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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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<P><HI>DIVINE BLOSSOMES.</HI></P>
<P>A PROSPECT or LOOKING-GLASS For YOUTH: Wherein and whereby he may plainly behold and &s;ee a Supereminency and Super|excellency of <HI>Grace</HI> and <HI>Religion,</HI> beyond the Worlds <HI>Honor, Glory, Fame, Repute, Plea&s;ure, Joy, Delight, Love,</HI> And all other lower Accommodations what&s;oever.</P>
<P>Laid down to Youth by Exciting Parallel</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Between <HI>Earths Honor</HI> and <HI>Heavens Glory</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Between <HI>Carnal Plea&s;ure</HI> and <HI>Spiritual Plea&s;ure</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Between <HI>Inordinate Love</HI> and <HI>Divine Love.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>Under every of which particulars, the Author Exemplarily expe&s;&s;eth him&s;elf in a varied ver&s;e.</P>
<P>Compo&s;ed by a hearty Wel-wi&s;her to the Youthful Generation, FRANCIS COCKIN, <HI>ali&agrave;s</HI> COKAYNE.</P>
<Q>Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy Youth,</Q>
<BIBL>Eccl. 12.</BIBL>
<Q>Delight thy &s;elf in the Lord, and he &s;hall give thee thy Hearts de&s;ire,</Q>
<BIBL>P&s;al. 35. 4.</BIBL>
<Q>I love them that love me, and they that &s;eek me early &s;hall find me,</Q>
<BIBL>Prov. 8.</BIBL>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>W. G.</HI> for <HI>E. Farnham,</HI> at the entrance into <HI>Pope&s;head-alley</HI> out of <HI>Cornhill,</HI> 1657.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
<PB REF="2">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>To the Generation of Youth.</HEAD>
<P><HI>TEnder Reader, knowing how much youth|full yearts delight in eating early fruit, (though green and &s;o unwhol&s;ome) I therefore here pre&s;ent thee with a di&s;h of early fruit, (yet mature and ripe, and therefore no whit dan|gerous to thy greedy &s;tomack,) therefore accept it willingly and (with &s;afety) fall to with courage.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And much good may it do thee.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Onely let me reque&s;t thee to u&s;e civill behaviour in thy &s;o doing: be &s;ober, be &s;erious, read under|&s;tandingly, apply diligently, and practi&s;e con&s;ciona|bly the precepts here given thee.</HI></P>
<P><HI>For thy good profit and incouragement, I have vouch&s;afed to expre&s;&s;e my &s;elf unto thee; what thou ha&s;t heard of me, by me, in me, and from me, do therefore and take all in Love from him, that &s;eeks mo&s;t heartily (and with the &s;trength of his Soul) thy eternal wellfare and Gods glory in thee.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Ely <DATE>July. 1656.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>F. C.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
<PB REF="3">
<PB REF="3">
<HEAD>To the mo&s;t famous &amp; renowned Mr. <HI>George Wither.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Worthy Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_ALL happine&s;s and peace I wi&s;h you: And ha|ving been very de&s;i|rous (&s;ince the fir&s;t time I ever met with ought of yours) to gratifie you according to your worth and de&s;ert; and finding no means and wayes thereunto, I have deigned to pre&s;ent the&s;e few Pages unto you, thereby to te&s;tifie (in part) the high e&s;teem and honorable re&s;pect that I adjudge you worthy of.</P>
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<P>Sir, accept of this in love, pa&s;s your candid cen&s;ure of it, and though the Phra&s;es and Style be mean, let the Matter and Drift excu&s;e it. Again, con&s;idering by me 'twas penn'd (in a few dayes) with much ha&s;te, and pa&s;t from me immediately, no per&s;on fitter then your &s;elf to patronize the&s;e Art|le&s;s Lines, could I find, becau&s;e your Youthful years were in the &s;ame man|ner &s;pent.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sir, I am Yours, mo&s;t ready to &s;erve you in ought, FRANCIS COKAINE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="publisher's advertisement">
<PB REF="4">
<OPENER><SALUTE>Courteous Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>LEt me reque&s;t thee when ever thou finde&s;t any fault in the &s;en&s;e or Ver&s;e, to mend it as is hereunder &s;pecified; the Authors ab&s;ence having occa&s;ioned &s;everal mi&s;takes.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Contents of the Book.</HEAD>
<P><HI>FIr&s;t the invocation (pre&s;ents it &s;elf) wherein the Au|thour craves Gods divine a&s;&s;i&s;tance and gracious ac|ceptance in and of the intended work.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Then by way of Introduction proves his own fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ne&s;&s;e to the worke. Gives a word or two to Parents about the edu|cating their children, and declares the manner of their greeting them in Hell; hintes &s;ome matters to Superiors, and &s;o procceds to the work it &s;elf.</HI></P>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Wherein the Authour.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t, begins to excite youth, to &s;eek after God and glo|ry, from the heat of his Spirit a&s;piring to honour, declares the high worth of the engagement.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And fora&s;much as the heart of youth is ambitious of fame glory and renown gotten and won by valiancy in de&s;perate and dangerous attempts, therefore the Author de&s;cribes the might, &s;trength and power of that grand Chri&s;tian enemy.</HI></P>
<PB REF="6">
<P><HI>And &s;tirs up the courage of youth, to engage in the quar|rel again&s;t him, by &s;everal encouraging motives.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Declares the worth of that that lies at &s;take and mu&s;t el&s;e be lo&s;t, and then the worthy renown and glory that may be obtain'd, by a couragious encounter again&s;t fle&s;hly lu&s;ts.</HI></P>
<P><HI>As al&s;o relates an Onene&s;&s;e that is between Chri&s;ts Spi|rit, and the Spirit of him that oppo&s;es the motions of &s;in, they both joyn to do the &s;ame work &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Shews that according to the employment, &s;o &s;hould the reward be.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Then for the further encouragement, and &s;tronger ex|citement of youth, to &s;eek God and Glory, the Author ex|pre&s;&s;es him&s;elf, and declares at what a rate, he &s;ets the &s;ervice of God; the contempt that he hath of the world and all things in the world, in re&s;pect of that honourable &s;er|vice.</HI></P>
<P><HI>By a brief &s;urvey of all that the world affordeth he proves and declares all therein to be non-&s;atisfactory, and in&s;uf|ficient to the de&s;ire of the Soul of man.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Then in&s;i&s;ting upon the &s;econd point, viz. plea&s;ure;</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t, he &s;hews the congruity that is between it, and the nature of youth, declares the effects of plea&s;ures, and to what they tend by in&s;tance.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And gives &s;ound coun&s;ell therefrom, to youth in re|&s;pect of Soul-demeanment.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Then the Author layes down the ri&s;t of plea&s;ure, de|claring what it is that makes plea&s;ure.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And &s;hews by &s;imilitude the woful and dangerous e&s;tate of a vain luxurious Spirit.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Declares in a word or two the unmatchle&s;&s;e worth of the
<PB REF="6"> Soul, and rea&s;ons &s;omwhat from that thence its freedome.</HI></P>
<P><HI>In &s;adne&s;&s;e of heart declaring the aba&s;ement of the Soul by &s;in, hints at the reward of &s;in by way of arguing.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Proves the &s;oul Chri&s;ts purcha&s;e, and di&s;cour&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ome|what therefrom; Then layes down &s;ome Solid in&s;tructions to youth, how and whereby he &s;hould get free from &s;innes &s;lavery, and get the conque&s;t of every helli&s;h enormity.</HI></P>
<P><HI>De&s;cribes the bli&s;s that thereby his &s;oul &s;hall procure to it &s;elf; viz. the pre&s;ence of Chri&s;t and &s;anctification by his Spirit, acceptance of God through him, and adornment with his graces; lays down the paralell of the pre&s;ent e&s;tate with the e&s;tate pa&s;t, and de&s;cribes &s;ome excellent peculiar Chri&s;tian privileges.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Then de&s;cribes plea&s;ure to be a painted &s;trumpet; pro|pounds 4 Que&s;tions to youth, from whence he gives him to under&s;tand how dear bought all the plea&s;ures of &s;in are.</HI></P>
<P><HI>De&s;cribes the mi&s;erable &s;lavery and &s;ervitude of &s;in.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And then for the delight of the Reader, the Authour varies that ver&s;e, and expre&s;&s;es his own youthfull expe|rience of plea&s;ure, &s;hewing what it truely is;</HI></P>
<P><HI>And then declares and layes down the arguments and con&s;iderations wherewithall he oppo&s;ed all the plea&s;ures of &s;in, and got ma&s;tery thereof.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Hints to what &s;in deprives of, and layes down, in a word or two, the excellencie of the unpa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">aleld &s;weets of religion.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Then coming to the third particular &s;hews thereunder, how youths heated bloud layes him open to love, and lu&s;ts. Declares the advantage the Devil takes at youths carele&s;&s;e activity; and how he ever attendeth to give him an object for his active Spirit to fix on.</HI></P>
<PB REF="7">
<P><HI>Shews youth to be guided by a head-&s;trong pa&s;&s;ion.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Then paralells Heavens beauty with earths, and divine with carnall love in &s;everal circum&s;tances.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Rea&s;ons youth from the excellency of the one and the &s;ordidne&s;&s;e of the other, to &s;eek that which is mo&s;t excel|lent, e&s;chew ab&s;urditie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> and dangers, the which is illu&s;tra|ted by &s;everal re&s;emblances.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Then the Authour turns off, and in a plea&s;ant &s;train ex|pre&s;&s;es him&s;elf, relating the excellency of divine beauty, and de&s;cribes the worthyne&s;s of divine Love by his own ex|perience, triumphing in his youthfull choyce.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Therein paralelling the beauty, excellency, proportiona|blene&s;&s;e, &s;weetne&s;&s;e, &amp;c. of the Creatours Love to the crea|tures in a kind of Soul-ravi&s;hing exta&s;y, relating Soul|enamoring rarities.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Then comes to a conclu&s;ion, wherein he &s;hews the diffe|rence between the &s;ervice of &s;in and God: excites from &s;e|veral con&s;iderations to the &s;ervice of God.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Relates the &s;um of his own de&s;ired endevour for the good of youth: how &s;ingle-hearted he hath been therein, affectio|nately expre&s;&s;ing the tenderne&s;&s;e of his heart to the good of young One.</HI></P>
<P><HI>But more e&s;pecially, how exceeding precious gracious young-Ones are to him, and how entirely beloved by him.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Deign<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> out of depth of affection to give them &s;ome pe|culiar in&s;tructions.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Exhorts to make u&s;e of prayer; &s;hews the excellency there|of in it &s;elf, and in its effects.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Relates his own experience thereof, and &s;o therein and therewithall puts period to the whole.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="invocation">
<PB REF="7">
<HEAD>The Invocation.</HEAD>
<LG N="1">
<HEAD>[1.]</HEAD>
<L>MO&s;t deare&s;t Lord! My &s;ouls de&s;ire and joy,</L>
<L>That &s;e'&s;t and rule&s;t all things even as one,</L>
<L>In whom it lies to &s;ave, or to de&s;troy,</L>
<L>There being none can &s;ave, but thou alone:</L>
</LG>
<LG N="2">
<HEAD>[2.]</HEAD>
<L>'Tis thou alone, to whom I make my &s;uit,</L>
<L>'Tis thou to whom my &s;elf I do addre&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>'Tis for thy &s;ake that I would not be mute,</L>
<L>I'd &s;peak thy prai&s;e, nor can I do ought le&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="3">
<HEAD>[3.]</HEAD>
<L>My tender youth proffers my &s;lender Rimes</L>
<L>To do thee &s;ervice, who&s;e I wholly am:</L>
<L>I give my be&s;t, I'd &s;pend my vacant times</L>
<L>For and to thee, from whom my Being came:</L>
</LG>
<LG N="4">
<HEAD>[4.]</HEAD>
<L>Lord, may&s;t thou plea&s;e my fancy to enrich,</L>
<L>And fill my &s;pirit with cele&s;tial flames,</L>
<L>Begetting in each faculty an itch</L>
<L>Of &s;trange de&s;ire thereto, that who&s;o blames</L>
</LG>
<LG N="5">
<HEAD>[5.]</HEAD>
<L>Me, for the laying out my &s;elf about</L>
<L>That which may tend thee honor for to bring,</L>
<L>I may them &s;leight, in &s;lavi&s;h thoughts the rout,</L>
<L>And in de&s;pite of all thy glories &s;ing.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="6">
<PB N="2" REF="8">
<HEAD>[6.]</HEAD>
<L>In&s;truct my heart, and fill my Mind with Matter,</L>
<L>My Apprehen&s;ion quicken, and enable;</L>
<L>Compo&s;e my Thoughts, let not Di&s;traction tatter</L>
<L>My inner Man, but in Thee make me &s;table.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="7">
<HEAD>[7.]</HEAD>
<L>Yea, ad thou Art to poli&s;h &s;o my Rimes,</L>
<L>That my intended purpo&s;e they may do:</L>
<L>Thou tak'&s;t the advantage of all Things and Times</L>
<L>Here take thy 'dvantage, that thy Glories &s;o</L>
</LG>
<LG N="8">
<HEAD>[8.]</HEAD>
<L>May grow by my endevours, which when I</L>
<L>With joyful heart, with gladded &s;oul &s;hall &s;ee,</L>
<L>My utmo&s;t Aim and End I then e&s;pie:</L>
<L>(Oh may I not in this deceived bee!)</L>
</LG>
<LG N="9">
<HEAD>[9.]</HEAD>
<L>For what doth't profit me, O Lord, to live,</L>
<L>If to thy prai&s;e my Life be noe directed?</L>
<L>Thou daily giv'&s;t, I daily do receive,</L>
<L>Unworthy I, of Thee to be re&s;pected!</L>
</LG>
<LG N="10">
<HEAD>[10.]</HEAD>
<L>A twofold wayes my Soul and Body's Thine,</L>
<L>Thine by Creation, Thine by Purcha&s;e too;</L>
<L>(By th' la&s;t of which thy Son and his is mine,</L>
<L>An intere&s;t in thy Self I have al&s;o.)</L>
</LG>
<LG N="11">
<PB N="3" REF="8">
<HEAD>[11.]</HEAD>
<L>A &s;ingle Bond &s;ufficient is to bind</L>
<L>An hone&s;t per&s;on to perform an Act;</L>
<L>And &s;hall a double le&s;s advantage find?</L>
<L>How greatly di&s;-ingenuous is that fact!</L>
</LG>
<LG N="12">
<HEAD>[12.]</HEAD>
<L>Thine, thine I am, for thee I would lay out</L>
<L>My Strength, my Skill, my Might, my Power and Love:</L>
<L>Fain would I bu&s;ied be thy works about,</L>
<L>And for Employment now I do thee move.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="13">
<HEAD>[13.]</HEAD>
<L>My dappled Quill thy Service waits to do,</L>
<L>For to record whatere the Minde di&s;&s;olveth</L>
<L>To words, my hand is willing thereunto,</L>
<L>And all my Powers upon that task re&s;olveth.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="14">
<HEAD>[14.]</HEAD>
<L>Oh ble&s;s and breath upon my weak Endevours,</L>
<L>Thou God of ble&s;&s;ing, Authour of all good,</L>
<L>That crown'&s;t with glory that Soul that per&s;evers,</L>
<L>Who&s;e might and power cannot be with&s;tood.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="15">
<HEAD>[15.]</HEAD>
<L>Infu&s;e thy Spirit &s;o into my Soul,</L>
<L>That neither Wit nor matter may be wanting</L>
<L>Unto me, Youths vain cour&s;es to controul,</L>
<L>And &s;et his Nature after thee a panting.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="16">
<PB N="4" REF="9">
<HEAD>[16.]</HEAD>
<L>For to in&s;inuate into his will,</L>
<L>And u&s;her thorough his Judgment to's Affection,</L>
<L>(Vouch&s;afe to me the Strength, the Art, the skill)</L>
<L>That He may give to Thee all due &s;ubjection.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="17">
<HEAD>[17.]</HEAD>
<L>Vouch&s;afe the&s;e feeble Lines for to in&s;pire</L>
<L>With &s;o much power of thy prevailing Grace,</L>
<L>That they each Readers Heart may &s;et on fire,</L>
<L>And efficacious be &s;in to di&s;place.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="18">
<HEAD>[18.]</HEAD>
<L>O God! Let not that Cannibal devoure</L>
<L>Tho&s;e precious Souls, for whom Chri&s;t gave his blood;</L>
<L>But mitigate his domineering power,</L>
<L>And make Mankind attentive more to good.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="19">
<HEAD>[19.]</HEAD>
<L>Permit him not, O Lord! to &s;poil and &s;troy</L>
<L>Thy tender Plants, nor any budding flower;</L>
<L>Permit him not thy vineyard to annoy,</L>
<L>Rebuke him, let him not thy vines devoure.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="20">
<HEAD>[20.]</HEAD>
<L>O let him not of Youth make a full prey!</L>
<L>Correct O Lord, Correct and give a check</L>
<L>To You<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">h's vain cour&s;es, &s;top 'm, make 'm &s;tay,</L>
<L>For they'l conformed be to no ones beck:</L>
</LG>
<LG N="21">
<PB N="5" REF="9">
<HEAD>[21.]</HEAD>
<L>Unblind Youths Eyes, un&s;top his deafned Ears,</L>
<L>And undeceive his vain deceived Heart;</L>
<L>Strike thou his &s;pirit, for he nothing fears,</L>
<L>And him and his beloved humours part:</L>
</LG>
<LG N="22">
<HEAD>[22.]</HEAD>
<L>Thou God of love and grace, &s;hew mercy to him,</L>
