IDENTIFIL$$  F157LCC|SecAn|1621 (c)|sigs.E5-H5,pp. [1]-49 (C,L,MH,O)
157.00c.HE1  %1The second Anniuersary%2. [E5]
157.00c.HE2  %9O#F%0 /THE PROGRES /%1of the Soule%2.
157.00c.001  N%+Othing could make me soo-/ner to confesse.
157.00c.001M %1The en-/trance%2.
157.00c.002  That this world had an euerla-/stingnesse,
157.00c.003  Then to consider, that a yeare is /runne,
157.00c.004  Since both this lower worlds, /and the Sunnes Sunne,
157.00c.005  The Lustre, and the vigor of /this All, [CW:Did]
157.00c.006  Did set; t'were Blasphemy, to /say, did fall. [E5v]
157.00c.007  But as a ship which hath strooke /saile, doth runne,
157.00c.008  By force of that force which be-/fore, it wonne:
157.00c.009  Or as sometimes in a beheaded /man,
157.00c.010  Through at those two Red seas, /which freely ran,
157.00c.011  One from the Trunke, another /from the Head,
157.00c.012  His soule he saild, to her eternall /bed,
157.00c.013  His eies will twinckle, and his /tongue will roll,
157.00c.014  As though he beckned, and cal'd /backe his Soul,
157.00c.015  He graspes his hands, and he puls /vp his feet,
157.00c.016  And seemes to reach, and to step /forth to meet [CW:His]
157.00c.017  His soule; when all these moti-/ons which we saw, [E6]
157.00c.018  Are but as Ice, which crackles at /a thaw:
157.00c.019  Or as a lute, which in moist wea-/ther, rings
157.00c.020  Her knell alone, by cracking of /her strings.
157.00c.021  So strugles this dead world, /now shee is gone;
157.00c.022  For there is motion in corrup-/tion.
157.00c.023  As some Daies are, at the Crea-/tion nam'd,
157.00c.024  Before the Sunne, the which / fram'd Daies, was fram'd,
157.00c.025  So after this Sunnes set, some /show appeares,
157.00c.026  And orderly vicisitude of /yeares.
157.00c.027  Yet a new Deluge, and of %1Lethe%2 /flood, [CW:Hath]
157.00c.028  Hath drown'vs all, All haue for-/got all good, [E6v]
157.00c.029  Forgetting her, the miane Re-/serue of all,
157.00c.030  Yet in this Deluge, grosse and /generall,
157.00c.031  Thou seest me striue for life; my /life shall be,
157.00c.032  To bee hereafter prais'd, for /praysing thee,
157.00c.033  Immortall Maid, who though /thou wouldst refuse
157.00c.034  The name of Mother, be vnto /my Muse,
157.00c.035  A Father since her chast Ambi-/tion is,
157.00c.036  Yearely to bring forth such a /child as this.
157.00c.037  These Hymes may worke on fu-/ture wits, and so
157.00c.038  May great Grand-children of /thy praises grow. [CW:And]
157.00c.039  And so, though not Reuiue, em-/balme, and spice [E7]
157.00c.040  The world which else would pu-/trifie with vice.
157.00c.041  For thus, Man may extend thy /progeny,
157.00c.042  Vntill man doe but vanish, and /not die.
157.00c.043  These Hymn%Is they issue, may /encrease so long,
157.00c.044  As till Gods great %1Venite%2 change /the song.
157.00c.045  Thirst for that time, O my insa-/tiate soule,
157.00c.045M %1A iust dis-/estimation /of this /vvorld%2.
157.00c.046  And serue thy thirst, with Gods /safe-fealing Bowle.
157.00c.047  Bee thirsty still, and drinke still /till thou goe;
157.00c.048  To th'onely Health, to be Hy-/droptique so.
157.00c.049  Forget this rotten world; And /vnto thee, [CW:Let]
157.00c.050  Let thine owne times as an old /story be [E7v]
157.00c.051  Be not concern'd:  study not /why, nor whan;
157.00c.052  Doe not so much, as not beleeue /a man.
157.00c.053  For though to erre, be worst, to /try truths forth,
157.00c.054  Is far more busines, then this /world is worth.
157.00c.055  The world is but a carcasse; thou /art fed
157.00c.056  By it, but as a worme, that carcas /bred;
157.00c.057  And why shouldst thou, poore /worme, consider more,
157.00c.058  When this world will grow bet-/ter then before,
157.00c.059  Then those thy fellow-wormes /doe thinke vpone
157.00c.060  That carcasses last resurrecti-/one. [CW:Forget]
157.00c.061  Forget this world, and scarse /thinke of it so, [E8]
157.00c.062  As of old cloaths, cast off a yeere /agoe.
