IDENTIFIL$$ F157LCD|SecAn|1625 (d)|sigs.E6-H6,pp.[1]-49 (C,CSmH,CtY,MH,O) 157.00d.HE1 %9OF%0 /THE PROGRESSE /of the S#%9O#V#L#E%0. [E6] 157.00d.HE2 %1The second Anniuersarie%2. 157.00d.001 N%+Othing could make me /sooner to confesse. 157.00d.001M om 157.00d.002 That this world had an /[NI]euerlastingnesse, 157.00d.003 Then to consider, that a yeare is /runne, 157.00d.004 Since both this lower worlds, /and the Sunnes Sunne, 157.00d.005 The Lustre, and the vigor of /this all, [CW:Did] 157.00d.006 Did set; t'were Blasphemie to /say, did fall. [E6v] 157.00d.007 But as a ship which hath strooke /saile, doth runne, 157.00d.008 By force of that force which be-/fore, it wonne: 157.00d.009 Or as sometimes in a beheaded /man, 157.00d.010 Through at those two Red seas, /which freely ranne, 157.00d.011 One from the Trunke, another /from the Head, 157.00d.012 His soule he saild, to her eternall /bed, 157.00d.013 His eyes will twincke, and his /tongue will roll, 157.00d.014 As though he beckned, and cal'd /backe his soule, 157.00d.015 He graspes his hands, and he puls /vp his feet, 157.00d.016 And seemes to reach, and to step /forth to meet [CW:His] 157.00d.017 His soule; when all these moti-/ons which we saw, [E7] 157.00d.018 Are but as Ice, which crackles at /a thaw: 157.00d.019 Or as a Lute, which in moist wea-/ther, rings 157.00d.020 Her knell alone, by cracking of /her strings. 157.00d.021 So struggles this dead world, /now shee is gone; 157.00d.022 For thete is motion in corrup-/tion. 157.00d.023 As some Daies are, at the Crea-/tion nam'd, 157.00d.024 Before the Sunne, the which /fram'd Daies, was fram'd, 157.00d.025 So after this Sunnes set, some /show appeares, 157.00d.026 And orderly vicisitude of /yeares. 157.00d.027 Yet a new Deluge, and of %1Lethe%2 /flood, [CW:Hath] 157.00d.028 Hath drown'vs all, All haue for-/got all good, [E7v] 157.00d.029 Forgetting her, the maine reserue /of all, 157.00d.030 Yet in this deluge, grosse and /generall, 157.00d.031 Thou seest me striue for life; my /life shall bee, 157.00d.032 To bee hereafter prais'd, for /praysing thee; 157.00d.033 Immortall Maid, who though /thou wouldst refuse 157.00d.034 The name of Mother, be vnto /my Muse, 157.00d.035 A Father since her chast Ambi-/tion is, 157.00d.036 Yearely to brin%Ig forth such a /child as this. 157.00d.037 These Hymes may worke on fu-/ture wits, and so 157.00d.038 May great Grand children of /thy prayses grow. [CW:And] 157.00d.039 And so, though not Reuiue, em-/balme and spice [E8] 157.00d.040 The world which else would pu-/trifie with vice. 157.00d.041 For thus, Man may extend thy /progeny, 157.00d.042 Vntill man doe but banish, and /not die. 157.00d.043 These Hymn%Is they issue, may /encrease so long, 157.00d.044 As till Gods great %1Venite%2 change /the song. 157.00d.045 Thirst for that time, O my insa-/tiate soule, 157.00d.045M %1A iust esti-/mation of /this world%2. 157.00d.046 And serue thy thirst, with Gods /safe-fealing Bowle. 157.00d.047 Bee thirstie still, and drinke still /till thou%I goe; 157.00d.048 To th'onely Health, to be Hy-/droptique so, 157.00d.049 Forget this rotten world; And /vnto thee, [CW:Let] 157.00d.050 Let thine owne times as an olde /storie be [E8v] 157.00d.051 Be not concern'd: studie not /why nor whan; 157.00d.052 Doe not so much as not beleeue /a man. 157.00d.053 For though to erre, be worst, to /try truths forth, 157.00d.054 Is far more busines, then this /world is worth. 157.00d.055 The world is but a carkasse; thou /art fed 157.00d.056 By it, but as a worme, that car-/kasse bred; 157.00d.057 And why shouldst thou, poore /worme, consider more, 157.00d.058 When this world will grow bet-/ter then before, 157.00d.059 Then those thy fellow-wormes /doe thinke vpone 157.00d.060 That carkasses last resurrecti-/one. [CW:Forget] 157.00d.061 Forget this world, and scarse /thinke of it so, [F1] 157.00d.062 As of old cloaths, cast off a yeere /agoe. 157.00d.063 To be thus stupid is Ala-/critie; 157.00d.064 Men thus Lethargique haue best /Memory. 