<L>Vouch&s;afe to turn him, ere he goes to hell;</L>
<L>O let not lu&s;ts, plea&s;ures, vain love undo him,</L>
<L>Defeat him of thee, with the damn'd to dwell!</L>
</LG>
<LG N="23">
<HEAD>[23.]</HEAD>
<L>But make him tractable to good In&s;truction,</L>
<L>Conformable unto thy ble&s;&s;ed plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>Complyable to every &s;afe direction,</L>
<L>And to e&s;teem thy love above all trea&s;ure:</L>
</LG>
<LG N="24">
<HEAD>[24.]</HEAD>
<L>Make this my endevour &s;erviceable to him,</L>
<L>Make this to him as plea&s;ant &s;avoury food;</L>
<L>Yea, make it powerfull enough to woo him;</L>
<L>To purge out evils, make it phy&s;ick good.</L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="text">
<PB N="6" REF="10">
<HEAD>DIVINE BLOSSOMES.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="introduction">
<HEAD>The Introduction.</HEAD>
<LG N="1">
<HEAD>[1.]</HEAD>
<L>IF &s;ickly Men fitte&s;t Phy&s;icians are,</L>
<L>And troubled Con&s;ciences the be&s;t Divines,</L>
<L>To contradict my fitne&s;s, then who dare,</L>
<L>To &s;peak to Youth in my unpoli&s;h'd Lines:</L>
<L>My years being tender, I experience do</L>
<L>What ere may be delightful Youth unto.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="2">
<HEAD>[2.]</HEAD>
<L>Who better knows, or who's a fitter Man</L>
<L>To tell the Road, than Carriers that do travel</L>
<L>It every day? Perhaps another can</L>
<L>Say what it was of late, and where &s;ome gravel</L>
<L>Was laid on &s;uch a place, on &s;uch a day;</L>
<L>But what at pre&s;ent 'tis, he cannot &s;ay.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="3">
<HEAD>[3.]</HEAD>
<L>But he that is a travelling each hour,</L>
<L>And &s;eldome off the Road, can be&s;t di&s;cover</L>
<L>Each miry Bog: The like hath he the power</L>
<L>To do in any Art, that is a Lover</L>
<L>Thereof, and a &s;ound Student therein;</L>
<L>To which, and to his Nature, there's &s;ome kin.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="4">
<PB N="7" REF="10">
<HEAD>[4.]</HEAD>
<L>My years being tender, and well neer their Bloom;</L>
<L>My blood being hot, and &s;welling in my veins;</L>
<L>Cares being &s;trangers, vigour taking room;</L>
<L>Who better may greet youth with plea&s;ant &s;trains?</L>
<L>Who better may de&s;cribe and &s;peak to 's Nature,</L>
<L>Than I that am a young and youthful Creature?</L>
</LG>
<LG N="5">
<HEAD>[5.]</HEAD>
<L>Youth may &s;ay, Age layes too much burthen on them,</L>
<L>Having forgot what they in youth did do;</L>
<L>May think their &s;olid precepts much may wrong them,</L>
<L>Or be too hard for Youth to attain unto:</L>
<L>There being di&s;parity in Age,</L>
<L>They may object, their coun&s;el is too &s;age.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="6">
<HEAD>[6.]</HEAD>
<L>But the&s;e and many other &s;uch like cavils</L>
<L>Are ta'n away while youth to youth doth &s;peak;</L>
<L>Young ones be&s;t know what young ones &s;oone&s;t gravels</L>
<L>Their folly, their vain cour&s;es, where they'r weak:</L>
<L>There's a propen&s;ity in youthful nature,</L>
<L>Congruity in almo&s;t every feature.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="7">
<HEAD>[7.]</HEAD>
<L>What &s;hall I &s;ay to youthful years Abu&s;es?</L>
<L>Them to de&s;cribe, &s;hould I now make my task,</L>
<L>Taking away their vain and fond Excu&s;es,</L>
<L>Too much time, pains, and labour would it ask:</L>
<L>Again, then mu&s;t I old Age blame and check,</L>
<L>'Cau&s;e they neglected (carele&s;ly) to deck.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="8">
<PB N="8" REF="11">
<HEAD>[8.]</HEAD>
<L>Their Childrens tender years with virtues veil,</L>
<L>Which is the cau&s;e their Lives are now &s;o bad,</L>
<L>For Virtue might as well in Youth prevail,</L>
<L>If that her &s;olid precepts they had had:</L>
<L>Train up a Childe with precepts good and &s;age,</L>
<L>And he will not forget the &s;ame in Age.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="9">
<HEAD>[9.]</HEAD>
<L>But how can Youth, Alas! how can he chu&s;e</L>
<L>But vile and vain di&s;ordered Cour&s;es take?</L>
<L>When as his Parent never did him u&s;e</L>
<L>To contradict, nor good to him to &s;peak:</L>
<L>Ground &s;own with Nettles cannot bring forth Wheat,</L>
<L>He's like to thrive that eateth dirt for meat.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="10">
<HEAD>[10.]</HEAD>
<L>Oh Parents! what account d'ye think to make</L>
<L>To great <HI>Jehov</HI>' at the great Judgement-day?</L>
<L>Oh! how will ye appear? what can ye &s;peak?</L>
<L>The want of precepts made your Children &s;tray:</L>
<L>Their language then'll be this, when they &s;hall &s;ee ye,</L>
<L><HI>Oh cur&s;ed Parents! Cur&s;ed, cur&s;ed be ye.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG N="11">
<HEAD>[11.]</HEAD>
<L>H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">d it not been for you, we had not come</L>
<L>Into this place of Soul-tormenting pain,</L>
<L>You made us guilty of this heavy doom,</L>
<L>In that you cheri&s;h'd us in cour&s;es vain:</L>
<L>You might have been the means of our Salvation,</L>
<L>But you have been the means of our Damnation.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="12">
<PB N="9" REF="11">
<HEAD>[12.]</HEAD>
<L>Cur&s;ed be you with an eternal cur&s;e,</L>
<L>Curs'd be the time wherein you us begat,</L>
<L>Curs'd be the wombe that bore's, &s;he that did's nur&s;e,</L>
<L>Curs'd be all they that much rejoyc'd at</L>
<L>Our Birth and Being: mi&s;erable we</L>
<L>That are confin'd in Torments e'r to be.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="13">
<HEAD>[13.]</HEAD>
<L>Oh cur&s;ed Parents! you the woful cau&s;e</L>
<L>Of this our woful ca&s;e mo&s;t truly were,</L>
<L>In that you let us violate Gods laws,</L>
<L>Neglected to in&s;truct us in his fear:</L>
<L>Cur&s;ed we &s;ay, for ever curs'd be you,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e the means of this our cur&s;e are you.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="14">
<HEAD>[14.]</HEAD>
<L>You cocker'd, when you &s;hould have us in&s;tructed;</L>
<L>You brought us up in vanity and &s;in,</L>
<L>You laught with us, when you &s;hould's corrected,</L>
<L>And that encourag'd us our cour&s;es in:</L>
<L>You lookt not to us with an eye &s;evere,</L>
<L>We never from you did &s;ound precepts hear.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="15">
<HEAD>[15.]</HEAD>
<L>Parents, what think ye of this woful greeting?</L>
<L>Is't nothing for to bed in flames of fire?</L>
<L>And be &s;aluted at your heavy meeting</L>
<L>With &s;tripes &amp; &s;trokes, with whips of knotted wire?</L>
<L>Look for no le&s;s, your children will do &s;o,</L>
<L>What will not black Revenge fierce iury do?</L>
</LG>
<LG N="15">
<PB N="10" REF="12">
<HEAD>[15.]</HEAD>
<L>Bowels of love are turned there to hate,</L>
<L>Your Children are transformed into Devils;</L>
<L>I can't conceive, my Pen cannot relate</L>
<L>How they'l torment ye' for tho&s;e forbid Evils</L>
<L>That they did learn from your vain conver&s;ation,</L>
<L>Which greatly did conduce to their damnation.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="16">
<HEAD>[16.]</HEAD>
<L>Indeed, Can they do le&s;s then torture you</L>
<L>That were the cau&s;e that they are thus tormented?</L>
<L>Parents, Remember this, Con&s;ider now</L>
<L>In time, le&s;t your damnation be augmented</L>
<L>By their company in tho&s;e fierce flames</L>
<L>That ever burn, and nought their fury tames.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="17">
<HEAD>[17.]</HEAD>
<L>Your greate&s;t Duty lie not in providing</L>
<L>Them here a portion, and in laying up</L>
<L>Such things for them, as if they'd here abiding</L>
<L>For evermore, and &s;hould not ta&s;te the Cup</L>
<L>That's in Gods hand, containing Wine that's red</L>
<L>(For them that know him not) by's fury bred.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="18">
<HEAD>[18.]</HEAD>
<L>But I do not intend to task my Mu&s;e</L>
<L>At pre&s;ent, for to &s;peak unto old Age;</L>
<L>No, at the pre&s;ent I the &s;ame refu&s;e,</L>
<L>Yet &s;hall my matter be both grave and &s;age:</L>
<L>'Tis Youth to whom I do intend my &s;peech,</L>
<L>'Tis Youth I do as Auditor be&s;eech.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="19">
<PB N="11" REF="12">
<HEAD>[19.]</HEAD>
<L>I &s;hall not read Lectures of good Behaviour</L>
<L>Now unto Age, how they &s;hould wi&s;ely live;</L>
<L>How act them&s;elves, that all their acts might &s;avour</L>
<L>Of Good; a good Example for to give</L>
<L>To imitative Youth, that notes each thing</L>
<L>They do, and does the like in many a thing.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="20">
<HEAD>[20.]</HEAD>
<L>And though I have hinted, yet I have no more</L>
<L>Than given an hint of that &s;ame weighty charge</L>
<L>Of Childrens Education, on the &s;core</L>
<L>Of tho&s;e that keep them, tho&s;e of riper age:</L>
<L>Tho&s;e acts of yours, that you think time doth &s;mother,</L>
<L>Are kept alive, being acted by another.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="21">
<HEAD>[21.]</HEAD>
<L>'Tis Go&s;pel-Exhortation, BE DISCREET,</L>
<L>(As well to Youth as Age directly given)</L>
<L>'Tis not to one, but doth both Sexes greet,</L>
<L>Speaks to all per&s;ons that look after Heaven:</L>
<L><HI>Be circum&s;pect and wi&s;e, Redeem the time,</HI></L>
<L>You that would live in that all-glorious Clime.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="22">
<HEAD>[22.]</HEAD>
<L>Old Age, remember, God doth notice take</L>
<L>Of al your words, your ge&s;tures, thoughts and deeds,</L>
<L>Of each of which you mu&s;t a reckoning make;</L>
<L>From <HI>Thoughts</HI> come <HI>Word,</HI> and from thence <HI>Action</HI> breeds:</L>
<L>God views your Generation, Children, &s;ee</L>
<L>The Devils mind, then &s;ee you wary bee.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="1">
<PB N="12" REF="13">
<HEAD>Excitations. [1.]</HEAD>
<L>But tender Youth, Come hearken, lend an Ear;</L>
<L>My thoughts on you at pre&s;ent I do &s;pend;</L>
<L>It is to you, to you I do declare</L>
<L>That which unto Soul-&s;afety much doth tend:</L>
<L>Now thou art young, and &s;ound, and &s;trong in &s;tature,</L>
<L>Remember, Oh Remember thy Creator.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="2">
<HEAD>[2.]</HEAD>
<L>Begin betimes to &s;eek the King of glory,</L>
<L>At who&s;e right hand plea&s;ures for evermore</L>
<L>Do bide and dwell, who&s;e worth the Angels &s;tory,</L>
<L>And they with Saints and Seraphims adore:</L>
<L>Up, up Youth, and pur&s;ue this glorious prize;</L>
<L>Shake, &s;hake off &s;loth, come quickly, quickly ri&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="3">
<HEAD>[3.]</HEAD>
<L>Thy blood is hot (Youth) let that heat excite thee,</L>
<L>And &s;tir thy &s;pirits, move them to a flame;</L>
<L>Collect thy &s;pirits &s;trength, here's that will fight thee;</L>
<L>Ari&s;e, ari&s;e, thy &s;loth I greatly blame:</L>
<L>'Tis Glory, 'tis a Kingdome, 'tis laid down,</L>
<L>The brows of the victorious for to crown.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="4">
<HEAD>[4.]</HEAD>
<L>Come, here are brave attempts, noble atchievements,</L>
<L>Here, here's the way, the way to purcha&s;e honor;</L>
<L>Here's truly noble, truely brave employments,</L>
<L>To be a Souldier under Chri&s;ts owne Banner:</L>
<L>The God of Heaven and Earth the Captain is,</L>
<L>The cau&s;e is good, 'tis for eternal bli&s;s.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="5">
<PB N="13" REF="13">
<HEAD>[5.]</HEAD>
<L>O put on courage! Let that boyling blood</L>
<L>That heats your veins, turn into holy rage;</L>
<L>Bid Sin avaunt, let Sathan be with&s;tood,</L>
<L>And in that holy War your &s;elves engage:</L>
<L>Redeem your time, your freedomes, and your &s;elves,</L>
<L>For all are Captives unto helli&s;h Elves.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="6">
<HEAD>[6.]</HEAD>
<L>Your enemy is &s;trong, a potent foe,</L>
<L>He's full of might, of policy and skill;</L>
<L>The World, the Fle&s;h do joyn their &s;trength un<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t earthly Powers do obey his will:</L>
<L>Things that do look with &s;eeming glorious faces,</L>
<L>Principalities and Foes in heavenly places</L>
</LG>
<LG N="7">
<HEAD>[7.]</HEAD>
<L>You have to fight again&s;t: Engines of War</L>
<L>Your Foe-man hath, &s;leights, &s;tratagems and wildes,</L>
<L>Whereby he often conquers from afar,</L>
<L>And often many Creatures he beguiles:</L>
<L>We are his Slaves, and in fell bondage all,</L>
<L>Stand at his beck, and run when he doth call.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="8">
<HEAD>Encouragements [8.] and Exhortations.</HEAD>
<L>Oh let us rouze us, quitting &s;inful floth,</L>
<L>And put on courage, and go forth with might;</L>
<L>For to engage in fight, let's not be loth,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e we lo&s;e our Souls el&s;e, and their right:</L>
<L>What though our Foe be &s;trong, our Captain's &s;tronger:</L>
<L>What though his arm be long? our Captain's longer.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="9">
<PB N="14" REF="14">
<HEAD>[9.]</HEAD>
<L>The Body's broke, Up, up, and take the &s;poyl,</L>
<L>The Body of our foes pui&s;&s;ant &s;trength,</L>
<L>Our noble Captain 'th given Death the foyl,</L>
<L>And we &s;hall be victorious to him at length:</L>
<L>Fall on, Fall on, our foes are in a Rout,</L>
<L>The Victory is ours, out of doubt.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="10">
<HEAD>[10.]</HEAD>
<L>Right noble Spirits, true heroick Minds,</L>
<L>Delight t' engage where Courage may appear,</L>
<L>I have oft heard how glad He is that finds</L>
<L>A de&s;perate attempt, that may him dare;</L>
<L>And this they do, that the &s;hrill Trump of Fame</L>
<L>Unto the Age may blazon forth their Name.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="11">
<HEAD>[11.] Argument 1.</HEAD>
<L>But young Men, Heark ye, If that airy honour</L>
<L>May move hot Spirits to adventure far,</L>
<L>Then what may this under <HI>Jehovah</HI>'s Banner</L>
<L>(For your owne Intere&s;ts) t' attempt a War?</L>
<L>Y' are Slaves to Sin, and to each Humour; then</L>
<L>Ari&s;e, ari&s;e, and quit your &s;elves like Men.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="12">
<HEAD>[12.]</HEAD>
<L>The Spoyl is good, the Triumph and the Joy</L>
<L>Is great and glorious, Ever doth endure;</L>
<L>Time &s;ha'nt wear out, Oblivion &s;ha'nt de&s;troy</L>
<L>Your Trophees of Renown, you &s;hall be &s;ure</L>
<L>Ever to have, and therewithall a Crown</L>
<L>Of la&s;ting Glory, when this life's laid down.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="13">
<PB N="15" REF="14">
<HEAD>[13.]</HEAD>
<L>Each valiant Act, and each Heroick Deed</L>
<L>You do, or ever &s;hall attempt to do</L>
<L>With real Heart, taking re&s;pective heed,</L>
<L>Shall much the glory of your Crown ad to:</L>
<L>For every Lu&s;t you conquer and &s;ubdue</L>
<L>Joy, Peace, and Comfort will to you en&s;ue.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="14">
<HEAD>[14.] Argument 2.</HEAD>
<L>Nay, 'Tis high Honour for you then to joyn</L>
<L>With Gods own Son, the Heir of Earth and Heaven,</L>
<L>Your &s;pirits then with his Spirit combine,</L>
<L>For to de&s;troy all Sin his Life was given:</L>
<L>He came to overthrow the works of th' Devil,</L>
<L>The &s;ame do you, when you oppo&s;e an Evil.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="15">
<HEAD>[15.]</HEAD>
<L>Youth, would'&s;t have Honour? Prethee tell me then,</L>
<L>What is't to be Favourite to a King?</L>
<L>The King of Kings, that rules and reigneth when</L>
<L>The world &s;hall cea&s;e, and every earthly thing:</L>
<L>This thou &s;halt be, if thou do&s;t to him live:</L>
<L>A Crown and Kingdome likewi&s;e he'l thee give.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="16">
<HEAD>[16.]</HEAD>
<L>Tell me then, Can thy &s;trength be laid out better?</L>
<L>Can thy hot vigorous Youth it &s;elf imploy</L>
<L>For more advantage, then to make him Debter</L>
<L>Unto thee, that doth Heaven and Earth enjoy:</L>
<L>His Love thou gain'&s;t by living in his will</L>
<L>Shalt Him and his po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e on <HI>Zions</HI> Hill.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="12">
<PB N="16" REF="15">
<HEAD>[12.]</HEAD>
<L>Oh lay not out the &s;trength of youthful years</L>
<L>To feed foul humours, and a fond de&s;ire,</L>
<L>Vain plea&s;ures will procure eternal tears,</L>
<L>And make thee lodge in everla&s;ting fire:</L>
<L>Re&s;i&s;t, oppo&s;e thy youthful inclination</L>
<L>That leads thee captive to each &s;ordid pa&s;&s;ion.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="13">
<HEAD>[13.]</HEAD>
<L>Wilt &s;erve him whom thou art a&s;ham'd to own,</L>
<L>As Ma&s;ter of the work that thou do&s;t do?</L>
<L>Be not deceiv'd, but look what thou ha&s;t &s;own</L>
<L>Thou can&s;t not but expect to reap al&s;o:</L>
<L>Bur-&s;eed doth Burs, Dill-&s;eed doth Dill bring forth,</L>
<L>The fruit and &s;eed are ever of like worth.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="14">
<HEAD>[14.]</HEAD>
<L>Thou &s;ow'&s;t in Fle&s;h, of Fle&s;h thou &s;halt reap &s;hame;</L>
<L>But if in Spirit, glory thou &s;halt find;</L>
<L>Permit not puny plea&s;ure for to maim</L>
<L>Thy Souls be&s;t &s;trength, nor to enerve thy Mind:</L>
<L>Thou can&s;t not &s;ay but 'tis an ab&s;urd evil</L>
<L>To give the wor&s;t to God, the be&s;t to th' Devil.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="15">
<HEAD>[15.]</HEAD>
<L>Tax me not Young-man, that I do enjoyn</L>
<L>Thee to a thing impo&s;&s;ible to do;</L>
<L>No, I'l a&s;&s;ure thee, here is not a line</L>
<L>But 'tis thy &s;afety to comply unto:</L>
<L>'Tis not by Hear-&s;ay that the thing I tell,</L>
<L>But by Experience I know it well.</L>
</LG>
<GAP DESC="missing" EXTENT="1 span">
