hieron. Ep. ad Hefiod.
i.
PFkit iloft- thou ? how long doe the (hadows of the hufes
confine thee ? how long does the Prifon of the fmoal^y
City Jhut thee ;//? f Believe me, Ifee fome greater
Light, and am refolvd to throw off the Burthen of
'he Flefk, and fly to the jplendor of the purer air.
Vin. Draw
(112)
^Dranr mcj rv^e wHi riin^tcr
.bficc f^/^
Cant I 'J'
t/icSaimiLr^ (rf tliy^
PudA^l
(II?)
vni.
Draw me^ we mil run
(Jn the fit-
After thee^
vour ofthy Oyntments^ Cant.
SEE how my feeble Limbs,
i.
J^
now giv'n in vain,
Increafe the burthen which they (houdfi^fiatfit
While, M^eary of
my hated
A faint refemtlaiice
My head,
And
find at laft
its
own
I.
weight, hangs fow^
my Limbs a burthen
to themfelves
Now. I wou'd
lie,
of .what once was
depVeft with
In various pofiures
But
Hfe, I
ftill I
not any one to
rlfi^
'Now with my
Now on my back^^
grow.
feek for cafe,
pleale.
my k\£ in hedy
my drooling head:
now on my face I he,
no<v wifh
hands fupport
And now for reft on either fide I try
And when my bed I've tumbled reftlcfs o ef.
:
I'm
ftill th' fineafte
Thus
hindered by
Tho' fain I
Then
wretch I was
before.
my ojvn Infirn^itj^
tvou/d, I cannot follorv thee.
wilt thou go, and leave
me
Is this thy kindnefs, this thy love,
r
dying here
?
my Dear ?
And do I then (o gi'eat a burthen grovr.
Thou wilt not ftay till I can with thee go ?
j
Thv^
y
::
("4)
Thus Soldiers from their mounded Comrades
At an allarm of any danger nigh.
Vnnatrd Mothers thus their Bahes
Urg'd CO the
fin
fly
difclaim,
by Poverty or Shame.
Stretch, Lord, thy hand,
and thy iveakjollower meet,
Or if not reach thy hand,
The grateful Storks
yQt fiay thy feet.
bears o'er the fpacious
listed Dam, and triumphs in the load
Flood
:
The Doe flipports her tender fwlmmerswei^t
And minds /?<?;^yf/f"lefs than her dearer fraight.
But you, unkind
!
forfake your Love, alone,
In defert Fields forgotten, and unknown,
So burthenfom her
Company
grown
is
Yet rd not hinder or retard your
But gently draw, and
hafte,
follow
I {hall
Tho' falln and fainting now, a
,
faft
little
fpace
make me out-ftrip the Winds impetuous race.
Shall
Nor fliall you
Violence need to force
me on,
Free and unurgd. Til clofe behind you run.
As, -when at your command the Net
The
willing Fijh lea^t in
And,
mth
own
unconcerned, their
Pleafure and Senfe do
their Byes,
all
;
deflruEtion fought^
So much, 'twas their amkition
Some by
levas cafi^
eager hafte
to
be caught.
Mankind mifguide,
fome by
their
Ears are
ty'd.
Ifeek
("5)
1 feek not, Lord^
my Eyes or
Ears to pleafe,
111 Arabian Sweets fute beft with
my
DIfiafe,
Thy Trejfes of the balmy S^iknard fmell.
And from thy Head the richeft Ojls diftiJl.
Choice'/r^^J^^^f iVf ;?? j
from thy
lov'd Temples floW,
And on thy Lij^s eternal Rofes grow.
Thou breathft the Odors of the fficy Eaft,
In Mjrrhy
Dew thy fragrant ^^r^j aredreft.
Thy IvVy Neck^ fweats richeft Frankincenfe,
And evrj part does foine r^r^ /r^«/^ difpence.
Whatever Perfumes in the vaft ^or/^ are found,
In a rich Compound mix'd, in Thee abound.
Juft fuch a noble fmell, and rich
Perfume
^
V
Was ^t of old fiird the blefi Virgins Room^
When Thou, the Flowr <?f Jefle, begah'ft to blootti. 3
Oh might this Odor blefs my longing Senfe,
How wou'd it cure my feeble Impotence !
1 foon fliou'd conquer all my languifhment,
!
And iwiftly follow the attraSlivefcent^
And my Companionsi^t lamecourfe won d move,
A s the whole floe k^waits
on tWanointed Dove,
Gilbert, in Cant.
Hom .18.
Love // a Cord that holds faft, and draws affe^imate-^
Nething
ly, Tvhofe words arefo many allurements.
holds
fafter
than the band of LoY^; nothing attra^s
more powerfully,
I 2
IX.
thiit
(ii6)
Suchd t^c
hTaSbctfmv7fia/icrw/icn
ydlshcni/driei-h
^
ciesjiiscd. Cant.
_^
I
S.i.
'
p.itf.
:
(ii7)
IX.
that thou wert
^
my
Brother^ that fucked,
the breajls of my Mother ; when I Jhould
find thee without ^ I would kifs thee, yet I
jhould
Cant.
9i0t be defpifedy
WH O
will enoble
my
this to raife
Contented with
Vet, tho'
Still
I
my
my
mean
their
numbers
(place
Pedigree,
?
Ohfcurity.
my Blood wou d be a (lain to Thlne^
muft wifh we had one
Nor wou d
I
Parent-line.
have thee grown to thofe brisk years
When firft the gentle budding Down
But
I
unworthy Race,
And Thy great name among
Nor wifh I
viij.
appears.
an Infant, hanging on the Breaft,
ftill
The fame which
I before
have often, preft
A Brother fuch wou'd my Ambition chufe,
l{ Elder, I thy converfe mufl
My Life
I
be bom again, and
refufe.
let
me lee.
Dear Child, thofe happy Cradles,
bleft
by Thee.
Children have pretty, pleafant, charming Arts,
Above the flder
firt^ to
win our Hearts
I 3
»
An4
:
!
(ii8)
And tho' each Age wou'd its own merit prove,
C hiMhood IS {{ill moll: prevalent in Love:
Ev n he who tames the world, tho' cahn and mild
His Face appear
—
ev'n Love himfelf's a chl/d.
Wer't thou a Boy, dreft in thy infant charms
Unblam'd, I'd
My Life
!
my Arms.
me fee,
clalp theeclofely in
be born again, and let
Dear Child, Thofe happy Cradles, bled by Thee:
Then
I
fhou'd have Thee to
Norblam'd, norcenfur'd
My
my felf alone,
if 1113^ Love
were known.
Arms all day ihoiiM bear thy grateful
And be
thy
weight,
fafe enclofure all the night.
When thy foft Cheeks or ruddy Lips I'd kifs,
Ko fear or /hame fliou'd interrupt the Wifs i
For none a Sifters
kindjiefs
can upbraid.
At leaft when to an Infant-Brother
And tho' on thy foft
paid
Lips long time
Td
dwell,
Sure a chafte kifs can never be but rvelL
O that you d hear,
ye gentle Pow'rs above.
And to my Brother thus transform my Love
myDe^, my Brother woud'll: become.
Dear as the OfF-fpring of my Parents JVomb.
Then all my Vows, then all my Thanks Td pay,
That thou,
Blefs the glad change,
and hail the welcom Bay.
What wou d I do to make my tranfport known
What wou'd, I do i vA\^i\NO\idil leave undortef
?
How
4
:
:
:
("9)
How oft wou'd I,
byftealth, ev'n rohen forbid^
Sund
all
How
num'rous fhou'd
night Gentry by the Cradl^^Ade
Ev'n till, perhaps you thought
For when
if fhee
I'd dill
d have
thee
bom to
my felf the grateful
Or wou d fhe have
Sing thee to
?
em troublefbm
my Mother took thee from
the breail,
Aiy arms fhou'd with the next remove be
Or
?
my fervices become
bleft
:
take the Air,
burthen bear.
thee in the Cradle
fleep, arid'then fit
lie,
watching by
If fhe to take the lavd employment went
My
eager hafie fhou
d her
dejtgn prevent
my care,
But when fhe fhou d intruft thee to
And going forth, leave me to tend mj Dear ;
How great wou d be the pleafure of my charge ?
How wou d I then
Thy Mantle
foon
indulge ray felf at large
I foftly
wou'd remove.
of my Love
Eager
t'enjoy the obje6l
And,
favoured by the moft
?
5
commodious
light,
Feaft on thy lovely face my longing fight.
Thy
While with
And
It
my left-hand gently reft.
my right I clafpt thee to my brcafl
head fhou'd on
5
then fo lightly I w^ou'd fteal a kifs^
fhoud not
interrupt thy Jleepng
blifs.
Then, Dear^ bepleas'd sifecond Birth t'allow.
That on thy Chffkj my
lips
1
may pay their vow,^
fitii
:
:
:
<I2o)
^^d as thy growth renders thy Organs ftrong.
And thou beginn'ft to ufe thy loofiied tongue
Then thou,
rny Love^ fhalt
j
my fmall Pupil be,
me
And when thou doft the help of Arms refufe,
And dar'fl attempt th' alTifting JVand to ufe,
ni teach thee fafely how to praunce along,
And keep thy nimble Footfteps firm and ftrong
And if fome naughty Stone offend thy Feet,
My ready Arms their ftumbliftg Charge fhall meet
And. as Ifpeal^ fhalt ftammer after
$
Pl eas'd with ^fie^uent Opj^ortunity
Of thus receiving and embracing Thee
Nor
fhall I
any Recommence regard,
Thepleafing Service
is its
own ReTvard,
Bonavent.
Bonavent. Soliloq. cap.
i.
I was ignorant^
fweet Jefu^ that thy
Embraces were fa pleafait^ thy
Touch fa delightful^ thy Ctn^erfa^
tion fo dwerting , for when I touch
Thee, lamch^Ln j whenI:cccivQ
Thee, I am dWivgin,
X. By
fl52)
^^y^^hlm
^jr
SiTjil
fr^ifid
77iy
l^cdjs^tt^ht /iwi 7irhcm
/^'k'fAl^t^/it hwt^ hut
him nh^.tanh.^.t.
£
!
!
!
(I2J)
X.
By night on my Bedy I fought him whom my
Soul lovethy I fought htm^ but I found
him not^ Cant. iij. i.
Treat not of inferior' mortal fires.
I
But
As
Bodies, fo the
But
chafiefi Jtghs,
ftill
and more fMme dejlres
Minds
j
their flames receive.
the groffer for the Bodies leave.
generous Fire that warms the Soul, does prove
And that alone, the pleaiing Charms of Love.
What nobler flames the lofty Minds infpire
The
\
Hovvr are they rais d to
more
reiin'd defire
In what Divine Embraces do they
What
join
holy Hands their mutual Contra6h fign
How dear the Joys of that chad Genial Bed
With what tinfpeakable Delights
Where
the pleas'd Soul
'tis
fpread
m her Beloveds Arms,
And he in hers, gaze on each others Charms.
The Bed on which fuch happy lovers reft,
Is dofwny
peace in
!
its orvn
quiet blefi.
\
:
:
1
(
Here
I
24 )
was wont, when
care drove deep
away;
Pregnant with thought, to watch the dawning day]
Here the dear He
Did
oft to
me his
Bofom-cures impart.
Then, then a Sacred flame
And no
leis
my Virgin-heart
that ftole
my Soul
pofleft.
heat reign d in his amorous bread
Then filent Love did all our Thoughts imploy
Tho* dumb, our Eyes
But novp^ nor know
I fear
I
difcours'd in Tears of Joy.
why,
fbme fault of mine
my Love's eilrang'd,
his
Mind
For, a whole day he has not blell
Nor
( Tvhlch
has chang'd
my
:
fight,
he ever us'd) retufn'd at night.
Or has the faithlefs fickle Charmer fled,
Or for another left my Widow'd Bed
?
How fadly I in Tears and Difcontent
The tedious Night of his griev d abfence fpent i
Twas now the dead low ebb of deepeft Night,
And gentle fleep had lock'd my drowfy Sight.
When a loud^^oicefurpriz'd my tremWing Ear,
And caird, Rife-,flfiggard^ fee your Love's not here.
Straight I awake,
Then
and rub
the forfaken Houfe I
Sleep'fl thou,
For He^
(alas
Soon with a
mj Love
!
)
to
lighted
?
my fleepy eyes,
fill
with aies
but anfwer I had nonq,
whom I fpoke,
Torch his
vjzsgone.
fteps I trace.
And wifh I ne'er had feen them nor his
Face.
Ther>
:
(I20
Then on the guiltlefs Bed begin t'exclaini,
Ask where my Love is, and it's filence blame,
Diflrafted then
the
I fearch
Chamber round.
But what I fought was no where
to be found.
What Tumults then were rais'd within my bread.
Who once on Peaces downy Bed did reft ?
What raging ftorms then toft my troubled mind,
Unus'd to Tempefts of fo
With
my heavy
pain
And fcarce my
fieixe
Eyes to Heav n I
Lips can open in
My former ftrength
a kind
'.
raile.
its praife 5
in (acred Conflifts fails.
And what was once rnj /portj my
Soul bewails:
For while fuccels aow n'd my untroubled head.
On Goldea Peace I made my eafie Bed
:
Then,
like a hoafting Soldier,
Who always is viftorious
I wiih'd to exercife
raw and ypung.
with
his
ibme Tyrants
tongue,
rage.
Or in fome glorious hazard I'd engage.
So warm a heat within my blood did play.
While on the
But when
eafie
this
hat
Bed of Peace I lay
forfook
Colder than Scythian Frofis
So
FioTp'rs,
with my Loz'e,
my Blood did prove.
me
which gentle Zephyrs kindly
Nipt by cold Frofis, decay and dilappear
So Lamps
bum bright,
But as rW
ceafe?,
rear.
:
while Oyl maintains their
fire.
languifh and expire.
