IDENTIFIL$$  F157LCB|SecAn|1612 (b)|sigs.E5-H5,pp.1-49 (C1-2,CSmH,CtY1-2,DFo,MH)
157.00b.HE1  %1The Second Anniuersarie%2. [E5]
157.00b.HE2  %9O#F%0 /T#H#E P#R#O#G#R#E#S /%1of the Soule%2.
157.00b.001  N%+Othing could make mee soo-/ner to confesse.
157.00b.001M %1The en-/trance%2:
157.00b.002  That this world had an euerla-/stingnesse,
157.00b.003  Then to consider, that a yeare is /runne,
157.00b.004  Since both this lower worlds, and /the Sunnes Sunne,
157.00b.005  The Lustre, and the vigor of /this All, [CW:Did]
157.00b.006  Did set; t'were Blasphemy, to say, /did fall. [E5v]
157.00b.007  But as a ship which hath strooke /saile, doth runne,
157.00b.008  By force of that force which be-/fore, it wonne,
157.00b.009  Or as sometimes in a beheaded /man,
157.00b.010  Through[Err:though] at those two Red seas, /which freely ran,
157.00b.011  One from the Trunke, another /from the Head,
157.00b.012  His soule be saild, to her eternall /bed,
157.00b.013  His eies will twinckle, and his /tongue will roll,
157.00b.014  As though he beckned, and cal'd /backe his Soul,
157.00b.015  He graspes his hands, and he puls /vp his feet,
157.00b.016  And seemes to reach, and to step /forth to meet. [CW:His]
157.00b.017  His soule, when all these motions /which we saw, [E6]
157.00b.018  Are but as Ice, which crackles at a /thaw:
157.00b.019  Or as a Lute, which in moist wea-/ther, rings
157.00b.020  Her knell alone, by cracking of her /strings.
157.00b.021  So strugles this dead world, now /shee is gone;
157.00b.022  For there is motion in corrup-/tion.
157.00b.023  As some Daies are, at the Creati-/on nam'd,
157.00b.024  Before the sunne, the which fram'd /Daies, was fram'd,
157.00b.025  So after this sunnes set, some show /appeares,
157.00b.026  And orderly vicisitude of /yeares.
157.00b.027  Yet a new Deluge, and of Lethe /flood, [CW:Hath]
157.00b.028  Hath drown'vs all, All haue forgot /all good, [E6v]
157.00b.029  Forgetting her, the maine Reserue /of all,
157.00b.030  Yet in this Deluge, grosse and ge-/nerall,
157.00b.031  Thou seest mee striue for life; my /life shalbe,
157.00b.032  To bee hereafter prais'd, for pray-/sing thee,
157.00b.033  Immortal Mayd, who though thou /wouldst refuse
157.00b.034  The name of Mother, be vnto my /Muse,
157.00b.035  A Father since her chast Ambition /is,
157.00b.036  Yearely to bring forth such a child /as this.
157.00b.037  These Hymes may worke on fu-/ture wits, and so
157.00b.038  May great Grand-children of thy /praises grow. [CW:And]
157.00b.039  And so, though not Reuiue, em-/balme, and spice [E7]
157.00b.040  The world, which else would pu-/trify with vice.
157.00b.041  for thus, Man may extend thy pro-/geny,
157.00b.042  Vntill man doe but vanish, and not /die.
157.00b.043  These Hymns thy issue, may en-/crease so long,
157.00b.044  As till Gods great Venite change /the song.
157.00b.045  Thirst for that time, O my insatiate /soule,
157.00b.045M %1A iust dis-/estimation /of this /world%2.
157.00b.046  And serue thy thirst, with Gods /safe-fealing Bowle.
157.00b.047  Bee thirsty still, and drinke still till,[Err:till^] /thou goe;
157.00b.048  T'o[Err:t'is] th'onely Health, to be Hy-/droptique[Err:hydropique] so.
157.00b.049  Forget this rotten world; And vnto /thee, [CW:Let]
157.00b.050  Let thine owne times as an old sto-/ry be [E7v]
157.00b.051  Be not concern'd: study not why, /nor whan;
157.00b.052  Do not so much, as not beleeue a /man.
157.00b.053  For though to erre, be worst, to /try truths forth,
157.00b.054  Is far more busines, then this world /is worth.
157.00b.055  The World is but a Carkas; thou /art fed
157.00b.056  By it, but as a worme, that carcas /bred;
157.00b.057  And why shouldst thou, poore /worme, consider more,
157.00b.058  When this world will grow better /then before,
157.00b.059  Then those thy fellow-wormes doe /thinke vpone
157.00b.060  That carkasses last resurrecti-/one. [CW:Forget]
157.00b.061  Forget this world, and scarse thinke /of it so, [E8]
157.00b.062  As of old cloaths, cast of a yeare /agoe.