<LG N="21">
<PB N="17" REF="15">
<HEAD>[21.]</HEAD>
<L>My heart e&s;teems't the noble&s;t de&s;ign,</L>
<L>That ere my youth can make adventure on,</L>
<L>Unto <HI>Jehove</HI> to make a full re&s;ign,</L>
<L>And in my Soul for to &s;et up his Throne:</L>
<L>I would that he &s;hould reign o're me as King,</L>
<L>And every thought to his Subjection bring.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="22">
<HEAD>[22.]</HEAD>
<L>His &s;ervice I e&s;teem at &s;uch a rate,</L>
<L>I would not leave it for to be a King,</L>
<L>An Emperour the mightye&s;t Potentate</L>
<L>The Earth ere bore: I do e&s;teem that thing</L>
<L>Of far le&s;s worth in Splendor, far more dim,</L>
<L>Then for to be a Servant unto him.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="23">
<HEAD>[23.]</HEAD>
<L>I &s;corne a Crown, an Earthly Diadem,</L>
<L>The Scepter of this univer&s;e to &s;way;</L>
<L>Compared with that matchle&s;&s;e glorious Gem</L>
<L>Of grace: for why that Honour's but a day.</L>
<L>But grace doth bring to glory evermore,</L>
<L>Makes a po&s;&s;e&s;&s;our of all glorious Store.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="24">
<HEAD>[24.]</HEAD>
<L>If that a Crown was layed at my feet,</L>
<L>As &s;ure as I do live, there &s;hould it lie;</L>
<L>If with Emperial honour men &s;hould greet</L>
<L>Me, as the greate&s;t Earthly maje&s;ty;</L>
<L>I would refu&s;e that honour and that grace,</L>
<L>For tho&s;e &s;ame troubles that attend the place.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="25">
<PB N="18" REF="16">
<HEAD>[25.]</HEAD>
<L>Much more would I contemn it, if it &s;hould</L>
<L>Be proffer'd to me, if I would for&s;ake</L>
<L>The Service of my God, or if I would</L>
<L>My &s;elf &s;ub&s;ervient to my humours make;</L>
<L>No, &s;uch petty honour I di&s;own,</L>
<L>I eye no le&s;s then an alglorious Crown.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="26">
<HEAD>[26.]</HEAD>
<L>An Earthly Crown's too mean for my de&s;ire,</L>
<L>Too ba&s;e an object for my heart to fix on:</L>
<L>My Spirit's fill'd, with more Heroick fire,</L>
<L>I beauty love, not &s;uch a dull complexion;</L>
<L>My Noble Soul doth crave a bigger boone,</L>
<L>I mu&s;t injoy that &s;acred Three in one.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="27">
<HEAD>[27.]</HEAD>
<L>Your fading honour I e&s;teem as dung,</L>
<L>Earth's weltering glory as the dirt in &s;treet;</L>
<L>I will not lodg one thought thereof among</L>
<L>Tho&s;e noble thoughts, my Soul do dayly greet;</L>
<L>Ba&s;e &s;ervile earth, avaunt, I'l not en&s;lave</L>
<L>My thoughts with thee, if I the world might have.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="28">
<HEAD>[28.]</HEAD>
<L>Alas poor earth, what's all that thou can&s;t give,</L>
<L>Or do&s;t afford, when &s;orrow greets the mind?</L>
<L>Wherein can an awakened con&s;cience live?</L>
<L>What cordial in thy Store-hou&s;e can it find?</L>
<L>Thou can&s;t not give thereto one dram of peace;</L>
<L>'Tis not in thee to make di&s;traction cea&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="29">
<PB N="19" REF="16">
<HEAD>[29.]</HEAD>
<L>Alas, Alas! thy glories are too mean.</L>
<L>Too mean an object, for the Souls de&s;ire:</L>
<L>The Souls de&s;ire's va&s;t and too extreme,</L>
<L>'Tis too extreme, and heat with better fire,</L>
<L>Then to be quencht, then for to be contented,</L>
<L>What tho&s;e poor &s;hadows that by thee's pre&s;ented.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="30">
<HEAD>[30.]</HEAD>
<L>Thy wealth, what's that a tru&s;s of meer deceit,</L>
<L>A bladder full of wind, an empty joy,</L>
<L>A real nothing, yet a glorious baite,</L>
<L>That doth beguil man of eternal joy;</L>
<L>And &s;hall my noble Spirit then lay out</L>
<L>Her precious thoughts, &s;uch vanities about.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="31">
<HEAD>[31]</HEAD>
<L>No, No, my Soul's immortal, and mu&s;t have,</L>
<L>Such wealth as is of an immortal being;</L>
<L>Such trea&s;ures as indure for aye I crave,</L>
<L>What do'nt I lightly prize and value, &s;eeing</L>
<L>It cannot an&s;wer my Souls va&s;t de&s;ire,</L>
<L>Allay nor coole the heat thereof the fire.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="32">
<HEAD>[32.]</HEAD>
<L>Thy plea&s;ures (world) thy Sen&s;e-be&s;otting plea&s;ures,</L>
<L>That &s;o bewitch's men of tender years:</L>
<L>Conduce as much to joy as do thy trea&s;ures,</L>
<L>Unto contentment, and to free from fears;</L>
<L>But this is that, that mo&s;t of 'th world do follow,</L>
<L>'Tis after plea&s;ure that they hoop and hollow.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="33">
<PB N="20" REF="17">
<HEAD>[33.]</HEAD>
<L>'Tis plea&s;ure that doth take the heart of youth,</L>
<L>'Tis plea&s;ure his de&s;ires lead him to;</L>
<L>His hot veins &s;wel, and plea&s;ure &s;trait doth &s;ooth,</L>
<L>His lively humours makes them act and go:</L>
<L>Plea&s;ures doth lull mo&s;t younglings fa&s;t a&s;leep,</L>
<L>Makes them laugh, now, eternally to weep.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="34">
<HEAD>[34.]</HEAD>
<L>O Young ones know Plea&s;ure's the Devils bait,</L>
<L>Wherewith he fi&s;hes for immortal &s;ouls;</L>
<L>In Plea&s;ure he doth lodge a grand deceit,</L>
<L>And &s;o (mo&s;t) youthfull Nature he befools;</L>
<L>Your boiling blood do &s;oone&s;t clo&s;e with plea&s;ures,</L>
<L>Which of Gods wrath doth oft unlock the Trea&s;ures.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="35">
<HEAD>[35.]</HEAD>
<L>Alas! and what are plea&s;ures to Gods Ire?</L>
<L>Plea&s;ures are fading that doth Age endure:</L>
<L>Think ye, can plea&s;ures coole tho&s;e flames of fire,</L>
<L>Or th' bitings of tho&s;e helli&s;h Scorpions Cure.</L>
<L>No your delightful plea&s;ures then will &s;ting ye,</L>
<L>As &s;ure as now they unto Hell will bring ye.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="36">
<HEAD>[36.]</HEAD>
<L>Plea&s;ure's a Ship that doth imbark for Hell</L>
<L>All Pa&s;&s;engers that are contain'd therein;</L>
<L>In endle&s;s flames they mu&s;t be &s;ure to dwell,</L>
<L>That do indulge and live and dye in &s;in;</L>
<L>They &s;weet and &s;wiftly Sail, and that doth tend,</L>
<L>Quickly to bring 'em to their Iourneys end.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="37">
<PB N="21" REF="17">
<HEAD>[37.]</HEAD>
<L>O &s;tay thy cour&s;e young man, lower thy Sails,</L>
<L>Winde up thy Canvas Ty 't clo&s;e to the Ma&s;t:</L>
<L>(Being open &s;pread the wind then mo&s;t prevailes,)</L>
<L>Oh therefore wind it up and ty 't up fa&s;t.</L>
<L>The affections are the Sailes, the which the Gu&s;ts;</L>
<L>Of vain de&s;ires do fill full with wanton Lu&s;ts.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="38">
<HEAD>[38.]</HEAD>
<L>The Ma&s;t I'd have thee tie the&s;e Sailes about,</L>
<L>Is Solid rea&s;on, and a judgment true:</L>
<L>Rea&s;on &s;hould guide th'affections thoroughou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>And judgment &s;hould inordinacy &s;ubdue;</L>
<L>Rea&s;on is Mi&s;tris Governe&s;s, will, de&s;ire, affection,</L>
<L>As hand-maids &s;hould attend her in &s;ubjection.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="39">
<HEAD>[39.]</HEAD>
<L>But for to &s;peak more properly unto thee,</L>
<L>Re&s;pecting what delights mo&s;t tender years;</L>
<L>Preventing plea&s;ures that they mayn't undo thee,</L>
<L>And &s;o expo&s;e thee unto endle&s;&s;e tears;</L>
<L>I &s;ay Religion yields as much delight,</L>
<L>As &s;inne can do, per&s;i&s;ted in aright.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="40">
<HEAD>[40.]</HEAD>
<L>All plea&s;ure ri&s;es from congruity,</L>
<L>And fitne&s;s 't<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">een the faculty and object;</L>
<L>When there's a natural propen&s;ity,</L>
<L>Needs mu&s;t it be a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">o&s;t delightful &s;ubject.</L>
<L>Guide then thy Soul by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">udgments &s;olid Art,</L>
<L>What makes delight's the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">mper of the Heart?</L>
</LG>
<LG N="41">
<PB N="22" REF="18">
<HEAD>[41.]</HEAD>
<L>An earthly heart doth earthly things per&s;ue,</L>
<L>An heaven-born Spirit takes delight in heaven:</L>
<L>From a luxurious heart there doth en&s;ue</L>
<L>Luxuriou&s;ne&s;s, (of vertue quite bereaven;)</L>
<L>An empty wanton heart filled with aire,</L>
<L>E'ry vaine object's ready for to dare.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="42">
<HEAD>[42.]</HEAD>
<L>And &s;uch a heart like an un-balla&s;t'd Ship,</L>
<L>Is turned o'r with e'ry breath of wind;</L>
<L>As empty ve&s;&s;els under &s;ail do skip,</L>
<L>That they within 'm, nought but danger find,</L>
<L>So 's the immortal Spirit to&s;t to and fro;</L>
<L>Hurried up and down, where fancy wills to go.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="43">
<HEAD>[43.]</HEAD>
<L>This matchle&s;&s;e Gem, this noble worthy Pee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L>Continually of &s;hipwrack is in danger;</L>
<L>To&s;t to and fro, now there, and &s;ometime here,</L>
<L>Unto all &s;afety a perpetual &s;tranger;</L>
<L>So long as mov'd by the light wind of pa&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>Subject to nothing but to alteration.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="44">
<HEAD>[44.]</HEAD>
<L>Ine&s;timable worth, value unknown.</L>
<L>And pa&s;t conceiving is the Soul of man,</L>
<L>A trea&s;ure, Jewel, that <HI>Jehove</HI> do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">h own,</L>
<L>Term &s;o; and take delight in; tell me then,</L>
<L>Should this &s;ame peerele&s;s Spirit &s;erve an humour,</L>
<L>A be&s;teal, &s;ordid lu&s;t, it<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span">ngth con&s;umer.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="45">
<PB N="23" REF="18">
<HEAD>[45.]</HEAD>
<L>The Soul's a heaven-born virgin pro&s;titute her</L>
<L>Wilt thou, to loath&s;ome &s;in and &s;o to Hell?</L>
<L>Ah! can&s;t thou &s;uffer Divells to deprive her,</L>
<L>Of &s;tate, of glory, with them for to dwell?</L>
<L>Mu&s;t Shee her countrey, and her kindred leave,</L>
<L>A cur&s;ed doome with Divels to receive?</L>
</LG>
<LG N="46">
<HEAD>[46.]</HEAD>
<L>My heart doth ake to think of the aba&s;ement</L>
<L>The Soul doth &s;uffer, while it traide with &s;in:</L>
<L>My Spirit &s;obs to view that foul defacement,</L>
<L>Of <HI>J'hoves</HI> bright glorious beauty's &s;eated in</L>
<L>The Soul of man; there ever to endure,</L>
<L>Con&s;i&s;ting in an holy heart and pure.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="47">
<HEAD>[47.]</HEAD>
<L>Ah wanton youth, are earths vain worthle&s;s plea&s;ures</L>
<L>So dear unto thee, that thou't not them leave;</L>
<L>For feare of great <HI>Jehovahs</HI> direful trea&s;ures,</L>
<L>Nor yet a Crown of glory to receive?</L>
<L>Wilt thou &s;ell life and glory for a toy,</L>
<L>For &s;ordid plea&s;ure barter heavenly joy?</L>
</LG>
<LG N="65">
<HEAD>[65.]</HEAD>
<L>Ah can&s;t thou be content to bed in flames,</L>
<L>In utter darkne&s;s to make thine abode?</L>
<L>Can&s;t thou dwel there where nothing fury tames,</L>
<L>Eternally deprived of thy God?</L>
<L>Ah can&s;t thou bear the burthen of Gods Ire,</L>
<L>When as that task &s;hall never out expire.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="49">
<PB N="24" REF="19">
<HEAD>[49.]</HEAD>
<L>O youth remember thine immortal Soul,</L>
<L>And beare in mind what price was for it given!</L>
<L>Remember what can purge it being foule,</L>
<L>Con&s;ider what may bring it unto Heaven;</L>
<L>Gods onely Son had of it &s;uch e&s;teem,</L>
<L>That with his death its life he did redeem.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="50">
<HEAD>[50.]</HEAD>
<L>For Chri&s;ts &s;ake thou thy Souls Salvation prize,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e his death did life unto it give,</L>
<L>Permit not plea&s;ures to put out thy eyes,</L>
<L>But ronze thy &s;loth, and up unto him live;</L>
<L>Live unto him who&s;e death bought thy Salvation,</L>
<L>Die for his &s;ake who&s;e Life's thy pre&s;ervation.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="51">
<HEAD>[51.]</HEAD>
<L>Oh die thou mu&s;t, or thou can&s;t never live,</L>
<L>Die to thy &s;elf, to thy hearts lu&s;ts and plea&s;ures;</L>
<L>Die to all &s;inne, or thou can&s;t not receive,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e glorious &s;weets that God to his out-mea&s;ures</L>
<L>Thy Souls redemption co&s;t Chri&s;ts utmo&s;t breath,</L>
<L>And its Salvation mu&s;t be by &s;inns death.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="52">
<HEAD>[52.]</HEAD>
<L>Thou mu&s;t be buried with him into death&punc;</L>
<L>Or thou can&s;t not in life with him partake:</L>
<L>That &s;harp (two edged) cutting &s;word un&s;heath,</L>
<L>To cut down lu&s;ts that &s;eparation make</L>
<L>'Tween thee and him, 'tween his Spirit and Thine,</L>
<L>That do thee 'gain&s;t him unto ill incline.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="53">
<PB N="25" REF="19">
<HEAD>[53.]</HEAD>
<L>Know, fle&s;hly lu&s;ts do war again&s;t the Soul,</L>
<L>And &s;eek its utter ruin and undoing:</L>
<L>'Tis thy &s;ouls &s;afety, Youth, them to controul,</L>
<L>But thou art ever courting and a wooing</L>
<L>Them with delight unto thee, thy de&s;ires</L>
<L>Do beak them&s;elves at lu&s;ts ba&s;e &s;moaky fires.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="54">
<HEAD>[54.]</HEAD>
<L>My Soul doth groan for to behold the Cour&s;es</L>
<L>That young ones take; how they with full carere</L>
<L>Seek their own ruin, and as tender Nur&s;es,</L>
<L>Do nouri&s;h, cheri&s;h, and redeem as dear,</L>
<L>That which deprives them of a dwelling place,</L>
<L>In Heaven to behold Gods glorious face.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="55">
<HEAD>[55.]</HEAD>
<L>Luxurious youth, a little lend an Eare</L>
<L>To me, and I'l thee &s;ome few precepts give;</L>
<L>Be &s;ober minded then attend and heare:</L>
<L>Some rules I'l &s;et thee down whereby to live;</L>
<L>Fir&s;t guard thy heart with double diligence,</L>
<L>And let thine eye therein have re&s;idence.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="56">
<HEAD>[56.]</HEAD>
<L>And being &s;ober, then &s;trait look about,</L>
<L>For matter wherewithall t'employ thy mind;</L>
<L>Rouze up thy &s;elf, give &s;lavi&s;h thoughts the rout,</L>
<L>Let &s;or did lu&s;ts within thee no place find;</L>
<L>Read &s;acred writ, and meditate thereon,</L>
<L>Be ruminating ever thereupon.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="57">
<PB N="26" REF="20">
<HEAD>[57]</HEAD>
<L>That loo&s;e licentious Lu&s;ts may finde no room,</L>
<L>No place for entertainment in thy Soul,</L>
<L>That when (according to their wont) they come,</L>
<L>Thy minds imployment may their cour&s;e controul</L>
<L>Oppo&s;e an Evil, and it &s;ha'n't orecome thee,</L>
<L>Re&s;i&s;t the Devil, and he will fly from thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="58">
<HEAD>[58]</HEAD>
<L>When &s;aucy mirth, or any wanton lu&s;t</L>
<L>Doth proffer thee a greeting any more,</L>
<L>Tell'em, you know 'em not, and that you mu&s;t</L>
<L>Have no acquaintance with them as before</L>
<L>You had unto your co&s;t, when they did fool</L>
<L>Your noble &s;pirit, bearing in it rule.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="59">
<HEAD>[59]</HEAD>
<L>Tell 'em that now you 'ave found a better Ma&s;ter,</L>
<L>And nobler &s;ervice for to pitch upon;</L>
<L>You'l &s;eek to &s;pare where you have been a wa&s;ter,</L>
<L>And will not do as you before have done;</L>
<L>When they do knock, tell 'm you a'n't at lei&s;ure</L>
<L>To let 'em in, but bid 'em wait your plea&s;ure.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="60">
<HEAD>[60]</HEAD>
<L>And &s;ure I am that &s;uch like entertaiment</L>
<L>As this, will cau&s;e bold Sin to hang its ears:</L>
<L>The&s;e words or others of the like concernment</L>
<L>(Maintain'd with heart &s;incere &amp; ardent Prayers)</L>
<L>Will make the Devil in thee hide his face,</L>
<L>Will overcome him, make him quit the place.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="61">
<PB N="27" REF="20">
<HEAD>[61]</HEAD>
<L>And then <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us</HI> and his glorious Train</L>
<L>(By his Soul-&s;anctifying Spirit) will</L>
<L>Enter thy heart, &s;et up his Throne, and reign,</L>
<L>And all his ble&s;&s;ed Plea&s;ure there fulfill;</L>
<L>He'll enter then, who is the Prince of Peace,</L>
<L>Triumphing gloriou&s;ly will make Sin cea&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="62">
<HEAD>[62]</HEAD>
<L>And as before thy Soul was a foul Cage</L>
<L>Of unclean Birds, a Stie of na&s;ty Devils,</L>
<L>Hells Council-Chamber, and thy Acts Hells Stage,</L>
<L>Whereon thou did&s;t di&s;play all inbred Evils;</L>
<L>Now 'tis become the Palace of a King,</L>
<L>The King of Glory, ble&s;t in every thing.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="63">
<HEAD>[63]</HEAD>
<L>Where Devils did in con&s;ultation &s;it,</L>
<L>(As they do always about acts unclean)</L>
<L>Malicious helli&s;h mi&s;chiefs, which to beget</L>
<L>Not yet brought in action to be &s;een)</L>
<L>There Gods ble&s;s'd Spirit (Now) doth coun&s;el give,</L>
<L>Unto the Soul di&s;port it &s;elf and live.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="64">
<HEAD>[64]</HEAD>
<L>Note this, young Man, peru&s;e well the expre&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>Me thinks 't&s;hould thy hot bloud convert to &s;lames,</L>
<L><HI>JEHOVAH</HI> will not onely take po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>And dwell in thee, but al&s;o Son thee names;</L>
<L>He'll be thy Father, thou &s;halt be his Son,</L>
<L>Learn at all times to &s;ay, Thy will be done.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="65">
<PB N="28" REF="21">