Absl
(I26)
Alas
Who
!
my Love^
on the
I fought thee in
my Bed,
Crofs hadft laid thy weary head
Feace was my Bed, while the
curft Crofs
:
was 7%he,
I fliou*dhave fbnght Thee by that fatal fign.
Much time I loft
But fought
in feeking thee around,
thee where thou wert not to be found.
Greg,
(l27)
Greg, in Ezek. Horn. 19.
Then
rve
lo'z/ed
may
be faid to fee\oHr Be-
in Bed^
with any
when
little fort
being amnfed
of a Rejiin
this
prefent Life^ Tve yet ftgh after our
Redeemer.
We feel{him in the Nighty
becanfetho then the Soul is wahjng^
yet the
Eye
is fiill in darhpefs.
XL
IrviU
(128)
Jrm// rue arid ^a oL-oiit
Si^cclS^
and ifi
Sl'cL hini 7i'/ic77t 77iy
him
i/ic^
City tn
f/m Ir^c^ad 7i\iyj^
i/ic
T 7vill
Send lcn:ct/i;Tj(nt^^t
I'utJfcriind /lim
Ticrt.
C^ant. ?
.
z-.
"
»29)
(
XI.
andgo about the Citj in theJIreetSy
and in the hroad ways Imllftekhim rvhom
my Soulloveth : Ifought him^ but I found
him not y Cant. iij. 2.
/ Will rife^
AT
laft, tho'
my Error does
Ute^
Had Ifearch'd roe II I
I thought
Ealing
him wrapt in
(alas
I
A harder Lodging
Alas
1
my
How can I reft or fleep
No,
me to
many
it
depriv'd
oCToh
with one
the Mufick of their feather
lie,
?
\
whifpVing Gro-ues confpire,
d ^ire,
weary Eyes, with Cares oppr6ft>
When Sorrow ruflies in,
I tolTing
?
lulling voice
And join
My Eyes, my
do
murmVing noiie
as
my
-^
deiign'd.
fliall I
Nor tho'
Scarce clofe
Head
cou'd not find,
what
!
tho' a thoufand Rivers
Shou'd court
I
was for him
Life, alas
Bed^
fofc repofe, in
my Love
)
appear,
hzA found my Dear,
troubled breafl^ and weary
\i\s
But there
fure
and breaks
my
reft,
^
Thoughts no Night admit, but when
-each tedigus
•
hour feems ten
K
*f
: ;
:
^
(IJO)
my mifery,'
My (leffing thoughts 2LKt all imploy'd on Theei
Why then fhou d wretched I feek reft in vain,
Since deep (b oft denies to eaie my pain
If ever flecp indulge
?
My Bed I quit, and ranging all the Town,
Remove as Chance or Reafon leads me on :
Each Corner fearch, and hope
The dearefi
OhjeFl of my Eyes
No place efcapes me,
none
in each to find
and Mittd
fo private lies,
To cheat th'enquiry of my cttriom Eyes.
eager Hound thuscloic his Game purfucs
The
While the rvarmfcent dire6ls
his ready
j
Nofe
Thro' Woods and Thickets,Bri'rs and Thorns he runs,
No danger dreads,
or inconvenience fliuns.
Thus once the weeping Afagdalen
did
To find her Lordy vA^n mifling in
his Toml?.
What
that denies, fhe hopes
But there not found,
No MantinAsl(dy
tlie
{lie feeks
roam
City yields
him in the
s
Fields
no VIace unfe arched, remained.
Till the dear Treasure which Qxtfiagk wsiSgairPd:
Thus the griev*d Dam for her robb'd Nefi complains.
And fills the Foreft with
her mournful ftrains
About the Tree enrag'd fhe
flies,
and
now
Lights on the top, thenonfomeunda-boiigh.
And
And
to her Fellow fadly does relate
Th' injurious fieairh,
Thus have I
But what \ fought
Bale '^alhs
!
fofi
(alas
')
mill mj Love
in Bed,
whole ev'ry Road
!
!
he-re y
muft want my Bear.
Amb. deVirg.
is
not meet.
and fought him
ftill
T»ite.
and Street^
fo oft in vain liave trod
But fought amifs^ and
Chrlfi
Off-firings
I cou'd
and hateful Streets
My weary feet
I
and her
fearch'd thro' ev'ry iVdp^
lib.
3.
not found in the Courts nor in the Streets
I
Chrift- is no freciuenter of the Courts, Chrifl is Peace,
in the Courts are Contentions
in the Courts is Iniquity,
Courts,
let
:
&c.
Chrlfi
is Juftice,
Let us jhun the
hs avouLthe Streets.
K
2
XII.
Srfr,
(I32)
n^as hutliltic that {jmsifrwifhc7ii^
hull
p7iind hiin irhcnii 7ny /crid Icfclh;! held
/am and ii'^c^dd nctlcldiwi
nc. /faiihj. j.^
:
(tsO
XIL
Sai9 )Oii l.im rv'hom
my Soul
loveth ?
It tvof,
hut a little that I paji from thtm^ hut I
found him whom my Soul hvtth : I held
him^and woiid not kt him' ^^^Cant.iij .3,4,
IS
there a
Which
Comer left in
in
all
the
Town,
my weary fearch I have not known ?
With flaming Torches every Street was Light,
Kor
ALis
did
ev'n the meanefi Allies flight.
I
what ground did
!
Till e'ven the City
But why fhou'd
Since all
I
my fee king
flill
no
not travel
o'er.
thisfruitlefs ro//
tidings
?
approve.
does net find my Loz'e
Then, hopehfs, back
Kut
I
had not any more
my pendve courfe
of my Lo.ver heard
/*
I fteer'd,
3
WhjSnIatlaft approached the City- gate,
Where
a (b:cngGffard'm conftant
Said
PerJjjps
I,
And then
my Lvue
I ask'd
is
Watch did wait:
hidden here
them if they [nw my Dear
Tljey laugh'd, and
my
?
enquiry did deride,
Afid -ppysyctir Love f one of the Gentries cry'd
K
3
'-
^-i*
:
:
:
(i?4)
Has
he no
name hy
How can we tell^
Exciife, faid /,
vphich he
fince
my
may
be hnoren ?
yon havegivn us none f
rude fimplicity,
thought him known to all the Worlds as me
And that our Love, fo much the talk of Fame,
Had made it needlefs to declare his Name
And tho' you woir'd pretend this ign'rance now,
I
5
Vm confident you cannot
Then pray be
know
pleas'd in earneft to declare
If you have feen
him
lately
whom above my
Him,
chufe but
pafTmg here
Life I dearly prize,
And him who loves me more
than
own Eyes
his
Say,
when he went^ what ^ay he made with yoUy
And
whether he pretended he wou'dgo ?
Unto
the Right or Left-hand is he gone
Or had
he Company, of was
The fportful Watch,
K alone f
of my
regardlefs
Anfwer with laughter, and deride
From them I
go, hopelels
But while my.Soul fuch
(
Nor
dar'd I let
it
painful
?
cares,
my tears.
my Love to
While Tides of Grief overwhelmed
?
find,
my
finking mind.
Thoughts imploy,
hope fo vaft a Joy
:
)
Aly Love, the fame I fought the C/r; round.
Now,
unexfeBedsLTidunfoughti was found,
Lofc
::
Loft between
and Tear in the
'^oy
I durft not well give credit to
And have I thee
again ? I tvoudhdiNQ cry'd,
my
Butas Iftrove,
furprize,
my Eyes.
faultring tongue deny'd.
As when fome mournful Wife
fees
by her bed
Her Husband long by fame reported dead
Amaz d to meet what fhe
had giv n for
j
loft.
She flies his Arms, and takes him for a Ghoft
Nor dares, till his kytotvn voice the Truth affure,
The fight of what fhe moft defires, endure
And ftill fhe fears leaft
fhe
Betray d to
this credtdity
Thus while
I
Again
my
trembhng
Life filutes
too eajte
by
prove,
Lcrue.
ftand, again I try
my
TofsM between Doubt^^vA Hope.znd
Are you my Love,
Afy Dear I
—
ah no
Yet fureyouare
My Love,
My
I
my
—
ay, or
!
alas
!
in his
you
I fly
are not
He
?
;
Life, I fee
and know you now,
voice,
you.
and ravifh'd with your Face.
uncaird to your bclov'd Embrace.
Thus, thus 1
11
bind you to me, and prevent
hfecond fearch, the
Soldiers A^erriment.
O that my Arms were Chains,
Feet,
Zot'^,and Fear.-
Shape appear
Yes, yes, youai'e, I fee.
fecret Ecftacy diicovers
Pleas'd with your
;
joyful Eye.
Hands and
all,
and each part
wQre Gives
K
4
elfe.
mdMma^les!
Then
;
Then with
a triple band
Clofe as the
Elm
is
my Love Fd
:
!
bind,
by the Vine entwined
Ivy fhoud not clofer crawl
The fhaky
About the Ruines of its
dear-lov'd
fTor//.
And while my bufie hands your neck enclofe,
Think
that no burthen
which
their \(ind,ne[s
Remember, Love^ you have been
And Time
that did
it
muft
fhows
abfent long,
repair the
wrong
But of the Recompence you foon complain,
my Joys^(?g/Ai,
And
eer
But
ftay
Nor
fliall
!
^xtgone again.
ah too unkind, ungrateful
you
fly,
unlefs
you
force
!
ftay
!
your way.
la
Bed*
('37)
Beda in Cant. cap.
j.
When I had found him^ I held him fo
much
the
fafter
^
by
haw
nntch the
longer I xpas in jinding him.
XIIL But
ri38)
3z/?- ilr^j^ecdrh^
mc
fc
held
J^i^i
771c
(M9)
XII I.
u good for me to hold tr^tfaji by God^ to
pit my trtijl in the Lord Godj PIal.7 J. 27.
3ut it
rHro'
what
Jufc as a
i^4rs
ftrange turns
BaU from hand
loud allarms were
Vnd hope ofG/orj led
IrrKs raised
Vs if I
to
my
firft
me out
my courage,
hand
I
gone,
thrown
is
?
fole delight,
to fight:
y^rrfts
were
all
my care,
had no other bus nefs here.
3ft with a SoKg I paft
Vhile
of Fortune have
I
ftood Centrj
my
tedious hour,
on fome lofty
TowV
:
3ft I the Enemies intent betray 'd,
\nd fhew d
their motions
learnt ^intrench a
Vith
e\'er
all
by }htjigns
I
made.
Camf^ and Bnlwarks
rear,
the cunning of an Engi^ieer,
forwaid was, and bold in
fight,
\nd did to Aftion the faint Troops excite.
*v'one
better underftood the
s^one
more the
)ft in the
fir
Soldiers or
Art of iVar,
Commanders
Lybian Defart did
I
care
:
fweat,
d with the Sand, and melted w ith the heat
-.
Choali'd
(i4^)
Choak'd with the Duft, yet no kind Fountain nigh.
The place as
How
little tnoifture
oft have I
as
fwam mighty
With heavy Armour
Andftill
had
loaden,
I.
Rivers o er.
tir'd,
and
my Sword acrofs my mouth
fore
have
?
laid:
Whene er I did the adverfe dream invade.
the Camp has had my Company,
Thus long
A
Foot*man
then of the Cavalry,
firft,
My Bre aft-^late has ten
Thrice
jfhots
of Arrows born,
my batter'd Helmet torn.
was my Horfe fhot under me, my Creft
Nor fewer
Stroaks
Four times ftruck olf, and
I as oft diftreft.
my felf to harm,
And in my Enmies hlood my hand was warm.
But on my backj. didn© w^ounds receive,
My ready breaft met all my Foes durft give
Yet boldly
I
expos'd
:
For boldly againft Fire and Svpord
And
flights
And as I
mov'd,
yet the
flain
by mj Sword,
my ways with
Man that did
his
I trod,
Corps I ftrow'd
thefe Conquefts gain,
Cou*dnot, mtha/lhupow'r,
With all
ftood,
of Arrows which the Sky did cloud :
On heads of Men,
But
I
his w//^ obtain
3
Lawrels won, and Foes c'er-comcy
E^s Crowns defcrvd, and Trofhics
too'
brought
hor^e',
One
Triffwphshhd,
0?ie f4ult6\d all his former
And
blotted out their
memory
at lad.
The General cafhier'd me with a Word,
And o'er my head broke mj once ufefnl Swora,
And thus in fublicl^Scorn my Fame expired.
With
O my
the dear purchafe
dear
Thy favour
What
o{ my ^/Wacquir'd,
God had I born Arms
!
liad
for Theey
not thus deferted me.
Hopes are plac'd on Thee can never
fail,
IFirm as an Anchor fix'd within the ValL
TU
iBehind ihy Altar then
And bid
lay
my Armsy
a long adieu to JVars allarms.
my mind oi) Gain was all intent,
Gain to my thoughts fuch fweetsdid reprefenc.
But foon
A
Ship I bought, wliich
Abroad
when I
to pnr chafe and lofeU,
I ileer d,
In both the Indies I expos'd
No
Tort wasknow^n but
I
my Ware,
had Trafick there
For ^owifmall Ventures^ la
Was
all
JVealth
tt
the bufie Study of
'ze
in
my
with fuch a Tide,
flralnd Cheft s abide.
My Ships came loaden
But next return they
from the Indlan-^o^x
perlfh'd at
they forfrvore^
and
{o
I
loft
;
my door.
My Books with Debtors names ftill
But
2
Acqulfis to gain>
my brain.
now came flowing in
wou'd not
fraighted well.
my
larger
grew
;
due.
Thus'
'
Thus Sxk^ made in the
i>«<,
Thus where 'twas gain d,
does there decay,
my Wealth all melts away!
How peaceful is the Man, and how fecure,
Whom War did ne er delight^ nor Gain allnre ?
No more {liall Gain my cheated fancy pleale,
Thsit cinnot purchafe one Jhort mlrtHtes eafe.
What fhall I
do, iince
my attempts are vain?