157.00d.065 Looke vpward; that's towards /her, whose happy state 157.00d.066 We now lament not, but congra-/tulate. 157.00d.067 Shee, to whom all this world /twas but a stage, 157.00d.068 Where all sat harkning how her /youthfull age 157.00d.069 Should be emploid, because in /all, shee did, 157.00d.070 Some Figure of the Golden /times was hid. 157.00d.071 Who could not lacke, what ere /this world could giue, [CW:Because] 157.00d.072 Because shee was the forme, /that made it liue; [F1v] 157.00d.073 Nor could complaine, that this /world was vnfit, 157.00d.074 To bee staid in, then when shee /was in it; 157.00d.075 Shee that first tried indifferent /desires 157.00d.076 By vertue, and vertue by reli-/gious fires, 157.00d.077 Shee to whose person Paradise /adhear'd, 157.00d.078 As Courts to Princes, shee whose /eies enspheard 157.00d.079 Star-light inough, t'haue made /the South controll, 157.00d.080 (Had shee beene there) the Star-/full Northerne Pole, 157.00d.081 Shee, shee is gone; shee is gone; /when thou knowest this, 157.00d.082 What fragmentary rubbidge /[NI]this world is. [CW:Thou] 157.00d.083 Thou knowest, and that it is not /worth a thought; [F2] 157.00d.084 He honours it too much that /thinkes it nought. 157.00d.085 Thinke then, My soule, that /death is but a Groome, 157.00d.085M %1Contempla-/tion of our /state in /our death-/bed%2. 157.00d.086 Which brings a Taper to the /outward roome, 157.00d.087 Whence thou spiest first a little /glimmering light, 157.00d.088 And after brings it nearer to thy /sight: 157.00d.089 For such approches doth heauen /make in death. 157.00d.090 Thinke thy selfe labouring now /with broken breath, 157.00d.091 And thinke those broken and soft /Notes to bee 157.00d.092 Diuision, and thy happiest Har-/monee, 157.00d.093 Thinke thee laid on thy death-/bed, loose and slacke; [CW:And] 157.00d.094 And thinke that but vnbinding /of a packe, [F2v] 157.00d.095 To take one precious thing, thy /soule from thence. 157.00d.096 Thinke thy selfe pach'd with /feuers violence, 157.00d.097 Anger thine ague more, by cal-/ling it 157.00d.098 Thy Physicke; chide the slacknes /of the fit. 157.00d.099 Thinke that thou hear'st thy /knell and thinke no more, 157.00d.100 But that, as Belscal'd thee to /Church before, 157.00d.101 So this, to the Triumphant /Church, calls thee. 157.00d.102 Thinke Satans Sergeants round /about thee bee, 157.00d.103 And thinke that but for Lega-/cies they thrust; 157.00d.104 Giue one thy Pride, to'another /giue thy Lust: [CW:Giue] 157.00d.105 Giue them those sinnes which /they gaue thee before, [F3] 157.00d.106 And trust th'immaculate blood /to wash thy score. 157.00d.107 Thinke thy friends weeping /round, and thinke that thay 157.00d.108 Weepe but because they goe not /yet thy way. 157.00d.109 Thinke that they close thine /eyes and thinke in this, 157.00d.110 That they confesse much in the /world, amisse, 157.00d.111 Who dare not trust a dead mans /eye with that, 157.00d.112 Which they from God, and An-/gels couer not. 157.00d.113 Thinke that they shourd thee /vp, and thinke from thence 157.00d.114 They reinuest thee in white inno-/cence. 157.00d.115 Thinke that thy body rots, and /(if so lowe, [CW:Thy] 157.00d.116 Thy soule exalted so, thy /thoughts can goe,) [F3v] 157.00d.117 Thinke thee a Prince, who of /themselues create 157.00d.118 Wormes which insensibly de-/uoure their state. 157.00d.119 Thinke that they bury thee, and /thinke that right 157.00d.120 Laies thee to sleepe but a Saint /Lucies night. 157.00d.121 Thinke these things cheerfully: /and if thou bee 157.00d.122 Drowsie or slacke, remember /then that shee, 157.00d.123 She whose Complexion was so /euen made, 157.00d.124 That which of her Ingredients /should inuade 157.00d.125 The other three, no Feare, no /Art could guesse: 157.00d.126 So farre were all remou'd from /more or lesse. [CW:But] 157.00d.127 But as in Mithridate, or iust per-/fumes, [F4] 157.00d.128 Where all good things being /met, no one presumes 157.00d.129 To gouerne, or to triumph on /the rest, 157.00d.130 Onely because all were, no part /was best. 157.00d.131 And as, though all doe know, /that quantities 157.00d.132 Are made of lines, and lines from /Points arise, 157.00d.133 None can these lines or quanti-/ties vnioynt, 157.00d.134 And say this is a line, or this a-/point. 