<HEAD>[65.]</HEAD>
<L>But that's not all, though that's a glorious favour,</L>
<L>To be a child to the eternal God:</L>
<L>I'le walk in thee: Oh here's a &s;peech doth favour</L>
<L>Of more then making with thee an abode;</L>
<L>My &s;elf I'le joy refre&s;h, di&s;port, delight</L>
<L>In thee, &s;ayes the allglorious God of might.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="66">
<HEAD>[66.]</HEAD>
<L>For what doth walk, &s;peak le&s;s then recreation,</L>
<L>Delight, refre&s;hment, (not excluding) joy,</L>
<L>As al&s;o (oft 'tis) Soul accommodation,</L>
<L>Which &s;en&s;es (here) don't Scripture truth de&s;troy;</L>
<L>For Scripture doth the &s;ame to us commence,</L>
<L>What not in the &s;ame words, yet in the &s;en&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="67">
<HEAD>[67.]</HEAD>
<L>But one thing more, youth, let me hint unto thee,</L>
<L>From this &s;ame text now I have touch'd upon:</L>
<L>God &s;ayes he'l dwel in thee, then let it woo thee</L>
<L>To &s;ay to Hell, Avaunt; to &s;inne, Begone;</L>
<L>For he and &s;in in one heart cannot dwel,</L>
<L>No more then thou can'&s;t live at ea&s;e in Hell.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="68">
<HEAD>[68.]</HEAD>
<L>I'l walk in thee, the which expre&s;&s;ion &s;peaks,</L>
<L>(As well as joy) that he'l take notice too</L>
<L>Of all thy acts, and all tho&s;e private tricks</L>
<L>That thou in &s;ecret unde&s;cry'd do&s;t do:</L>
<L>He that is alwayes walking round about</L>
<L>A hou&s;e, can't chu&s;e but &s;ee what's done throughout.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="69">
<PB N="29" REF="21">
<HEAD>[69.]</HEAD>
<L>But to come clo&s;er to the thing in hand,</L>
<L>I'le put it to thee, youngling for to judge;</L>
<L>Whether herein or &s;inne mo&s;t joy doth &s;tand,</L>
<L>Peace this attending (too) but &s;inne a &s;courge;</L>
<L>Sinne leads the Soul a dance, I &s;igh to tell,</L>
<L>It here begins, but ends i'th' lowe&s;t Hell.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="70">
<HEAD>[70.]</HEAD>
<L>Moreover youngling I can tell thee this,</L>
<L>That that which makes &s;in lively to appear,</L>
<L>And doth bewitch thy Soul thereon, nought is,</L>
<L>But tho&s;e &s;ame borrowed garments &s;he doth wear</L>
<L>That &s;he hath &s;tolen from vertue; who&s;e they are,</L>
<L>As't will hereafter plainly appear.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="71">
<HEAD>[71.]</HEAD>
<L>There's but a painted &s;trumpet that doth lure</L>
<L>All per&s;ons void of under&s;tanding to her;</L>
<L>Saw ye her in her night cloaths, I am &s;ure</L>
<L>She would affright ye, and you'd cea&s;e to woo her;</L>
<L>She's deckt in vertues robes, and &s;o &s;he's fine,</L>
<L>Yet at the be&s;t, &s;he's but a painted &s;hrine.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="62">
<HEAD>[62.]</HEAD>
<L>But if vaine plea&s;ures mu&s;t thy Mi&s;tris be,</L>
<L>And have the &s;ervice of thy be&s;t affection,</L>
<L>Then thou to bed with her mu&s;t &s;ure be,</L>
<L>Nor can&s;t thou that deny, &s;ince in &s;ubjection</L>
<L>To her thy Soul doth live, and acts her will,</L>
<L>And all her heads do&s;t faithfully fulfill.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="73">
<PB N="30" REF="22">
<HEAD>[73.]</HEAD>
<L>Should I de&s;cribe the Bed, and the place where</L>
<L>The Bed is made, 'twould task my Mu&s;e too hard,</L>
<L>But look where Devils dwell, the place is there,</L>
<L>The Bed it &s;elf cann't be by me declar'd;</L>
<L>'Tis &s;ulphurous flames, 'tis torments &s;harp and fell,</L>
<L>'Tis gnawing Con&s;cience, (in a word) 'tis Hell.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="74">
<HEAD>[74.]</HEAD>
<L>One word more youngling, wilt thou &s;ell thy &s;ight?</L>
<L>Or wilt thou for a price part with the light?</L>
<L>What wilt thou ask for this thy breathing right?</L>
<L>Or take, the world to be bought out of quite?</L>
<L>I know thy an&s;wer to the&s;e very well,</L>
<L>For ten worlds worth, thou none of the&s;e can&s;t &s;ell.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="75">
<HEAD>[75.]</HEAD>
<L>And I beleeve thou do&s;t abhor the thought</L>
<L>Of valuing of tho&s;e with any thing:</L>
<L>Nay, I beleeve thy Soul with &s;orrows fraught,</L>
<L>When any doth the&s;e into que&s;tion bring:</L>
<L>I know young man, that here thou art &s;o nice,</L>
<L>Thou loath'&s;t to hear the&s;e valued at a price.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="76">
<HEAD>[76.]</HEAD>
<L>But fora&s;much as none the&s;e things may mention</L>
<L>Unto thee: Heark, I'le tell thee in thine ear,</L>
<L>And tell thee truth, for that's my hearts intention,</L>
<L>Thou overlov'&s;t the&s;e, yet not count'&s;t them dear,</L>
<L>For why, thou &s;pend'&s;t them on thy mi&s;tris Plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>And lavi&s;hly do&s;t wa&s;te them out of mea&s;ure.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="77">
<PB N="31" REF="22">
<HEAD>[77]</HEAD>
<L>Nay, thou do&s;t &s;ell a Pearl worth all of the&s;e,</L>
<L>More precious Gems thou part'&s;t with for her &s;ake</L>
<L>Than I can utter, that whoever &s;ees</L>
<L>That dangerous cour&s;e that thou do&s;t for her take,</L>
<L>Cann't chu&s;e but &s;ay, Thou wa&s;tes thy &s;trength, and &s;ight</L>
<L>Mo&s;t wickedly, and &s;o de&s;erv'&s;t no light.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="78">
<HEAD>[78.]</HEAD>
<L>More plainly, is the light a plea&s;ant thing,</L>
<L>That thou'd&s;t not be depriv'd of for a world?</L>
<L>Then part with Sin, for el&s;e it will thee bring</L>
<L>Into perpetual darkne&s;s, to be hurl'd.</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt for evermore part with the light,</L>
<L>And be included in perpetual night.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="79">
<HEAD>[79.]</HEAD>
<L>Thy &s;ight is precious to thee, 'cau&s;e the light</L>
<L>Doth plea&s;ant objects unto it unfold,</L>
<L>But know in Hell the u&s;e is alter'd quite,</L>
<L>There's darkne&s;s, nought but terrours to behold;</L>
<L>So that for Sin both Light and Sight thou &s;ell'&s;t,</L>
<L>Both Life and Joy, and for its &s;ake thou dwell'&s;t</L>
</LG>
<LG N="80">
<HEAD>[80.]</HEAD>
<L>Amid&s;t fierce fiery flames, and do&s;t debar</L>
<L>Thy Soul that ble&s;&s;ed Privilege, to &s;ee</L>
<L>Gods glorious face, the which exceedeth far</L>
<L>What ere thy worldly intere&s;t to thee</L>
<L>Can give, and what's thy breathing right to this?</L>
<L>Breath well improv'd may make a gale to bli&s;s.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="81">
<PB N="3" REF="23">
<HEAD>[81.]</HEAD>
<L>O youngling therefore if thou prize&s;t ought</L>
<L>That's dear or good, why then &s;hake hands with &s;inne,</L>
<L>And be not by't into &s;ubjection brought,</L>
<L>Nor in its &s;lavery continue in:</L>
<L>Plea&s;ures of &s;in but for a moment are,</L>
<L>The purcha&s;e of them therefore's too too dear.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="82">
<HEAD>[82.]</HEAD>
<L>Be&s;ides its motions, force them from thy Soul,</L>
<L>And hold no private con&s;ultation with him:</L>
<L>Its ri&s;ing power betimes &s;uppre&s;s, controule,</L>
<L>For growing great thou can&s;t not lightly will'm.</L>
<L>If any &s;ordid evill you'd entombe,</L>
<L>The readye&s;t way's to kill it in the wombe.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="83">
<HEAD>[83.]</HEAD>
<L>Give &s;in no footing, for it will intrude,</L>
<L>'T will make its pa&s;&s;age like a mighty &s;tream;</L>
<L>Give 't but an entrance, and you &s;traight include</L>
<L>Ten times more inconvenience then you deem;</L>
<L>If entertained for a moneths &s;pace,</L>
<L>It &s;traight becometh Ma&s;ter of the place.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="84">
<HEAD>[84.]</HEAD>
<L>'Tis a bold gue&s;t, and though a &s;ordid groome,</L>
<L>Too ba&s;e to come within the Souls confines:</L>
<L>Yet takes it up the be&s;t and brave&s;t roome,</L>
<L>And further, all its forces &s;trength combines;</L>
<L>To keep the &s;ame, and there as Lord to reign,</L>
<L>Permitting it none el&s;e to entertain.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="85">
<PB N="33" REF="23">
<HEAD>[85.]</HEAD>
<L>Sin's a mo&s;t cruel Task-ma&s;ter to evil,</L>
<L>It giveth work, but gives no time to play,</L>
<L>Doth tyrannize as a mo&s;t cruel Devil,</L>
<L>'Fording no intermi&s;&s;ion Night nor Day:</L>
<L>Heart, hand, eys, ears, nor tongue, nor lips m'n't &s;tound,</L>
<L>But eagerly per&s;i&s;t to run Sins round;</L>
</LG>
<LG N="86">
<HEAD>[86.]</HEAD>
<L>The Eys mu&s;t gaze the Heart to &s;et on fire,</L>
<L>The Ear attends for to blow up the flame,</L>
<L>Which to expre&s;s the Tongue doth never tire,</L>
<L>And yet this Tyrant &s;harply doth them blame,</L>
<L>Says they are idle, that they nothing do,</L>
<L>(When as their &s;pirits faint, their work is &s;o.)</L>
</LG>
<LG N="87">
<HEAD>[87.]</HEAD>
<L>Here's Slavery exceeding <HI>Egypts</HI> Task,</L>
<L>They Brick mu&s;t make, yet &s;tore them&s;elves with Straw,</L>
<L>No ea&s;e, no re&s;pite, nor no help mu&s;t ask,</L>
<L>But ev<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">r in yoke, like Slaves, like Hor&s;es, draw:</L>
<L>From this to th' other ill the poor Soul trudges</L>
<L>From that for t' other Lu&s;t the poor Soul drudges.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="88">
<HEAD>[88.]</HEAD>
<L>Yet &s;o the Creature's fool'd, that it contents</L>
<L>It &s;elf in this hard bondage; don't compl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">in</L>
<L>Of Servitude, nor in the lea&s;t repents,</L>
<L>But layeth out its &s;trength for to maintain</L>
<L>The&s;e &s;ordid humours, and their lives to cheri&s;h,</L>
<L>Though for the &s;ame both Soul and Body peri&s;h.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="89">
<PB N="34" REF="24">
<HEAD>[89.]</HEAD>
<L>What doth the Drunkard prize above his Pots?</L>
<L>Who is more free than he? He doth not think</L>
<L>That he's a Slave, nor that ought him be&s;ots,</L>
<L>Although he place his happine&s;s in Drink:</L>
<L>O how his heart doth long, and thir&s;t, and pine,</L>
<L>E'r to be drinking, quaffing Beer or Wine!</L>
</LG>
<LG N="90">
<HEAD>[90.]</HEAD>
<L>He loves good Fellows, Pot-companions dear,</L>
<L>His Life and Joy lies in that Fellow&s;hip,</L>
<L>Th'are farre more priz'd by him than all Heavens Queer.</L>
<L>Than Living Waters he had rather &s;ip</L>
<L>His luni&s;h Cups of Soul-confounding Drink,</L>
<L>Though thereby Health, E&s;tate, Soul, Body &s;inck.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="91">
<HEAD>[91.]</HEAD>
<L>Tu&s;h, tell not him of the Tribunal Day,</L>
<L>Nor of <HI>Jehovah</HI>'s dreadfull flaming ire;</L>
<L>Come give him Drink to wa&s;h dry cares away;</L>
<L>He fears no Hell, he fears no flames of fire;</L>
<L>Thus doth his throat already him foretell</L>
<L>His Souls Di&s;ea&s;e for evermore in Hell.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="92">
<HEAD>[92.]</HEAD>
<L>And are proud Wantons any whit le&s;s Fools?</L>
<L>Their task's as hard, and yet that task is &s;weet</L>
<L>Unto them, the heat of their de&s;ire what cools?</L>
<L>Thoughts of Eternity mu&s;t not them greet:</L>
<L>Bid them be humble, holy, cha&s;te, and pure,</L>
<L>Such clowni&s;h Precepts they cannot endure.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="93">
<PB N="35" REF="24">
<HEAD>[93.]</HEAD>
<L>But why &s;tand I thus for to in&s;tance any</L>
<L>One &s;ingle Vice, when all the Ills of Nature</L>
<L>Do prove the &s;ame mo&s;t clearly? though not many</L>
<L>Take notice of it, active in each feature</L>
<L>The mo&s;t of men hotly per&s;i&s;t to do,</L>
<L>What ere their wieldy Pa&s;&s;ions lead them to.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="94">
<HEAD>[94.]</HEAD>
<L>Well to conclude young man; Remember this,</L>
<L>Thy Soul's immortal, and mu&s;t aye endure,</L>
<L>'Twas made by God a Subject fit for Bli&s;s,</L>
<L>And of eternal Doom it mu&s;t be &s;ure.</L>
<L>If thou liv'&s;t well, a Crown he'l to thee give;</L>
<L>If ill, thy Doom's with Devils for to live.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="95">
<HEAD>[95.]</HEAD>
<L>But having been too tedious in my ver&s;e</L>
<L>Upon this &s;ubject Plea&s;ure, (and yet I</L>
<L>Have been but brief and &s;hort, &s;eeing commerce</L>
<L>By youth is held with Plea&s;ure con&s;tantly)</L>
<L>Shall now for Recreation &s;ake expre&s;s</L>
<L>In varied Ver&s;e what my experience is.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="96">
<HEAD>[96.]</HEAD>
<L>And what in mine own practice I do act</L>
<L>Of youthfull plea&s;ure, how I it e&s;teem,</L>
<L>I &s;hall lay down my thoughts of many a Fact</L>
<L>Tending thereto, and what I of it deem.</L>
<L>Example is a living Argument,</L>
<L>My &s;elf to thee, as &s;o I here pre&s;ent.</L>
<PB N="36" REF="25">
<L>Plea&s;ure I finde to be a &s;ly,</L>
<L>A deadly, &s;ubtil Enemy,</L>
<L>'Twill &s;leer i' th' face, 'twill ki&s;s the lip,</L>
<L>Yet then look to 't, 'twill up thee trip;</L>
<L>'Twill &s;peak thee fair, 'twill kindly greet,</L>
<L>And &s;traight 'twill lay thee at its feet;</L>
<L>'Twill promi&s;e thee large liberty,</L>
<L>(When nothing's a more real Lie;)</L>
<L>'Twill build thee Ca&s;tles in th' air,</L>
<L>'Twill fawn, and lie, and &s;peak thee fair,</L>
<L>'Twill mention Peace, that it will give thee,</L>
<L>But tru&s;t it not, it will deceive thee;</L>
<L>'Twill 'ford content and &s;atisfaction,</L>
<L>But then 't mu&s;t be in Soul-di&s;traction;</L>
<L>'Twill promi&s;e Ells, perform no Inch;</L>
<L>Thou need&s;t not que&s;tion at a pinch</L>
<L>But it will help thee unto &s;orrow,</L>
<L>Deep-dy'd in grain, and Scarlet-horrour;</L>
<L>'Twill proffer thee its company,</L>
<L>And promi&s;e true fidelity;</L>
<L>Faithfull 'twill be (indeed) 't w'on't leave thee</L>
<L>Herein, I &s;ay, it w'on't deceive thee,</L>
<L>'Twill &s;tick clo&s;e to thee to bereave thee</L>
<L>Of what ere Heaven, or God can give thee;</L>
<L>'Twill lodg thee with it &s;elf in Hell,</L>
<L>Together live and die (all's well;)</L>
<L>'Tis &s;weet in &s;hew, but proves mo&s;t &s;owre,</L>
<L>Shews lovely fair, but yet will lowre;</L>
<L>It &s;ays, in it thou &s;halt enjoy</L>
<L>Such matter as &s;hall ne're thee cloy:</L>
<PB N="37" REF="25">
<L>'Tis partly truth, for parting never</L>
<L>Is living and enjoying ever,</L>
<L>Which thou, and it, and Hell &s;ha'n't do,</L>
<L>When once conjoyned thereunto:</L>
<L>O therefore now betimes re&s;olve</L>
<L>That knot of Friend&s;hip to di&s;&s;olve,</L>
<L>When ere &s;he doth her&s;elf pre&s;ent</L>
<L>(I need not que&s;tion her intent,</L>
<L>I know her well, though &s;he doth bring</L>
<L>Honey in mouth, her tail doth &s;ting)</L>
<L>To me, I ask what &s;he doth crave?</L>
<L>Or what 'tis of me &s;he would have?</L>
<L>I ask, how long I &s;hall be &s;ure</L>
<L>What &s;he can give me will endure?</L>
<L>(Before I leap I love to look,</L>
<L>But all &s;uch coun&s;el cannot brook)</L>
<L>Shall this thy joy continue ever?</L>
<L>And &s;hall its life expire never?</L>
<L>Say I to her, Will this thy Plea&s;ure</L>
<L>Not dammage my eternal Trea&s;ure?</L>
<L>If 't be n't eternal, then be gone,</L>
<L>Entice me not, let me alone;</L>
<L>'Tis no fit object for my view,</L>
<L>An unfit &s;ubject to pur&s;ue,</L>
<L>To gain tho&s;e things I will per&s;ever,</L>
<L>That (like my Soul) endure for ever,</L>
<L>I dare not give thee any room,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e to judgment I mu&s;t come;</L>
<L>I know the Judg and thou art Foes,</L>
<L>If thee I follow, him I lo&s;e.</L>
<PB N="38" REF="26">
<L>Avaunt, Be gone, Stand off; therefore</L>
<L>Don't dare (bold Sin) to tempt me more:</L>
<L>My heart thy dainties doth di&s;relli&s;h,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e deceit doth them embelli&s;h:</L>
<L>Such Evils (too) they tend to cheri&s;h,</L>
<L>As will make Soul and Body peri&s;h;</L>
<L>Thy plea&s;ant Path doth lead to Hell,</L>
<L>With damned &s;pirits for to dwell;</L>
<L>Mine eys therefore thereon &s;ha'n't look,</L>
<L>To hear thereof mine ears &s;ha'n't brook,</L>
<L>Unto thy Paths my feet &s;ha'n't walk</L>
<L>Nor of thee &s;hall not my tongue talk:</L>
<L>All thoughts of thee, O may I &s;mother,</L>
<L>Who am the intere&s;t of another:</L>
<L>Di&s;loyall am I him unto,</L>
<L>If I &s;trike friend&s;hip with his Foe,</L>
<L>I dare not, O, I dare not I,</L>
<L>Think &s;uch a thought, for he &s;tands by,</L>
<L>He hath a Cabbin in my Brea&s;t,</L>
<L>He knows what's not by me expre&s;t,</L>
<L>His eye doth every &s;ecret &s;ee,</L>
<L>Kept ignorant he cannot be,</L>
<L>He's omni-pre&s;ent, filleth all</L>
<L>And every place both great and &s;mall;</L>
<L>His arm is long, he will me reach,</L>
<L>From Ea&s;t to We&s;t the &s;ame doth &s;tretch,</L>
<L>How then dare I con&s;ent to &s;in,</L>
<L>Or any one thought harbour in</L>
<L>My tender brea&s;t, that may conduce</L>
<L>His &s;acred Name to prejudice;</L>
<PB N="39" REF="26">
<L>He's ju&s;t and jealous, I don't dare</L>
<L>Him to offend, my Soul doth fear</L>
<L>His righteous judgments, and my fle&s;h</L>
<L>Doth tremble, and can do no le&s;s:</L>
<L>His Maje&s;ty, in flames of fire</L>
<L>Cloath'd with wrath and furious ire,</L>
<L>Shall make appearance when the world</L>
<L>By fiery flames &s;hall be di&s;&s;olv'd,</L>
<L>Shall mount upon his glorious Throne,</L>
<L>And then examine every one;</L>
<L>All acts mu&s;t into judgment come,</L>
<L>And every one receive their Doom,</L>
<L>According to their &s;everal Deeds,</L>
<L>The Judg to them their Sentence reades,</L>
<L>He &s;ays to them that have done well,</L>
<L>Ye ble&s;&s;ed of my Father dwell</L>
<L>In his bright glories, mount the Throne</L>
<L>Prepared for ye every one;</L>
<L>Ye did your hearts for me maintain,</L>
<L>Come therefore now and with me reign;</L>
<L>Ye on the earth did to me live,</L>
<L>Now I to you a Kingdom give;</L>