In IVar^ no Fame-y in Trade, no Wealth
Then
My Fame
\
gam.
to the Court I haftily repair.
as
(bon finds kind reception there.
I'm brought before the
Khg^ and
Hand,
kils his
He likes my Perfon, gives me a Command,
Now grow^n his Favrlte, I have all his Ear
Whate'er I ^ea\^ he eagerly does hear
3
:
And to '/lew Honours does me dill advance.
Not
the effe6l
But, whether
o^ merit, but of chance.
his mifiake, or
my
defert,
now indeared, and wound into his heart.
Oft in dilcourfc we fpent the bufie day,
And ne'er regarded how it pail away.
I'm
Nay, without me, he wou'd not
My frefence gave a
relijh to his
play nor e^t^
meet
:
No Favrite e^'er was dearer to his Prince
No Prince fuch Favours ever did diipenfe.
;
Se]anm
)
:
(14?)
Scjarjpu rul'd
not thus his Mailer's Heart 5
His wary Lord allowed him but a part
Nor Ci^tu's felf coud^r^^r^r Honours have,
Tho* thQ
fVorld's Conqfiror
vvasalmoft his Slave,
This nevp advancement pleas'd
(
For
The
there are fecret
Charms
my thoughts, 'tis true,
in all things
new.
Courtiers envy^ and the Crowds admire
To fee the Kin^ w>
But, oh
Whofe
!
on Kings
FctpV,
Company defire.
'tis
Folly to depend,
much more their Favours^
quickly end^
to Tr ovens does all his Smiles convert,
The King
And as he /^I'V,
{o^hates^ tvithoHt defer t.
His Favour fow'rs to Rage, and I
Far flrom
my Native Soil
My fall to Hift'ry adds
am
lent
to Banijhment,
one Story more,
A Story I for ever mud deplore.
.
Sejanus had not a feverer fate,
Nor CAf/^'shappinels a fhorter date.
O God how great is their fecurity,
Whofe hopes and wiihes all are fix'd on thee
!
Aug.
in
For fake all other toves
He ana? and Earth,
;
<*
PiaL 36.
he
is
fairer
who created
XIV.
I/ate
(»44)
Isate J^rn
inn^c?^ /lU shadaiv^v/icin
I
T.i^
(h?)
XIV.
Ifatt down under hisfhadow (jvhom I lovt£)
mth great delight ^ Cant. iij. j.
a long journey to an unknown Clime,
INMuch
ground travetd^ and
much time
I
Tin weary grown, computing in
I thought the lliorteft
But when
I better
I found there
ftill
^
confuryi'd
my mind,
of my way behind.
had furvey'd the
race,
remained the greater fpacc.
Then my faint Limbs grew feeble with defpair,
Difcourag'd at a journey falevere:
With hands and eyes
To Heav n,
in
ere6l, I vent
my grief
hope from thence to find
relief.
Oh who will fhade me from \}^fcorchmg he^it
See on my head how the fierce Sun-beams beat
!
f[
i
While by
their fervor parch'd,
Torments
my Feet,
Thin you I
praife,
and
the burning Sand
fcarce will let
me
ftand.
dear Groves, and fhady Bowers.
Bleft with cool Springs, and fweetrefrefliing Flow'rs.
L
Th€W
!::
(146)
Then wifii th expanded Poplar wou'd
Or
leavy j^pple
{hade
o'erfpread,
my weary head.
The God whole aid I oft had fought before,
As often found, now adds this favour more.
Whither your haft defigns, fajs he^ I know 5
Know Tvhat you want,
I
know you feek
and how you want
too.
Jerufalem above,
Thither your Hfe and your endeavours
But
it
move
with the tedious Filgrimage difmay d.
Implore refrefhment from the Affle's fhade.
See, fee, I
come
to bring your pains relief
I
'B&ci'^xhmy Jhadow eafe your weary grief.
Behold
my Arms ftretch'd on the fatal Tree
With thefe
Behold
my
extci\ded boughs Til cover thee
hleedi?tgfeet^
tny gaping fide!
In thefe free Coverts thou thy
felf maift hide.
This fhade will grant thee thy
defir'd repole,
*Thi6
Tree alone for that kind parpofe grows.
Thus fpoke
Withflrength
I rais'd
my
But, oh
!
the God, whofe favour thus expreft,
infpir'd
eyes,
my hmbs,
with hope my breaft-
and there my Love I fpy'd
my Love^ my Love was
O what a difinal Scene
Cry'd out) prefents
( I all
me this
crucify 'd
5
I
difmaid
unnat'ral Shade.
What
!
:
;
:
!
(147)
What cdmfort
While TlooH
Cnrs'dTr^^
can
art
/
it
yield to wretched
hung on
and more
this accurfed
ftains are reeking
Yet this
Tree proje6ls
fair
And with
And more
offers
yet!
it
fpreading Boughs,
That hand
ftill it
felf denies,
to tears thsjifleef inclines
Blefi free
and ha^^y hand that
!
deferves the
Now, now,
As
on
kind cooHng Shades invites repofe
But what it
My cool,
its
?
handhy which 'twas fet 1
curs'd
The bloody
mc^
Tree
ncy
my Eyes.
fix'd thee here
Honour of a Star
Love, I thy refemblance know.
kind, ihady reddence below.
the large Apple fpreads
From whole
its
loaden Boughs,
rare Fruit a pleafing
And, more than all
Allows the weary
its
refi^
Thus thou art. Lord,
Liquor flows
fellows of the
Wood,
the hungry food:
my
Covert in the heat
>
My Brinkyihtn thirfty, and when hungry. Meat,
How ofc, my Love, how oft with earned pray r.
Have
I invok'd
There penfive
thy Shade, to
I'll
bewail
my
reft
me there
?
wretched State,
Like a lad Turtle widow'd of her Mate
ril bath thy pale dead Lips in a
And from thy Locb TU wafh
warm
\
flood.
the clotted Blood
Thy
; :
( 148 )
Thy hanging head my hands fhall gently rai{e,
And to my cheek I'll lay thy gory face
Thy wounded fide with watry eyes Til view.
And as thy bloody my tears fhall ever flow
:
Flow till my fight, by their kind flood relieved,
With the fad Objeft be no longer griev'd.
Yet
this one
ivomd in
me will many
Till proftrate at thy feet
Then
And
I'll
my place I
make,
take
embrace again the fatal Tree^
write this fad Infcriftlon under thee:
Tivo Lovers fee, nrho their own Deaths confplre
She drowns
in Tears, yphile
He
!
confumes in Fire.
Honoiius
(M9)
Honorius
Jjbadow
is
in cap. i. Cant,
m.tde
apud Delr.
of a body and light ^ and ii
the Travellers covert
from
the heat^
his
froteBion from the Jtorw.
The Tree of
Life; to wity the Appk'TrQQy is the holy
Crots
;
its
Fruit
refrefhment
Chrift,
fliadow the
^W defence of Mankind,
L
is
J
its
XV. How
(i5o)
{VI
a shmnae LattcL. T^al. ??^-^
•
:
(x50
XV.
Hoivjha/ltve fing the Lords
Land
OHHow
!
why,
can
Pfal. cxxxvij. 4.
?
my
Song in afirange
Friends,
I raife
am I dedr'd
MufickjQc^vcQs a Soul to mirth
And
to fing
a mte^ or touch a firing
?
f
inclin'd.
fympathizes with the troubled mind.
But you
reply,
Such feafons mofl require
The kind diverlion of the warbling Lyre 3
When^r/V/ wou'd
ftrikc
you dumb,
Then drain the voice^ and
Leaft then the
Too much
You
mind o'erwhelm'd
intent
urge, thi?
on
it
'tis
time to Jtng^
ftrike the tremblingy?r/;;g3
own
in forrow
lie.
mifery.
remedy will grief affwage.
And with examples frove what you alledge.
You fay, This tunes the weary Sailors note.
While o'er long Seas
You
fay,
their
This makes the
Whofe tuneful Pipes
nimble Veffels
artflil
ffoat
Shepherd play,
the tedious hours betray,
L4
And
:
And that the Traveler's
li^jen to the mf^fick^
of
journey
eafi'ft
Ill not perverfly
blame
this art in
th* inoffenfive policy
But know
proves,
tir'd
them^
condemn
;
my tongue, long pra6lisd in complaint,
Is skill'd in grief,
Scarce
:
his voice he moves.
And Soldiers when with Night or Labour
By finging, with new vigour are infpir'd.
Nor
;
in lamentations quaint.
my loft skill cou'd I to pra6lice bring.
And MfiJtck^ktXfx'A a ftrange unufual thing
And as one blinded long, fcarce brooks the light,
So pleafing Ayres my uncouth tongue
,
affright.
When I my flighted Numbers wou'd retrieve.
And make the (peaking Chords appear to live
When I wou'd raife the murmuring Viols voice,
Or make the Lute in brisker founds rejoice
When on my Tii^e attempt a fliriller note,
Or join my H^r/? in confbrt with my Throat
3
3
i
My Voice
And
(alas! ) in floods
boiftrous fighs difperfe the fainting found.
Again
X-ofing^
Again
my voice^
again X.oflay I try'd
again
Slow and unaftive by
^nd now with
mollifie
3
my hAnd deny'd
difufe fo long,
Their Art's forgot both by
To
of tears
.
is drown d.
my Hand and Tongue
thefe allays I try too late
my hard, my rigid Fate.
Grant
:
(i?0
Grant I excelTd in Mujlck^^ and in Song^
And warbled fwift Divifion with my Tongues
Cou'd
Or
I
with Ifraets fweeteft Singer
vie,
touch the Harp with move fuccefs than
He
z
fuit my woe.
Who never had more caufe to weep, than norv ?
But fbrrow has my tuneful Harp unftrung,
And grief's become habitual to my Toi^ue
Will Mujick^or Complaint beft
the place or time fuch mirth allow
Nor do
But grant thej did,
my firrows anfwer
no,
^
5
.
For wou'd you have an exitd Stranger fing
His CoHdtry Songs under a Foreign King
my Fare and
Forbear ;
To filence
me^ and hinder your
Tears drown
Then, ah
!
my Eyes,
how am
I
?
this loath'd place confpire
fit
dejire.
exhaufted by
my
for jocund Songs
Harih Fortune's wounded Captive kindly
wrongs,
?
fparcl
My voice has loft its pleafing accents here.
Sorrow dilbrders and diftorts my face,
I canwot give my Songs their former grace.
Should
I
begin to fing or play, 'twou'd be
my mifery.
My thoughts are all on my loft State intent,
And clpfe Companions of my Banifhment.
Some
doleful
Then why am
Now grief
Emblem of
I defir'd to
has broke
my
play or fing,
voice,
(ftring?
and (kckned evry
Ohi
Oh! my lov'd
My
Lute,
But
if to
Then
Country, when
I think
on ^^^f,'
my Voice, my Mind, all lole their harmony:
Thee
I happily return,
they fhall
all rejoice,
as
much
as
{mourn.
they
now
Aug.
!
Aug. Medit.
cap. j 5.
that I could fay fnch things as
tlje
Hywn-fingwg Choire of Angels
How willingly would I four forth
my felf in
thy praifes
!
'A\
ECSTACIES
(i?0
Z chmy€jrciL O I)auah1xnfofj&ridalpri
i/jZ-imJ-inA nvyliuoj^d, thatyou tell
hinh tha,tTarrv Jich cfZov^. Caiit^.S
;
ECSTACIES
OF THE
ENAMOUR^D SOUL.
£1^
.
BOOK
the Third.
I.
Djtughtcrs (j/Jerufakm, if
I charge yoH^
yo!^ find
I
my
am fick of Loue^ Cant,
BLeft
him th:it
Etloz'td^ tfjAtyou ttll
v.-
8;
Repaints in thofe bright Comts above
Thofc Starry Temples ivherejca Sing
Ey faaed
Verfe
I
you
<.^rA
Lczc:
adjure and bind,
my Love you find
my reitlefs Pa'Tion bea'.
If by a happy chance
To him my
Itrong,
And gently
whiiper't in his facred
Kow I each moment in
And
languifn in the
How I am
As
Ear
FUmes of my Defire.
fccrch'd in Lovers fierce
withering
Flow rs
s
foft Sighs expire^
tornd Zurc^
before the raging Suh.
For
)
:
:
(158)
For icattering round
his Darts,
He fhot himfelf into my
among
the reft
love-fick breaft
;
Through blood and bones the fhaft like hghtning dole
And
with ftrange
infl'ence feiz'd
my
melting Soul
Now in a flame unquenchable I bum,
And feel my breaft t'another t^^t/fa turn.
If a more
(
full
account he wou'd receive,
For Lovers always
are inquifitive :
how pale, how languifhing I look,
And how I fainted when I wou d have fpoke.
Tell him
If he enquires what pace
Oh
!
tell
my Feaver moves.
him, I no Feaver
feel,
but Loves
Or if he asks what danger of my death,
Tell him
—
I cou'd
not
tell,
for want
of breath.
Tell him no mefl&ge you from me relate.
But gafping
founds, that fpoke approaching Fate.
how in death I look.
how my Beauty has my face forfook.
Say how I'm ftrangely all transform'd with woe.
That he njy fuff'rings and their caufe may know.
Yet, if he queftions
Say
Tell
him I lie (eizM with a deadly fwound,
A bloodlels Corps ftretch'd on the naked ground.
Tell him my eyes {wim round my ^z,z,y head^
And on my breaft my feeble hands are fpred.
The Coral of my Lips grows (ickly pale.
And on my Cheeks the withering Rofes fails
My
:
My Veins,
And
tho'chaf'd, have loft their azure hue.
Nature filing too
their decay fhevvs
Nor any
But the
figns exprefs remaining
life,
worfi fjmj^tQmSj fighs that vent
my grief.
And yet I cannot any reafon feign,
Why, tho' fi'/jhurt, fo often I complain:
Unlels fbme treach'rous Sigh unruly prove
Betray
my bliifliing Soul,
This, this was fure
And
my breaft extorted freq/ientjtghs.
from my oerflavnng eyes.
preft the tears
Remote Difcourfe^
I
Z/rve.
what a Lover was.