157.00c.063  To be thus stupid is Ala-/crity;
157.00c.064  Men thus lethargique haue best /Memory.
157.00c.065  Looke vpward; that's towards /her, whose happy state
157.00c.066  We now lament not, but congra-/tulate.
157.00c.067  Shee, to whom all this world /twas but a stage,
157.00c.068  Where all sat harkning how her /youthfull age
157.00c.069  Should be emploid, because in /all, shee did,
157.00c.070  Some Figure of the Golden /times, was hid.
157.00c.071  Who could not lacke, what ere /this world could giue, [CW:Because]
157.00c.072  Because shee was the forme, /that made it liue; [E8v]
157.00c.073  Nor could complaine, that this /world was vnfit,
157.00c.074  To be staid in, then when shee /was in it;
157.00c.075  Shee that first tried indifferent /desires
157.00c.076  By vertue, and vertue by religi-/ous fires,
157.00c.077  Shee to whose person Paradise /adhear'd,
157.00c.078  As Courts to Princes, she whose /eies enspheard
157.00c.079  Star-light inough, t'haue made /the South controll,
157.00c.080  (Had shee beene there) the Star-/full Northern Pole,
157.00c.081  Shee, shee is gone; shee is gone; /when thou knowest this,
157.00c.082  What fragmentary rubbidge this /world is. [CW:Thou]
157.00c.083  Thou knowest, and that it is not /worth a thought; [F1]
157.00c.084  He honours it too much that /thinkes it nought.
157.00c.085  Thinke then, My soule, that /death is but a Groome,
157.00c.085M %1Contempla-/tion of our /state in our /death-bed%2.
157.00c.086  Which brings a Taper to the /outward roome,
157.00c.087  Whence thou spiest first a little /glimmering light,
157.00c.088  And after brings it nearer to thy /sight:
157.00c.089  For such approches doth heauen /make in death.
157.00c.090  Thinke thy selfe labouring now /with broken breath,
157.00c.091  And thinke those broken & soft /Notes to bee
157.00c.092  Diuision, and thy happiest Har-/monee.
157.00c.093  Thinke thee laid on thy death-/bed, loose and slacke; [CW:And]
157.00c.094  And thinke that but vnbinding /of a packe, [F1v]
157.00c.095  To take one precious thing, thy /soule, from thence.
157.00c.096  Thinke thy selfe parch'd with /feuers violence,
157.00c.097  Anger thine Ague more, by cal-/ling it
157.00c.098  Thy Physicke; chide the slacknes /of the fit.
157.00c.099  Thinke that thou hear'st thy /knell, and thinke no more,
157.00c.100  But that, as Bels cal'd thee to /Church before,
157.00c.101  So this, to the Triumphant /Church, cals thee.
157.00c.102  Thinke Satans Sergeants round /about thee bee,
157.00c.103  And thinke that but for Lega-/cies they thrust;
157.00c.104  Giue one thy Pride, to'another /giue thy Lust: [CW:Giue]
157.00c.105  Giue them those sinnes which /they gaue thee before, [F2]
157.00c.106  And trust th'immaculate blood /to wash thy score.
157.00c.107  Thinke thy friends weeping /round, and thinke that thay
157.00c.108  Weepe but because they goe not /yet thy way.
157.00c.109  Thinke that they close thine /eyes, and thinke in this,
157.00c.110  That they confesse much in the /world, amisse,
157.00c.111  Who dare not trust a dead mans /eye with that,
157.00c.112  Which they from God, and An-/gels couer not.
157.00c.113  Thinke that they shourd thee /vp, and thinke from thence
157.00c.114  They reinuest thee in white in-/nocence.
157.00c.115  Thinke that thy body rots, and /(if so lowe, [CW:Thy]
157.00c.116  Thy soule exhalted so, thy /thoughts can goe.) [F2v]
157.00c.117  Thinke thee a Prince, who of /themselues create
157.00c.118  Wormes which insensibly de-/uoure their state.
157.00c.119  Thinke that they bury thee, and /thinke that right
157.00c.120  Laies thee to sleepe but a Saint /Lucies night.
157.00c.121  Thinke these things cheerfully: /and if thou bee
157.00c.122  Drowsie or slacke, remember /then that shee,
157.00c.123  She whose Complexion was so /euen made,
157.00c.124  That which of her Ingredients /should inuade
157.00c.125  The other three, no Feare, no /Art could guesse:
157.00c.126  So farre were all remou'd from /more or lesse. [CW:But]
157.00c.127  But as in Mithridate, or iust per-/fumes, [F3]
157.00c.128  Where all good things being /met, no one presumes
157.00c.129  To gouerne, or to triumph on /the rest,
157.00c.130  Onely because all were, no part /was best.