157.00b.063  To be thus stupid is Ala-/crity;
157.00b.064  Men thus lethargique haue best /Memory.
157.00b.065  Looke vpward; that's towards her, /whose happy state
157.00b.066  We now lament not, but congra-/tulate.
157.00b.067  Shee, to whom all this world twas[Err:was] /but a stage,
157.00b.068  Where all sat harkning how her /youthfull age
157.00b.069  Should be emploid, because in all, /shee did,
157.00b.070  Some Figure of the Golden times, /was hid.
157.00b.071  Who could not lacke, what ere /this world could giue, [CW:Because]
157.00b.072  Because shee was the forme, that /made it liue; [E8v]
157.00b.073  Nor could complaine, that this /world was vnfit,
157.00b.074  To be staid in, then when shee was /in it;
157.00b.075  Shee that first tried indifferent de-/sires
157.00b.076  By vertue, and vertue by religious /fires,
157.00b.077  Shee to whose person Paradise ad-/hear'd,
157.00b.078  As Courts to Princes; shee whose /eies enspheard
157.00b.079  Star-light inough, t'haue made the /South controll,
157.00b.080  (Had shee beene there) the Star-/full Northern Pole,
157.00b.081  Shee, shee is gone; shee is gone; /when thou knowest this,
157.00b.082  What fragmentary rubbidge this /world is. [CW:Thou]
157.00b.083  Thou knowest, and that it is not /worth a thought; [F1]
157.00b.084  He honors it too much that thinks /it nought.
157.00b.085  Thinke then, My soule, that death /is but a Groome,
157.00b.085M %1Contempla-/tion of our /state in our /death-bed%2.
157.00b.086  Which brings a Taper to the out-/ward romme,
157.00b.087  Whence thou spiest first a little /glimmering light,
157.00b.088  And after brings it nearer to thy /sight:
157.00b.089  For such approches doth Heauen /make in death.
157.00b.090  Thinke thy selfe laboring now with /broken breath,
157.00b.091  And thinke those broken and soft /Notes to bee
157.00b.092  Diuision, and thy happiest Har-/monee.
157.00b.093  Thinke thee laid on thy death bed, /loose and slacke; [CW:And]
157.00b.094  And thinke that but vnbinding of /a packe, [F1v]
157.00b.095  To take one precious thing, thy /soule, from thence.
157.00b.096  Thinke thy selfe parch'd with fe-/uers violence,
157.00b.097  Anger thine Ague more, by cal-/ling it
157.00b.098  Thy Physicke; chide the slacknesse /of the fit.
157.00b.099  Thinke that thou hearst thy knell, /and thinke no more,
157.00b.100  But that, as Bels cal'd thee to /Church before,
157.00b.101  So this, to the Triumphant /Church, cals thee.
157.00b.102  Thinke Satans Sergeants round /about thee bee,
157.00b.103  And thinke that but for Legacies /they thrust;
157.00b.104  Giue one thy Pride, to'another /giue thy Lust: [CW:Giue]
157.00b.105  Giue them those sinnes which they /gaue thee before, [F2]
157.00b.106  And trust th'immaculate blood to /wash thy score.
157.00b.107  Thinke thy frinds weeping round, /and thinke that thay
157.00b.108  Weepe but because they goe not /yet thy way.
157.00b.109  Thinke that they close thine eyes, /and thinke in this,
157.00b.110  That they confesse much in the /world, amisse,
157.00b.111  Who dare not trust a dead mans /eye with that,
157.00b.112  Which they from God, and An-/gels couer not.
157.00b.113  Thinke that they shroud thee vp, /and thinke from thence
157.00b.114  They reinuest thee in white inno-/cence.
157.00b.115  Thinke that thy body rots, and /(if so lowe, [CW:Thy]
157.00b.116  Thy soule exalted so, thy thoughts /can goe.) [F2v]
157.00b.117  Thinke the a Prince, who of them-/selues create
157.00b.118  Wormes which insensibly deuoure /their state.
157.00b.119  Thinke that they bury thee, and /thinke that right[Err:rite]
157.00b.120  Laies thee to sleepe but a saint Lu-/cies night.
157.00b.121  Thinke these things cheerefully: /and if thou bee
157.00b.122  Drowsie or slacke, remember then /that shee,
157.00b.123  Shee whose Complexion was so /euen made,
157.00b.124  That which of her Ingredients /should inuade
157.00b.125  The other three, no Feare, no Art /could guesse:
157.00b.126  So far were all remou'd from more /or lesse. [CW:But]
157.00b.127  But as in Mithridate, or iust per-/fumes, [F3]
157.00b.128  Where all good things being met, /no one presumes
157.00b.129  To gouerne, or to triumph no the /rest,
157.00b.130  Onely because all were, no part /was best.