This was the caufe, that when
Oh
own 'tis
mj forrows onlj caufei
I lov^d^ yet hncTv not
This ftom
and
I ftrove
to ftame
ended with his Name,
it
then
Tell the lovdOhjecl of
Howl iiis Martyr and
my
his
thought and eye.
VlBim die.
Diftill'd in Ijrves AlembicJ^^
Parch'd up, like Rofes,
by too
I expire,
warm
a
fire
;
Ordry'd, V^kt Lilies which have long in vain
^
Beggd
the refreftiment of a gentle Rain.
Tell Him, the
catife
of
all
Without his help, my death 3
my grief will prove,
for, oh!
'tis
LO VE^
Rupert, in Cant.
TeU
him. That I
Am fuk
have of feeing his face
J can
of Lorue, through the great dejirs I
I endure the rvearinefs of lije, and
:
tardl) bear the delay of
my
prefent Exiie»
TI.
St/)
(i6o)
^toAT mt
Tvith-fiao-(nis,
Tvidhcuppits,
ccm^orbnLC-
fori anvjict
jfZai/t-
.
<i6i)
II.
Stay me with Flagons^ comfort me with Appks^
for I am
HOW
Thou
ftck
ofLove^ Cant. ij.
my willcontroul?
ftrangeIy,Zw^,doft thou
fleaftng
5
Tyrant of my capiv'dSoHl!
Oh wou dft thou have thy welcom torments lafi
I
Slacken their heat, for
On other Hearts
For mine
thy
(alas ! ) has
O fpare thy own
I confume toofafl.
fiery
Arrows fhow V,
now no room
Artill'ry^
for more.
and my breath I
For the next /haft comes wing'd with
Oh
!
I
am
loft,
To Love, my
voice
From^^rf to ^art
Till the
Alas
fly
I
certain Death:
my felf eftrangd,
to Love, my b/ood is chang'ds
and from
5
inlenfibly
he
ftole,
ConqfPror had fubdu'd the whole,
will
no one
pity
my diftrefs
Will neither Earth nor Heav'n afford
?
redrels?
Canft Thou, the Author of my miferies,
Canlt Thon behold
me with
M
relcntlefs eyes?
Obi
,
:
!
(l62)
Oh haftc, you bright Inhabitants above,
My fellow-Patients in this charming Love
!
Rifle the
Ganiens,
Bring
the Treafure Natures Store-houfe yields
all
and difrobe the
Bind fragrant Rofe-buds to
Fields,
5
my Temples firft,
Then with cool apples quench my fiery thirft.
Thefe
may allay
Oh no
the leaver
there's nothing,
I
Againft L(yves force
Since ev
And
of my Blood.
nothing does
what
n themfelves may
me good.
Salve can Rof^s make,
hide the foisnons Snake ?
Apples fure can fmall afliftance give,
In one of them thVld Serpent did deceive.
O then
The
!
to flacken this tormenting
And for an
Give
fire,
Rofe of Sharon only I defire
it,
oh
Apple to afTwage
!
give
Then ftrow them
And as
it
my grief.
from the Tree of Life t
gently on
my Virgin-bed
the withering Rofe declines
Compos'd to Death's long
T>ream of my Love, and
fleep
iff
his
its
head,
my reft I'll take,
arms awake.
Giaen
( i6j )
GifleninCant.cap.
2^
// is certainly a good languijhment^
Difeafe
is
God may
when the
not to Death, hut Life^ that
be glorifed by it
Heat and Feaver
:
rvhen that
does not proceed
from a
confuming^ but rather from an imf raving
fre.
M
2
III.
My
( i64 )
xJh'3cl<TuediJ mine,
and Iam
hi/;
Lane. 2 Lo.
.
J?. 1^4-.
:
!:
!
(1^5)
II r.
My Beloved U mine^
among
andldtn his ; heftedeth
Cant, ij, i6.
the Lilies^
BLeft fouls, whofe hearts bum \^^th fuch equal fire^
As
never, but together j will expire
To jour content
For
all
I wou*'d
not Crowns prefer.
He.tvns Blejftngs are dilated there
And when with
two
equal fiames
Souls engage,
Loves golden Age,
That happy minute
is
Such
blifs I
when Love at firft pofleft,
And
(pread his Enfigns o'er
How oft
wifh'd,
my trembling bread
:
whene'er in Love I burn.
I pray'd,
Grant me, great PowV, to
find a juft return
The God retum'd this ^»/b'^ to my fray r.
Love firfi, and never then of Love defpair !
The fudden Sound
I
trembled when
Is
it
To
knew
my
the
firightned eai\
God was
near>
thy Will, Almighty Love ( I cry'd
lift
a Soldier, in thy
Tis true,
The
I
invades
Wars
untry'd
)
?
my fellow-Maids have told me lon^
promised Joys
of thy adoring throng
M
2
But
:
:
;
!
(i66)
But
oft
my Nnrfe^
Told me, 'twas
And that the
acquainted with the cheat,
all delnjion aiid deceit
j
Oracle too true wou'd prove,
Which thus declar'd the ill effeEhs of Love
" Num'rous as Athds Hares, or Hyhlas Swarms,
"
Or Olive-berries on the loaden Tree,
" Or as the Shells, or Sands, arc Z(?^^'s allarms,
" Abounding dill with fear and mifery.
For ftill
Left
this fear the
all their
wretches entertain.
Love fhou'd meet unjuft Difdaln,
Ofhapffy Lovers no Records can boaft
Their
The
blifs was cotinterfeit,
airy God^s unfettled
That
Go
motion fhews
Love's SiTide that always f^^/ and
" Than his own
fcatkers
And all his promised
By
florvf.
then and truft thofc dying flames that will.
Since Love's a rv^nd'rer and uncertain
*^
,
orjhort at moft
Oaths and Vms
which vanifh
is
he hghter
Faith but
ftill.
far,
empty
air.
let no one be betray d^
in the breath with
which th'are made.
His cheeks are with unufual blufhes dreft.
And his quick flight, this mighty truth confeft
And now his/r>?W, and treachery I knew,
To all his powV I bid a laft adien.
To
Thee^ thou heavn-born Love,
Be thoH my Ilamcy Dear Lord
I
my Soul 111 join,
and lU be
thin€
While
!!!
:
(i<57)
While day and mght
Our mutual fires
fuccefTively return.
fhall never ceafe to
bum.
O the fvveet balm diftilling from each Idfs
!
How vaft the pleafure, how divine the bhfs
What new delights from heavnly Love ftill flow,
They only, who enjoy the BldTmg, know.
But^ eh I
to l$ve^ or to
Is the great mj/lVj
belovd of Thee^
of
Felicity
:
And, more t mhance and recommend the joy,
'Tisfuchas time does heighten.,
Mj Love^ my Life in Thee^Xl
In Tloee
all
With what
We
Ophirs
richefl;
r\oi dcfiroy.
Hyblas Sweets,
Treafure meets.
repeated Ecftacies pofTefc,
vent our paiTions in each others breaft
O how unfpeakable's the bhfs to me.
To lo(e my (d^ in
This Love
Too hiefi
is
thoughts of its Eternity
fubje^l to
no anxious
In Paradices of dehght
Where
cares.
for troubles J too fee ure for fears.
it
feeds,
whiteft LiHes deck th'enamelFd
Among
which Emblems o^ o\}X pure
Meads
defires,
Wc in chall: pleafures quench our mutual fires.
Bernard, in Cant. Serm.
7 1.
voho hearefl^ or readefl this, take care to have
the Lilies in thee, if thou wouldfi have this dweller
Thou
anwng the
Lilies vijit thee.
M
4
ly.
i^
.
(168)
I am Tizy Behn/fdj', and. kij
TyS
tvivar-dd me.
.
dejirc
Cant. ^ lo
.
T. 768.
:
(1^9)
IV.
/
am my
and his defire
mey Cant. vij. lo.
Be/ovea^s^
is
towards
THro' the thick fiudcs of a cool Cyfrefs Grove^
Weeping
I
wander'd to bewail
my
Love;
A briny torrent rowl'd adown my bread.
And weighty grief my finking Soul oppreft.
In my fad Arms an Ivory Lute I bore,
My
forrows furc Phyfician heretofore.
my grief, on a fbft Turf I refl:.
And thus unload my over-burthen'd breaft
Tir'd with
Muft I
And
my days confume
cruel
Love deny
O let that curfe
Be they
flill
attend
my
Strangers to
" For not to
in
me all
lonefbm
Enemies,
Love s envy'd
love^ is furely
*'
Since Lifes chief blejfings
"
The
grief^
relief ?
not
Blifsl
to live^
we in Love receive
whole defign o^ living
is
" And who Uvci, wofi, does hefi
to
Icoje^
his life improve.
Bodies
Bodies of Earth
And
down to their centre
tend
Seeds of Fire to theirs above aicend.
So our
fofc hearts to
Love
are
inclin'd,
ftill
Urg'd by a vilent impulfe of the mind.
E vn mine too,
kindled by an innate flatne,
Is eager to deferve a Lovers name.
my kindling Flames impart,
Virgin-fortrefs of my heart?
Shall I defcend to a hw mortal iovcy
But where fliall I
Where yield the
I,
the Companion ofhlefi Minds above?
Or ihall
I
with
inferiottr
Whom their Creator
No, no,
Creatures (port,
not difdains to court
?
my Soul, fix thou thy thoughts on high
s
Thou haft no equal match beneath the Sky.
My Hymen fhall no other Torches bear.
Than what have each been lighted at
Angels Jh all my EpithalamiumTw?^,
CondnBing me
a Star.
in triumph to their King,
Him^ Him alone ofall I can approve
The
nobleft obje^l
of the pureft Love.
His dear-lov d Image
Nor can his
ftill
falutes
my eye.
abfence this dehght deny.
No envious diftance can
prevail to part
His dear refembling Imfrefs from
my heart.
With him, methinks,
in fweet dilcourfe I
Pleas'd with the found
of his imagin'd
walk,
talk.
So,
;
:
(»70
So,
byftrangefympathy, the faithful
Does the
*S>^^/
lov'd Poles magnetick influence feel.
By whole kind condu6l the fafe
A fteddy courfe,
till
Pjlot fteers
the wiih'd Port appears.
So the fond Hyacinth purfiies the Sun^
Fleas d at his rife, grlevd when his race is done
is He waited en by the pale Moorty
Who from his beams refleElion guilds her ^n.
So
Like
thefcy
Almighty Love, to Thee
I flie
If thou withdraw'ft thy face, I pine, I
O then
J
fince all
Let the hlefl
my joys
Vifion
die.
on that defend.
never never end I
The
:
;
:
(172)
The fame^
Hand.
hy another
ACjfrefsGrcve (whofe melancholly fliade
To fute the temper of the fad was made)
I chofe for my retreat, there laid me down,
Hoping my Sorrows in my Tears to drown
They vainly flowed and now erwhelm'd with grief>
From Mujicks charming founds I fought relief.
5
Tliis
Song composed,
I ftrike
my
Lyre, and fing,
Soft Notes rebounding from each (ilver String.
my wafted days no paffion aown
And muft my empty years roul ufelefs on
So hard a fate I'd wifh my greateft foes
He lives not, who the flames of Love ne'er knows:
Ah
!
fhall
5
!
j
Stupid his Soul
Who
lies
is
He bears no Image
Whole
hid in darkeft night.
not chear'd with Loves tranfpiercing light
:
of the God above,
icy breaft s infenfible to Love.
The pond'rous
Beneath
all
Earth, by^ts proper weight depreft.
other Elements doth reft 5
While pointed Flames do
thro' the (olid
mais
Force their bright way, and unrelifted pais
So
thro' the folid
Sends forth thofe
lump of Man,
fires
the Soul
that all the frame controul
And
)
::
:
And his defires do
Where-e'er thofe
And now I
I
bum,
I
feel
hurry him away,
fkmes
dire^l th obedient
an unknown ivarmth
quicks fires
ai'e
Cky.
all o'er
melt, hut know not from what
Thcfs f^arp
:
5
Powr
urg'd thro^ ev^ry vein,
Mingling at once fuch Pieafure and fuch Pain,
Ah
(
!
whither will
this furious pafTion drive
In vain againfl Loz'e's raging force
shall mji ajpiring Soul^
Hke vulgar
?
we drive.
hearts^
Complain o^Jhameful wounds from Cupcts Dnrts f
If I fhou'd be embraced by mortal arms,
They'd fade
my Beauties,
My rifmg Mind fon^rs vaft degrees
Terreflrial Charms ^ they're
Thefe^Ao//
She'll
defires
my
fully all
Charms
above
much beneath my Love
my p»r^*$(3;//diiclains;
be His S^cufe who evry Being frames,
^gneSy oi Rome the wonder and the fride^
Her Ch^.rms
And in
to an Aufonian
thefe terms refused to
" If I have Idndled
"
I c?.nnot
Since
1
iii-es
Tomh
deny'd^
be
Bride
your
v/ithin
bum
juftly
my refulal
My Soul from fuch a Spoufe
-j
J
^
breall,
:
blame,
with a much diviner fame
" For my Creator hath engag'd
^
his
grant, hut pity your requefc
" Nor can you
''
:
my
;
heart,
can ne'er depait
Kis
(174)
«e
His lovely Image
ftill is
in
my
fight,
" And at this diflance Hes my file
" In abfence we converfe j I ipeak
" And he
in abfence charms my
delight.:
in
Pray rs,
liftning ears.
So by the Loadfiones unfeen wondrous force
The
faithful Needle fleers the
Tow'rds
its
lov d North
Guiding their
Seamans courfe:
conftantly doth
it
rife,
fecret Courfe, where-e*er it lies.
So does the Flow'r of Phoebm twice a day
Turn towVds her Snn^ and
her glad leaves difplay.