<L>You hated Sin, now I you own,</L>
<L>And give you an all-glorious Crown;</L>
<L>You of your ways did con&s;cience make,</L>
<L>Your wills and lu&s;ts too (for my &s;ake)</L>
<L>Did crucifie, with &s;trength oppo&s;e</L>
<L>All the &s;ugge&s;tions of my foes;</L>
<L>Your &s;trength up to me you did give,</L>
<L>Come therefore your Reward receive.</L>
<PB N="40" REF="27">
<L>But as for you, you helli&s;h Elves,</L>
<L>That to your Lu&s;ts did give your &s;elves,</L>
<L>That ever burn'd with &s;trong de&s;ire,</L>
<L>Bred and maintain'd by wanton fire;</L>
<L>Be gone from me into tho&s;e flames,</L>
<L>That burn and nought their fury tames,</L>
<L>As in your life-time you have been</L>
<L>A neer A&s;&s;ociate to Sin,</L>
<L>So now therewith go bide and dwell</L>
<L>For ever in the lowe&s;t Hell,</L>
<L>In utter darkne&s;s make abode,</L>
<L>Under my flaming furious Rod,</L>
<L>There live out your eternal breath,</L>
<L>With howling cries, with gna&s;hing teeth,</L>
<L>I know right well this is Sins Doom,</L>
<L>Therefore I dare not giue it room,</L>
<L>I dare not entertain it in me,</L>
<L>For &s;ure I am it &s;oon will win me,</L>
<L>Its joy doth but a moment la&s;t,</L>
<L>But ah! its pain is never pa&s;t,</L>
<L>Eternity my Soul doth eye,</L>
<L>Vain Plea&s;ure therefore dare not I</L>
<L>Once look upon&punc; nor will I greet</L>
<L>It, where&s;oever I it meet:</L>
<L>I know it is an helli&s;h Fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">nd,</L>
<L>And all its cour&s;es thither tend.</L>
<L>Be gone, be gone, thou do&s;t beguile me,</L>
<L>And of mo&s;t plea&s;ant &s;weets do&s;t &s;poil me,</L>
<L>Thou giv'&s;t me Peebles for my Trea&s;ures,</L>
<L>Sharp &s;orrows for delightfull Plea&s;ures:</L>
<PB N="41" REF="27">
<L>Mine own I am not, but am bought</L>
<L>At a dear rate, and therefore ought</L>
<L>To give both Soul and Body too</L>
<L>Unto his ble&s;&s;ed &s;ervice, who</L>
<L>Did me redeem from bondage fell,</L>
<L>Reprieve my Soul from Death and Hell;</L>
<L>He gave his Life, his Love was &s;uch,</L>
<L>To men, and &s;hall I then think much</L>
<L>To an&s;wer love with love entire,</L>
<L>And for his &s;ake to quench the fire</L>
<L>Of lower loves, and with affection</L>
<L>Mo&s;t pure and true, yeeld him &s;ubjection;</L>
<L>Long may I to him loyal prove,</L>
<L>Strong may I with him be in love;</L>
<L>The plea&s;ures of religion I,</L>
<L>Do finde more &s;weet and do e&s;pye</L>
<L>More beauty in, than want on plea&s;ure</L>
<L>Can give to them, that have mo&s;t lei&s;ure</L>
<L>To wait thereon&punc; in it I finde</L>
<L>That &s;weet repo&s;e unto my minde,</L>
<L>That peace, that &s;weet delight, that joy,</L>
<L>That worldly powers cann't de&s;troy:</L>
<L>Faith feeds me with the Bread of Heaven;</L>
<L>Thereby to me its joys are given</L>
<L>In &s;uch a mea&s;ure that oft I</L>
<L>Being overcharg'd with joy do cry,</L>
<L>(As of my &s;en&s;es quite bereaven)</L>
<L>Whether am I now in Earth or Heaven?</L>
<L>What's this I both feel, ta&s;te and &s;ee?</L>
<L>Sure I am in Heaven, or Heaven's in me.</L>
<PB N="42" REF="28">
<L>Time &s;lackes his cour&s;e, his gla&s;s do'n't run,</L>
<L>Or is eternity begun?</L>
<L>Both weeks and months their motions &s;tay,</L>
<L>They are to me as one &s;hort day;</L>
<L>But they that would of Soul delight</L>
<L>(Then this) have a more fuller &s;ight</L>
<L>From me, then let them plea&s;e to look</L>
<L>Upon another former book;</L>
<L>I penn'd (in part) long &s;ince, and there</L>
<L>Expre&s;&s;ions make 't at large appeare.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="97">
<HEAD>[97.]</HEAD>
<L>But &s;till for to pur&s;ue my pre&s;ent task,</L>
<L>As youthfull blood doth make the wind a&s;pire</L>
<L>To fading honour, after plea&s;ure ask,</L>
<L>Setting the Sen&s;es thereon all on fire;</L>
<L>So too that heated blood the Soul doth move,</L>
<L>To be a thralled Captive unto Love.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="98">
<HEAD>[98.]</HEAD>
<L>Youth's &s;welling veines made hot with blood and Spirits,</L>
<L>Doth like to fire never cea&s;e to &s;tur:</L>
<L>Will be in motion, though thereby 't inherits,</L>
<L>Shame for the &s;ame a con&s;tant blur,</L>
<L>The Soul of man is made of living fire,</L>
<L>That never moves yet motion don't expire.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="99">
<HEAD>[99.]</HEAD>
<L>The Devill therefore tends with diligence,</L>
<L>To give it matter whereupon to act:</L>
<L>Pre&s;ents an object to the greedy Sen&s;e,</L>
<L>The which from thence the Soul doth &s;oon infect,</L>
<L>Unto the Eye of youth he proffers beauty,</L>
<L>And &s;treight fond youth pre&s;ents it &s;hrine with duty.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="100">
<PB N="43" REF="28">
<HEAD>[100.]</HEAD>
<L>Beauty to youth is as the oyle 't a fire,</L>
<L>And as dry fewel unto raging flames</L>
<L>It doth convert him all into de&s;ire,</L>
<L>And what is 't then that furious pa&s;&s;ion tames;</L>
<L>Th' eye to the heart pre&s;ents this foul infection,</L>
<L>Poy&s;ons the Soul thoroughout, by the affection.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="101">
<HEAD>[101.]</HEAD>
<L>Youth now doth love, and mu&s;t po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e in love</L>
<L>What he de&s;ires, on whom his heart is fixt;</L>
<L>All arguments are far too weak to move,</L>
<L>There is no incongruity betwixt</L>
<L>Her whom he loves and him; no he can tell</L>
<L>She &s;uits his di&s;po&s;ition very well.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="102">
<HEAD>[102.]</HEAD>
<L>What will he &s;tick to venture for her &s;ake,</L>
<L>Whom he &s;o fondly loves, as that his life</L>
<L>I' n't deare unto him, &s;o he may partake</L>
<L>Her fellow&s;hip, and &s;he be made his wife;</L>
<L>Heaven and earth and God and life and bli&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Compar'd with her unto him norhing is.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Youths antick tricks herein I &s;ha'n't di&s;cover,</L>
<L>I do'n't intend to toile my mu&s;e &s;o much:</L>
<L>Again my Soul thereof was ne'r a lover,</L>
<L>And therefore once to &s;peak of them I grutch;</L>
<L>My Soul takes no delight &s;uch things to mention,</L>
<L>Further than is concern'd in my intention.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="104">
<PB N="44" REF="29">
<HEAD>[104.]</HEAD>
<L>Is thy blood hot? (youth) do thy Spirits move,</L>
<L>And work thee to a flame of &s;trong de&s;ire?</L>
<L>Make God the onely object of thy love,</L>
<L>Pre&s;ent him with an heart &s;ound and entire;</L>
<L>He's the alone-original of beauty,</L>
<L>His loveline&s;&s;e (from thee) may win a duty.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="105">
<HEAD>[105.]</HEAD>
<L>If thou could'&s;t &s;ee him with a &s;ingle eye</L>
<L>His lovely beauty, but by glance behold:</L>
<L>I'm &s;ure in him thy Soul would &s;oon e&s;pye,</L>
<L>That which would make thy burning love grow cold</L>
<L>To all things el&s;e, and all things di&s;appeare,</L>
<L>In loveline&s;&s;e to what before me were.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="106">
<HEAD>[106.]</HEAD>
<L>Tho&s;e &s;parkling glories, who&s;e unmatchle&s;s lu&s;tre</L>
<L>Do make a heaven where e'r they are unfolded,</L>
<L>Di&s;played to thy view thy thoughts would mu&s;ter,</L>
<L>And &s;et them free from what they are inthralled;</L>
<L>'Twould flame thy Spirits, and thou then &s;hould'&s;t prove,</L>
<L>The power of that noble heaven-bred love.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="107">
<HEAD>[107.]</HEAD>
<L>Love of this beauty don't the Soul aba&s;e,</L>
<L>Nor make it act below it &s;elf as t' other:</L>
<L>Which doth ignoble it, and much deface</L>
<L>Its beauties, tending al&s;o for to &s;mother</L>
<L>All &s;parks of good, that are contain'd therein,</L>
<L>By the ba&s;e &s;moaky vapours of foul Sin.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="108">
<PB N="45" REF="29">
<HEAD>[108.]</HEAD>
<L>No this doth rai&s;e and elevate the mind,</L>
<L>And doth ennoble, and &s;ublime the Soul:</L>
<L>It makes it unto real good enclin'd,</L>
<L>Refines and purges it from cour&s;es foul;</L>
<L>It doth tran&s;mute, transform and make the Spirit</L>
<L>From real ill true goodne&s;s to enherit.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="109">
<HEAD>[109.]</HEAD>
<L>This love to God doth &s;pread it &s;elf throughout</L>
<L>The inner man, and &s;trange effects it worketh:</L>
<L>It doth employ its utmo&s;t &s;trength about</L>
<L>Ejecting Sin from whence it clo&s;ely lurketh;</L>
<L>Oh, here's delight indeed! the Soul doth move,</L>
<L>Employed in the &s;ervice of its love.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="110">
<HEAD>[110.]</HEAD>
<L>Lovers oft beg this on their bended knee,</L>
<L>(O great aba&s;ement of a noble Soul!)</L>
<L>That by their mi&s;tris they employ'd may bee,</L>
<L>The &s;ervice ne'r &s;o ba&s;e, low, mean or foul;</L>
<L>O for her &s;ake what wo'n't they deign to do,</L>
<L>They'll bended bow even for to ki&s;&s;e her Shooe.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="111">
<HEAD>[111.]</HEAD>
<L>Loves Nature 'tis to act with joy and cheere,</L>
<L>In any act whereto their Love enjoynes'm:</L>
<L>Love's life therein con&s;i&s;ts, and doth appear</L>
<L>'Tis love, and love't &s;elf thereof doth mind'm;</L>
<L>Then Chri&s;tians who are happyer men than you,</L>
<L>That ever have advantages enow</L>
</LG>
<LG N="112">
<PB N="46" REF="30">
<HEAD>[112.]</HEAD>
<L>To prove and to expre&s;&s;e your love to him,</L>
<L>The fountaine of all love, the King of glory:</L>
<L>Unto who&s;e &s;hine Sol's &s;plendent rayes are dim,</L>
<L>Who&s;e beauty Seraphims't would po&s;e to &s;tory;</L>
<L>By mortifying Sin, by crucifying</L>
<L>All earthly members, to &s;elf-wi&s;dome dying.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="113">
<HEAD>[113.]</HEAD>
<L>Oh! 'tis advantage Chri&s;tians to be tempted,</L>
<L>By &s;ordid humours, by a ba&s;e de&s;ire;</L>
<L>For why; thereby occa&s;ion is pre&s;ented,</L>
<L>To purge your Soules and prove your love entire;</L>
<L>Sin tempts, the Soul oppo&s;es, God looks on</L>
<L>As the Spectator, to behold what's done.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="114">
<HEAD>[114.]</HEAD>
<L>O how thou'd&s;t fight young man, if that a foe</L>
<L>Of thy beloveds did encounter with thee;</L>
<L>E&s;pecially if &s;he commanded &s;o,</L>
<L>And did looke on her&s;elf; but then I prethee</L>
<L>Tell me, do&s;t think &s;ervice to the creator</L>
<L>Affords le&s;&s;e joy than &s;ervice to the creature?</L>
</LG>
<LG N="115">
<HEAD>[115.]</HEAD>
<L>How happy do your lovers think them&s;elves,</L>
<L>If they may bee but graced for to talk</L>
<L>With their deare love: Oh! how the minde now delves</L>
<L>For matter, there's no faculty doth balk,</L>
<L>Its utmo&s;t &s;trength for to give up in this,</L>
<L>In this &s;ame act wherein con&s;i&s;ts its Blis,</L>
</LG>
<LG N="116">
<PB N="47" REF="30">
<HEAD>[116.]</HEAD>
<L>Words from her mouth you prize as hony dewes,</L>
<L>Yea Nectar, &amp; Ambro&s;ia a'n't &s;o &s;weet</L>
<L>As her di&s;cour&s;e is to you; while her brows</L>
<L>Di&s;played in lovely &s;miles deigns you to greet;</L>
<L>Her words drop down like Manna from the Skies,</L>
<L>While with delights ye bathe ye in her eys.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="117">
<HEAD>[117.]</HEAD>
<L>O happy ye, your hearts now melt in love,</L>
<L>And like to Wax before the Sun di&s;&s;olveth,</L>
<L>Ye now lie captivated, cannot move</L>
<L>Untill &s;he from this bondage you ab&s;olveth;</L>
<L>You bath your &s;ouls in this her &s;unny-&s;hine,</L>
<L>And think her favours more than half divine.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="118">
<HEAD>[118.]</HEAD>
<L>But what's all this to tho&s;e unmatchle&s;s favours,</L>
<L>That they who &s;eek the face of God do meet?</L>
<L>The very way and path they tread in, &s;avours</L>
<L>Of joys illu&s;trious, mo&s;t delightfull &s;weet,</L>
<L>Where ere he moves the &s;weets he leaves behinde him</L>
<L>Is a &s;ufficient tract whereby to finde him.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="119">
<HEAD>[119.]</HEAD>
<L>They that love him he turns them love again,</L>
<L>And who with diligence his face do &s;eek</L>
<L>His glorious face &s;hall &s;ee (to quit their pain)</L>
<L>(Under a veil) yet lovely, &s;weet and meek;</L>
<L>O could I tell what his imperial brow</L>
<L>Affords to them that &s;ee't, 'twould ravi&s;h you.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="120">
<PB N="48" REF="31">
<HEAD>[120.]</HEAD>
<L>So lively glorious, &s;o &s;weet, &s;o cleare,</L>
<L>So Sp'ritly vigorous, and Soul-reviving,</L>
<L>So milde, &s;o gentle, yet &s;o lovely faire,</L>
<L>The Soul that &s;ees it, cea&s;es e'r from dying;</L>
<L>I cannot half conceive, much le&s;&s;e expre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>The joy, the ble&s;&s;edne&s;&s;e that therein is.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="121">
<HEAD>[121.]</HEAD>
<L>Conver&s;e with him; yea freely that you may,</L>
<L>He'l find you matter fit for to conver&s;e on;</L>
<L>Nay, further He'l you &s;end a glorious ray,</L>
<L>To fit your hearts for what they do commerce on;</L>
<L>Here's love indeed your Love, this thing can't do,</L>
<L>If you'r infirm, &s;he throws a &s;corne on you.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="122">
<HEAD>[122.]</HEAD>
<L>He &s;ends his Spirit to renue dead flames,</L>
<L>To quicken, to revive th' affection dying:</L>
<L>A God of grace and love, him&s;elf he names,</L>
<L>His Nature's &s;o; his Soul is ever eying</L>
<L>His creatures wants, the langui&s;hing de&s;ire</L>
<L>He cheri&s;hes with Grace, doth re-en&s;pire.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="123">
<HEAD>[123.]</HEAD>
<L>How &s;weet &s;o-e're your thoughts are when you mu&s;e,</L>
<L>Upon your Mi&s;tre&s;&s;es mo&s;t lovely face,</L>
<L>Her per&s;on and proportion, when refu&s;e</L>
<L>You do that any thoughts them &s;hould di&s;place;</L>
<L>Yet know ev'n then the thoughts of God are &s;weeter,</L>
<L>His love more lovelyer, his Spirit fleeter.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="124">
<PB N="49" REF="31">
<HEAD>[124.]</HEAD>
<L>Being wounded by the beauty of her face,</L>
<L>Her words have power to kill or give you life:</L>
<L>Your Soules do &s;ue for to obtain her grace,</L>
<L>To gain her love, that &s;hee'd be made your wife;</L>
<L>When &s;he is pleas'd to greet you with di&s;dain,</L>
<L>Your Spirit &s;inkes, no life in't doth remain.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="125">
<HEAD>[125.]</HEAD>
<L>But this to great <HI>Jehovahs</HI> powerfull voyce,</L>
<L>Which is Soul quickning, or Soul confounding:</L>
<L>Wilt thou joyn paralell to make a choyce,</L>
<L>('Tween real want and what is mo&s;t abounding?)</L>
<L>His voice &s;uch rare magnetique power doth give;</L>
<L>'T pre&s;erves the dying, makes the dead to live.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="126">
<HEAD>[126.]</HEAD>
<L>Touch'd with his beames, touch'd with his flames of love,</L>
<L>An exta&s;y that Soul mu&s;t needs remain in,</L>
<L>'Tis bounden to him, and it cannot move,</L>
<L>That bed' maines ever green that it hath lyen in;</L>
<L>Oh, &s;top my lavi&s;h pen, I cann't tell how,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e rare unmatchle&s;&s;e &s;weets <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">'de&s;cribe to you.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="127">
<HEAD>[127.]</HEAD>
<L>Youth, can&s;t thou dote on any female beauty,</L>
<L>What do&s;t thou think thou &s;halt therein enjoy?</L>
<L>That thou do&s;t vow thereto &s;uch &s;olemn duty,</L>
<L>Demean thy &s;elf &s;o like a witle&s;&s;e boy;</L>
<L>By any antick ge&s;tures her to gain,</L>
<L>Whom being got thou do&s;t po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e with pain,</L>
</LG>
<LG N="128">
<PB N="50" REF="32">
<HEAD>[128.]</HEAD>
<L>Alas, thou over-prize<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> things a far,</L>
<L>And buy'&s;t th' enjoyments at a rate too dear,</L>
<L>'Tis granted in their place they &s;omething are</L>
<L>But what; ('tis not my task to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ell you here;)</L>
<L>Yet minde yee what <HI>Elchanah</HI> &s;ay'd to <HI>Hanny,</HI></L>
<L>Am not I more to thee than children many?</L>
</LG>
<LG N="129">
<HEAD>[129.]</HEAD>
<L>So in <HI>Jehove</HI> is far more to be found,</L>
<L>Than in all Creatures if conjoyn'd together:</L>
<L>All creature-&s;weet is in a moment drown'd</L>
<L>In tho&s;e delights that he affordeth, whither</L>
<L>The Soul at all times freely may re&s;ort,</L>
<L>And with tho&s;e plea&s;ures may it &s;elf di&s;port.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="130">
<HEAD>[130.]</HEAD>
<L>Plea&s;ures, &s;weet plea&s;ures, precious delights,</L>
<L>To the&s;e expre&s;&s;ions youngling &s;ure I &s;ee thee</L>
<L>Attend and bend thine ear, (come nought affrights)</L>
<L>Be &s;ober and let tho&s;e expre&s;&s;ions chear thee;</L>
<L>God is the ri&s;t of beauty, peace and love,</L>
<L>Joy and delight, and therefore to him move.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="131">
<HEAD>[131.]</HEAD>
<L>As from a mighty fountain that di&s;per&s;es</L>
<L>Its great aboundance thorough many &s;prings,</L>
<L>And in tho&s;e narrow channels quickly pa&s;&s;es,</L>
<L>And &s;preads its &s;elf and waters divers things;</L>
<L>So doth <HI>Jehove</HI> from his own fullne&s;s give</L>
<L>What ever good the creature can receive.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="132">
<PB N="51" REF="32">
<HEAD>[132.]</HEAD>
<L>Now 'tis ab&s;urd to think, much more to &s;ay,</L>
<L>That there re&s;ides that fullne&s;s in one Spring</L>
<L>That in the fountain head it &s;elf doth &s;tay,</L>