157.00c.131  And as, though all doe know, /that quantities
157.00c.132  Are made of lines, and lines from /Points arise,
157.00c.133  None can these lines or quanti-/ties vnioynt,
157.00c.134  And say this is a line, or this a /point,
157.00c.135  So though the Elements and /Humors were
157.00c.136  In her, one could not say, this /gouerns there.
157.00c.137  Whose euen constitution might /haue worne [CW:Any]
157.00c.138  Any disease to venter on the /Sunne, [F3v]
157.00c.139  Rather then her: and make a spi-/rit feare
157.00c.140  That he to disuniting subiect /were.
157.00c.141  To whose proportions if we /would compare
157.00c.142  Cubes, th'are vnstable; Circles, Angulare;
157.00c.143  Shee who was such a Chaine, as /Fate emploies
157.00c.144  To bring mankind, all Fortunes /it enioyes,
157.00c.145  So fast, so euen wrought, as one /would thinke,
157.00c.146  No Accident, could threaten a-/ny linke,
157.00c.147  Shee, shee embrac'd a sicknesse, /gaue it meat,
157.00c.148  The purest Blood, and Breath, /that ere it eat. [CW:And]
157.00c.149  And hath taught vs that though /a good man hath [F4]
157.00c.150  Title to Heauen, and plead it by /his Faith,
157.00c.151  And though he may pretend a /conquest, since
157.00c.152  Heauen was content to suffer /violence,
157.00c.153  Yea though he plead a long pos-/session too,
157.00c.154  (For they're in heauen on earth, /who heauens workes do,)
157.00c.155  Though he had right, & power, /and place before,
157.00c.156  Yet Death must vsher, and vn-/locke the doore.
157.00c.157  Thinke further on thy selfe, my /soule, and thinke;
157.00c.157M %1Incommodi-/ties of the /Soule in the /Body%2.
157.00c.158  How thou at first wast made but /in a sinke;
157.00c.159  Thinke that it argued some in-/fermitee, [CW:That]
157.00c.160  That those two soules, which /then thou foundst in mee, [F4v]
157.00c.161  Thou fedst upon, and drewst in-/to thee, both
157.00c.162  My second soule of sence, and /first of growth.
157.00c.163  Thinke but how poore thou /wast, how obnoxious;
157.00c.164  Whom a small lumpe of flesh /could poyson thus.
157.00c.165  This curded milke, this poore /vnlittered whelpe
157.00c.166  My body, could, beyound es-/cape, or helpe,
157.00c.167  Infect thee with originall sinne, /and thou
157.00c.168  Couldst neither then refuse, nor /leaue it now.
157.00c.169  Thinke that no stubborne sullen /Anchorit,
157.00c.170  Which fixt to'a Pillar, or a Graue /doth sit [CW:Bedded]
157.00c.171  Bedded and Bath'd in all his Or-/dures, dwels [F5]
157.00c.172  So fowly as our soules, in their /first-built Cels.
157.00c.173  Thinke in how poore a prison /thou didst lie
157.00c.174  After, enabled but to sucke, and /crie.
157.00c.175  Thinke, when t'was growne to /most, t'was a poore Inne,
157.00c.176  A Prouince Pack'd vp in two /yards of skinne.
157.00c.177  And that vsurped, or threatned /with the rage
157.00c.178  Of sicknesses, or their true mo-/ther, Age.
157.00c.179  But thinke that Death hath now /enfranchis'd thee,
157.00c.179M %1Her liberty /by death%2.
157.00c.180  Thou hast thy'expausion now /and libertee;
157.00c.181  Thinke that a rusty Peece, dis-/charg'd, is flowen [CW:In]
157.00c.182  In peeces, and the bullet is his /owne, [F5v]
157.00c.183  And freely flies:  This to thy /soule allow,
157.00c.184  Thinke thy sheell broke, thinke /thy Soule hatch'd but now.
157.00c.185  And think this slow-pac'd soule, /which late did cleaue,
157.00c.186  To'a body, and went but by the /bodies leaue,
157.00c.187  Twenty, perchance, or thirty /mile a day,
157.00c.188  Dispatches in a minute all the /way,
157.00c.189  Twixt Heauen, and Earth:  shee /staies not in the Ayre,
157.00c.190  To looke what Meteors there /themselues prepare;
157.00c.191  Shee carries no desire to know, /nor sense,
157.00c.192  Whether th'Ayrs middle Regi-/on be intense, [CW:For]
157.00c.193  For th'Element of fire, shee doth /not know, [F6]
157.00c.194  Whether shee past by such a /place or no;
157.00c.195  Shee baits not at the Moone, nor /cares to trie,
157.00c.196  Whether in that new world, /men liue, and die.