157.00d.135 So though the Elements and /Humors were 157.00d.136 In her, one could not say, this /gouernes there. 157.00d.137 Whose euen constitution might /haue worne [CW:Any] 157.00d.138 Any disease to venter on the /Sunne, [F4v] 157.00d.139 Rather then her: and make a spi-/rit feare 157.00d.140 That he to disuniting subiect /were. 157.00d.141 To whose proportions if we /would compare 157.00d.142 Cubes, th'are vnstable; Circles /Angulare; 157.00d.143 Shee who was such a Chaine, as /Fate emploies 157.00d.144 To bring mankind, all Fortunes /it enioyes, 157.00d.145 So fast, so euen wrought, as one /would thinke, 157.00d.146 No Accident, could threaten a-/ny linke, 157.00d.147 Shee, shee embrac'd a sicknesse. /gaue it meat, 157.00d.148 The purest Blood, and Breath, /that ere it eat. [CW:And] 157.00d.149 And hath taught vs that though /a good man hath [F5] 157.00d.150 Title to Heauen, and plead it by /his Faith, 157.00d.151 And though he may pretend a /conquest, since 157.00d.152 Heauen was content to suffer /violence, 157.00d.153 Yea though he plead a long pos-/session too, 157.00d.154 (For they're in heauen on earth /who heauens workes do) 157.00d.155 Though he had right and power, /and place before, 157.00d.156 Yet Death must vsher, and vn-/locke the doore. 157.00d.157 Thinke further on thy selfe, my /soule, and thinke; 157.00d.157M om 157.00d.158 How thou at first wast made but /in a sinke; 157.00d.159 Thinke that it argued some infer/mitee, [CW:That] 157.00d.160 That those two soules, which /then thou foundst in mee, [F5v] 157.00d.161 Thou fedst vpon, and drewst in-/to thee, both 157.00d.162 My second soule of sence, and /first of growth. 157.00d.163 Thinke but how poore thou /wast, how obnoxious; 157.00d.164 Whom a small lumpe of flesh /could poyson thus. 157.00d.165 This curded milke, this poore /vnlittered whelpe 157.00d.166 My body, could, beyond es-/cape or helpe, 157.00d.167 Infect thee with originall sinne, /and thou 157.00d.168 Couldst neither then refuse, nor /leaue it now. 157.00d.169 Thinke that no stubborne sullen /Anchorit, 157.00d.170 Which fixt to a Pillar, or a Graue /doth sit [CW:Bedded] 157.00d.171 Bedded and Bath'd in all his Or-/dures, dwels [F6] 157.00d.172 So fowly as our soules in their /first-built Cels. 157.00d.173 Thinke in how poore a prison /thou didst lie 157.00d.174 After, enabled but to sucke, and /crie. 157.00d.175 Thinke, when t'was growne to /most, t'was a poore Inne, 157.00d.176 A Prouince Pack'd vp in two /yards of skinne. 157.00d.177 And that vsurped, or threatned /with the rage 157.00d.178 Of sicknesses, or their true mo-/ther, Age. 157.00d.179 But thinke that Death hath now /enfranchis'd thee, 157.00d.179M %1Her liberty /by death%2. [Keyed#to#line#180] 157.00d.180 Thou hast thy'expansion now /and libertee; 157.00d.181 Thinke that a rusty Peece, dis-/charg'd is flowen [CW:In] 157.00d.182 In peeces, and the bullet is his /owne, [F6v] 157.00d.183 And freely flies: This to thy /soule allow, 157.00d.184 Thinke thy sheell broke, thinke /thy Soule hatch'd but now. 157.00d.185 And thinke this slow-pac'd soule /which late did cleaue, 157.00d.186 To'a body, and went but by the /bodies leaue, 157.00d.187 Twentie, perchance or thirtie /mile a day, 157.00d.188 Dispatches in a minute all the /way, 157.00d.189 Twixt Heauen, and Earth: shee /staies not in the Ayre, 157.00d.190 To look what Meteors there /themselues prepare; 157.00d.191 Shee carries no desire to know, /nor sense, 157.00d.192 Whether th'Ayrs middle Regi-/on be intense, [CW:For] 157.00d.193 For th'Element of fire, shee doth /not know, [F7] 157.00d.194 Whether she past by such a place /or no; 157.00d.195 Shee baits not at the Moone, nor /cares to trie, 157.00d.196 Whether in that new world, /men liue, and die. 157.00d.197 Venus recards her not, to'en-/quire, how shee, 157.00d.198 Can, (being one Star) Hesper, and /Vesper bee, 157.00d.199 Hee that charm'd Argus eyes, /sweete Mercury, 157.00d.200 Workes not on her, who now is /growen all Ey; 157.00d.201 Who, if shee meete the bodie of /the Sunne, 157.00d.202 Goes through, not staying till /his course be runne; 157.00d.203 Who findes in Mars his Campe, /no corps of Guard; [CW:Nor] 157.00d.204 Nor is by Ioue, nor by his father /bard; [F7v] 157.00d.205 But ere she can consider how she /went, 157.00d.206 At once is at, and through the /Firmament. 157.00d.207 And as these starres were but so /many beades 157.00d.208 Strunge on one string, speed vn-/distinguish'd leades 157.00d.209 Her through those spheares, as /through the beades, a string, 157.00d.210 Whose quicke succession makes /it still one thing: 157.00d.211 As doth the Pith, which, least /our Bodies slacke, 157.00d.212 Strings fast the little bones of /necke, and backe; 157.00d.213 So by the soule doth death string /Heauen and Earth 157.00d.214 For when our soule enioyes this /her third birth, [CW:Creation][miscatch] 157.00d.215 (Creation gaue her one, a se-/cond, grace,) [F8] 157.00d.216 Heauen is as neare, and present /to her face. 157.00d.217 As colours are, and obiects, in a /roome 157.00d.218 Where darkenesse was before, /when Tapers come. 157.00d.219 This must, my soule, thy long-/short Progresse bee; 157.00d.220 To'aduance these thoughts, re-/member then that shee 157.00d.221 Shee, whose faire body no such /prison was, 157.00d.222 But that a soule might well be /pleasd to passe 157.00d.223 An age in her; she whose rich /beauty lent 157.00d.224 Mintage to others beauties, for /they went 157.00d.225 But for so much, as they were /like to her; [CW:Shee,] 157.00d.426 Of all Gods Benefits, and all his /Rods, 157.00d.427 (For as the Wine, and Corne, /and Onions are 157.00d.428 Gods vnto them, so Agues bee, /and warre) 157.00d.429 And as by changing the whole /precious Gold 157.00d.430 To such small Copper coynes, /they lost the old, 157.00d.431 And lost their onely God, who /euer must 157.00d.432 Be sought alone, and not in such /a thrust, 157.00d.433 So much mankinde true happi-/nesse mistakes; 157.00d.434 No Ioye enioyes that man, that /many makes. [CW:Then^][miscatch] 157.00d.435 Then, soule, to thy first pitch /worke vpon againe; [H2] 157.00d.436 Know that all lines which cir-/cles doe containe, 157.00d.437 For once that they the Center /touch, doe touch 157.00d.438 Twice the circumference; and /be thou such. 157.00d.439 Double on heauen, thy thoughts /on earth emploid; 157.00d.440 All will not serue; Onely who /haue enioyd 157.00d.441 The sight of God, in fulnesse, /can thinke it; 157.00d.442 For it is both the obiect, and the /wit. 157.00d.443 This is essentiall ioye, where nei-/ther hee 157.00d.444 Can suffer Diminution, nor /wee; 157.00d.445 Tis such a full, and such a filling /good; [CW:Had] 157.00d.446 Had th'Angels once look'd on /him, they had stood. [H2v] 157.00d.447 To fill the place of one of them, /or more, 157.00d.448 Shee whom we celebrate, is /gone before- 157.00d.449 Shee, who had Here so much /essentiall ioy. 157.00d.450 As no chance could distract, /much lesse destroy; 157.00d.451 Who with Gods presence was /acquainted so, 157.00d.452 (Hearing, and speaking to him) /as to know 157.00d.453 His face in any naturall Stone, /or Tree, 157.00d.454 Better then when in Images /they bee: 157.00d.455 Who kept by diligent deuo-/tion, 157.00d.456 Gods Image, in such repara-/tion, [CW:Within] 157.00d.457 Within her heart, that what de-/cay was growne, [H3] 157.00d.458 Was her first Parents fault, and /not her owne: 157.00d.459 Who being solicited to any /Act, 157.00d.460 Still heard God pleading his safe /precontract; 157.00d.461 Who by a faithfull confidence, /was here 157.00d.462 Betrothed to God, and now is /married there, 157.00d.463 Whose twilights were more /cleare, then our mid-day, 157.00d.464 Who dreamt deuoutlier, then /most vse to pray; 157.00d.465 Who being here fild with grace, /yet stroue to bee, 157.00d.466 Both where more grace, & more /capacitee 157.00d.467 At once is giuen: she to Heauen /is gone, [CW:Who] 157.00d.468 Who made this world in some /proportion [H3v] 157.00d.469 A heauen, and here, became vn-/to vs all, 157.00d.470 Ioye, (as our ioyes admit) essen-/tiall. 