Fair Cynthia thus regards her Brothers Beams,
Renews her Beauty from his borrowed fiames,
I
am thy
Clytie ( Spoufe )
thou art
my Sm^
I Cynthia^ always tow'rds thy light mufl run.
My
(
Sfoufi^
my
Helice, with longing I
/^j^^
Where-e'er thou draw'ftj tow'rds thee in raptures
What wonder if in mutual Love ^<?
burn.
Since Steel can tow'rds the fenfelefs Loadftone turn
?
Bernard.
(170
Bernard. Medit. cap. 9.
My Heart pajfes
through many things^
feehfng about where
reji
it^
5
it
may
tah^ its
but finds nothing that pleafes
till it
returns to God,
V.
My
< ^76)
^Uy SoiiL
nidJletL
a^
my 3^z
Loz^ed Spcrkxj CaJit^^.
6".
^
:
.
('77)
V.
My
Soulmtlttd as mj Be/oved fpoh.
Cant. V. 6.
WHat
hiUsy
Only
what rocks^wliit defarts have I
for
one fhort view o^Thee^
How for one word from thofe dear Lips
My feet a tirefbm Pilgriirage injoin
trod.
my God ?
of Holne^
!
O'er craggy Rocks of fuch ftupendious height,
Th'afcent does ev'n the chmbing Deer afright
my unwearied
Tet cannct
Tor mighty Love
Tho' from
coYiduils
hafte delay
me
all the voay.
thefe heights I all thwgs elfe defcr}%
The dear-lovd Oh]eEh ihuns my longing eye.
Diftracled then, thro' cv'ry Den I rave.
Search each Recefs, and
viflt
evVy
In vain thole unfrequented paths
1
I
Cfave.
wear,
only find thou art a Stranger there.
Sometimes into the open Plain
But
there
am
To Heav n
But
loft in Tirror
I rove.
as in Love.
I look, and thro' the Fields complain,
both unkindly anfvvcr not again.
N
'
Wandring
!
:
:
:
:
(178)
Wandring
fl'om thence I find a Jhady
There on mj Love (but
Not
from henee a
far
clofe thickjCovert
Where panting Breads
Here, here,
But, oh
fign
grows,
a cool repofe
fly for
perhaps He's laid to
(aid I,
no
!
Vah\
Hill in vain) 1 call.
reft
j
of Thee was here impreil.
Then, ftung with palTion, and o'ervvhelin d with
I coaft the Shoar^
Here
and thence expe6l
a hi^hTorfi'r exalts
its
grief,
relief.
lofty head,
By whofe kind light the wandring Sailor's led
Here I
afcend,
While
my complaints o'er all the Shoar
and view the Ocean round.
Tell me, yon Shoars^ jou Seas^ and
Js
not my Love conceard
As
and be juft
Scarce
had
When
it
that
That
?
tliie
Shoar
to
Love and me
received the
mournful
noife,
return d a loud redoubled voice
fome fporting Eccho
fools the wretch'd,
Again the Shoar
And
fome o^Tou
:
me true,
each other j'o/^ wou'dconfiant be^
to
jyifcover^
But
in
refound
tell
I
and
I believe.
dallies
xhcklnd voice again falutes
Avoice^ ^ well-known voice
!
my ear
"tw^sThine,
Whofe pleajtng
accents foon difpell'd
Now
:
I reviv'd
with their grief
rends the Shoar does hear,
my
my
Life,
grief.
One fuch immortal breath
Had powV enough
to refcue rue from death,
Jhy
;
179)
(
Thy
By
voice, like Lightning, unperceiv d, unfelr.
a ftrange
infl
ence thro' the Soul can melt.
So thy Difclpies hearts were
When on
the
way thou
fir'd
within,
didfl difcourfe begin
The fecret Charms of Thy prevailing
voice
Caus'd unaccountable, yet mighty Joys.
'Twas the fame heavnly found that anfwer'd me,
And
all diffolv'd
me
into Ecftacy.
That kindled
fuch a
Whofe ardent
heat an
See
how my
fire
within
my
Soul,
Ocean cannot cool.
melting pafTions haft and run,
Like Virgin-wax before the fcorching Sun
!
O might
I be fo bleft to
Our Life
the (ame, the fame our Love {hou d be.
Aug.
Pfijat is this thdt
mix with Thee,
Soliloq. cap. 34.
I feel i what
my hear0tiihat
fire is it
that
warms
light is 'it that enlightens it ?
O
thoujitejMch always burnefl, and art never extinh
guijhedi do thoH inflame me
\
N
z
VI.
Whom
(i8o)
"WhamTiave I in HeaireiL Tjittllise?
and^i^fT tSno7i£ upanJE^artli-lhal
;
(i8i)
vi.
Who'*n have I in Heaven hut thee ? and there
is none upon Earth that I defire in co-'rpa^
rifon of thee^
W'Hat
Pfal. Ixxiij.
fiiall I feek,
OvEarth,or
Tho'
I
2^.
great God, in Heavrf above,
Sea,
whereon to
fix
my
love?
fhou'd ranfack Heav-/?, and Earth, and Sea,
All they can boaft,
is
nothing wit ho fa Thee.
I know what mighty Joys in Iteav'n abound,
What Treafnres in the Earth and Sea are found 5
Vet without Thee,
All,
2l\1
my Love
their glories Qxe
I
t'enrich their (lore.
hut mean
Sind poor,
O ^cavn O Earth O vaft capacious Main
I
!
!
Three famom Realms where Wealth and Plenty reign
Tho'
in
o;?^
|
heap your /r/f /f fleafures lay,
jThey were no pleasures, were
My ihoughts,
I own,
»?;•
Xor^' away.
have ofcen fang'd the Deep,
SearchM Earth and HerrJ,!, and in no bounds wou'd
keep
But when they vvandred the Creation round,
V
e(iual Oo'icoh in the
Whole
N
3
the}'
found.
Some-
(i80
Sometimes I thought to
pregnant Earth,
rip the
And give its rich and long-born
burthen birth
j
Gold^ Silver, Brafs J feeds of the {hining Vein,
And
For
each bright produ6t of the
thefe
we dig and
tear
our Mother
Till for our boundlefs Treafures
To what advant^e
?
this
Womb,
we want room
can't their
burthen hold
ev n a minutes
Here difappointed, to the
:
\
Pleas'd with
and
its
Gemmy
vilit its
ftore
Indians
my
know.
felf to load,
concealed abode:
Then t\iQfcarce Burret
Is the great
eafe.
T>ee^ I go,
Whole fecret Chambers dusky
Then
:
can ne er your troubled mind appeafe,
Nor buy your forrows
I dive,
s
Mine
Tho', o ercharg'd with Gold,
Your burfting Coffers
Yet
fertile
feek,
Ornament of
whofe bloods
rich dye"
•;
Majefly.
fcatter'd Pearls I gather
on the fhoar
Where rich Hjdafpes calls his fhining oar.
Alasl thefe Jewels brought
from
feveral CoaftiJ
All that each River, or the Ocean boaftsj
The
Saphjr, Jafier, and the ChryfoUte,
Can't quench
Then,
my thirjl,
fince the
Heavns
or flay
my
appetite.
Earth and Sea content deny,
lofty Fabrick I refolve to try.
With
:
with wonHer I the vaft Machine
With glorious
:
fin-vey,
Stars all ftndded, bright and
gay
Amazd thck ft Hi unaiterd cenrfe I view,
And how their d^ily mot'mis they renew.
But among
the Penfile-fires above,
all
None warm'd my bread, none rais'd my Soul to lovii
But
I
beheld at
diftdytce
from below
Then farewel Earthy up
Now
lefsning Cities leive
And now
Above
my
diftant fight.
the Earths whoie Globe
thfe
:
to their Orbs I go.
Sun and Planets
I
is
am
vanifli'd quite;
born,
And their inferior Influences fcorn.
Now the bright pavement of the Stars I tread.
Once the high covring of my humble head.
Now o'er the lofty flaming Wall I flie,
And Heavns bright
Now
curious
Towards
tlie
Cofirt lies
ncw.gueft with dazling IpJendor
Hymns well compos'd
in brisk
to Ajrs Divine they fing,
Notes triumphant Anthems
Ogloriom A^anfions
fir
move
Har^s^ and fcrue up ev'ry String
While Heavn refounds,
O Ourts
eye.
Crowds of the wing'd ^nre above'
New tune their
Then
open to rny
s
^lay^
as if 'twere Holy-daj.
fill'd
with Jhlning fire s
only for your Starry
N
4
!
^ires i
^^y.
:
('84)
My
ravifK*d Soul's in flrange amazement loft
Sure
Ahi
jfo
wanting on
delight is
—
Said
I,
Yes, you want
ne delight was wanting here
All-^,
alas
1
j
this Coafi.
?
you want mj Dear.
Farewel you Stars^ and you bright Forms adieu
My
bus'nels here
was with
my Love^
j
notjou.
There's nothing good below without mj Love,
Nor any
One
thing worth a faint
f^'i/h
above.
IVorld fubdu'd, the Conqiiror did deplore
That Niggard Fate had not allovv dhim more:
My vafter thoughts a thonf^nd
Worlds defpife,
Nor lole one wifh on fuch a worthlefsfriz^.
Not aUthe Vniverfe from Pole to Pole,
Heavn^ Earth, and Sea^ can
fill
my boundleis Soul.
What neither Earth's wide limits can contain,
Nor the large Empire of the fpreading Main 5
Nor Heavn, whofe vafler Globe does both inclofe
That's the fole ObjeH
Till
now,
alas
I
j
my Ambition knows.
my Soul
at Jhadows caught,
And always was deceivd'm what it fought
Thou, Lord, alone art Heavn, Earth, Sea, to
ThoH, Lord, art
All, all nothing
me
.
without Ihee.
i»Ug,
Aug.
Soliloq. cap. 20.
Whatever
is contaimd within the campafs of
Heanjeny is hentath the Soul of M&is^
which jvd^ma^de to enjoy the chieftfiCootl
above'y iji rvhofe po^ijjion dom /| cm be
happy .
^*
VIL Wo
ri86)
ihatlam conslraniedio
dnrell nritlh Vle/ech, aizdlo Jiaire
JVff iJTnd,
iTizy
habitaium anzona
the tciiis
^liP^-
(x87)
VII.
me^ that I am conjiraincd to dwell with
Mefech, and to have my habitation among
Vf^^o is
the tents
^/Kedar
!
cxx. 4.
.Pfal.
STill does the Sun with ufual motion fleer
The revolutions of the cirding Year ?
Or Gibcons wondrons Solftice // renew d^
when at
the mighty
Or
motion now grown Retrcgnde^
is his
As when
JofhuaV
he turnd the
bec)^ heflcod?
Hebrew Dlaisjhade ?
Why el(e fhou'd I, who now am paft the Age
Allowed to tr€ad
Why fhou'd
I
this
Worlds unhappy Stage -
be deny'd an Exit,
now
Tve phydmjp4rt, and have no more to do?
Is
thereon Earth a Blejfing to repair
Th'injurious force of my detainer there
How
To
wofi'd
eafe
me
I we/com any f^r ring
?
death.
of the burthen ofn^y breath ?
Byonefureftroke, kind Fate,
my
Sd:fI reprieve'-
Tor^tis continual dying hereto Uve.
Here
:
:
(i88)
Here our chief
Which
Blifs is
an uncertain joy.
fwifc vicillitudes
Juil as the Sun,
who
of
ill
deftroy
and gay.
rifing bright
In Clouds and Show'rs concludes the weeping day.
So boiHerous gulls ofc tender FlovvVs invade.
By
tempting Winds too foon abroad betrayed.
HerCy envious of each others fettlementj
All things contend each other
The fecond minute
Jnd
Night'/ Impatient
The Ci-zger Summer
Lejl
Its cold
[eljto
Frolls
firft
to fticcced
arvajy
the
Day
thinks the Spring too long^
A?id Autumn/r^/"/ that
But Autumn'/
to fu^fla?it.
drives the
Summer is not gone:
Winter mufl give waj,
oertake and funljh his delay.
Behold jon Sea^ hoivfmooth^ without a frown ?
See^ while
I fpeak^ how curfd^ how rough
Zook^j howferenesthe Sky-,
Novp^ hark^^
It
'tis
how calm the air
grown
?
?
thunders round the Hemlfphere
i
This great unconflancy of humane State
Corrupts each minute of our happy Fate.
Bur, oh
The
!
the vyorftof ills
is ftill
behind.
ravenous converle with our beaftly kind.
Sure Nature fir/l
In anger did Intend
A plague of Monfters oer the world
to
fend 5
Tloen
(i89)
*rhen htoHght forth her fmfl hrutljh Ojf-^rhg
A»d ttirnd each houfe into a favage
Men,
den.
In this rapacious jpecies tpc may find
All that's deftruclive in the preji;g kind
;
Lion, Wolf, Tygei-, Bear, ^«^ Crocodile,
Strong
devour^ arid cunning
to
to
beguile:
Thefe Beafts are led to frey by appetite.
And that once pleas'd,
/% //<?//,
Bnt Man,
And fi ill
This
is
raifes
^eeneft
fills
has An infatiate
when fo fuH to
che
thirft^
burfi.
Frauds makes Treachery
While banifh'd
This
no more la blood delight 5
fine
Juftice Hies difrob'd
World with loud
and gay,
away
:
allarms of War,
And turns t\\Q peaceful Plow-Jhare to a hoftile Spear.
\\1io
wou'd be
Tliat
llill
Long
And
engages him
fince, alas
ferv'd for
When
flave to fuch a tyrant Life,
I
!
I
in
did
freedom,
Noife and
Strife
?
my
Years compleat,
ftill
deny d by
compute to what
a price
Fate.
amount
My mifpent days, Lm bankrupt in th'account.
Oh what Ih-ange frenzy does thofe menpofiefs,
Who rafhly deem long life a happinefs ^
!
They
fure are Grangers to the Joys above.
Who more than Home a wretched Fxile love.