157.00c.197  Venus recards her not, to'en-/quire, how shee
157.00c.198  Can, (being one Star) Hesper, /and Vesper bee,
157.00c.199  Hee that charm'd Argus eyes, /sweet Mercury,
157.00c.200  Workes not on her, who now is /growen all Ey;
157.00c.201  Who, if shee meete the body of /the Sunne,
157.00c.202  Goes through, not staying till /his course be runne;
157.00c.203  Who finds in Mars his Campe, /no corps of Guard; [CW:Nor]
157.00c.204  Nor is by Ioue, nor by his father /bard; [F6v]
157.00c.205  But ere she can consider how she /went,
157.00c.206  At once is at, and through the /Firmament.
157.00c.207  And as these starres were but so /many beades
157.00c.208  Strunge on one string, speed vn-/distinguish'd leades
157.00c.209  Her through those spheares, as /through the beades, a string,
157.00c.210  Whose quicke succession makes /it still one thing:
157.00c.211  As doth the Pith, which, least /our Bodies slacke,
157.00c.212  Strings fast the little bones of /necke, and backe;
157.00c.213  So by the soule doth death string /Heauen and Earth,
157.00c.214  For when our soule enioyes this /her third birth, [CW:Creation][miscatch]
157.00c.215  (Creation gaue her one, a se-/cond, grace,) [F7]
157.00c.216  Heauen is as neare, and present /to her face,
157.00c.217  As colours are, and obiects, in a /roome
157.00c.218  Where darkenesse was before, /when Tapers come.
157.00c.219  This must, my soule, thy long-/short Progresse bee;
157.00c.220  To'aduance these thoughts, re-/member then, that shee
157.00c.221  Shee, whose faire body no such /prison was,
157.00c.222  But that a soule might well be /pleas'd to passe
157.00c.223  An age in her; she whose rich /beauty lent
157.00c.224  Mintage to others beauties, for /they went
157.00c.225  But for so much, as they were /like to her; [CW:Shee,]
157.00c.226  Shee, in whose body (if we dare /prefer [F7v]
157.00c.227  This low world, to so high a /marke, as shee,)
157.00c.228  The Westerne treasure, Esterne /spiceree,
157.00c.229  Europe, and Afrique, and the /vnknowen rest
157.00c.230  Were easily found, or what in /them was best;
157.00c.231  And when w'haue made this /large Discoueree.
157.00c.232  Of all in her some one part then /will bee
157.00c.233  Twenty such patts, whose plenty /and riches is
157.00c.234  Inough to make twenty such /worlds as this,
157.00c.235  Shee, whom had they knowne /who did first betroth
157.00c.236  The Tutelar Angels, and assig-/ned one, both [CW:To]
157.00c.237  To Nations, Cities, and to /Companies, [F8]
157.00c.238  To Fuctions, Offices, and Dig-/nities,
157.00c.239  And to each seuerall man, to /him, and him,
157.00c.240  They would haue giuen her one /for euery limme;
157.00c.241  Shee, of whose soule, if we may /say, t'was Gold,
157.00c.242  Her body was th'Electrum, and /did hold
157.00c.243  Many degrees of that; (we vn-/stood
157.00c.244  Her by her sight, her pure and /eloquent blood
157.00c.245  Spoke in her cheekes, and so di-/stinckly wrought,
157.00c.246  That one might almost say, her /body thought,
157.00c.247  Shee, shee, thus richly, & largely /hous'd, is gone: [CW:And]   
157.00c.248  And chides vs slow-pac'd snailes /who crawle vpon [F8v]
157.00c.249  Our prisons prison, earth, nor /thinke vs well
157.00c.250  Longer, then whil'st we beare /our brittle shell.
157.00c.251  But t'were but little to haue /chang'd our roome,
157.00c.251M %1Her igno-/rance in this /life and /knovvledge /in the next%2.
157.00c.252  If, as we were in this our liuing /Toombe
157.00c.253  Oppress'd with ignorance, we /still were so,
157.00c.254  Poore soule in this thy flesh /what do'st thou know.
157.00c.255  Thou know'st thy selfe so little, /as thou know'st not,
157.00c.256  How thou didst die, nor how /thou wast begot.