<L>No more can any creature comfort bring</L>
<L>That peace, joy, Satisfaction to the mind,</L>
<L>That in <HI>Jehove</HI> him&s;elf thy Soul may find.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="133">
<HEAD>[133.]</HEAD>
<L>Extract what ere thou can&s;t from ev'ry creature,</L>
<L>And pack that lovelyne&s;&s;e all up in one;</L>
<L>Beauty from one and from another feature,</L>
<L>(Perfection re&s;teth not in one alone,)</L>
<L>From a third virtue, a well compo&s;ed Spirit,</L>
<L>That &s;weetne&s;&s;e, patience, mildne&s;&s;e doth enherit,</L>
</LG>
<LG N="134">
<HEAD>[134.]</HEAD>
<L>Nay take the Quinte&s;&s;ence of ev'ry thing</L>
<L>That thou in any creature good can&s;t call,</L>
<L>And then know this that all that good doth &s;pring,</L>
<L>From God its fount and its original;</L>
<L>And if one &s;ingle good &s;o lovely is,</L>
<L>What's he in whom thou mai&s;t them all po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="135">
<HEAD>[135.]</HEAD>
<L>Note this young man, and deep impre&s;&s;ion give it</L>
<L>Upon thine heart, endor&s;e it on thy mind:</L>
<L>Upon thy judgment do it fa&s;t on rivet,</L>
<L>And let it equal entertainment find</L>
<L>To things of far le&s;&s;e worth, inferiour beauty,</L>
<L>Remove from that, and give to this that duty.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="136">
<PB N="52" REF="33">
<HEAD>[136.]</HEAD>
<L>Thou can&s;t not &s;ay that this is a demand,</L>
<L>Unrea&s;onable of thee to be ask'd?</L>
<L>The worth of th'object rightly under&s;tand,</L>
<L>And then thou'lt not complain that thou art task'd,</L>
<L>In any &s;ervice that thou undertak'&s;t</L>
<L>For it to do, nor that deer thou for&s;ak'&s;t</L>
</LG>
<LG N="137">
<HEAD>[137.]</HEAD>
<L>It for to gain, cau&s;e worth far le&s;s doth move</L>
<L>Thee, co&s;t, labour and &s;trength for to lay out,</L>
<L>To be an humble &s;ervant in her love,</L>
<L>And think't a bli&s;s to be employ'd about</L>
<L>(At any time) the &s;ervice of her plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>Which to fullfill, thou &s;pare&s;t for no trea&s;ure.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="138">
<HEAD>[138.]</HEAD>
<L>And all's to gain what may be lo&s;t to morrow,</L>
<L>But if not &s;o, yet's but a petty good,</L>
<L>A &s;weet that doth contain a deal of &s;orrow,</L>
<L>A peace that many di&s;contentments hood.</L>
<L>Leave not the kernel for the empty &s;hell,</L>
<L>When as thou may&s;t enjoy'm both a&s;well.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="139">
<HEAD>[139.]</HEAD>
<L>But to look ore tho&s;e petty petty &s;weets,</L>
<L>That thou endeare&s;t to thee as thy life:</L>
<L>And for to mention &s;ome of many feates,</L>
<L>That in thy nature's acted very rife;</L>
<L>Thou ne'r do&s;t leave till thou ha&s;t found an object,</L>
<L>Whereto thou make&s;t thine affections &s;ubject.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="140">
<PB N="53" REF="33">
<HEAD>[140.]</HEAD>
<L>Oh! might thy active thoughts employ them&s;elves</L>
<L>No le&s;&s;e in &s;eeking out to find abode,</L>
<L>'Cquaintance and friend&s;hip and him that e'r dwels,</L>
<L>Between the Cherubims, thy heaven, thy God;</L>
<L>Thy &s;elf ca&s;t down before him, pro&s;trate ly</L>
<L>With re&s;olution, if I dy, I dy.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="141">
<HEAD>[141.]</HEAD>
<L>This thou wilt do to gain her worthle&s;&s;e favour,</L>
<L>On whom thou do&s;t thy fond affection pitch:</L>
<L>There is no good like that, that thou can&s;t favour,</L>
<L>Nor any thing that thou e&s;teem'&s;t &s;o much;</L>
<L>Therefore thou lay&s;t out all thy Art and &s;trength,</L>
<L>With &s;trong de&s;ire, her to enjoy at length.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="142">
<HEAD>[142.]</HEAD>
<L>The Suns bright rayes do far le&s;s comfort yeild,</L>
<L>Then doth the &s;unny beauty of her face;</L>
<L>To which thou thinke&s;t that the fragrant field</L>
<L>Is le&s;&s;e delightfull, nor of &s;o much grace.</L>
<L>There is no happine&s;s thou can&s;t e&s;py,</L>
<L>Out of the &s;un-&s;hine of thy Mi&s;tris's eye:</L>
</LG>
<LG N="143">
<HEAD>[143.]</HEAD>
<L>Thy life and happine&s;&s;e lies in her &s;miles,</L>
<L>Thy death and mi&s;ery in her frown con&s;i&s;teth,</L>
<L>Thy fond affection thus thy judgment &s;poiles,</L>
<L>Will and de&s;ire do in thee what them li&s;teth;</L>
<L>Affection, will, and vain de&s;ire together</L>
<L>Do lead th'enthraled judgment any whither.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="144">
<PB N="54" REF="34">
<HEAD>[144.]</HEAD>
<L>But oh fond youth that thou could'&s;t turn about,</L>
<L>And &s;ee that worth from which thou turn'&s;t thy face,</L>
<L>Ah! did'&s;t thou but behold it, out of doubt</L>
<L>Thou would'&s;t endeavour for to give it place;</L>
<L>Tis worth where from th'algorious Queere of Hea|ven</L>
<L>Have all their happine&s;&s;e unto them given.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="145">
<HEAD>[145.]</HEAD>
<L>Tis worth affording each Soul faculty,</L>
<L>A full contentment of all needful things:</L>
<L>A real worth where's no deceit, no ly,</L>
<L>Perfect delight and joy that's free from &s;tings;</L>
<L>'Tis more then th' Quinte&s;&s;ence of every good,</L>
<L>It is a worth that can't be under&s;tood.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="146">
<HEAD>[146.]</HEAD>
<L>It is a worth from whenceall worth's derived,</L>
<L>'Tis real &s;ub&s;tance, thine a vain conceit:</L>
<L>'Tis death eternal for to be deprived</L>
<L>Sight of the face of that al-glorious wight;</L>
<L>'Tis life e'rla&s;ting it for to enjoy,</L>
<L>Where's all delight and peace without annoy.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="147">
<HEAD>[147.]</HEAD>
<L>A dark and loath&s;ome Dungeon is that place,</L>
<L>(Of no delight, but &s;orrow now to thee?)</L>
<L>That thy dear Loves &s;weet pre&s;ence us'd to grace,</L>
<L>Where thou her lovely-face did'&s;t u&s;e to &s;ee;</L>
<L>Her &s;unny beauty was that place's light</L>
<L>To thee, her ab&s;ence mak'&s;t a dark&s;ome night.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="148">
<PB N="55" REF="34">
<HEAD>[148.]</HEAD>
<L>This thou experience&s;t and know&s;t it truth,</L>
<L>But in the Suuny beauty of Gods eye</L>
<L>(Regardle&s;&s;e, negligent, vain, witle&s;&s;e youth,)</L>
<L>Thou know&s;t not what an happine&s;&s;e doth ly;</L>
<L>For 'tis his face, his pre&s;ence that makes Heaven,</L>
<L>Who &s;ees it not of all joys are bereaven.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="149">
<HEAD>[149.]</HEAD>
<L>Ah! could&s;t but half con&s;ider what it is,</L>
<L>To live without him, be depriv'd the place</L>
<L>Of his abode, the mi&s;ery to mi&s;s</L>
<L>The &s;ight of his be&s;t &s;miles, his lovely grace;</L>
<L>'T would break thy heart to think upon that &s;orrow,</L>
<L>(That thou mu&s;t feele thereby) with deadly horrour.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="150">
<HEAD>[150.]</HEAD>
<L>The lo&s;&s;e of any creature Love i'n't &s;o,</L>
<L>That lo&s;&s;e may in an other be repaired:</L>
<L>Beare but the grief, no puni&s;hment may go</L>
<L>Along therewith be&s;ide, that may be &s;pared;</L>
<L>Con&s;idering (for ought thou know'&s;t) that lo&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>It had by thee might 'ave prov'd a cruel cro&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="151">
<HEAD>[151.]</HEAD>
<L>For why on earth no &s;weet's without &s;ome &s;owre,</L>
<L>There is no peace without &s;ome di&s;contentment,</L>
<L>Without&s;ome weakne&s;s there's no &s;trength, no power</L>
<L>No earth without &s;ome grief can't make pre&s;ent|ment</L>
<L>Of any joy unto thee in the lea&s;t,</L>
<L>At its vain Loves let not thy &s;oul (then) fea&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="152">
<PB N="56" REF="35">
<HEAD>[152.]</HEAD>
<L>But lea&s;t &s;ome per&s;ons &s;hould exceptions take,</L>
<L>(By mi&s;interpreting my aime, my drift)</L>
<L>And &s;ay Gods ordinance I u&s;ele&s;&s;e make,</L>
<L>And cha&s;tity is a peculiar gift;</L>
<L>I wi&s;h &s;uch per&s;ons rightly to conceive me;</L>
<L>I aime at no &s;uch thing, if they'll beleeve me.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="153">
<HEAD>[153.]</HEAD>
<L>I don't condemn &s;uch Love as lawfull is,</L>
<L>But fain would lead the creature a pitch higher,</L>
<L>Above all fir&s;t to &s;eek eternal bli&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>To God him&s;elf would have the Soul a&s;pire;</L>
<L>Would have it fir&s;t to mind the things of heaven,</L>
<L>Then all things el&s;e &s;hall be (as vantage) given.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="154">
<HEAD>[154.]</HEAD>
<L>I'd have youth give the prime of their affection,</L>
<L>As their fir&s;t fruit unto <HI>Jehovah</HI> due,</L>
<L>Their will and their de&s;ire too in &s;ubjection,</L>
<L>And after him with their whole &s;trength pur&s;ue.</L>
<L>For to his beauty all things el&s;e are dim,</L>
<L>He is our Lord, and we mu&s;t wor&s;hip him.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="155">
<HEAD>[155.]</HEAD>
<L>For feare I &s;ay if any mi&s;con&s;truction,</L>
<L>I'l here turn off, and in few words expre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>My &s;elfe herein, and &s;o will by deduction,</L>
<L>Declare how &s;hort all creature-comfort is;</L>
<L>Touching upon in a compendious &s;tory:</L>
<L>My Love's bright beauty excellence and glory.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="1">
<PB N="57" REF="35">
<HEAD>1.</HEAD>
<L>My tender youth hath found</L>
<L>An object for its Love,</L>
<L>Whereat I do not &s;tound,</L>
<L>But all my powers move,</L>
<L>It for to gain,</L>
<L>Though with much pain,</L>
<L>And for to make it &s;ure,</L>
<L>I will not &s;pare,</L>
<L>Nor do I care,</L>
<L>What ere I do endure.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="2">
<HEAD>2.</HEAD>
<L>It is no lower wight</L>
<L>That I do pitch upon,</L>
<L>My &s;ubject of delight</L>
<L>Is great <HI>Jehovah</HI>'s Son,</L>
<L>In him my minde</L>
<L>That &s;weet doth finde,</L>
<L>That none with may compare,</L>
<L>By him I have</L>
<L>What ere I crave,</L>
<L>Though ne'r &s;o good and rare.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="3">
<HEAD>3.</HEAD>
<L>My youth hath made a choice,</L>
<L>That I will not forgo,</L>
<L>Wherein I much rejoyce</L>
<L>And am affianc'd to,</L>
<L>Whom my de&s;ire</L>
<L>Is &s;et on fire</L>
<L>With ever to behold,</L>
<PB N="58" REF="36">
<L>And whom I love</L>
<L>All things above,</L>
<L>Therefore in &s;uit am bold.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="4">
<HEAD>4.</HEAD>
<L>Between my love and I</L>
<L>Is &s;uch congruity,</L>
<L>That nought unto mine eye</L>
<L>Of like re&s;pect can be;</L>
<L>I do not prize</L>
<L>Nor hands, nor eys,</L>
<L>Nor ought el&s;e what&s;oere,</L>
<L>My very life</L>
<L>Is but a &s;trife,</L>
<L>Not lov'd in his compare.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="5">
<HEAD>5.</HEAD>
<L>Ah, could my tongue but tell</L>
<L>The beauty of my love,</L>
<L>Wherein he doth excell,</L>
<L>Whate're doth breath or move,</L>
<L>There's none I'm &s;ure</L>
<L>That could endure</L>
<L>Him for to re&s;t &s;hort of,</L>
<L>They would him love,</L>
<L>All things above,</L>
<L>Though now they at him &s;coffe.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="6">
<HEAD>6.</HEAD>
<L>Could I but pen&s;il out</L>
<L>That bright perfection rare,</L>
<L>That &s;preads it &s;elf about,</L>
<L>His limbs and face &s;o fair,</L>
<PB N="59" REF="36">
<L>Each Readers heart</L>
<L>With Loves &s;trong dart,</L>
<L>Would &s;uffer &s;uch a wound,</L>
<L>So as that then</L>
<L>With lock and key</L>
<L>Were clo&s;ely Pri&s;oners bound.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="7">
<HEAD>7.</HEAD>
<L>My Love's &s;o fair, &s;o clear,</L>
<L>That neither Moon nor Sun</L>
<L>Do light or bright appear</L>
<L>In the Meridian,</L>
<L>No they are dim,</L>
<L>Compar'd with him,</L>
<L>Their beauty's 'clip&s;ed quite</L>
<L>They hide their face,</L>
<L>As in di&s;grace,</L>
<L>To &s;uch a glorious light.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="8">
<HEAD>8.</HEAD>
<L>With glory he's array'd</L>
<L>As with a garment gay,</L>
<L>His beauty may be &s;aid</L>
<L>To be the Angels day;</L>
<L>Heaven can nought</L>
<L>Afford that's ought,</L>
<L>If di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;t of him,</L>
<L>For 't is his light</L>
<L>That makes it bright,</L>
<L>His pre&s;ence makes it trim.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="9">
<PB N="60" REF="37">
<HEAD>9.</HEAD>
<L>O did you know the pow'r</L>
<L>Of his imperial brow,</L>
<L>And what delights do towre</L>
<L>Them&s;elves therein, and how,</L>
<L>Within your brea&s;t</L>
<L>You could not re&s;t,</L>
<L>Till you had &s;een that face,</L>
<L>Nor without doubt</L>
<L>Could live without</L>
<L>The pre&s;ence of his grace.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="10">
<HEAD>10.</HEAD>
<L>For why the Angels joy,</L>
<L>And Seraphims delight</L>
<L>Con&s;i&s;teth con&s;tantly</L>
<L>By being in his &s;ight,</L>
<L>Their happine&s;s</L>
<L>Is onely this</L>
<L>Him ever to behold,</L>
<L>Whereby de&s;ire</L>
<L>Is &s;et on fire,</L>
<L>And never waxes cold.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="11">
<HEAD>11.</HEAD>
<L>His &s;miles do make an Heaven,</L>
<L>His frowns produce an Hell,</L>
<L>For where his favour's given</L>
<L>No tongue their bli&s;s can tell;</L>
<L>His flaming ire</L>
<L>Begets a fire</L>
<L>That ever doth endure;</L>
<PB N="61" REF="37">
<L>His ble&s;&s;ed love</L>
<L>The Soul doth move</L>
<L>To joy and Peace mo&s;t &s;ure.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="12">
<HEAD>12.</HEAD>
<L>No Angels tongue can tell,</L>
<L>Nor mortal ear ere heard,</L>
<L>Nor heart conceive or &s;pell,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e joys that are prepar'd,</L>
<L>Prepar'd for them</L>
<L>That as a Gem</L>
<L>Do prize the Lord of Life,</L>
<L>Whom he will grace</L>
<L>With his ble&s;t face,</L>
<L>And marry as his Wife.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="13">
<HEAD>13.</HEAD>
<L>His nature's &s;weet and milde,</L>
<L>Lovely, and full of grace,</L>
<L>Him&s;elf he &s;o hath &s;til'd,</L>
<L>And 'tis read in his face,</L>
<L>His countenance</L>
<L>Doth much advance</L>
<L>His glories every where,</L>
<L>It is &s;o humble</L>
<L>That none can &s;tumble,</L>
<L>Say no acceptance's there.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="14">
<HEAD>14.</HEAD>
<L>For though he doth po&s;&s;e&s;s,</L>
<L>All things in Earth and Heaven,</L>
<L>Yet will he ne'rthele&s;s</L>
<L>His grace to &s;uch be given</L>
<PB N="62" REF="38">
<L>As do him &s;eek</L>
<L>With &s;pirit meek</L>
<L>Though ne'r &s;o vile and poor,</L>
<L>With real heart,</L>
<L>If they do part</L>
<L><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">In will and intention.</NOTE> With &s;in for evermore.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="15">
<HEAD>15.</HEAD>
<L>His countenance doth carry</L>
<L>In 't &s;uch maje&s;tick grace,</L>
<L>That where 'tis Sin w'on't tarry,</L>
<L>But &s;traight acquits the place;</L>
<L>It's Plea&s;ures black</L>
<L>Their Beauty lack,</L>
<L>And melt away like Snow;</L>
<L>They &s;hew then plain</L>
<L>But grief and pain,</L>
<L>But mi&s;ery and wo.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="16">
<HEAD>16.</HEAD>
<L>All worldly Plea&s;ures are</L>
<L>Compared with this delight</L>
<L>But as a Candle's blear</L>
<L>Unto the Suns clear light,</L>
<L>Or Glo-worms &s;hine</L>
<L>In the day-time,</L>
<L>Yea and far viler too;</L>
<L>They then are &s;orrows,</L>
<L>And deadly horrours,</L>
<L>Loath&s;om the Soul unto</L>
<PB N="63" REF="38">
<L>A ma&s;s of real wo.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="17">
<HEAD>17.</HEAD>
<L>I'll prove this &s;traight a truth</L>
<L>Unto your open view,</L>
<L>Come wanton lu&s;tfull youth,</L>
<L>And give me an&s;wer now,</L>
<L>Your minde a&s;pires,</L>
<L>Being fill'd with fires,</L>
<L>And at great things doth aim,</L>
<L>But who&s;e intent</L>
<L>Noble&s;t de&s;cent,</L>
<L>(Of you or I) can claim?</L>
</LG>
<LG N="18">
<HEAD>18.</HEAD>
<L>Again in Plea&s;ures Pool</L>
<L>Your youth doth bathe it &s;elf,</L>
<L>But I my youth do &s;chool,</L>
<L>In &s;hunning of that elf;</L>
<L>I deal with joys,</L>
<L>Not &s;uch vain toys,</L>
<L>A far they are below me,</L>
<L>I trade for Trea&s;ures,</L>
<L>Not carnal Plea&s;ures,</L>
<L>The which vain youth do cow thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="19">
<HEAD>19.</HEAD>
<L>Thou &s;erv'&s;t a &s;ordid Lu&s;t,</L>
<L>But I the God of Heaven;</L>
<L>And if obey thou mu&s;t,</L>
<L>But to me freedom's given;</L>
<PB N="64" REF="39">
<L>My joys do lie</L>
<L>With God on high,</L>
<L>My youths delights are there,</L>
<L>I in his Court</L>
<L>My &s;elf di&s;port,</L>
<L>Where 'quaintance claime I dare.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="20">
<HEAD>20.</HEAD>
<L>Thou woo'&s;t and &s;u'&s;t for love</L>
<L>To &s;ome inferiour Beauty,</L>
<L>I God him&s;elf do move</L>
<L>To him I tender duty,</L>
<L>Nor w'on't give o're</L>
<L>My Suit before</L>
<L>Him&s;elf I do obtain,</L>
<L>My heart in triall</L>
<L>Cann't take deniall,</L>
<L>My Soul mu&s;t with him reign.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="21">
<HEAD>21.</HEAD>
<L>O tell me wanton youth,</L>
<L>What's thy delight to mine?</L>
<L>Wilt dare to &s;ay in truth,</L>
<L>My love exceeds not thine?</L>
<L>I know th' art &s;ham'd</L>
<L>It &s;hould be nam'd</L>
<L>Upon that pre&s;ent day,</L>
<L>You blu&s;h to &s;ee</L>
<L>What fools you be,</L>
<L>And therefore nought can &s;ay.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="22">
<PB N="65" REF="39">
<HEAD>(22.)</HEAD>
<L>But to proceed to &s;peak</L>
<L>Still further in his prai&s;e,</L>