But Heavns remote, and
its
far-difiant bUfs
Appears minute to cur miftaken Eyes,
Ah!
:
(i9o)
Ah
!
vj^hy,
my
am
ftilj
Thw^t I
Country^
5iit
thou plac'd fb
a tedious wnffderer
far,
?
Happier the Exiles of old Heathen Rome,
Whom only
While
Tiber did divide from home
A vaft Ahyfs 'twixt Heav'n
and me
The Hebrew Jlaves were freed
Unhappier Vafal
The
!
to remoter bantfhment delign'd,
!
i'th'
I fliall ne'er
fwift fore-runner
be
I find.
Jubilee
3
free.
of the vvelcom Spring
Finds after Winter's cold a time to fing
who did
She
long in dark
Now flies abroad and
But
ftill
I live
recefles lie.
refalutes the Sky.
excluded from above^
Deny'd the Obje^lof my Blifsand Love.
Hafte, hade,
me
mj God, and
take
There
let
Or
my Bodfs freedom's not
if
So foon, at
live,
leaft,
where
I
me up
was made
toThee
to be
j
:
defignM,
I will be there in
mnd.
Aug,
090
Aug. Serm. 43,
There are two tormentors of the Soul, which
do not torture it together^ but by turns \
their names are FQd.v and Grief: tVhen
it is well with you^ you fear ; when ill,
you grieve.
VIIL
wretcki
( 19^ )
O TirreleheiL tnaJL thati{rmJwhu
JJudl dclurcT-mzefrcTirL thzJbo^
r
of ihu dealrLTR^rm y-24"
(193)
VIII.
wretched
man that lam
!
who [haH deliver
me from the body ofthU death 1 Rom.vij.24rf
T "T THere are the loft delights for which IgrUve^
VV
But which myforrorps never cair retrieve t
Such vaft
Whofe
And
delights
fad remembrance
Fate
is
is
kindeft when
To take away
On
but mention not the lofs^
thy greateft crofss
it
omfenfe offuffering too.
our firft Parents folly
Asif7"/7(fjy
On Eve
And
robs us fb.
we
only were, 2^ firft ^
exclaim,
tobhme:
^nd.AdAm we difcharge our rage.
thus exfofe our naked Parentage,
who thy Fkft Parents doft condemn^,
Thou ought'ft to blame thy felf as well as them.
Tho' thou
When Life at one rafh Caft was thrown away»
Thou didft, as well as thy Forefather, flay.
But
I (alafs
!
)
condemn not them
mind
alone.
my own.
Nor while I
With Eve I was confentingto the cheat.
Imposed on Adam^ and hdpt him to eat.
their faU^ forget
Q
Heme^
:
(
Hence
I
my
)
194)
nakednefs gj\d/hame deriv d.
And skins of Bealh to cover hoth receiv'd
Was from my forfeit Eden juftly driv'n.
The ctrrfe of Earth, and the contempt ofHeav'n.
Nor do I now th^general iofs bemoan
3
hiy griefs too
little
The
tragick flory
For
early grief did
'Twas
Jfiljs
to bewail
from
my
my
own.
my Birth Til take.
firll:
Month, the
filence break.
of the Year,
lovelieft
my Life December did appear
(
The Tveenty-fevenxh Oh had it been my
Tho'
all
:
3
I
had not mourn
That was the
d,
fatal
nor that made too
day that gave
Which prov'd almoft
And ////,-
!
me breath,
!
)
not a Benjamin.
fooner
But
a ftrange horror all around pofleft
was I
with one
for the Cradle drefl.
3
dire prophetickyoice prefage
Tli attending misries
of
why
me
didft
thou give
my
life,
growing
age.
movQ fatal day
Than that which took th'^^gyptian Males away
No
more be numbred
But
Or
>
in the Calendar,
in thy place let a large ^/cf appear
if
3
IVe been
Xo
Who
haftc.
my teeming Parent's death
as then, to her ( alas
A true Benoni,
lafl,
much
thou muft thy annual flation
I
keep.
Let each hour thunder, and each minute iveep
\
Let,
: : :
Let^ as on Cain, fom^ mark^hefix'don Thee,
That giving
Life, didfl
NovV, Friends^
I find
My yvoes each other,
worfethan mttrdtr me,
your
fdtal
Au^ry true
5
my hours purfue.
Hence the large fources of my tears arik:,
KvA no dry minute wipes my flowing eyes.
No fooner had I \di my chlldijh VUjSy
The harr,deji fafil?}:es of my happiefi Days
Now part: a C/r//i, yet ilill in Judgment fo,
like
t
I ihrdy'd
fii'ft
what
I
was not to know.
And my iirft grief was to lament my Fate,
And yet 'twas fetdom \ had time for that.
My
ftubborn Soul a long retiftance made,
Impatient thus by Nature to be fway'd
Ofr
ftrove to
Heavn
As oft fuppreft by
But what
Then
it
a-y'd,
Twice more
But
its
to
raile its lofty flight,
grofs
Bodys weight
ecu d not rcach^
Ah God
it
!
its
Qy^fftrfne
wou'd repeat the pleafing
neile.
ftruggling fighs reftrain'd ch'imprifon
Such uire
were
felt in
;
and fhed a briny dew.
d
voicd.
Bahe/s Monavchs breaft.
When of his Throne and Nature dffpojOfell
But conquered
And
thus
Patience yields at
I ^.eiit
my wo,
la ft
and beg
to Grief,
belief.
Blef^
:
!
!
(196)
of my
BIcft Author
And free
this
Life, hear
Captive from
my
comphine.
loathM
its
reftraint
Speak but the word, thy Servant fhall be
Thou mdd'fl me
Or if thou
thus,
free!
O thus unbody me
wilt not this relief afford,
Grant (bme kind Poifon , or fomc friendly Sword I
Dying rd hug the Author of my Death,
And
But
beg
Death
Were I
I
his
to fave
fardon with
man
my
lateft breath.
xh^ guilty fend
{^^^m^
Difeafe
!
in the moft affright ingJJgafe will pleafe.
to aft Perillus (corcbing Scene,
fiiou d rejoice to hear
my
felf complain.
Oh Heav'n my fatience is o ercome hy grief I
!
Is there above
no
(liccour,
The mercy Death is all
Lord
!
grant
When for
it
no
I thee
relief?
implore
foon, left I blalpheme thy pow V.
difpatch tormented wretches pray.
No crueltys fo barb rous ts delay.
Why am I to this noifom Carcafe ty*d,
Whole
ftench
is
death in
all its
ghaftly pride ?
Then fpeak^ the word, and Ifhall foon be free ;
Thm form'dft me
thm^
O thns
unbodyiwr
/
Amb-
(197)
Amb.
in Pfal. cxviij.
Harp does that Soul
live,
clofed in a coz^cring
that is in-
of E)eath
IX«
?
lam
.
( 19? )
Jam
Jejir'^c
in a{sb^aia?iirhc2?vccii in'c^
Utrh Jipclvedariiltc
havina
I'c ivtlh
a.
Cftrut.
;
:
(i99)
IX.
I am in
Jlraight between
a,
fire to be dijfolvedy
Philip,
HOw
i.
having a de*
tivo^
and to
be with Chrtjij
2^.
fhall I
my doubtful Love
do tofix
>
Shall I remain below^ or foar above ?
Here Earth detains me, and
There Heavn
Heavn
calls
me
invites
retards
my
flight
to fublime delight
aloud, and bids
me hafle away
;
While Earth allures, and gently whifpers, ftaj I
But hence thou
breali
I'll
thy
Inchantrefs
fly
and
fetters,
of
defpife
Hafte, harte, kind Fate, unlock
Were
See,
I released,
Utrdi
how
I aloft
my heart
thy
]
art.
my Prifon door
vvou'd
!
foai* ?
my ftrugghng arms towVdsT'/?^^ are (enc.
And ftrive to grafp thee in their wide extent.
Oh ! had Ifowr to mount above the Pole^
And touch the Center oj my longing Soul I
Tho' torn
rd
loofe
in funder
one
half,
by the
might
O
flight I be,
t'other reach
4
but Thee.
Bui
!
( 200 )
But thou above derid'ft
And
ftill
Vainly
And
I
my weak defigns,
what thy word
oppofeft
^^^'what thou doft
ftill
\
my hands to reach what's placd too high.
ftrctch
my (dffalfe Ho^es ofThee
Oft to
injoins.
deny^
I feign,
And think thou kindly com'ft to break my Chain.
Now, now, I cry, my Soul fhall foar above
But
this (alas
was
)
!
all
difTembled Love.
Sure this belief (omt pity might obtain
Thou
But
if
Fm ftill confin'd, my
And if
But
He comes,
fee!
and
rile,
Andfhatcha
flie
And
For
It
I'lJ
my Chain.
try
i
as he
andfeems to
kifs,
ghdes along.
Come
fay,
on.
a thoufand, from his face.
(alas! ) has
fled thefe
and
into his lov'd embrace,
Now, now he's near,
And I fhall gi'afp him
But he
Wings
I fail, in great attempts Idle,
He Reckons me,
rJl
5
fhou'dft at leaft for this have broke
his facred
Robe I
touch.
at the next approach
mock'd
:
my vain delign,
arms, thefe flighted arms of mine;
tho' the difcance ne'er fo little be.
feems
t\i"
Thus does
Extremes of the vafl Globe to mc.
my
Love my longing
And bids me /^//jor,
while too
tantallz^e^
^^^i
he flies.
Thus
:
(20l)
Thus fportlve Zoz/f delights in little cheats^
Which oft are puniihy \\\i\\fevrre deceits.
The World has an
To
paint deludea Lovers mifery
And
he
Finds
I
Original in me.
who has his eape Fair
all \i\sfalfhood
:
betray'd.
with Urge Lifrefi piid.
ne er lufpefted thou cou'dil
Eiithlefs be,
But f.td experience has infbucled me.
As
a chain'd Mafiiff, begging to be loore.
With
But
reftlefs
clamours
fills
if deny'd, his teeth the
And
the deafned hoiife
:
Chain engage.
vent on that their inoffenfive rage
So I complain, petition to be freed.
And humbly
proftrate beg the help I
But when you frown, and
Deaf as
the
my repeated cry
my hated Clog exclaim.
Rocks to
Then I againft
And on my Chain lay
all
Thus grief pretends, by
To
eafe the pain
But
mod.
my requeft deny,
I unjuftly
of
3
the guilty blame.
giving paiTion vent,
my Imprilbnment.
blame the Chain alone.
And
fpare the cruel hand that tfd.
Well
might the barbVous load of Chains I bear
Become
it
on.
a Rencgado flave to wears
Bftt
^202)
But
tvhy this harjh
ill
JVhofe tvhole endeavour
But when
Tis
ftill
my
ufagCy Love^ to
is to
me,
come to Thee
Soul attempts that lofty
fuppreft
by a
?
flight,
grofs bodies weight.
So {ixtji'omig Birds ^ by Nature wing d
in vain,
Whom Iportful Boys with fcanty Threads reftrain
When
eager to retrieve their
They rife a little height, and flutter there
But having to theif utmoll: limits flown,
The more they
Each, tho'
And
is
mount, they
ftrive to
it fleeps
in its young
with Banquets from
s
;ui,tive air.
:
(down.
fall
the fafter
Tyrants breaft,
his lips careft
j
Yet prizes more the fieedom of the JVood,
Than
all
Could
tears diiTolve
rd weep
But
the Dainties of
its
dear-bought food.
my Chains,
O with what eale
a Deluge for a quick releafe
tears arc vain, reach.
?
Lord ! thy hands to me,
And in return Pll ftretch my
Chains to thee.
Thou, only thou canft loofe
my bands
Can take them
olf,
j
for
none
but he that put them on.
Chryfoft,
(203)
Chryfofl.
hom.
55. ad pop. Antioch.
We
long[fjA!l we he faflned here ?
ftkk to
always live
the Earthy and as if )ve [h oh
God gave
there^ rre wallow in the mire,
Ho:v
U
us Bodies of Earthy that we Jbould carry
to Heaven; not that we {hould by
them
them
del/afe
our Souls to the Earth.
X.
Brir^i
(204)
\^rm^
my/S^citlicut efw^ucii^ lAatl may
;
;
(2C5)
Brifsig
mj Soul
out
of Prifony
that
I may
fraife thy namt^ cxlij. 9.
IWho did once thro' Heav*ns wide Regioiis rove.
Tree Deyil^n of thofe vaft Realms aboye
\
Now to a narrow Dungeon am confin'd,
A Cave that darkens and reftrains my mind.
When firft my Soul put en its flefhly load,
It
was imprifbn^d
in the dark abode
My feet were fetters, my hands manacles^
My Jtnews chains, and all confiner/ient elfe
My hones the bars of my loath'd Prifon-grate
My tongne the turnkey, and my rnoHth thc^^^.
;
Why from my native
ftation
am I fent
A Captive to this narrow tetjernent f
How oft WQu'd I attempt Si/hamefulflight.
In Fire or fFater bid the World ^oi>^ night ?
How oft have I their happy Fate admir'd.
Who by the Sword or Poifon have expired
?
But
,
:
:
:
( 206 )
Bfft to gam Heav;i^ nve muft Heav'ns lelfure fldj
Such rajh
attcmj^ters
As only Heav:i our
have
Tis Heavnsfole right
And
miftook^ the
itvay.
Beings did beflow^
to
countermand them
That
Tvhen to take rphat
We impoufiy encroach on Gods Prerogative
And on our Souls by this unlawful aEl^
In breaking Prisn
while th'imfious
Betrays us
to
vpc
too
fir si gave wefirive.
5
a new guilt contrdEi
courfie
we
tah^ to fet us free^
a greater flaverj.
Had I fome winding Lab'rinth for my ^ajl^
I then might hop£
But
while
fin*
freedom to prevail
imbodfd in
this
Flefh
/ //f
Heav'n muEt be the Deliverer^ not 1.