157.00c.257  Thou neither know'st, how thou /at first cam'st in,
157.00c.258  Nor how thou took'st the poy-/son of mans sin. [CW:Nor]
157.00c.259  Nor dost thou, (though thou /knowst, that thou art so) [G1]
157.00c.260  By what way thou art made /immortall, know.
157.00c.261  Thou art to narrow, wretch, /to comprehend
157.00c.262  Euen thy selfe:  yea though thou /wouldst but bend
157.00c.263  To know thy body.  Haue not /all soules thought
157.00c.264  For many ages, that our body'is /wrought
157.00c.265  Of Ayre, and Fire, and other E-/lements?
157.00c.266  And now they thinke of new in-/gredients.
157.00c.267  And one soule thinkes one, and /another way
157.00c.268  Another thinkes, and ty's an /euen lay.
157.00c.269  Know'st thou but how the stone /doth enter in [CW:The]
157.00c.270  The bladders Caue, and neuer /brake the skin? [G1v]
157.00c.271  Knowst thou how blood, which /to the heart doth flow,
157.00c.272  Doth from one ventricle to /th'other goe?
157.00c.273  And for the putrid stuffe, which /thou dost spit,
157.00c.274  Knowst thou how thy lungs /haue attracted it?
157.00c.275  There are no passages so that /there is
157.00c.276  (For ought thou knowst) pier-/cing of substances.
157.00c.277  And of those many opinions /which men raise
157.00c.278  Of Nayles and Haires, dost thou /know which to praise?
157.00c.279  What hope haue we to know /our selues, when we
157.00c.280  Know not the least things, which /for our vse be? [CW:We]
157.00c.281  We see in Authors, too stiffe to /recant. [G2]
157.00c.282  A hundred controuersies of an /Ant.
157.00c.283  And yet one watches, starues, freeses, and sweats,
157.00c.284  To know but Catechismes and /Alphabets
157.00c.285  Of vnconcerning things, mat-/ters of fact;
157.00c.286  How others on our stage their /parts did Act;
157.00c.287  What %1Cae%Lsar%2 did, yea, and what /%1Cicero%2 said.
157.00c.288  Why grasse is greene, or why /our blood is red,
157.00c.289  Are mysteries which none haue /reach'd vnto.
157.00c.290  In this low forme, poore soule /what wilt thou doe?
157.00c.291  When wilt thou shake off this /Pedantery, [CW:Of]
157.00c.292  Of being thought by sense, and /Fantasy? [G2v]
157.00c.293  Thou look'st through spectacles; /small things seeme great,
157.00c.294  Below; But vp vnto the watch-/towre get,
157.00c.295  And see all things despoyld of /fallacies:
157.00c.296  Thou shalt not peepe through /lattices of eies,
157.00c.297  Nor heare through Laberinths /of eares, nor learne
157.00c.298  By circuit, or collections to dis-/cerne.
157.00c.299  In heauen thou straight know'st /all, concerning it,
157.00c.300  And what concerns it not, shall /straight forget.
157.00c.301  There thou (but in no other /schoole) maist bee
157.00c.302  Purchance, as learned, and as /full, as shee, [CW:Shee]
157.00c.303  Shee who all Libraries had /throughly red [G3]
157.00c.304  At home, in her own thoughts, /and practised
157.00c.305  So much good as would make as /many more:
157.00c.306  Shee whose example they must /all implore,
157.00c.307  Who would or doe, or thinke /well, and confesse
157.00c.308  That aie the vertuous Actions /they expresse,
157.00c.309  Are but a new, and worse /edition,
157.00c.310  Of her some one thought, or /one action:
157.00c.311  Shee, who in th'Art of knowing /Heauen, was growen
157.00c.312  Here vpon Earth, to such perfe-/ction,
157.00c.313  That shee hath, euer since to /Heauen shee came, [CW:(In]
157.00c.314  (In a far fairer point,) but read /the same: [G3v]
157.00c.315  Shee, shee, not satisfied withall /this waite,
157.00c.316  (For so much knowledge, as /would ouer-fraite
157.00c.317  Another, did but Ballast her) is /gone,
157.00c.318  As well t'enioy, as get /perfectione.
157.00c.319  And cals vs after her, in that shee /tooke,
157.00c.320  (Taking her selfe) our best, and /worthiest booke.
157.00c.321  Returne not, my soule, from this /extasee,
157.00c.321M %1Of our com-/pany in this /life and in /the next%2.
157.00c.322  And meditation of what thou /shalt bee,
157.00c.323  To earthly thoughts, till it to /thee appeare,
157.00c.324  With whom thy conuersation /must be there. [CW:With
157.00c.325  With whom wilt thou Con-/uerse? what station [G4]
157.00c.326  Canst thou choose out, free /from infection,
157.00c.327  That will nor giue thee theirs, /nor drinke in thine?