157.00b.131  And as, though all doe know, that /quantities
157.00b.132  Are made of lines, and lines from /Points arise,
157.00b.133  None can these lines or quantities /vnioynt,
157.00b.134  And say this is a line, or this a /point,
157.00b.135  So though the Elements and Hu-/mors were
157.00b.136  In her, one could not say, this go-/uernes there.
157.00b.137  Whose euen constitution might /haue worne[Err:wonne] [CW:Any]
157.00b.138  Any disease to venter on the /Sunne, [F3v]
157.00b.139  Rather then her: and make a spirit /feare
157.00b.140  That he to disuniting subiect /were.
157.00b.141  To whose proportious if we would /compare
157.00b.142  Cubes, th'are vnstable; Circles, /Angulare;
157.00b.143  Shee who was such a Chaine, as /Fate emploies
157.00b.144  To bring mankind, all Fortunes it /enioies,
157.00b.145  So fast, so euen wrought, as one /would thinke,
157.00b.146  No Accident, could threaten any /linke,
157.00b.147  Shee, shee embrac'd a sicknesse, /gaue it meat,
157.00b.148  The purest Blood, and Breath, that /ere it eat. [CW:And]
157.00b.149  And hath taught vs that though a /good man hath [F4]
157.00b.150  Title to Heauen, and plead it by /his Faith,
157.00b.151  And though he may pretend a /conquest, since
157.00b.152  Heauen was content to suffer vio-/lence,
157.00b.153  Yea though he plead along posses-/sion too,
157.00b.154  (For they'are in Heauen on Earth, /who Heauens workes do,)
157.00b.155  Though he had right, and power, /and Place before,
157.00b.156  Yet Death must vsher, and vnlocke /the doore.
157.00b.157  Thinke further on thy selfe, my /soule, and thinke;
157.00b.157M %1Incommodi-/ties of the /Soule in the /Body%2.
157.00b.158  How thou at first wast made but /in a sinke;
157.00b.159  Thinke that it argued some infer-/mitee, [CW:That]
157.00b.160  That those two soules, which then /thou foundst in mee, [F4v]
157.00b.161  Thou fedst vpon, And drewst into /thee, both
157.00b.162  My second soule of sence, and first /of growth.
157.00b.163  Thinke but how poore thou wast, /how obnoxious,(C2,CSmH,CtY1-2,MH)%~;(C)
157.00b.164  Whom a small lump of flesh could /poison thus.
157.00b.165  This curded milke, this poore vnlit-/tered whelpe
157.00b.166  My body, could, beyond escape, /or helpe,
157.00b.167  Infect thee with originall sinne, /and thou
157.00b.168  Couldst neither then refuse, nor /leaue it now.
157.00b.169  Thinke that no stubborne sullen /Anchorit,
157.00b.170  Which fixt to'a Pillar, or a Graue /doth sit [CW:Bedded][miscatch]
157.00b.171  Beddded and Bath'd in all his Or-/dures, dwels [F5]
157.00b.172  So fowly as our soules, in their first-/built Cels.
157.00b.173  Thinke in how poore a prison thou /didst lie
157.00b.174  After, enabled but to sucke, and /crie.
157.00b.175  Thinke, when t'was growne to /most, t'was a poore Inne,
157.00b.176  A Prouince Pack'd vp in two yards /of skinne.
157.00b.177  And that vsurped, or threatned /with the rage
157.00b.178  Of sicknesses, or their true mother, /Age.
157.00b.179  But thinke that Death hath now /enfranchis'd thee,
157.00b.179M %1Her liberty /by death%2.
157.00b.180  Thou hast thy'expan%Ision[Err:expansion] now and /libertee;
157.00b.181  Thinke that a rusty Peece, dis-/charg'd, is flowen [CW:In]
157.00b.182  In peeces, and the bullet is his /owne, [F5v]
157.00b.183  And freely flies: This to thy soule /allow,
157.00b.184  Thinke thy sheel broke, thinke thy /Soule hatch'd but now.
157.00b.185  And thinke this slow-pac'd soule, /which late did cleaue,
157.00b.186  To'a body, and went but by the bo-/dies leaue,
157.00b.187  Twenty, perchance, or thirty mile /a day,
157.00b.188  Dispatches in a minute all the /way,
157.00b.189  Twixt Heauen, and Earth: shee /staies not in the Ayre,
157.00b.190  To looke what Meteors there /themselues prepare;
157.00b.191  Shee carries no desire to know, nor /sense,
157.00b.192  Whether th'Ayrs middle Region /be intense, [CW:For]
157.00b.193  For th'Element of fire, shee doth /not know, [F6]
157.00b.194  Whether shee past by such a place /or no;
157.00b.195  Shee baits not at the Moone, nor /cares to trie,
157.00b.196  Whether in that new world, men /liue, and die.