Let the miftaken wretch
Which
his Pris
n accufe,
no kind means
for his flight did
refuie.
Wou*d fome kind chink one heavenly Ray admit
To blefs my Eyes, how
But while
wou'd
I
honour
confin'd to this daik Cell I
it?
lie.
My captive Soul can't reach its native Sky.
Hercy even
PaJJions
my will's a
which have
When pioully it
*Tis
is
by repugnant
2r^/ir/ Ifrael
its
flave to
Pajpons made,
Liberty betray 'd.
incHn'd to good,
Pajfions
ftill
withftood.
in r/^'^Egyptian bondage far'd^
tVhilefrom the Service of their Goddebarrd-,
tVheff
:
(207)
PPijen to his
^or/kip they defir'd tog9^
The Tyrant Phar'oh
Oh my dear God
And
But
fee
!
abfvays
anfwefd^ No.
vifit this
humble Cell,
within what narrow Walls
if the Z^r;(;/,
and^^r/, and
I
dwell
Cr^t^rj afright.
Command them all to ofen at thy fight.
Command them, Lord, to fet thy Servants free
Nor will
this
Angels have
To ranfom
deed wifhout example be
left their
thofe
Thus Peter did
Thrones and Bllfs above.
whom
his
thou
art pleas'd to love:
op ning Prifon view.
Vet (carcebeliev'd the Mlr^xle was
But no fuch favour
want
I
Gome,
And
let
Calafs
!
true.
induJg d to me,
is
happy Liberty.
) fuf:h
my dear
my
;
Lord
unlock
!
my prifon Gate,
Heav n
Soul tou Yd
expatiate
?
In triumph tho' thy Slave conducted be,
ril blefs the Chains that bind
me clofe to
Thee.
To Thee my Hands are thro' the Grates addreilTi.
O that I cou d but
follow with the
The captive Bird ^hcut
And
the leaft
And with
way
its Bill
its
reft
!
.
Ct^e will Hy,
for its efcape efpy.
gnaws
thro' the twiggygra:e
A fecret paiTage to its f[r{{ fi-ee fiate,
Canftthou, my God
I
be deaf to alimycricS:
And more obdurate than
m.y Frifor,
^
is ?
Nor
(io8)
Nor for myfelf, but Thee do I
complaitr,
Thy. (acred praife, which Ivcoudjingy
IcOTC
here (alas!
)
I
cannot once
Nor touch my 7?r/^^/,
norraife
my
For Birds confind, to rage convert
QxfuRen grown, lock up their
in vain;
rejoice.
tuneful voice.
their Notes,
(ilent throats.
my God^ unlock my Prifon-gate^
my Soul towVds Heav'n expatiate
There my loud voice in joyful Notes lUraife,
Come
And
then,
let
!
And iing Eternal Anthems to thy praile.
But
if
thou wilt not thisrequeft allow.
At thy own Glory thou
mud
envioia ^rcrv.
Greg.
(io9)
Greg, in cap. 7. Job.
Man
is
imprifonedj becaufe by pro^ci-^
ency in wrttte he often Jhri^es to rife
on high^ but
is
k^pt
down by
the
corruption of his flejh.
P
XI. Hike
( 210)?»
I^iJ:c
as
th£lfa7^irJcs{iic7fkfhc rvatcr^-
;
(2II)
XI.
Like as the Hurt deftreth the water-hroohj
[o longeth my Soul after thee,
God
!
Plal* xlij. I.
woud'ft thou know my breads confuming
n^^>
And how I pine and languiih in defire ?
LOrd
!
The withering Vi'Iets no relemblance yield,
Nor can I take it from the Sun-burnt Field 5
Nor by that heat can I exprefs my pain,
That melts us
in the^r; Bog-fiar's reign.
The Lyhian Sands where the Sun's warm falute
^
With barren drouth
deftroys all hope
Ev n they^ compared
with me^ are moift and
Such raging flames have
feiz
d
my
of fruit,
cflo/5
keEiick^SoHL
But wou'dft thou have zn Emblem of my pains, \
Regard then how the wounded Hart complains.
While
in his fide
His Bk>od
Thus
Till
th'envenom'd Arrow
boils over,
and
his
Marrow
lies.
fries:
thro' the
Woods he takes a nimble flight,
fame cool
/?rf<«w3 falutes his diftant fight
P
2
Then
:
("2)
Then with redoubled fpeed he
pants and brays.
Till there his thlrfi 3indfeaver he allays.
Thus, thus
transfix d with
I feel the poifon raging in
an Infernal Dart^
my
heart.
Th'envenom'd blood with vi'lent fury burns,
And to a thoufwd difF'rent tortpres turns.
The Tyrant Lufl now thra my body reigns.
And now Int emfranee burfts my glutted veins.
Now Pride's rank poifon fwells my heaving bread,
And curs'd Ambition robs me of my reft.
Oh from what ftream fliall I a Medcine find
To eafe thele reftlefs torments of my mind
Thou, thou, my God alone canft eafe my grie^
!
?
I
From the fur e
My
As
iVaters of the Well of Life,
panting Soul laments and pines for them,
the chas*d
Hart for
the refrcfhing/r^4w.
Shunning the quick-nos*d Hounds afrighting cries
With timorous hade
And when
With
oft to the;;7o///he
he finds himfelf too clofe
flies
\
befet.
aftive fpeed o'er-leaps th*extended
Net
But hotly by hisnumVous Foes purfu'd.
He feeks the fqccour of fome fheltring Wood i
And pn his neck, left it retard his fpeed,
Cafts back the ufelefs
Armour of his head
2
Which^
:
:
:
("3)
JVhich^ fince he hoi not courage to emploj,
^JPfls his Fees
its orpptter to deftroy.
Sometimes he thinks the deep-mouth'd foe
From
ftrong impreifions
Again he
(land*;
of remaining
and hftens for their
Then, almoftfpent,
thro' the clofe
To the clear
:
Springs
And as he
fear
Thickets fli^s
pants for them^
There he renews his ftrengthj and lays
Lord !
T&Jhun
But
No
Tphofe
holds
my
Hounds I fly from place
clofely they
my weary fieps
means offttccour
•
his heat,
the cool retreat.
Nimrod
lielts great
near
cries,
So pines mjf Soul for the Caleflial ftrcam
And row'ls and wantons in
is
or efcape
Soulin chafe,
to
place
^
purfue^
I view,
Tird with my flighty and faint with conftant fweat^
I wijh
to reft^
But where^
O
I wifh to lay my
whtre can
'Tis no where,
IVith
this refrefhment he ?
'tis
no where but with
Thcc
Thee an ever-bubbling Fountain flows^
The reihedy of
Pleafing
Nor
Lord I
heat
alt thy Ser'Vants
its tafte,
woes
itsvertue fanative
;
health alone, but endlefs Life 'twillghc.
Then
tell not
me c/Tagus Golden
Whoje rswilng Sands
floods
raife a perpetual mud:
P
3
There
(214)
There 7^0/^W
1 drlnk^
irifatiatc till
Each greedy draught -xvond
No,
to the pieafing
the heavenly
My panting Soul laments and
chas'd
hurfr^
my thirfi.
ST^rmgs above Til go.
The Springs that in
As the
I
re-inflame
Canaan ^ott.
pines for them^
Hart for the VQ&Qfhingftream.
Cyril.
Cyril, in Joan. lib. 3. cap. 10.
// i^
'
an excdknt
rvattr thdt allays
theper^
niciousthirft of this Worlds and the heat
off^ice; that rvafhes off all the fiainsof
fw ; that waters and improves the Earth
which our Souls inhabit ; and reft ores
the mind of Man^ that thirfts with an
m
earneft desire after its
God.
^-»<j-- -g' !q
P4
XII.
When
,
(2l6)
-J
Ji^ncm shall/came (arid avpca?^ h^^^c^
(pm, presence^ af6^ad^^sal.4.z:z
r.z4f.
(217)
xir.
When [ball
I come and Appear before the pre
fence of God? Pfal.
w
Jlth promised Jojs
my
Ixij. 2.
ears
thou ofc
did'ft
fill,
But they
are only Joys of Promife ftilL
me
me come I
Did'ft thou not fay thou fbon wou'dft call
Be
-
my Love, and kindly
juft,
bid
hoinc?
" Exfe^ing Lovers count each hour a day,
''
And
A
tedious train
Since
death to them's
firft
lels
dreadful than deld).
of Months and Years
is
gone.
you bid me hofe, yet gave me
none.
Why with delays doft thou abufe my love.
fail my vain expectancies above ?
While taus th'infulting Crowd derides my woe,
And
Where's
Vow
Hajie
now your
Loz-e ?
how
well he keeps his
f
then,
and home
thy long\'ig Laruer ta're
^
Jf not for mine, jet for thy promife fake,
WfeeH
!
;
When
fhalllcome before thy Throne, and
I pine, for
As drooping Flowrs
O
cruel tortVer
Grant
O
me
Scepter kindly ftretch'd to
Thy glorious
For Thee
;
Thee I
that
!
am undone,
want their Parent Sun,
of my wounded Soul,
me thy frefence^
when, thou Joy of
When fhall I
fee
fee thee
and
all
I fhall be -whole
adnofeig eyes,
on thy Throne of
As when unwelcom Night begins
hlifs ?
its
fway.
And throws its fable mantle o er the day
The withering glories of the Garden fade.
And weeping Groves bewail their lonely fhade
To melancholly Silence Men retire.
And no fweet Note founds from the feather'd ^ire:
-,
j
the rifing Morn difplay
The purple Enfigns of approaching day
But the glad Gardens deck themfelves anew.
But hai*dly can
And the
To
daily
And
cheer'd Groves fhake off their heavy
Dew
Labour Man himfelf devotes.
Birds in Anthems fbrain their tuneful throats.
So without
T/^^e-,
I grieve, I pine, I
So triumph, fo revive at Thy
mourn
5
return.
But ThoHy unkind, bid'ft me delight
With other Beauties^ other Rarities,
my
Eyes
Some-
;
!
(219)
Sometimes thou
bid'ft
me mark the flowery Field
What various fcents and fhews
Then
;
Medovs yield
the
my (ight.
to the Stars thou doft direcl
For they from Thine derive their borrowed light.
Then faift, Contemplate
The
Man
I
in
Him
thou'lt fe»
great refemblance o£rhy Love and Afe.
Why woudft thou thus deceive me with ay^^if,
A trifling Image, that will quickly fade
?
My fancy ftoops not to a mortal aim
Thou, thou haft
kii^Jled,
O glorious Face,
Where
Loz'e
and
j
and muft quench
worthy
a
Pow'r Divine,
Awe with equal
Triumphant Majefty of that
my ftaTfte^
mixture ihine
bright
Ray
\Vhere bluihing Angels proftrate homage pay!
We in thy Works thy
fixM impreifions
trace.
Vet fHll but faint reflections of thy Face.
When this inchanted
Itsboafted Beauty
Thy
As
Wtt/^s compar'd with TheCy
% all
deformity:
Stars no fuch tranlcending glories
Thine, whofe light exceeds
own
all theirs in one.
This truth fbme one of them can beft declare.
Who on the Mount thy bleft fpectators were:
Who on Thy Glories were allow'd to gaze.
And law Heavn op ned in Tffy reondrons Face,
Thy
!
(
Thy filming \^ifagc
:
220 )
all the
God confejl ,
(drc(^.
Inbeauttom Lambent Flames vtrere thy bright Temfles
Nor can we blame
thy great A^o^le% Z^l,
To whom thou did'rt
That flighting all
that
happy
fight reveal
;•
before accounted dear,
He was for Buildi/ig Tabernacles
here.
Yet he beheld Thee then within a
The killing Rays thou
Veil^
kindly did'ft conceal:
He (aw a milder flame thy Face furroundj
Thy Temples with rebated Glories a'own'd:
As when
the filver Moon's reflected Beams,
In (bme clear Evening gild the fmihng Streams
Or cloud-born
Lightning in
Paints on a trembling
its
nimble Race
Wave Heav*ns blufliing Face.
How had he wondred at the nobler Lights
Whole bare Reflection was fb heav nly bright?
That\ inaccefTible to humane fight
Bur, oh
!
1
Then me, oh me to that blefl fiate receive,
Where I may fee thee all, and (eeing live
!
When will that happy day of \^ifion be,
When I fhall make a near approach to Thee^
r
^e
and loft in Myftery ?
J
Tis true, the Sacred Elements impart
)
Tvrapt in Clouds^
Thy
virtual frefence to nay faithfpd heart
But to my fenfl:
ftill
tmrcvtaU thpu
art.
j
1
r
^
Thisy
(221
Thisy tho' z great,
is
)
an imperfffl
bllfs,
T'embracc a Cloud for the bright God I wifh i
My SohU more exalted fitch wou'd
And
fly,
view 71?^^ in the heights of Mujefly.
Oh when fhall I behold Thee all ferene^
I
Without one ^ifi'/o//j CUnd^ or f'W/ between?
li^n
diflant Faith yZ?^// in near Vifion ceafe^
ji'/tdjlill
my LovQ /hall with
That happy day dear
nty Sight increafe ?
as thefe
Eyes Ihall be,
And more than all the deareft things,
Aug. in
but Thte.
Pfal. 42.
findeft any thing better than to behold the face
Wo be to that love of
of Gody hafle thee thither.
thine ^ if thou dojl hut imagine anything mere beau-
If thou
tiful than
thee
is
He, from whom
all
Beauty that delights
derived.
XIII. Othat
( 222 )
m^7il7i "-ciii^v ^7imy^ afid I'c. ati^esf^.
:
!
(22?)
XIII.
of a. Dove ! for then I
would fly arvajfj and he at re/?, Pfal. \\\ 6.
that 1 f;ad the win^s
TH
O' Great Creator
All that
I
Yet, might thy
1
am, and
I
I receive
all I hofe
humble Clay
from Thee
to be
j
expoftulate,
wou d complain of my defe^he fiate.
