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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>A PANEGYRIC UPON THE Ble&s;&s;ed Virgin MARY.</HEAD>
<L>_WHat Eye dares &s;earch the Bright|ne&s;s of the Sun?</L>
<L>What Pencil draw it? What Conception</L>
<L>Is clean enough Thy Purene&s;s to de&s;cry,</L>
<L>Or &s;trong enough to &s;peak Thy Dignity,</L>
<L>Ble&s;t Mother of our Lord, who&s;e Happy State</L>
<L>None but an Angels Tongue did fir&s;t relate?</L>
<L>Thou wert on Earth a Star mo&s;t heavenly bright,</L>
<L>That did&s;t bring forth the Sun that lent Thee Light:</L>
<L>An Earthly Ve&s;&s;el full of heavenly Grace,</L>
<L>That brought&s;t forth Life to <HI>Adam's</HI> dying Race.</L>
<L>For God on Earth Thou wert a Royal Throne,</L>
<L>The Quarry to cut out our Corner-&s;tone,</L>
<L>The cho&s;en Cloth to make his Mortal Weed,</L>
<L>Soil ble&s;t with Fruit, yet free from Mortal Seed.</L>
<L>In Marriage-bands thou led&s;t a Virgin-life,</L>
<L>And, tho' untouch'd, becam'&s;t a Fruitful Wife.</L>
<L>Tho' Thou to aged <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> wert a&s;&s;ur'd,</L>
<L>No Carnal Love that Sacred League procur'd,</L>
<L>All vain Delights were far from your A&s;&s;ent,</L>
<L>For cha&s;t by Vow you &s;eal'd you cha&s;t Intent.</L>
<L>Thus God his Paradi&s;e to <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> lent,</L>
<L>Wherein to plant the Tree of Life he meant,</L>
<L>To rai&s;e a Birth miraculous, and by</L>
<L>His &s;acred ways of Power di&s;clo&s;e that high</L>
<L>And holy My&s;tery, which Angels (tho'</L>
<L>So full of Light) de&s;ir'd to look into.</L>
<L>When Thou thy Maker did&s;t bring forth, and he</L>
<L>Who&s;e Age had been from all Eternity,</L>
<L>Was born an Infant from Thy Ble&s;&s;ed Womb,</L>
<L>He lay enclo&s;ed in that narrow Room,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Greatne&s;s Heaven and Earth could not contain.</L>
<L>Who made the World, and Nature did ordain,</L>
<L>Was made of Thy Fle&s;h; he, who&s;e open'd Hand</L>
<L>Feeds all the Creatures both by Sea and Land;</L>
<L>That even to Thee thy Life and Being lent,</L>
<L>Did from Thy Brea&s;t receive his Nouri&s;hment.</L>
<L>His Birth no Human Tongues were fit to &s;ing:</L>
<L>Th' Angelic Quire did greet their new-born King.</L>
<L>So bright a Con&s;ort, and &s;o &s;weet a Lay,</L>
<L>Made Night more fair and chearful than the Day,</L>
<L>And little <HI>Bethlem</HI> with more Glory fill'd</L>
<L>Than all the <HI>Roman</HI> Palaces could yield.</L>
<L>How wondrous great is then Thy Happine&s;s,</L>
<L>That wert his Mother? But who can expre&s;s</L>
<L>So high a Bli&s;s? When we de&s;ire to fame</L>
<L>Some other Maid or vertuous Womans Name,</L>
<L>When we of other Ladies write the Lives,</L>
<L>Of cha&s;t Maids, happy Mothers, con&s;tant Wives,</L>
<L>Such as be&s;t Writers have renown'd of yore,</L>
<L>When we have told their Noble Vertues o're,</L>
<L>We draw Examples, and be&s;ides their own</L>
<L>Fair Stories, prai&s;e them by Compari&s;on.</L>
<L>But in Thy Life we cannot; Thou alone</L>
<L>Can&s;t not at all admit Compari&s;on.</L>
<L>So far thy happy Name and Honour lives</L>
<L>Above all other Mothers, Maids, or Wives,</L>
<L>That 'twere a Sin, when we Thy Story tell,</L>
<L>So much as once to think of Parallel.</L>
<L>We'll let Thee in Thine own pure Titles live,</L>
<L>And &s;peak no Prai&s;e of Thee but Po&s;itive;</L>
<L>As when we &s;ay, All Ages, Nations all</L>
<L>Shall Thee mo&s;t Happy among Women call;</L>
<L>That of the greate&s;t Ble&s;&s;ing God e're &s;ent</L>
<L>To &s;inful Man, Thou wert the In&s;trument.</L>
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<P><HI>Publi&s;h'd with Allowance.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>H. H.</HI> 1686.</P>
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