157.00b.197  Venus recards[Err:retards] her not, to'enquire, /how shee
157.00b.198  Can, (being one Star) Hesper, and /Vesper bee,
157.00b.199  Hee that charm'd Argus eies, /sweet Mercury,
157.00b.200  Workes not on her, who now is /growen all Ey;
157.00b.201  Who, if shee meete the body of /the Sunne,
157.00b.202  Goes through, not staying till his /course be runne;
157.00b.203  Who finds in Mars his Campe, no /corps of Guard; [CW:Nor]
157.00b.204  Nor is by Ioue, nor by his father /bard; [F6v]
157.00b.205  But ere shee can consider how shee /went,
157.00b.206  At once is at, and through the Fir-/mament.
157.00b.207  And as these stars were but so ma-/ny beades
157.00b.208  Strunge on one string, speed vndi-/stinguish'd leades
157.00b.209  Her through those spheares, as /through the beades, a string,
157.00b.210  Whose quicke succession makes it /still one thing:
157.00b.211  As doth the Pith, which, least our /Bodies slacke,
157.00b.212  Strings fast the little bones of /necke, and backe;
157.00b.213  So by the soule doth death string /Heauen and Earth,
157.00b.214  For when our soule enioyes this her /third birth, [CW:Creation][miscatch]
157.00b.215  (Creation gaue her one, a second, /grace,) [F7]
157.00b.216  Heauen is as neare, and present to /her face,
157.00b.217  As colours are, and obiects, in a /roome
157.00b.218  Where darknesse was before, /when Tapers come.
157.00b.219  This must, my soule, thy long-short /Progresse bee;
157.00b.220  To'aduance these thoughts, re-/member then, that shee
157.00b.221  Shee, whose faire body no such /prison was,
157.00b.222  But that a soule might well be /pleas'd to passe
157.00b.223  An Age in her; shee whose rich /beauty lent
157.00b.224  Mintage to others beauties, for /they went
157.00b.225  But for so much, as they were like /to her; [CW:Shee,]
157.00b.226  Shee, in whose body (if wee dare /prefer [F7v]
157.00b.227  This low world, to so high a mark, /as shee,)
157.00b.228  The Westerne treasure, Esterne /spiceree,
157.00b.229  Europe, and Afrique, and the vn-/knowen rest
157.00b.230  Were easily found, or what in them /was best;
157.00b.231  And when w'haue made this large /Discoueree,
157.00b.232  Of all in her some one part then[Err:there] /will bee
157.00b.233  Twenty such parts, whose plenty /and riches is
157.00b.234  Inough to make twenty such /worlds as this;
157.00b.235  Shee, whom had they knowne, /who did first betroth
157.00b.236  The Tutelar Angels, and assigned /one, both [CW:To]
157.00b.237  To Nations, Cities, and to Com-/panies, [F8]
157.00b.238  To Functions, Offices, and Dig-/nities,
157.00b.239  And to each seuerall man, to him, /and him,
157.00b.240  They would haue giuen her one /for euery limme;
157.00b.241  Shee, of whose soule, if we may /say, t'was Gold,
157.00b.242  Her body was th'Electrum, and /did hold
157.00b.243  Many degrees of that; (we vnder-/stood
157.00b.244  Her by her sight, her pure and elo-/quent blood
157.00b.245  Spoke in her cheekes, and so di-/stinckly wrought,
157.00b.246  That one might almost say, her bo-/die thought,
157.00b.247  Shee, shee, thus richly, and large-/ly hous'd, is gone: [CW:And]   
157.00b.248  And chides vs slow-pac'd snailes, /who crawle vpon [F8v]
157.00b.249  Our prisons prison, earth, nor thinke /vs well
157.00b.250  Longer, then whil'st we beare our /brittle shell.
157.00b.251  But t'were but little to haue /chang'd our roome,
157.00b.251M %1Her igno-/rance in this /life and /knowledge /in the next%2.
157.00b.252  If, as we were in this our liuing /Tombe
157.00b.253  Oppress'd with ignorance, we still /were so,
157.00b.254  Poore soule in this thy flesh what /do'st thou know.
157.00b.255  Thou know'st thy selfe so little, as /thou know'st not,
157.00b.256  How thou did'st die, nor how thou /wast begot.