To
Manth'aft given the boundlefs Regency
Of three vaft Realms, the Ocean^ Earth, and Shy:
But, oh
V\'hen
j
how
ftill
ample PowV be try'd,
fhall this
the means to ufe
it
arc deny'd
?
Pardon my hafty cenfureof thy skilly
Who tliink thy mighty W'ork defedive ftill
Nor am I forward
By
wifhing
to correcl thy Art,
Man a Cafement
M^hofe dark Recedes
That projpecl
But
juftly
the defe<5l I
QtFins
all
is
the
in his Heart,
World might (ee 5
referv'd for Tijee
mourn
is
greatrr far-y
to cut the Waves, and Wings the Air.
InferUr
:
:
(l24)
no
Inferior Creatffres
want.
perfe(5lion
To hinder their enjoyment o^Thy grant
The fiaiy Race have nimble
Fins allow'd.
With which they range about
And all
feom up on tow'ring
Thus ev'ry
Is
filings,
Creature finds a
Adapted to
Sut Man^
its
Flood
expatiate there.
Ifiefi
proper Element
for the
fHU to One
their native
d Tenants of the Air,
the feather
content
.-
command of ^/ZdefignM,
injurioufly confined
While Nature often
is
j
extravagant,
And gives his Subje<5ls more
than what they want.
Some of the watry
kind, we know, am
fly.
And viht, when they pleafe, the lofty Sky
And,
in exchange,
5
fome of the aery brood
Defcend, and turn bold Pirates in the Flood:
While
ftill
to
Man
hisW«
Toexercife
Ev n buzzing Infecis
Heav'n does
all
means deny
Authority,
with light mngs are
In whofe fmall frame Heav'n has much
But Man,
blefl.
art expreflf
the great, the noble Mafier-piece,
fVants a perfection that abounds in thefe.
Nay
For
fbme, the meanefi of the feather d ki»d^
neither profit nor delight defign'd,
Stretch their
Dominions to a
Nor pleas'd with Two,
vaft extent,
range a third Element
3
Some-
;
:
:
(225)"
Sometimes on Earth they walk with flatelj
pace.
And fport and revel on the tender grafs 5
Then for the liquid fir earn exchange the /hoar^
And dally there as wanton as before
:
But
To
wearied, the>ice their moiflned wings they rear,
take their wild drverfion in the Air.
Sure thefe to rule the triple PVorld were fent.
And
dem^zo/i'd
of everj Element
But Mayi, excluded both the Sea and Air,
Can make fmall
Nor
ufe
of his Dominion there.
yet repine I that the Earth's aloiie
Maris Element^
(ince I defire
My whole anthiticn'% to
but One
exchange
my
j
place-
Tho' with the meaneft of the feathered Race.
Grant
rU
me but mngs
forfeit
them
that I
if e'er I
may nfwards
foar,
*
covet more.
I
Nor canft
thou, Lord
When thou
/
my
juft petition
regard'ft the end
Jhe
Earth. ( alas
I
above^
point
ruine flows
its
Nnmherlefs
and calamities
trotdhles
Jncreafethe Flood, too apt itfelfto
rvith long flight,
No friendly
hough
my love.
) no fettled ft at ion hnvwsy
So fafi the deluge of
Tird
my aim
of all
The Miferies below, and Joys
KeciX^om hence, and /^iV/^^r
blame,
t9
my
:
rife.
rveary SohI can meet
entertain her feet,
Q^
Htre
:
;
(226)
Here
All
O
lie
t\o
hlrfl fign
of T^ace or Plenty
whither then Jhall
Imufl
I
not hope fi great
Vainly to
Honour
Thefe cannot he
or to
their
Ji4y file defendance
There, there
j
is
fir fafety go ?
a good
fecurity
the Sacred Ark,
my Soul in fafity may embarque
thence, Lord^ call her
Thoufindfl
Andfl^retch
thy favouring
(he's
(?elow%
Wealth Ifly,
own
/?fr
But
U
oervphelmd in the profound Abyfs^
(aLul )
too
home
hand to take her
weak^ for fuch a
in
again.
I
flight.
Her flagging wings are
baffled by its height.
TVoudft thou vouchfafe
to
imp them, Jhe woftdfly.
And brave the tow ring Monarch of the Sky
Then /he woud hafte to her eternal Refl,
And build above the Clouds her lofty Neft-
i
5
There basking
Be
in thefplendor of thy
Beams,
allimployd on bright Angelick^ Themes
;
In which ty adulterate World fhall have no parr^
That fly Debaucher of my wandring heart:
But
in firaphick
And never,
Flames for Thee III burn.
never think of a return.
Amb.
(227)
Amb.
Horn.
Nothing c An
hut what
fly
is
7.
pure^
f^htik^ and, whofe purity
h
intemperance^ nor
its
is
l^gf^^y
^^^
not corrupted
cheerfulnejs or
(mftnefs retarded' by any might.
0^2
XIV. Ohowi
,
(228)
O hoTV
amiable fare
my Tale?^nacIeJ
T.z-i.^.
!
(229)
XIV.
how amUble are thy Tubtrnacks : thou
LordofHoJls ! Pfal. Ixxxiv. i.
GReat Leader of the Starry Hofls that (land
In fhining order on thy either hand
!
Such bright magnificence adorns Thy Throne,
That
hence
my
ravifod Soul wou'd fain be gone.
To oflfer there her low Devotion.
Mound
Hail glorious Palace, which a lofty
Of fhining
Ja^er
clofely does furround
Where the blew Safhyre and
At once
aftonijh
clear Chryfolitf
and affeB the Sight
Where fparkling Tofos-threjholds
Of all who come towards the
By
doors of dazling
.'
Adamant
.'
kift
the feet
Almighty
s Seat
let in,
Where Golden Roofs on Emerald Pillars
fhine
This lofty StruElure, this divine Abode,
Becomes the Prefence of
its
Foftnder-God.
\
Here pureft A^rs^ ^nn'd
Breathe
in
by Angels Wlngs^
all the Odors often thoufand Springs,
Here no benumming Frofis dare once be rude.
Nor piercing Snows within thefe Courts intrude.
The torrid Zone is far remote from hence^
This Climate
feels z gentler influence.
This true Elizium's pleafures
Whofe time
is
ne'er decay,
but one eternal day.
all
Bright Refident of the Cceleftial Spheres
How defpicable's Earthy
when Heavn
!
appears
?
The very name of Griefs a Stranger here^
And nothing can beget a though^ of Fear,
Here undifturb'd
And
entrance to
Hence every
Tranquillitj prefides,
2\\ jarring
Foes forbids.
Pajfion^ Frailty
and Difeafe^
may injure^ trouble, or dijpleafe^
All that may difcompofe th exalted mind,
All that
Are to eternal baniihment
confln'd.
Bright Refident of the Coeleftial Spheres
How defpicable's Earthy
Here feaflit^
And
Souls perpetual Revels k^ep^
never are concerned for food or fleep
With
indefatigable
Born on
!
when H^avn appears?
Ze^l
the wings of
\
thej WQV^^
Duty and of Love.
Dijfolvd
!:
Hymns,
DiS'olvd in
here
^iref
ef Angels
^y
lle^
And, with loud HalelujahV^// the Sky.
Here new-come Saints with wreaths of light are crown*d^
fVhile
IvWy Harfs and Silver Trumpets found.
Here ruddy Q]\zmhsfacred Hymns
hegin^
Andfmiling Seraphs loud Refponfes/;?^
IVhile echoing
Angels the
Ayrs
blefi
-^
retort^
Follow d by a loud Chorus of the Univerfal Court
IVhile^ to compleat the
The Royal Pfalmift
Mufick of the Qiiire
tunes his Sacred Lyre.
Such was the mighty
The Royal
:
CHARLES,
Joy^
when
their
they carefs'd
welcommartyr'dGuejh
Such Songs of Triumph fill' d Heavens fface around^
when
in his
Him,
for whofe fafety they
And blefi
Him,
room
his God-like
Son was crown d:
were
oft
impl$yd.
the grateful Orders they obeyd
:
for whofe fake they did loud Storms affwage^
Andftiltdthe more tumultuous Peoples rage
Knowing His Reign fuch
Blejfings
j
woud difpence^
To make theiy pains a glorious recompence
So
nrildy
fogood
fuch woes
his
Exit brings
IVhen they lookjn^ ^hey figh^ and flag their M^lngs,
O that my ravifh'd Soul coud mount
To
the Skies
hear the Mufick^of their Pfalmodies
CL4
TU
!
!
(2^2)
The pcaneft
Td chufi.
Seat in this bright Court
Before the beft Preferment Earth beftows
For one
fliort
days fublime
injoyrrtent
Exceeds an Age of the chief Pleafnre
Hal}:e then,
my Sopl
!
to thofe blefi
j
here
there.
Alanfions
With
thofe Might ObjeSis
With
their frveet Ayr s filthy Attentive ear,
fly.
fkafe thy tvondring eye
Tillthoti haft learnt to chant
i
glad Anthems thers
Till thou, inflru^ed in the he4v*n(y Art^
Mayfi in
their
Bleft Refident
Ho\v
Confort bear an humble part
defpicable s Earth,
What pure dehghts
J-Iqtv
I
of the Ca?leftiai Spheres
tliat
many Afanfims
My flaming Soul can
in
when Heav'n
appears
?
happy place allows?
my Father s Houfe
thence no longer ftay
f
j
l{ none goes there and livesj III die to find the way.
Bonavent.
(2??)
Bonavent. Soliloq. cap. 4.
my Soul I what
c^n I fay when I bthold
the Jo/ to come ? I am loft in admiral
tton^ hecaufe the Joy will be within and
without^ above and be/o^i\ about
and
be-
fide us.
XV. M^ke
r^H)
fhe J^refor- ?Ac
J?ic
m^intmns
i/cniricj
Jlai^l- lipon
cf.S^j^ices.
{hntS. z^
.
! :
:
(235)
XVMake
hdjfey
my
or the young
Cant.
Spices J
H
Too
Afte,
14.
vii).
mj bright Sun
the Mountains of
hafle
!
from
my
dazzel'd
fight,
tender to endure thy llreaming light
How does my
This bids
Tongue
Which grant
his
my
him^, whom
For why fhou'd
Yet
Beloved^ and he like the Roe
Hart upon
love- lick Soul hotxxy
?
that wou'd beg to ftaj.
I his abfence thus engage.
will
make one
Age?
tedious hour an
too beautious Beams forbid his ftay
5
Fly then, mjLove, or lay thofe Beams away
Hadft thou on
me
The killing found
this harfh Injun6lion laid.
at once had linick
But thy ownflame^ not
I
I
I,
ihou'd be Ages in pronouncing
wou'd not wifh what
Then
flay,
Stay,
flary
and
let
me dead
wou'd have
Go
now I do
it fo,
!
intreac
;
me not perfu^ae Thee yet
wj Life, and turn
Sure what I wou'd not
j^^^i^',
I
the deafned ear
ycu fhou d not
i
/;^4r.
Heuce
:
(
Hence
!!
!;
!
^l6 )
the wind, my feign
let
;
d
Petition bear
Twas/^4r, not /, that form'd the hafty PrayVi
Yet (oh
!
) this
Fly, fly, fny
Oh
!
But
Fly
I
burn
5
if you delay.
your hafte outftrip the hunted Hind
let
that's
till
melting heat forbids your ftay
Love^
too flow
> fly
like the
nimble
Wind
!
thou leave fi ev'n flagging thought ffehind
Yet in thy
flight a
longing look beftow,
Afpeaking glance^ tofiewthee loath
But that
once cafi, renew jour fpeed
to go.
away
•
^b-i fht n^y Love, there's death in your delay
!
JBehoId thofe lofty Sky-faluting Hills,
Where rich Perfume from weeping Trees diftills
Where Lawrels, Cedars, and foft Myrtles grow.
And all
the Spice Arabia can beftow
To their high tops
dire6l thy nimble flight.
my fight
Till thou, likethemy art vanifhM flrom
Fly to the heights where the gay Seraphs
And
Fly
the
till
young Cherubs
fing,
wing!
cxercife their
much below
are above it now
the Stars appear as
Thy Station,
as
they
I
Thofe places are inur'd to heat and fire.
And what / dread,
is
One Spark's fufficient
Oh
!
what
they mofi defire.
to inflame
do not then confume
me
my Soul
with the whole
?
Then
:
.
Then
And
let
thy hafte the hunted Hind
!
out^o
thou fhoud'ft not leave me fo
Fly where thou often may'ft with eafe look back,
yet, methinks,
Nor from my
But keep
fight too fir a
!
Journey take
fuch dillance as the gloiious Sun^
When with moft light he guilds the pale-fac'd Moon!
Ah this diicov'ry of my Soul forgive!
I
I
cannot Tvlth
thee^
If thou Alt near ^
And either
nor without
I (?urrj
;
thee, live.
remote, I freeze-,
difiance does alike dijpleafe.
Then
fb approach
That
I
may
feel
I
thee defire,
thy Tvarmth, but not thy
Fly then, mj Life
But go no more
me. Lord,
!
faft as
too far,
the hunted
than flay
t6o
fi^e.
Deer
near
j
!
And when th'art gone, on reedy Pipes Til play,
And fing thy Praiies in an amorous Lay
And when I've wearied out the tedious night.
5
With
I'll
a
new
my
felf delight,
carve at large on ev ry fpreading Tree
Our Loves
What time
Vet
task, I will
ftill
Original and Hijtcr)
remains Til dedicate to
my
ilcep.
lozPd Objeclkt^^^
waking thoughts
melt away
l
Haft« your ungrateflil Hight without delay
:
But
fee
how
while
I
fpeak
I
Tet go as tho ^oh this departure mourn,
Ar^
AH;)Qur kafte werf for a quick return.
Amb.
(238)
Amb. de bono
The Soul de fires
Mortis, cap.
that
her
5-.
Beloved
would he gone^ becaiife norv jhe
able to follorv him in his flight.
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