157.00c.328  Shalt thou not finde a spungy /slacke Diuine
157.00c.329  Drinke and sucke in th'Instructi-/ons of Great men,
157.00c.330  And for the word of God, vent /them agen?
157.00c.331  Are there not some Courts, /(And then, no things bee
157.00c.332  So like as Courts) which, in this /let vs see,
157.00c.333  That wits and tongues of Libel-/lars are weake,
157.00c.334  Because they doe more ill, then /these can speake?
157.00c.335  The poyson'is gone through all, /poysons affect [CW:Chiefly]
157.00c.336  Chiefly the cheefest parts, but /some effect [G4v]
157.00c.337  In Nailes, and Haires, yea excre-/ments, will show;
157.00c.338  So wise the poyson of sinne, in /the most low.
157.00c.339  Vp vp, my drowsie soule, where /thy new eare
157.00c.340  Shall in the Angels songs no dis-/cord heare;
157.00c.341  Where thou shalt see the blessed /Mother-maid
157.00c.342  Ioy in not being that, which /men haue said.
157.00c.343  Where shee is(MH)shee'is(C,L,O) exalted more for /being good,
157.00c.344  Then for her interest, of mo-/ther-hood.
157.00c.345  Vp to those Patriatckes(MH)Patriarckes(C,L,O), which /did longer sit
157.00c.346  Expecting Christ, then'they /haue enioy'd him yet. [CW:Vp]
157.00c.347  Vp to those Prophets, which /now gladly see
157.00c.348  Their Prophesies growen to be /Historee.
157.00c.349  Vp to th'Apostles, who did /brauely runne,
157.00c.350  All the Suns course, with more /light then the Sunne.
157.00c.351  Vp to those Martyrs, who did /calmely bleed
157.00c.352  Oyle to th'Apostles lamps, dew /to their seed.
157.00c.353  Vp to those Virgins, who /thoughts that almost
157.00c.354  They made ioyntenants with /the Holy Ghost,
157.00c.355  If they to any should his Tem-/ple giue.
157.00c.356  Vp, vp, for in that squadron /there doth liue
157.00c.357  Shee, who hath carried thether, /new degrees [CW:(As]
157.00c.358  (As to their number) to their /dignitees. [G5v]
157.00c.359  Shee, who beeing to herselfe, a /state enioyd
157.00c.360  All royalties which any state /emploid,
157.00c.361  For shee made wars, and tri-/umph'd, reason still
157.00c.362  Did not ouerthrow, but rectifie /her will:
157.00c.363  And shee made peace, for no /peace is like this,
157.00c.364  That beauty and chastity toge-/ther kisse:
157.00c.365  Shee did high iustice; for shee /crucified
157.00c.366  Euery first motion of rebellious /pride:
157.00c.367  And shee gaue pardons, and was /liberall,
157.00c.368  For, onely her selfe except, shee /pardond all: [CW:Shee]
157.00c.369  Shee coynd, in this, that her im-/pressions gaue [G6]
157.00c.370  To all our actions all the worth /they haue:
157.00c.371  Shee gaue protections; the /thoughts of her brest
157.00c.372  Satans rude Officers could nere /arrest.
157.00c.373  As these prerogatiues being met /in one,
157.00c.374  Made her a soueraigne state, re-/ligion
157.00c.375  Made her a Church; and these /two made her all.
157.00c.376  Shee who was all this All, and /could not fall
157.00c.377  To worse, by company; (for she /was still
157.00c.378  More Antidote, then all the /world was ill,
157.00c.379  Shee, shee doth leaue it, and by /Death, suruiue [CW:All]
157.00c.380  All this, in Heauen; whether /who doth not striue [G6v]
157.00c.381  The more, because shee's there, /he doth not know
157.00c.382  That accidentall ioyes in Hea-/uen doe grow.
157.00c.383  But pause, My soule, and study /ere thou fall
157.00c.384  On accidentall ioyes, th'essenti-/all.
157.00c.384M %1Of essentiall /ioy in this /life and in /the next%2. [Keyed#to#line#383]
157.00c.385  Still before Accessories doe /abide
157.00c.386  A triall, must the principall be /tride.
157.00c.387  And what essentiall ioy canst /thou expect
157.00c.388  Here vpon earth?  what perma-/nent effect
157.00c.389  Of transitory causes?  Dost thou /loue
157.00c.390  Beauty?  (And Beauty worthy'st /is to moue) [CW:Poore]
157.00c.391  Poore couse'ned cose'nor, that /she, and that thou, [G7]
157.00c.392  Which did begin to loue, are /neither now.