157.00b.257  Thou neither knowst, how thou at /first camest in,
157.00b.258  Nor how thou took'st the poyson /of mans sin. [CW:Nor]
157.00b.259  Nor dost thou, (though thou /knowst, that thou art so) [G1]
157.00b.260  By what way thou art made im-/mortall, know.
157.00b.261  Thou art to narrow, wretch, /to comprehend
157.00b.262  Euen thy selfe: yea though thou /wouldst but bend
157.00b.263  To know thy body.  Haue not all /soules thought
157.00b.264  For many ages, that our body'is /wrought
157.00b.265  Of Ayre, and Fire, and other Ele-/ments?
157.00b.266  And now they thinke of new ingre-/dients.
157.00b.267  And one soule thinkes one, and a-/nother way
157.00b.268  Another thinkes, and ty's an euen /lay
157.00b.269  Knowst thou but how the stone /doth enter in [CW:The]
157.00b.270  The bladders Caue, and neuer /breake the skin? [G1v]
157.00b.271  Knowst thou how blood, which to /the hart doth flow;(CtY1)%~,(C1-2,CSmH,CtY2,DFo,MH)
157.00b.272  Doth from one ventricle to /th'other go?
157.00b.273  And for the putrid stuffe, which /thou dost spit,
157.00b.274  Knowst thou how thy lungs haue /attracted it?
157.00b.275  There are no passages so that /there is
157.00b.276  (For ought thou knowst) piercing /of substances.
157.00b.277  And of those many opinions which /men raise
157.00b.278  Of Nailes and Haires, dost thou /know which to praise?
157.00b.279  What hope haue we to know our /selues, when wee
157.00b.280  Know not the least things, which /for our vse bee? [CW:We]
157.00b.281  We see in Authors, too stiffe to re-/cant. [G2]
157.00b.282  A hundred controuersies of an /Ant.
157.00b.283  And yet one watches, starues, free-/ses, and sweats,
157.00b.284  To know but Catechismes and /Alphabets
157.00b.285  Of vnconcerning things, matters /of fact;
157.00b.286  How others on our stage their /parts did Act;
157.00b.287  What Cae%Lsar did, yea, and what /Cicero said.
157.00b.288  Why grasse is greene, or why our /blood is red,
157.00b.289  Are mysteries which none haue /reach'd vnto.
157.00b.290  In this low forme, poore soule what /wilt thou doe?
157.00b.291  When wilt thou shake of this Pe-/dantery, [CW:Of]
157.00b.292  Of being thought[Err:taught] by sense, and /Fantasy? [G2v]
157.00b.293  Thou look'st through spectacles; /small things seeme great,
157.00b.294  Below; But vp vnto the watch-/towre get,
157.00b.295  And see all things despoyld of falla-/cies:
157.00b.296  Thou shalt not peepe through lat-/tices of eies,
157.00b.297  Nor heare through Laberinths of /eares, nor learne
157.00b.298  By circuit, or collections to dis-/cerne.
157.00b.299  In Heauen thou straight know'st /all, concerning it,
157.00b.300  And what concerns it not, shall /straight forget.
157.00b.301  There thou (but in no other /schoole) maist bee
157.00b.302  Perchance, as learned, and as full, /as shee, [CW:Shee]
157.00b.303  Shee who all Libraries had /throughly red [G3]
157.00b.304  At home, in her owne thoughts, /And practised
157.00b.305  So much good as would make as /many more:
157.00b.306  Shee whose example they must all /implore,
157.00b.307  Who would or doe, or thinke well, /and confesse
157.00b.308  That aie the vertuous Actions they /expresse,
157.00b.309  Are but a new, and worse edi-/tion,
157.00b.310  Of her some one thought, or one /action:
157.00b.311  Shee, who in th'Art of knowing /Heauen, was growen
157.00b.312  Here vpon Earth, to such perfe-/ction,
157.00b.313  That shee hath, euer since to /Heauen shee came, [CW:(In]
157.00b.314  (In a far fairer point[Err:print],) but read the /same: [G3v]
157.00b.315  Shee, shee, not satisfied with all /this waite,
157.00b.316  (For so much knowledge, as would /ouer-fraite
157.00b.317  Another, did but Ballast her) is /gone,
157.00b.318  As well t'enioy, as get perfecti-/one.
157.00b.319  And cals vs after her, in that shee /tooke,
157.00b.320  (Taking herselfe) our best, and /worthiest booke.
157.00b.321  Returne not, my soule, from this /extasee,
157.00b.321M %1Of our com-/pany in this /life and in /the next%2.
157.00b.322  And meditation of what thou shalt /bee,
157.00b.323  To earthly thoughts, till it to thee /appeare,
157.00b.324  With whom thy conuersation /must be there. [CW:With]
157.00b.325  With whom wilt thou Conuerse? /what station [G4]
157.00b.326  Canst thou choose out, free from /infection,
157.00b.327  That wil nor giue thee theirs, nor /drinke in thine?