157.00d.471 But could this low world ioyes /essentiall touch, 157.00d.471M %1Of acciden-/tall ioyes in /both places%2. 157.00d.472 Heauens accidentall ioies would /passe them much. 157.00d.473 How poore and lame, must then /our casuall bee? 157.00d.474 If thy Prince will his subiects to /call thee 157.00d.475 My Lord, and this doe swell /thee, thou art than, 157.00d.476 By being greater, growen to bee /lesse Man, 157.00d.477 When no Physician of Reders /can speake, 157.00d.478 A ioyfull casuall violence may /breake [CW:A] 157.00d.479 A dangerous Apostem in thy /brest; [H4] 157.00d.480 And whilst thou ioyest in this, /the dangerous rest, 157.00d.481 The bag may rise vp, and so /strangle thee. 157.00d.482 What eye was casuall, may euer /bee. 157.00d.483 What should the nature change? /Or make the same 157.00d.484 Certaine, which was but casuall, /when it came? 157.00d.485 All casuall ioye doth loud and /plainely say, 157.00d.486 Onely by comming, that it can /away. 157.00d.487 Onely in Heauen ioyes strength /is neuer spent; 157.00d.488 And accidentall things are per-/manent. 157.00d.489 Ioy of a soules arriuall neere de-/caies; [CW:For] 157.00d.490 For that soule euer ioyes and /euer stayes. [H4v] 157.00d.491 Ioy that their last great Consum-/mation 157.00d.492 Approches in the resur-/rection; 157.00d.493 When earthly bodies more cele-/stiall 157.00d.494 Shalbe, then Angels were, for /they could fall; 157.00d.495 This kind of ioy doth euery day /admit 157.00d.496 Degrees of grouth, but none of /loosing it. 157.00d.497 In this fresh ioy, tis no small part /that shee, 157.00d.498 Shee, in whose goodnesse, he /that names degree, 157.00d.499 Doth iniure her; (Tis losse to be /cald best, 157.00d.500 There where the stuffe is not /such as the rest) [CW:She%^][miscatch] 157.00d.501 Shee, who left such a bodie, as /euer shee [H5] 157.00d.502 Onely in Heauen could learne, /how it can bee 157.00d.503 Made better; for shee rather was /two soules, 157.00d.504 Or like to full, on both sides /written Rols, 157.00d.505 Where eies might read vpon the /outward skin, 157.00d.506 As strong Records for God, as /mindes within, 157.00d.507 Shee, who by making full per-/fection grow, 157.00d.508 Peeces a Circle, and still keepes /it so, 157.00d.509 Long'd for, and longing for it, to /heauen is gone, 157.00d.510 Where shee receiues, and giues /addition. 157.00d.511 Here in a place, where mis-deuo-/tion frames 157.00d.511M %1Conclusion%2. [CW:A] 157.00d.512 A thousand Praiers to Saints, /whose very names [H5v] 157.00d.513 The ancient Church knew not, /Heauen knowes not yet, 157.00d.514 And where, what lawes of Poe-/try admit, 157.00d.515 Lawes of Religion, haue at least /the same, 157.00d.516 Immortall Maide, I might in-/roque thy name. 157.00d.517 Could any Saint prouoke that /appetite, 157.00d.518 Thou here shouldst make mee a /french conuertite. 157.00d.519 But thou wouldst not; nor /wouldst thou be content, 157.00d.520 To take this, for my second /yeeres true Rent, 157.00d.521 Did this Coine beare any other /stampe, then his, 157.00d.522 That gaue thee power to doe /me, to say this. [CW:Since] 157.00d.523 Since his will is, that to poste-/ritee, [H6] 157.00d.524 Thou shouldest for life, & death, /a patterne bee, 157.00d.525 And that the world should no-/tice haue of this, 157.00d.526 The purpose, and th'Authoritie /is his; 157.00d.527 Thou art the Proclamation; and /I ame 157.00d.528 The Trumpet, at whose voyce /the people came. 157.00d.SS %X%1F#I#N#I#S%2. 157.00d.0$$ text in roman; all lines overhang; 2nd half of l. 2 not indented.