157.00c.393  You are both fluid, chang'd /since yesterday;
157.00c.394  Next day repaires, (but ill) last /dayes decay.
157.00c.395  Nor are, (Although the riuer /keepe the name)
157.00c.396  Yesterdayes waters, and to daies /the same.
157.00c.397  So flowes her face, & thine eies, /neither now
157.00c.398  That Saint, nor Pilgrime, which /your louing row
157.00c.399  Concernd, remaines, but whil'st /you thinke you bee
157.00c.400  Constant, you'are hourely in in-/constancee.
157.00c.401  Honour may haue pretence vn-/to our loue, [CW:Be-]
157.00c.402  Because that God did liue so /long aboue [G7v]
157.00c.403  Without this Honour, and then /lou'd it so,
157.00c.404  That he at last made Creatures /to bestow
157.00c.405  Honour on him; not that he nee-/ded it,
157.00c.406  But that, to his hands, man might /grow more fit.
157.00c.407  But since all honours from infe-/riours flow,
157.00c.408  (For they doe giue it; Princes /doe but show
157.00c.409  Whom they would haue so ho-/nord) and that this
157.00c.410  On such opinions, and capaci-/ties
157.00c.411  Is built, as rise, and fall, to more /and lesse,
157.00c.412  Alas, tis but a casuall happi-/nesse. [CW:Hath]
157.00c.413  Hath euer any man to'himselfe /assigned [G8]
157.00c.414  This or that happinesse, to'arrest /his minde,
157.00c.415  But that another man, which /takes a worse,
157.00c.416  Thinke him a foole for hauing /tane that course?
157.00c.417  They who did labour Babels /tower to'erect,
157.00c.418  Might haue considered, that for /that effect,
157.00c.419  All this whole solid Earth could /not allow
157.00c.420  Nor furnish forth Materials /enow;
157.00c.421  And that his Center, to raise /such a place
157.00c.422  Was farre too little, to haue /beene the Base;
157.00c.423  No more affoords this worlds, /foundatione [CW:To]
157.00c.424  To erect true ioye, were all the /meanes in one. [G8v]
157.00c.425  But as the Heathen made them /seuerall gods,
157.00c.426  Of all Gods Benefits, and all his /Rods,
157.00c.427  (For as the Wine, and Corne, /and Onions are
157.00c.428  Gods vnto them, so Agues bee, /and warre)
157.00c.429  And as by changing that whole /precious Gold
157.00c.430  To such small copper coynes, /they lost the old,
157.00c.431  And lost their onely God, who /euer must
157.00c.432  Be sought alone, and not in such /a thrust,
157.00c.433  So much mankind true happi-/nesse mistakes;
157.00c.434  No Ioye enioyes that man, that /many makes. [CW:Then,]
157.00c.435  Then, soule, to thy first pitch /worke vpon againe; [H1]
157.00c.436  Know that all lines which cir-/cles doe containe,
157.00c.437  For once that they the Center /touch, doe touch
157.00c.438  Twice the circumference; and /be thou such.
157.00c.439  Double on heauen, thy thoughts /on earth emploid;
157.00c.440  All will not serue; Onely who /haue enioyd
157.00c.441  The sight of God, in fulnesse, /can thinke it;
157.00c.442  For it is both the obiect, and the /wit.
157.00c.443  This is essentiall ioye, where nei-/ther hee
157.00c.444  Can suffer Diminution, nor /wee;
157.00c.445  Tis such a full, and such a filling /good; [CW:Had]
157.00c.446  Had th'Angels once look'd on /him, they had stood. [H1v]
157.00c.447  To fill the place of one of them, /or more,
157.00c.448  Shee whom we celebrate, is /gone before.
157.00c.449  Shee, who had Here so much /essentiall ioy.
157.00c.450  As no chance could distract, /much lesse destroy;
157.00c.451  Who with Gods presence was /acquainted so,
157.00c.452  (Hearing, and speaking to him) /as to know
157.00c.453  His face, in any naturall Stone, /or Tree,
157.00c.454  Better then when in Images they /bee:
157.00c.455  Who kept by diligent deuo-/tion,
157.00c.456  Gods Image, in such repara-/tion, [CW:Within]
157.00c.457  Within her heart, that what de-/cay was growen, [H2]
157.00c.458  Was her first Parents fault, and /not her own:
157.00c.459  Who being solicited to any /Act,
157.00c.460  Still heard God pleading his safe /precontract;
157.00c.461  Who by a faithfull confidence, /was here
157.00c.462  Betrothed to God, and now is /married there,
157.00c.463  Whose twilights were more /cleare, then our mid-day,
157.00c.464  Who dreamt deuoutlier, then /most vse to pray;
157.00c.465  Who being here fild with grace, /yet stroue to bee,
157.00c.466  Both where more grace, & more /capacitee
157.00c.467  At once is giuen:  she to Heauen /is gone, [CW:Who]
157.00c.468  Who made this world in some /[NI]proportion [H2v]
157.00c.469  A heauen, and here, became vn-/to vs all,
157.00c.470  Ioye, (as our ioyes admit) essen-/tiall.