<L>Whereto my heart's too weak</L>
<L>My eyes to view his Rayes,</L>
<L>His beauty bright</L>
<L>Allows no night</L>
<L>where ever it doth &s;hine,</L>
<L>He doth impart</L>
<L>Unto that heart</L>
<L>A light and life divine.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="23">
<HEAD>(23.)</HEAD>
<L>He doth the &s;oul revive</L>
<L>Where ever he doth come,</L>
<L>And gives it &s;o to live</L>
<L>That it may keep a roome</L>
<L>For Maje&s;ty,</L>
<L>Therein to lie,</L>
<L>And alwaies find a place,</L>
<L>He'll there keep Court</L>
<L>The &s;oul di&s;port</L>
<L>With his mo&s;t lovely face.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="24">
<HEAD>(24.)</HEAD>
<L>He doth the &s;oul transform</L>
<L>Into his own likene&s;s,</L>
<L>Doth it throughout adorn</L>
<L>With his bright glorious grace,</L>
<L>What found in him</L>
<PB N="66" REF="40">
<L>Although but &s;in</L>
<L>Shall in it (too) appear.</L>
<L>Tran&s;mutes &amp; changes</L>
<L>The &s;oul e&s;tranges</L>
<L>From whats to Nature deare.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="25">
<HEAD>(25.)</HEAD>
<L>But not to &s;oar above</L>
<L>The reach of tender youth</L>
<L>That &s;laves him&s;elf in love</L>
<L>Whom vain fond humours &s;ooth&punc;</L>
<L>Whom up to lift</L>
<L>It is my drift</L>
<L>From off the dreggs of nature,</L>
<L>To fix on high</L>
<L>And him to eye</L>
<L>That is his ble&s;t Creator.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="26">
<HEAD>(26.)</HEAD>
<L>Mo&s;t glorious is my Love</L>
<L>As you may plainly &s;ee</L>
<L>And doth't not me behove</L>
<L>Loyal to him to be?</L>
<L>Yes that I will</L>
<L>With all the skill</L>
<L>That I can make or gain</L>
<L>Who&s;e work about</L>
<L>I will lay out</L>
<L>My &s;elf with might and main.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="27">
<PB N="67" REF="40">
<HEAD>(27.)</HEAD>
<L>Come Lovers I'll you tell</L>
<L>What privilege I have,</L>
<L>The which I will not &s;ell</L>
<L>For all Earths glory brave,</L>
<L>Although that glory</L>
<L>Shews none can &s;tory</L>
<L>Whereof my love po&s;&s;e&s;t</L>
<L>Yet &s;till dare I</L>
<L>To him draw nigh</L>
<L>In love to be refre&s;ht.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="28">
<HEAD>(28.)</HEAD>
<L>My love he is not coy</L>
<L>Though beautiful and fair</L>
<L>But fills my &s;oul with joy,</L>
<L>It glads me to appear</L>
<L>Before his &s;ight,</L>
<L>For why? with might</L>
<L>Afre&s;h he doth me fill;</L>
<L>He ne'r me &s;corns,</L>
<L>But me adorns</L>
<L>According to his will.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="29">
<HEAD>(29.)</HEAD>
<L>While that low worthle&s;s beauty</L>
<L>That thou do&s;t &s;o adore,</L>
<L>(Pre&s;enting with &s;uch duty)</L>
<L>Gives thee no thanks therefore</L>
<L>But makes thee &s;erve</L>
<PB N="68" REF="41">
<L>While like to &s;tarve</L>
<L>Regarding not thy love</L>
<L>Whom thou draw'&s;t nigh</L>
<L>(Oft &s;he is &s;hie,</L>
<L>And doth far off remove.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="30">
<HEAD>(30.)</HEAD>
<L>With &s;corn &s;he oft thee flouts,</L>
<L>(The fruit of loath'd rejection)</L>
<L>Di&s;dains with churli&s;h pouts</L>
<L>Thy tenders of affection;</L>
<L>Though thoudo&s;t crouch</L>
<L>Her for to touch</L>
<L>With lowly bended knee,</L>
<L>Yet &s;he flies off</L>
<L>Doth at thee &s;coff,</L>
<L>She will not, no not &s;he:</L>
</LG>
<LG N="31">
<HEAD>(31)</HEAD>
<L>O youth, what pains thou tak'&s;t</L>
<L>Her love for to obtain,</L>
<L>Thy &s;elf mo&s;t &s;ervile mak'&s;t,</L>
<L>Yet merits but di&s;dain;</L>
<L>But were I you,</L>
<L>I ne'r would &s;ue</L>
<L>For love &s;o frivolous,</L>
<L>I would for&s;ake,</L>
<L>No &s;uit more make</L>
<L>To be rejected thus.</L>
<LG N="32">
<PB N="69" REF="41">
<HEAD>(32.)</HEAD>
<L>Unto my Love I never did</L>
<L>Tender my hearts de&s;ire,</L>
<L>But he forth with me an&s;wered,</L>
<L>And &s;ent me fire for fire,</L>
<L>What I him give</L>
<L>He doth receive,</L>
<L>And &s;o in mutual love,</L>
<L>We each enjoy</L>
<L>Nor do we cloy,</L>
<L>Oh may I never move.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="33">
<HEAD>(33.)</HEAD>
<L>They that do give a heart</L>
<L>Unto the great Jehove,</L>
<L>May &s;ure them&s;elves that &s;tart</L>
<L>He will not from his Love,</L>
<L>I'm &s;ure there's none</L>
<L>Can make their moane,</L>
<L>That they did to him tender,</L>
<L>Not onely part,</L>
<L>But their whole heart,</L>
<L>And he no love would render.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="34">
<HEAD>(34.)</HEAD>
<L>Think'&s;t thou that Je&s;us Chri&s;t</L>
<L>The Heir of Earth and Heaven,</L>
<L>By whom thy &s;oul was prick't</L>
<L>And for't his life was given;</L>
<L>Thinks thou (&s;ay I)</L>
<PB N="70" REF="42">
<L>That he'll deny</L>
<L>Thee love when thou do&s;t &s;ue,</L>
<L>Ah no he won't</L>
<L>His practice don't</L>
<L>Confirm that thing as true.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="25">
<HEAD>(25.)</HEAD>
<L>He'll bind his li&s;tning ear</L>
<L>When thou prefer'&s;t a &s;uit</L>
<L>Thy voyce he &s;oon will hear</L>
<L>Nor will he then be mute,</L>
<L>He'll conde&s;cend</L>
<L>Unto that end</L>
<L>For which thy &s;uit was made,</L>
<L>He will delight,</L>
<L>And glad thy &s;pright,</L>
<L>Come therefore ben't afraid.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="36">
<HEAD>(36.)</HEAD>
<L>None ever made a proffer</L>
<L>Of any thing to him</L>
<L>That he refus'd their offer</L>
<L>Or flung their &s;corn on them</L>
<L>Ah no his grace</L>
<L>Doth &s;oon give place</L>
<L>To entertain that love,</L>
<L>He'll an&s;wer them</L>
<L>With love again</L>
<L>That truth of heart doth move.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="37">
<PB N="71" REF="42">
<HEAD>(37.)</HEAD>
<L>And youth when thou ha&s;t gain'd</L>
<L>The per&s;on thou do&s;t &s;ue for,</L>
<L>Her love I mean obtain'd</L>
<L>(Which oft thy heart did rue for)</L>
<L>Thou art not &s;ure</L>
<L>It will endure</L>
<L>For Lovers minds are changing,</L>
<L>For all that love</L>
<L>Don't con&s;tant prove</L>
<L>(The mind is prone to ranging.)</L>
</LG>
<LG N="38">
<HEAD>(38.)</HEAD>
<L>But &s;ure I am that love</L>
<L>That God doth give to his</L>
<L>Is con&s;tant, can't remove,</L>
<L>It everla&s;ting is,</L>
<L>The highe&s;t mountains</L>
<L>And lowe&s;t fountains</L>
<L>Shall all fir&s;t cea&s;e to be,</L>
<L>The mighty hills</L>
<L>The de&s;ert fields</L>
<L>Shall move into the Sea.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="39">
<HEAD>(39)</HEAD>
<L>Could my tongue tell the &s;weets</L>
<L>The plea&s;ures of the mind</L>
<L>That with my &s;oul oft meets</L>
<L>And I in love do find,</L>
<L>There is no ear</L>
<PB N="72" REF="43">
<L>That could them hear,</L>
<L>But would be ravi&s;h'd by 'em,</L>
<L>And then would &s;py</L>
<L>The vanity</L>
<L>In earthly things, and fly 'em.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="40">
<HEAD>(40)</HEAD>
<L>No place can me debar</L>
<L>The pre&s;ence of my love,</L>
<L>That bideth every where,</L>
<L>On earth beneath, above:</L>
<L>No company</L>
<L>Can me deny</L>
<L>My &s;weet conver&s;e with him;</L>
<L>Nor darke&s;t night,</L>
<L>Hide from my &s;ight</L>
<L>His beauties clear and trim.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="41">
<HEAD>(41)</HEAD>
<L>This beauty can't decay,</L>
<L>(Though age your lov's defaces)</L>
<L>My joyes &s;hall 'bide for aye,</L>
<L>In mutual loves embraces;</L>
<L>I &s;hall enjoy,</L>
<L>Without annoy,</L>
<L>My love for evermore,</L>
<L>In that bright glory,</L>
<L>That none can &s;tory,</L>
<L>Where Seraphims him adore.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="42">
<PB N="73" REF="43">
<HEAD>(42)</HEAD>
<L>The care that now I take,</L>
<L>Is only &s;o to live</L>
<L>A life, that love may &s;peak</L>
<L>To whom my love I give;</L>
<L>I care not I,</L>
<L>Who doth defie,</L>
<L>The &s;ervice of my love;</L>
<L>'I &s;hall be my care,</L>
<L>No co&s;t to &s;pare,</L>
<L>Sincere to him to prove.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="43">
<HEAD>(43)</HEAD>
<L>Commend, or di&s;-commend</L>
<L>My lov's mo&s;t &s;trict commands,</L>
<L>It nought to me doth tend,</L>
<L>My act not therein &s;tands;</L>
<L>I will endeavour,</L>
<L>Now, and for ever,</L>
<L>His plea&s;ure for to do,</L>
<L>With heart and might,</L>
<L>Both day and night,</L>
<L>Who 'er's aver&s;e thereto.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="44">
<HEAD>(44)</HEAD>
<L>I prize no love to his;</L>
<L>For what's all el&s;e to me?</L>
<L>In him's contain'd my bli&s;s;</L>
<L>Nought care I el&s;e to &s;ee:</L>
<L>'Tis he alone,</L>
</LG>
<PB N="74" REF="44">
<L>That onely one</L>
<L>On whom my hear doth fix,</L>
<L>Him would I &s;erve,</L>
<L>Not from him &s;werve,</L>
<L>Nor other &s;ervice mix.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="45">
<HEAD>(45.)</HEAD>
<L>Oh may my heart be true,</L>
<L>My will and my de&s;ire,</L>
<L>Con&s;tantly him pur&s;ue,</L>
<L>And be to him entire,</L>
<L>Who is worthy</L>
<L>Of more than I</L>
<L>Am able for to give him,</L>
<L>But to his prai&s;e</L>
<L>Even all my dayes</L>
<L>I crave that I may live him</L>
</LG>
<LG N="46">
<HEAD>(46.)</HEAD>
<L>A thou&s;and hearts had I</L>
<L>And every heart the might</L>
<L>The &s;trength and valiancy</L>
<L>Of thou&s;ands, as his right</L>
<L>Them unto him</L>
<L>(My hearts dear gem)</L>
<L>Would I pre&s;ent and give,</L>
<L>And think this all</L>
<L>Yet far too &s;mall</L>
<L>For him for to receive.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="47">
<PB N="75" REF="44">
<HEAD>(47.)</HEAD>
<L>My tender youthful years</L>
<L>Hath long agoe for&s;aken</L>
<L>Earth's fading fooli&s;h toyes,</L>
<L>Of them farewel hath taken,</L>
<L>My tender youth</L>
<L>They may not &s;ooth,</L>
<L>For dead is my de&s;ire</L>
<L>Unto its joyes</L>
<L>Such worthle&s;s toyes</L>
<L>That do &s;o &s;oon expire.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="48">
<HEAD>(48.)</HEAD>
<L>My tender years pre&s;ent</L>
<L>Their youthful &s;trength to him</L>
<L>With whole and joint con&s;ent</L>
<L>To whom bright Sol is dim,</L>
<L>Whom I adore</L>
<L>For evermore</L>
<L>As Soveraign, Lord, and King,</L>
<L>Whom I'd rerai&s;e</L>
<L>In &s;trains of prai&s;e</L>
<L>And of his Glories &s;ing.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="conclusion">
<PB REF="45">
<HEAD>The Conclu&s;ion.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>NOw, young man lay to heart what I have &s;aid,</L>
<L>Note well each matter I have here down laid,</L>
<L>Here's life and death pre&s;ented fairly to thee,</L>
<L>Be well advis'd they both alike do woo thee,</L>
<L>Onely there's this advantage, cour&s;es ill</L>
<L>do &s;wifte&s;t go, their path is down the hill;</L>
<L>But youth, thy brea&s;t is &s;trong, and youthful fire</L>
<L>May carry thee up-hill-wayes and yet not tire,</L>
<L>Put thy &s;trength to it, do not back retire,</L>
<L>Thy lungs being good, thy breath 'twill not expire,</L>
<L>Though down-hill-waies are ea&s;ie, yet there's danger</L>
<L>In them, it is the practice of each &s;tranger</L>
<L>Eas'ly to go, yea t' light and lead their Hor&s;e</L>
<L>There where the Road doth prove a down-hill cour&s;e:</L>
<L>But up-hill wayes do offer means to try</L>
<L>The Hor&s;es courage, &s;trength and valiancy;</L>
<L>The rider he delights &s;wiftly to force</L>
<L>A &s;peedy pa&s;&s;age on an up hill cour&s;e:</L>
<L>So young man, up-hill-waies pre&s;ent th' occa&s;ion</L>
<L>To try thy youthful &s;trength without per&s;wa&s;ion,</L>
<L>Come put on courage, put on manly might,</L>
<L>And mount this hill, the which pre&s;ents to &s;ight</L>
<L>A gallant pro&s;pect, the bright Court of Heaven,</L>
<L>Where Saints and Angels, all the glorious &s;even</L>
<L>Do &s;it, and chant the everla&s;ting prai&s;e</L>
<L>Of great Jehove, (deckt with bright glorious rayes)</L>
<L>Women and Children labour to fulfil</L>
<PB N="77" REF="45">
<L>The puny wi&s;hes of their craving will;</L>
<L>'Tis childi&s;hne&s;s to follow inclination,</L>
<L>Effem'nacy to &s;erve a fooli&s;h pa&s;&s;ion:</L>
<L>The&s;e down-hill-waies though plea&s;ant &s;weet &amp; &s;ooth,</L>
<L>yet don't become, but much aba&s;e thy youth:</L>
<L>Where's manly courage &s;een? up, up oppo&s;e,</L>
<L>Re&s;i&s;t, re&s;i&s;t th' inva&s;ion of thy foes;</L>
<L>Ben't captivated by a head &s;trong will,</L>
<L>Fool'd by affection, led for to fulfil</L>
<L>A vain de&s;ire, to gratifie a lu&s;t</L>
<L>The &s;oul and all her powers &s;ub&s;ervient mu&s;t:</L>
<L>Fie, fie young man, thy &s;elf confine to rea&s;on,</L>
<L>And let grave precept thy weak judgment &s;ea&s;on;</L>
<L>Let rea&s;on rule by Precepts, good direction</L>
<L>Thy &s;tubborn will, and thy vain fond affection.</L>
<L>Art not a&s;ham'd to let a humor lead thee?</L>
<L>Unruly lu&s;ts, untamed pa&s;&s;ions ride thee?</L>
<L>Is the heat of thy young blood degenerated</L>
<L>From all things good, to ill &s;o clo&s;ely mated?</L>
<L>Hath't lo&s;t its &s;trength and vigor with its heat,</L>
<L>That it regards not worth, nor glory great?</L>
<L>Rou&s;e up thy &s;oul young man, ben't &s;o be&s;otted</L>
<L>To let a Pearle of price in dung be rotted;</L>
<L>Thy blood's waxt cold, ob&s;tructed, it don't run</L>
<L>Quick in its channel, Glory is not won,</L>
<L>Nor once regarded by thee, &s;ure the cour&s;e</L>
<L>Of nature's changed, yea, from bad to wor&s;e.</L>
<L>Motives enow I'ave laid down to excite thee</L>
<L>Sin to oppo&s;e, and unto God invite thee;</L>
<L>De&s;cribed during plea&s;ures to delight thee,</L>
<L>Set forth thine enemies in field to fight thee:</L>
<PB N="78" REF="46">
<L>What can I more? What can I further do?</L>
<L>To gain upon the, which way &s;hould I go?</L>
<L>Heaven and Glory I have laid thee down</L>
<L>(As Garland) thy victorious brows to Crown,</L>
<L>Plea&s;ures and joyes I have thee with pre&s;ented</L>
<L>That aye abides, and never &s;hall be ended;</L>
<L>Beauty I have protraicted to thy eye,</L>
<L>For therein many a younglings heart doth lie,</L>
<L>I'ave &s;hew'd thee how thy tender youth might gain</L>
<L>Either of the&s;e, or all of them attain;</L>
<L>Believe me youth if ought more lies in me</L>
<L>To do thee good, thy &s;ervant I will be;</L>
<L>How freely could I bear thee in mine arms,</L>
<L>But ah they'r weak and can't &s;ecure from harms,</L>
<L>I'll take thee by the hand and gently lead thee,</L>
<L>I'll go before thee and thy path out-tread thee:</L>
<L>But what am I? a poor weak &s;orry Guide;</L>
<L>Mi&s;take me not! nor don't the &s;peech deride,</L>
<L>'Tis not of pride I &s;peak't, but out of love,</L>
<L>The bowels of my &s;oul to youth doth move,</L>
<L>Fain would I have him 'quainted with his God,</L>
<L>That he might give him with him&s;elf abode:</L>
<L>Oh tender youth be rul'd, &s;hake hands with &s;in</L>
<L>And wanton cour&s;es don't continue in,</L>
<L>They are not &s;afe but full of deadly danger,</L>
<L>Or &s;in with thee or God mu&s;t be a &s;tranger,</L>
<L>They will not lodge together in one brea&s;t,</L>
<L>For where &s;in reigns Jehovah will not re&s;t.</L>
<L>And thou &s;weet youth who&s;e face is God-ward bent,</L>
<L>Who of all &s;in and evil do&s;t repent,</L>
<L>I kindly greet thee, and if I did know thee,</L>
<PB N="79" REF="46">
<L>I would endeavour more of God to &s;how thee;</L>
<L>Well how&s;o'er, thou to my heart art dear,</L>
<L>And as my body to my &s;oul as near;</L>
<L>As true to God may thy heart be as mine</L>
<L>Is true to thee, that do&s;t to good incline;</L>
<L>Thou art to me as dear as an own brother,,</L>
<L>To Je&s;us Chri&s;t likewi&s;e thou art no other,</L>
<L>He owns thee as a friend, a brother, wife,</L>
<L>More dearer to him art thou than his life,</L>
<L>For thee he dy'd, and lives, and now doth &s;it</L>
<L>At Gods right hand, for thee to intercede;</L>
<L>And whom Chri&s;t Je&s;us daignes him&s;elf to love,</L>
<L>With be&s;t affection, I dare boldly move,</L>
<L>But where&s;oe'r thou art, my Coun&s;el's this</L>
<L>To thee, per&s;i&s;t and follow on to ble&s;s,</L>
<L>In earne&s;t &s;eek him and thou then &s;halt find him,</L>
<L>Which having done, with &s;trong affection bind him,</L>
<L>With con&s;tant &s;uits &s;alute his li&s;ting ear,</L>
<L>Be confident and bold he will thee hear,</L>
<L>He loves an earne&s;t &s;uiter at his Throne,</L>
<L>And that's the way to thrive in grace (or none)</L>
<L>Prayer gives to God his due, and &s;hews the creature</L>
<L>How far it is below its ble&s;t Creator;</L>
<L>It brings the &s;oul as fir&s;t it &s;elf to know</L>
<L>Its own frailty, &s;o its God al&s;o,</L>
<L>And his abundant fulne&s;s of rich Trea&s;ure</L>
<L>That he unto all creatures out doth mea&s;ue,</L>
<L>It brings the &s;oul with its ble&s;t God acquainted,</L>
<L>Works't off of &s;in wherewith 'twas fouly tained,</L>
<L>'Tis ardent prayer unlocks the gates of heaven,</L>
<L>Nought God affords that is not by him given</L>
<PB N="80" REF="47">
<L>Unto the &s;oul that earne&s;tly doth &s;ue</L>
<L>With ardent fervent and affection true.</L>
<L>In prayer there is that rare rich &s;ecret good</L>
<L>That cannot be expre&s;t, that can't be under&s;tood;</L>
<L>Prayer is a jewel that I'd not forgoe</L>
<L>For all this world, I do e&s;teem it &s;o;</L>
<L>Honor, wealth, fame, endowments laid at &s;take,</L>
<L>For precious prayer I would them all for&s;ake.</L>
<L>The greate&s;t honors lo&s;s it &s;oon can gain,</L>
<L>And wealth procure, yea wealth that doth remain</L>
<L>For ever, when this world &s;hall cea&s;e to be,</L>
<L>This worlds be&s;t wi&s;dome is but foolery</L>
<L>To that which heaven, (by earne&s;t &s;uit) doth give,</L>
<L>A praying temper may I e'r in-live.</L>
<L>Prayer is my &s;ouls delight, and I am mute,</L>
<L>To none &s;ave God can I pre&s;ent a &s;uit;</L>
<L>Prayer's my refre&s;hment, and my greate&s;t joy,</L>
<L>I ne'r could &s;ay that e'r it did me cloy;</L>
<L>Though dayes and nights, yea weeks and months toge|ther</L>