157.00b.328  Shalt thou not finde a spungy slack /Diuine
157.00b.329  Drinke and sucke in th'Instructions /of Great men,
157.00b.330  And for the word of God, vent /them agen?
157.00b.331  Are there not some Courts, (And /then, no things bee
157.00b.332  So like as Courts) which, in this /let vs see,
157.00b.333  That wits and tongues of Libellars /are weake,
157.00b.334  Because they doe more ill, then /these can speake?
157.00b.335  The poyson'is gone through all, /poysons affect [CW:Chiefly]
157.00b.336  Chiefly the cheefest parts, but /some effect [G4v]
157.00b.337  In Nailes, and Haires, yea excre-/ments, will show;
157.00b.338  So wise[Err:will] the poyson of sinne, in the /most low.
157.00b.339  Vp vp, my drowsie soule, where /thy new eare
157.00b.340  Shall in the Angels songs no dis-/cord heare;
157.00b.341  Where thou shalt see the blessed /Mother-maid
157.00b.342  Ioy in not being that, which men /haue said.
157.00b.343  Where shee'is exalted more for /being good,
157.00b.344  Then for her interest, of mother-/hood.
157.00b.345  Vp to those Patriarckes, which did /longer sit
157.00b.346  Expecting Christ, then they'haue /enioy'd him yet. [CW:Vp]
157.00b.347  Vp to those Prophets, which now /gladly see [G5]
157.00b.348  Their Prophecies growen to be /Historee.
157.00b.349  Vp to th'Apostles, who did braue-/ly runne,
157.00b.350  All the Sunnes course, with more /light then the Sunne.
157.00b.351  Vp to those Martyrs, who did /calmely bleed
157.00b.352  Oyle to th'Apostles lamps, dew to /their seed.
157.00b.353  Vp to those Virgins, who thoughts[Err:thought] /that almost
157.00b.354  They made ioyntenants with the /Holy Ghost,
157.00b.355  If they to any should his Temple /giue.
157.00b.356  Vp, vp, for in that squadron there /doth liue
157.00b.357  Shee, who hath carried thether, /new degrees [CW:(As]
157.00b.358  (As to their number) to their dig-/nitees. [G5v]
157.00b.359  Shee, who beeing to herselfe, a /state enioyd
157.00b.360  All royalties which any state em-/ploid,
157.00b.361  For shee made wars, and tri-/umph'd, reson still
157.00b.362  Did not ouerthrow, but rectifie her /will:
157.00b.363  And shee made peace, for no /peace is like this,
157.00b.364  That beauty and chastity together /kisse:
157.00b.365  Shee did high iustice; for shee cru-/cified
157.00b.366  Euery first motion of rebellious /pride:
157.00b.367  And shee gaue pardons, and was /liberall,
157.00b.368  For, onely her selfe except, shee /pardond all: [CW:Shee]
157.00b.369  Shee coynd, in this, that her im-/pressions gaue [G6]
157.00b.370  To all our actions all the worth /they haue:
157.00b.371  Shee gaue protections; the /thoughts of her brest
157.00b.372  Satans rude Officers could nere ar-/rest.
157.00b.373  As these prerogatiues being met in /one,
157.00b.374  Made her a soueraigne state, reli-/gion
157.00b.375  Made her a Church; and these two /made her all.
157.00b.376  Shee who was all this All, and /could not fall
157.00b.377  To worse, by company; (for shee /was still
157.00b.378  More Antidote, then all the world /was ill,
157.00b.379  Shee, shee doth leaue it, and by /Death, suruiue [CW:All]
157.00b.380  All this, in Heauen; whether[Err:whither] who /doth not striue [G6v]
157.00b.381  The more, because shee'is there, /he doth not know
157.00b.382  That accidentall ioyes in Heauen /doe grow.
157.00b.383  But pause, My soule, and study ere /thou fall
157.00b.384  On accidentall ioyes, th'essenti-/all.
157.00b.384M %1Of essentiall /ioy in this /life and in /the next%2. [Keyed#to#line#383]
157.00b.385  Still before Accessories doe /abide
157.00b.386  A triall, must the principall be /tride.
157.00b.387  And what essentiall ioy canst thou /expect
157.00b.388  Here vpon earth? what permanent /effect
157.00b.389  Of transitory causes? Dost thou /loue
157.00b.390  Beauty? (And Beauty worthyest is /to moue) [CW:Poore]
157.00b.391  Poore couse'ned cose'nor, that she, /and that thou, [G7]
157.00b.392  Which did begin to loue, are nei-/ther now.