157.00c.471  But could this low world ioyes /effentiall touch,
157.00c.471M %1Of acciden-/tall ioyes in /both places%2.
157.00c.472  Heauens accidentall ioies would /passe them much.
157.00c.473  How poore and lame, must then /our casuall bee?
157.00c.474  If thy Prince will his subiects to /call thee
157.00c.475  My Lord, and this doe swell /thee, thou art than,
157.00c.476  By being a greater, growen to /be lesse Man,
157.00c.477  When no Physician of Reders /can speake,
157.00c.478  A ioyfull casuall violence may /breake [CW:A]
157.00c.479  A dangerous Apostem in thy /brest; [H3]
157.00c.480  And whilst thou ioyest in this, /the dangerous rest,
157.00c.481  The bag may rise vp, and so /strangle thee.
157.00c.482  What eye was casuall, may euer /bee.
157.00c.483  What should the Nature /change?  Or make the same
157.00c.484  Certaine, which was but casuall, /when it came?
157.00c.485  All casuall ioye doth loud and /plainly say,
157.00c.486  Onely by comming, that it can /away.
157.00c.487  Onely in Heauen ioies strength /is neuer spent;
157.00c.488  And accidentall things are per-/manent.
157.00c.489  Ioy of a soules arriuall neere de-/caies; [CW:For]
157.00c.490  For that soule euer ioyes & euer /staies. [H3v]
157.00c.491  Ioy that their last great Con-/summation
157.00c.492  Approches in the resur-/rection;
157.00c.493  When earthly bodies more cele-/stiall
157.00c.494  Shalbe, then Angels were, for /they could fall;
157.00c.495  This kind of ioy doth euery day /admit
157.00c.496  Degrees of grouth, but none of /loosing it.
157.00c.497  In this fresh ioy, tis no small part, /that shee,
157.00c.498  Shee, in whose goodnesse, he /that names degree,
157.00c.499  Doth iniure her; (Tis losse to be /cald best,
157.00c.500  There where the stuffe is not /such as the rest) [CW:Shee,]
157.00c.501  Shee, who left such a body, as /euen shee [H4]
157.00c.502  Onely in Heauen could learne, /how it can bee
157.00c.503  Made better; for shee rather was /two soules,
157.00c.504  Or like to full, on both sides /written Rols,
157.00c.505  Where eies might read vpon the /outward skin,
157.00c.506  As strong Records for God, as /mindes within,
157.00c.507  Shee, who by making full per-/fection grow,
157.00c.508  Peeces a Circle, and still keepes /it so,
157.00c.509  Long'd for, and longing for'it, to /heauen is gon,
157.00c.510  Where shee receiues, and giues /addition.
157.00c.511  Here in a place, where mis-deuo-/tion frames
157.00c.511M %1Conclusion%2. [CW:A]
157.00c.512  A thousand praiers to Saints, /whose very names [H4v]
157.00c.513  The ancient Church knew not, /Heauen knowes not yet,
157.00c.514  And where, what lawes of Poe-/try admit,
157.00c.515  Lawes of Religion, haue at least /the same,
157.00c.516  Immortall Maid, I might in-/roque thy name.
157.00c.517  Could any Saint prouoke that /appetite,
157.00c.518  Thou here shouldst make mee a /french conuertite.
157.00c.519  But thou wouldst not; nor /wouldst thou be content,
157.00c.520  To take this, for my second /yeeres true Rent,
157.00c.521  Did this Coine beare any other /stampe, then his,
157.00c.522  That gaue thee power to doe /me, to say this. [CW:Since]
157.00c.523  Since his will is, that to poste-/ritee, [H5]
157.00c.524  Thou shouldest for life, & death, /a patterne bee,
157.00c.525  And that the world should no-/tice haue of this,
157.00c.526  The purpose, and th'Authority /is his;
157.00c.527  Thou art the Proclamation; and /I ame
157.00c.528  The Trumpet, at whose voice /the people came.
157.00c.SS   %X%1F#I#N#I#S%2.
157.00c.0$$  text in roman; all lines overhang; pp.34-35 misnumbered 35-34.