157.00b.393  You are both fluid, chang'd since /yesterday;
157.00b.394  Next day repaires, (but ill) last /daies decay.
157.00b.395  Nor are, (Although the riuer keep /the name)
157.00b.396  Yesterdaies waters, and to daies /the same.
157.00b.397  So flowes her face, and thine eies, /neither now
157.00b.398  That saint, nor Pilgrime, which /your louing row[Err:vow]
157.00b.399  Concernd, remaines|;| but whil'st /you thinke you bee [See#note#3analysis#of#b]
157.00b.400  Constant, you'are howrely in in-/constancee.
157.00b.401  Honour may haue pretence vnto /our loue, [CW:Because]
157.00b.402  Because that God did liue so long /aboue [G7v]
157.00b.403  Without this Honour, and then /lou'd it so,
157.00b.404  That he at last made Creatures to /to bestow
157.00b.405  Honor on him; not that he needed /it,
157.00b.406  But that, to his hands, man might /grow more fit.
157.00b.407  But since all honors from inferiors /flow,
157.00b.408  (For they doe giue it; Princes doe /but show
157.00b.409  Whom they would haue so ho-/nord) and that this
157.00b.410  On such opinions, and capaci-/ties
157.00b.411  Is built, as rise, and fall, to more /and lesse,
157.00b.412  Alas, tis but a casuall happi-/nesse. [CW:Hath]
157.00b.413  Hath euer any man to'himselfe as-/signed [G8]
157.00b.414  This or that happinesse, to'arrest /his minde,
157.00b.415  But that another man, which takes /a worse,
157.00b.416  Thinke him a foole for hauing /tane that course?
157.00b.417  They who did labour Babels tower /to'rect[Err:t'erect],
157.00b.418  Might haue considerd, that for /that effect,
157.00b.419  All this whole solid Earth could /not allow
157.00b.420  Nor furnish forth Materials /enow;
157.00b.421  And that this Center, to raise such /a place
157.00b.422  Was far to little, to haue beene /the Base;
157.00b.423  No more affoords this worlds, /foundatione [CW:To]
157.00b.424  To erect true ioye, were all the /meanes in one. [G8v]
157.00b.425  But as the Heathen made them /seuerall gods,
157.00b.426  Of all Gods Benefits, and all his /Rods,
157.00b.427  (For as the Wine, and Corne, and /Onions are
157.00b.428  Gods vnto them, so Agues bee, /and war)
157.00b.429  And as by changing that whole /precious Gold
157.00b.430  To such small copper coynes, they /lost the old,
157.00b.431  And lost their onely God, who /euer must
157.00b.432  Be sought alone, and not in such a /thrust,
157.00b.433  So much mankind true happinesse /mistakes;
157.00b.434  No Ioye enioyes that man, that /many makes. [CW:Then,]
157.00b.435  Then, soule, to thy first'pitch(CSmH)first%^pitch(C1-2,CtY1-2,DFo,MH) /worke vpon againe; [H1]
157.00b.436  Know that all lines which circles /doe containe,
157.00b.437  For once that they the center /touch, do touch
157.00b.438  Twice the circumference; and be /thou such.
157.00b.439  Double on Heauen, thy thoughts /on Earth emploid;
157.00b.440  All will not serue; Onely who haue /enioyd
157.00b.441  The sight of God, in fulnesse, can /thinke it;
157.00b.442  For it is both the obiect, and the /wit.
157.00b.443  This is essentiall ioye, where nei-/ther hee
157.00b.444  Can suffer Diminution, nor /wee;
157.00b.445  Tis such a full, and such a filling /good; [CW:Had]
157.00b.446  Had th'Angels once look'd on him, /they had stood. [H1v]
157.00b.447  To fill the place of one of them, or /more,
157.00b.448  Shee whom we celebrate, is gone /before.
157.00b.449  Shee, who had Here so much es-/sentiall ioye.
157.00b.450  As no chance could distract, much /lesse destroy;
157.00b.451  Who with Gods presence was ac-/quainted so,
157.00b.452  (Hearing, and speaking to him) as /to know
157.00b.453  His face, in any naturall Stone, or /Tree,
157.00b.454  Better then when in Images they /bee:
157.00b.455  Who kept, by diligent deuo-/tion,
157.00b.456  Gods Image, in such repara-/tion, [CW:Within]
157.00b.457  Within her heart, that what decay /was growen, [H2]
157.00b.458  Was her first Parents fault, and not /her own:
157.00b.459  Who being solicited to any /Act,
157.00b.460  Still heard God pleading his safe /precontract;
157.00b.461  Who by a faithfull confidence, /was here
157.00b.462  Betrothed to God, and now is mar-/ried there,
157.00b.463  Whose twilights were more /cleare, then our mid day,
157.00b.464  Who dreamt deuoutlier, then /most vse to pray;
157.00b.465  Who being heare fild with grace, /yet stroue to bee,
157.00b.466  Both where more grace, and more /capacitee
157.00b.467  At once is giuen: shee to Heauen /is gone, [CW:Who]
157.00b.468  Who made this world in some /proportion [H2v]
157.00b.469  A heauen, and here, became vnto /vs all,
157.00b.470  Ioye, (as our ioyes admit) essen-/tiall.
157.00b.471  But could this low world ioyes es-/sentiall touch,
157.00b.471M %1Of acciden-/tall ioyes in /both places%2.
157.00b.472  Heauens accidentall ioyes would /passe them much.
157.00b.473  How poore and lame, must then /our casuall bee?%I
157.00b.474  If thy Prince will his subiects to call /thee
157.00b.475  My Lord, and this doe swell thee, /thou art than,
157.00b.476  By being a greater, growen to be /lesse Man,
157.00b.477  When no Physician of Reders[Err:redresse] /can speake,
157.00b.478  A ioyfull casuall violence may /breake [CW:A]
157.00b.479  A dangerous Apostem in thy /brest; [H3]
157.00b.480  And whilst thou ioyest in this, the /dangerous rest,
157.00b.481  The bag may rise vp, and so stran-/gle thee.
157.00b.482  What eie was casuall, may euer /bee.
157.00b.483  What should the Nature change? /Or make the same
157.00b.484  Certaine, which was but casuall, /when it came?
157.00b.485  All casuall ioye doth loud and /plainly say,
157.00b.486  Onely by comming, that it can /away.
157.00b.487  Onely in Heauen ioies strength is /neuer spent;
157.00b.488  And accidentall things are per-/manent.
157.00b.489  Ioy of a soules arriuall neere /decaies; [CW:For]
157.00b.490  For that soule euer ioyes, and euer /staies. [H3v]
157.00b.491  Ioy that their last great Consum-/mation
157.00b.492  Approches in the resur-/rection;
157.00b.493  When earthly bodies more cele-/stiall
157.00b.494  Shalbe, then Angels were, for they /could fall;
157.00b.495  This kind of ioy doth euery day ad-/mit
157.00b.496  Degrees of grouth, but none of /loosing it.
157.00b.497  In this fresh ioy, tis no small part, /that shee,
157.00b.498  Shee, in whose goodnesse, he that /names degree,
157.00b.499  Doth iniure her; (Tis losse to be /cald best,
157.00b.500  There where the stuffe is not such /as the rest) [CW:Shee,]
157.00b.501  Shee, who left such a body, as /euen shee [H3v]
157.00b.502  Onely in Heauen could learne, /how it can bee
157.00b.503  Made better; for shee rather was /two soules,
157.00b.504  Or like to full, on both sides writ-/ten Rols,
157.00b.505  Where eies might read vpon the /outward skin,
157.00b.506  As strong Records for God, as /mindes within,
157.00b.507  Shee, who by making full perfecti-/on grow,
157.00b.508  Peeces a Circle, and still keepes it /so,
157.00b.509  Long'd for, and longing for'it, to /heauen is gone,
157.00b.510  Where shee receiues, and giues /addition.
157.00b.511  Here in a place, where mis-deuo-/tion frames
157.00b.511M %1Conclusion%2. [CW:A]
157.00b.512  A thousand praiers to saints, whose /very names [H4v]
157.00b.513  The ancient Church knew not, /Heauen knowes not yet,
157.00b.514  And where, what lawes of poetry /admit,
157.00b.515  Lawes of religion, haue at least the /same,
157.00b.516  Immortall Maid, I might inroque[Err:inuoque] /thy name.
157.00b.517  Could any Saint prouoke that ap-/petite,
157.00b.518  Thou here shouldst make mee a /french conuertite.
157.00b.519  But thou wouldst not; nor wouldst /thou be content,
157.00b.520  To take this, for my second yeeres /true Rent,
157.00b.521  Did this Coine beare any other /stampe, then his,
157.00b.522  That gaue thee power to doe[Err:do,] me,[Err:me%^] /to say this. [CW:Since]
157.00b.523  Since his will is, that to poste-/ritee, [H5]
157.00b.524  Thou shouldest for life, and death, /a patterne bee,
157.00b.525  And that the world should notice /haue of this,
157.00b.526  The purpose, and th'Autority is /his;
157.00b.527  Thou art the Proclamation; and I /ame
157.00b.528  The Trumpet, at whose voice the /people came.
157.00b.SS   %X%1FINIS%2.
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