<L>I gave it all my &s;oul, it joyes me ever.</L>
<L>Wer't not for prayer, what were this life unto me?</L>
<L>Wer't not for prayer, Divels would &s;oon undo me,</L>
<L>Wer't not for prayer, the loath&s;ome &s;tink of &s;in</L>
<L>Would poy&s;on me, and I &s;hould die therein:</L>
<L>Wer't not for prayer, in doleful mi&s;ery</L>
<L>(By Gods permi&s;&s;ion) &s;hould I live and die;</L>
<L>Wer't not for prayer what comfort could I find?</L>
<L>What &s;olace? what refre&s;hment to my mind?</L>
<L>Wer't not for prayer, how could I ought po&s;&s;e&s;s?</L>
<L>How could I bear my head up in di&s;tre&s;s.</L>
<PB N="81" REF="47">
<L>Wer't not for Prayer, what were all comforts to me</L>
<L>Lawful? Indifferent things would quite undo me&punc;</L>
<L>I have all things by Prayer, without I'ave nothing;</L>
<L>All things are joyous by 't, without 't, a loathing:</L>
<L>Prayer is my &s;oul's be&s;t banquet, nought more joys me</L>
<L>then praying doth (you know what mo&s;t then'noys me)</L>
<L>Sweet Prayer, I'll ever live and die in thee,</L>
<L>Till that time comes when thou &s;halt u&s;ele&s;s be;</L>
<L>Even till I'm &s;wallowed up in his ble&s;t love,</L>
<L>And full po&s;&s;e&s;t thereof by thee, I'll move,</L>
<L>I'll move by thee, &s;oaring upon the wings</L>
<L>Of Contemplation, until Death brings</L>
<L>Me to enjoy mo&s;t fully, what I now</L>
<L>With longing heart, and true de&s;ire for&s;ue;</L>
<L>O ble&s;&s;ed Maje&s;ty! Thou, Three in One,</L>
<L>And One in Three, Thou art that One alone</L>
<L>That I de&s;ire to be acquainted with.</L>
<L>To love, to &s;erve, to prai&s;e, to wor&s;hip, &s;ith</L>
<L>Thou art of during Goods, that ble&s;&s;ed Fountain</L>
<L>Of &s;trength, and &s;afety, that everla&s;ting mountain:</L>
<L>Thou giv'&s;t mo&s;t freely, yet ha&s;t &s;till in &s;tore</L>
<L>More than enough, to la&s;t for evermore.</L>
<L>Thou giv'&s;t, and yet by giving ha&s;t no le&s;s;</L>
<L>Thy &s;tore increa&s;eth that thou do&s;t po&s;&s;e&s;s.</L>
<L>Lord, I am poor, and thou art full of riches,</L>
<L>Abound'&s;t with wi&s;dom, Folly me bewitches:</L>
<L>Lord, I am weak, and thou art God of &s;trength,</L>
<L>Unle&s;s thou &s;av'&s;t, I peri&s;h &s;hall at length:</L>
<L>Thou do'&s;t enjoyn the Rich, unto the poor</L>
<L>For to impart with &s;ome of their full &s;tore;</L>
<PB N="82" REF="48">
<L>And can&s;t thou, God of Riches, do ought le&s;s,</L>
<L>Then give to th' Needy what thou do&s;t po&s;&s;e&s;s</L>
<L>In great abundant&punc; fulne&s;s? Ah! Can&s;t thou,</L>
<L>What thou enjoyn&s;t thy Creatures to, tell how</L>
<L>For to deny thy &s;elf? Oh! Wilt thov prove</L>
<L>So cruel, &s;o unkind? Thou God of Love!</L>
<L>No &s;ure thou can&s;t not, thy delight's to give</L>
<L>Abundantly to man; crav'&s;t that receive</L>
<L>Of thee he would, that everla&s;ting trea&s;ure</L>
<L>Of thine con&s;i&s;ting in true joy and plea&s;ure.</L>
<L>Mi&s;erable am I! whither &s;hould I turn</L>
<L>But unto Mercy? My de&s;ires burn,</L>
<L>And long, and pine, thy Grace for to po&s;&s;e&s;s.</L>
<L>O thou in whom my life and plea&s;ure is,</L>
<L>Enlarge my Soul &s;till more, fill my de&s;ires</L>
<L>With greater longings, with more &s;tronger fires,</L>
<L>That &s;till my youth may make its boa&s;t of thee,</L>
<L>And thou may&s;t &s;till delight thy &s;elf in me,</L>
<L>That the whole &s;trength of the&s;e my yonger dayes</L>
<L>May be laid out and &s;pent in thy ble&s;t prai&s;e.</L>
<L>As freely as thou gav'&s;t my life to me,</L>
<L>So freely do I give my &s;trength to thee.</L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="48">
<P>A GLASS FOR VIRGINS.</P>
<P>Wherein al&s;o every SOUL may &s;ee, and from whence may be gathered, The Duty of every SOUL to CHRIST.</P>
<P>Held forth by a continued Parallel, Be|tween, <HI>Virgins Behaviours to their Suitors,</HI> and <HI>The Christian Souls to Christ.</HI></P>
<P>Unto which likewi&s;e the Author ex|pre&s;&s;eth him&s;elf.</P>
<P>By F. G.</P>
<Q>Young Men and Maids, Old Men and Children&punc; Prai&s;e ye the Lord.</Q>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="about the author">
<PB REF="49">
<PB REF="49">
<HEAD>THE AUTHOUR Of this following POEM.</HEAD>
<P>ALthough young Women are included and comprehended alwayes under the expre&s;sion, young Man (when Mankind is &s;poken to in general) becau&s;e things mu&s;t be expre&s;t in the Melior which the &s;acred Writ, as well as common Writ, witne&s;&s;es, which take in this one in&s;tance for many, <HI>P&s;al. 119. Wherewithal &s;hall a young man clean&s;e his way,</HI> &amp;c? The
<PB REF="50"> Expre&s;sion comprehending both Sexes, young Women as well as young Men; &s;o al&s;o have I all along, as much as I could, hinted to young Women, in, and through young Men, oft times al&s;o expre&s;&s;ing the term more in|deffinitely by the word <HI>youngling,</HI> which more clearly comprehends both Sexes: But for a&s;much as in the pur&s;uit of a Di&s;cour&s;e we are bound to follow up matters in the melior, and to pur&s;ue Instances of the prime Con|cernment: Therefore do I think good to an|nex the&s;e following Lines to the former, wherein young Women &s;hall be po&s;itively con|cerned, and the state of young Women ab&s;o|lutely &s;poke unto and parallel'd as the nature and condition of young Men was before, yet &s;o, as re&s;erving that truth alwayes in my mind, and carrying of it along in my thoughts with me in this Di&s;cour&s;e, <HI>viz.</HI> that there is no distinction of Sexes with Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>And therefore, peradventure, I may mix
<PB REF="50"> Expre&s;&s;ions of both Sexes in one (oft times) becau&s;e all is one in Chri&s;t.</P>
<Q><P>Herein will be what as well concerns the one Sex as the other, and that not ab&s;olutely young Ones only, but the Aged al&s;o may find their Duty in &s;ome mea&s;ure herein laid down.</P>
<P>Oh Reader, be &s;ober, and read with a heart &s;olid and &s;piritual, and thy delight (I doubt not) then will be as great in reading, as mine is in writing and was when I expre&s;s'd from truth of Experi|ence the&s;e things; thy good and pro&s;pe|rity in God I heartily wi&s;h.</P></Q>
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<PB REF="51">
<PB REF="51">
<HEAD>A Gla&s;s for Virgins.</HEAD>
<LG N="1">
<HEAD>(1)</HEAD>
<L>NOw Virgins unto you, to you I &s;peak,</L>
<L>To you directly now my Speech I turn;</L>
<L>For why? Your welfare I entirely &s;eek,</L>
<L>And thereunto doth my de&s;ier burn.</L>
<L>You are to me alike belov'd and dear,</L>
<L>And every whit as pretious as they were.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="2">
<HEAD>(2)</HEAD>
<L>Chri&s;t maketh no di&s;tinction, no more do I,</L>
<L>But good in any one I love and prize;</L>
<L>And where&s;oever Grace I do e&s;py,</L>
<L>Why in tho&s;e per&s;ons my hearts plea&s;ure lyes.</L>
<L>Both Male and Foemale are alike to me,</L>
<L>When alike Principles I in them &s;ee.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="3">
<HEAD>(3)</HEAD>
<L>My heart is dead, mo&s;t cold is my de&s;ire</L>
<L>To any's friend&s;hip where no Grace I find;</L>
<L>Nought el&s;e but it can my affection fire,</L>
<L>Or &s;omething that is like to it in kind.</L>
<L>Partial: Oh! May I never he in Love,</L>
<L>Nor ne'r affect where great Jehove don't move&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG N="4">
<PB N="90" REF="52">
<HEAD>(4)</HEAD>
<L>Virgins attend: Note your denomination,</L>
<L>You prize the Name, Oh! &s;ee you live unto it:</L>
<L>Yo be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">r your &s;elves upon that appellation,</L>
<L>And &s;o do I; what it be&s;peaks let's do it:</L>
<L>Virgin &s;peaks purity, and &s;inglne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>All Cha&s;tity, and Soul retiredne&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="5">
<HEAD>(5)</HEAD>
<L>A Virgins heart's within it &s;elf compact</L>
<L>In unity, within it &s;elfe's compo&s;ed,</L>
<L>Each faculty's entire, and all exact;</L>
<L>Its happine&s;&s;e within it &s;elfe's enclo&s;ed.</L>
<L>The heart's entire, th' affection whole and &s;ound,</L>
<L>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e will, de&s;ire, unto them&s;elves are bound.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="6">
<HEAD>(6)</HEAD>
<L>A &s;erene, quiet, calm, tranquillid frame</L>
<L>Of &s;pirit doth a Virgins &s;oul po&s;&s;e&s;s;</L>
<L>And being &s;o, nought can it eas'ly maim:</L>
<L>Nor is there ought can make their joyes he le&s;s.</L>
<L>Affections in 'em are not parcel'd out,</L>
<L>Di&s;ordered pa&s;&s;ions therefore can't them rout.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="7">
<HEAD>(7)</HEAD>
<L>A Virgins glory's to maintain this frame,</L>
<L>Tis this they make their bu&s;ine&s;s of life;</L>
<L>Their &s;trength's laid out for to maintain the &s;ame,</L>
<L>And &s;o their &s;ouls pre&s;erved are from &s;trife.</L>
<L>Thus is Virginity Angelical,</L>
<L>And to be priz'd the be&s;t e&s;tate of all.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="8">
<PB N="91" REF="52">
<HEAD>(8)</HEAD>
<L>A Virgins honour lives in mode&s;t looks,</L>
<L>In &s;ober, and yet humble carriages,</L>
<L>A Virgins &s;pirit no uncleanne&s;s brooks,</L>
<L>Hates of impurity all pa&s;&s;ages:</L>
<L>Her front &s;hines with a kind of Maje&s;ty,</L>
<L>True vertue may be &s;een with in her eye.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="9">
<HEAD>(9)</HEAD>
<L>This is a Virgins '&s;tate: I have defined</L>
<L>A Virgins Nature; I have pencil'd out</L>
<L>The Acts of them th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">t have them&s;elves re&s;igned</L>
<L>Up thereunto, with their employment what about.</L>
<L>The which &s;o worthy, and approved carriage,</L>
<L>Pre&s;ents them mo&s;t de&s;irable in marriage.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="10">
<HEAD>(10)</HEAD>
<L>Chu&s;e to what per&s;on you will this apply,</L>
<L>To God him&s;elf, or to a lower creature,</L>
<L>For both in love the carriages do eye,</L>
<L>Deporture and demeanour in each feature.</L>
<L>To one, to both, this lovely you pre&s;ents</L>
<L>(Though God alone to plea&s;e were your intents)</L>
</LG>
<LG N="11">
<HEAD>(11)</HEAD>
<L>Oh Virgins know, Jehovah hath a Son,</L>
<L>The Heir of heaven and earth (alone) is he;</L>
<L>He's meek and milde, yet hath by courage won</L>
<L>Of the world, &s;in, hell, and death, th' victory.</L>
<L>All pow'r, and might, and &s;trength's &s;ubjected to him&punc;</L>
<L>He is &s;o truly rich, nought can undo him.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="12">
<PB N="92" REF="53">
<HEAD>(12.)</HEAD>
<L>This per&s;on's &s;ingle, and he &s;eeks a wife</L>
<L>Among&s;t the &s;inful childeren of men,</L>
<L>He was &s;o reall, that he gave his life</L>
<L>To gain their love, and to redeem them, when</L>
<L>They were &s;old captives unto helli&s;h fiends,</L>
<L>Under darkne&s;s bound with everla&s;ting chains.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="13">
<HEAD>(13.)</HEAD>
<L>Which was &s;uch love, that now a &s;ilent &s;uit</L>
<L>('Tis thought) might be enough to gain their love,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e their lives are his in &s;mall di&s;pute,</L>
<L>May cau&s;e affections unto him to move;</L>
<L>His Love was true and reall, no vain proffer,</L>
<L>No complement, no &s;uperficial offer.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="14">
<HEAD>(14.)</HEAD>
<L>His blood did &s;eal the truth of his affection,</L>
<L>His life throughout did te&s;tifie the &s;ame,</L>
<L>His neck he bowed under all &s;ubjection,</L>
<L>Nay he &s;o much did do, I can't it name;</L>
<L>And may &s;uch real love, be di&s;re&s;pected</L>
<L>While lighter's pri&s;ed, &s;hall this be rejected?</L>
</LG>
<LG N="15">
<HEAD>(15.)</HEAD>
<L>If your hot blood may move your minds t' a&s;pire</L>
<L>To high preferment, by &s;ome noble match,</L>
<L>If honor, riches, plea&s;ure you de&s;ire,</L>
<L>His love embrace, and his kind proffers catch;</L>
<L>For why? all the&s;e you meet withal in him,</L>
<L>Yea and much more whereto all the&s;e are dim.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="16">
<PB N="93" REF="53">
<HEAD>(16.)</HEAD>
<L>He is a King and therefore can advance ye,</L>
<L>A King that tules and reignes for evermore,</L>
<L>A price upon his love therefore inhaunce ye,</L>
<L>He's full profe&s;&s;or of enduring &s;tore;</L>
<L>If therefore you would unto honor ri&s;e,</L>
<L>And happy be, accept his love, be wi&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="17">
<HEAD>(17.)</HEAD>
<L>The be&s;t of mortals can't advance ye &s;o,</L>
<L>The greate&s;t Monarch can't that honor give,</L>
<L>The mightie&s;t Potentate, cannot be&s;tow,</L>
<L>That wealth and plea&s;ure that in him ye have;</L>
<L>Tho&s;e full contentments, tho&s;e delightful plea&s;ures,</L>
<L>Enduring ever with all peaceful trea&s;ures.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="18">
<HEAD>(18.)</HEAD>
<L>Comprize the whole together, and 'tis this,</L>
<L>The God of Glory, heir of Earth and Heaven;</L>
<L>In whom all honor, plea&s;ure, wealth and bl&s;is,</L>
<L>Doth bide and dwell: who&s;e pretious blood was gi|ven</L>
<L>For mans Redemption; to the &s;oul of man</L>
<L>Becomes a &s;uiter, tries all waies he can.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="19">
<HEAD>(19.)</HEAD>
<L>To gain that love he over dearly bought,</L>
<L>To win that heart, for which he gave his life,</L>
<L>It to enjoy, that being lo&s;t, he &s;ought</L>
<L>Eternally to make his glorious Wife:</L>
<L>His Grace doth &s;ue, Oh can our hearts deny,</L>
<L>Hold off, and &s;o aba&s;e &s;uch Maje&s;ty.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="20">
<PB N="94" REF="54">
<HEAD>(20.)</HEAD>
<L>Shall he to whom the glorious Queen of Heaven,</L>
<L>E'r &s;ues for favour, &s;uit our worthle&s;s Love,</L>
<L>That are of what&s;oever's good bereaven,</L>
<L>Shall he &s;uit us, and we to him not move?</L>
<L>When he pre&s;ents him&s;elf can we be &s;hie?</L>
<L>Ah &s;hall he woo, and we his &s;uit deny?</L>
</LG>
<LG N="21">
<HEAD>(21.)</HEAD>
<L>Maidens are wont much to regard their beauty,</L>
<L>They mayn't admit a blemi&s;h in the face,</L>
<L>Adorn them&s;elves, in carriages are haughty,</L>
<L>Are circum&s;pect le&s;t they incur di&s;grace;</L>
<L>They heed to &s;hape each action, work and carriage,</L>
<L>So as they mayn't prevent 'em in their marriage.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="22">
<HEAD>(22.)</HEAD>
<L>Oh Virgins! this Chri&s;t Je&s;us looks upon,</L>
<L>A comely face with an&s;werable attire,</L>
<L>Who&s;e heart doth monut in contemplation,</L>
<L>Wh'are cautious what they will, what they de&s;ire;</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;pirits are &s;ublime, and &s;corn the earth,</L>
<L>And mount a lo&s;t according to their birth.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="23">
<HEAD>(23.)</HEAD>
<L>May I explain my &s;elf in this expre&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>By a comely face, a &s;incere heart is meant,</L>
<L>Pure and humble, (<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ear with this digre&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>Not a bare &s;ay &s;o, and a complement</L>
<L>A gracious conver&s;ation is th' attire</L>
<L>An&s;wering thereto, the which he doth de&s;ire.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="24">
<PB N="95" REF="54">
<HEAD>(24.)</HEAD>
<L>Our employment he'd have noble, and our thought</L>
<L>Rai&s;ed above the&s;e low inferior things,</L>
<L>Our Virgin &s;pirit he would not have fraught</L>
<L>With other matter, than what glory brings;</L>
<L>What would us &s;uit, we may with &s;corn deny,</L>
<L>Or our hearts court; unto we may be &s;hie.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="25">
<HEAD>(25.)</HEAD>
<L>A Virgin &s;tands upon her reputation,</L>
<L>A haughty &s;corn oft times doth fill her brea&s;t,</L>
<L>(Remember this in Chri&s;tian conver&s;ation)</L>
<L>She won't be in a &s;lutti&s;h habit dre&s;t;</L>
<L>She blu&s;hes much at every misbehaviour,</L>
<L>And onely things commendable will &s;avour.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="26">
<HEAD>(26.)</HEAD>
<L>Then Dam&s;el hear, make con&s;cience of &s;in;</L>
<L>Your reputation that doth fouly blemi&s;h,</L>
<L>Reject and &s;corn its paths to trample in,</L>
<L>Look e'r upon it with a look mo&s;t &s;quemi&s;h;</L>
<L>Abhor each though of &s;in, it doth defile you,</L>
<L>Blemi&s;h your honor, doth of your glory &s;poyl you</L>
</LG>
<LG N="27">
<HEAD>(27.)</HEAD>
<L>It marrs your beauty, and your comely looks,</L>
<L>It di&s;proportionates you throughout,</L>
<L>It makes you loath&s;ome for Chri&s;t Je&s;us brooks;</L>
<L>No &s;in delighting &s;oul, that thereabout</L>
<L>Doth &s;pend its precious time, and trade in folly,</L>
<L>No, he delights and is a per&s;on holy.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="28">
<PB N="96" REF="55">
<HEAD>(28.)</HEAD>
<L>Oh Virgins! &s;hame to pro&s;titute your &s;elves,</L>
<L>And give the &s;trenth of your young tender years,</L>
<L>Unto the &s;ervice of tho&s;e helli&s;h Elves,</L>
<L>That &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> delight unto your nature bears;</L>
<L>Remember that this Virgin-Prince looks on,</L>
<L>Sees e'ry act, though nere &s;o &s;ecret done.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="29">
<HEAD>(29.)</HEAD>
<L>Oh! how you blu&s;h when young men do di&s;cry you</L>
<L>'Bout &s;ome uncivil, &s;ome immode&s;t act;</L>
<L>You hang your heads, and from their &s;ight &s;oon hie you,</L>
<L>A&s;ham'd you &s;hould be &s;een in &s;uch a fact;</L>
<L>You will not dare then once to &s;how your face,</L>
<L>So long as they continue in that place.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="30">
<HEAD>(30.)</HEAD>
<L>This Heaven-born heir, this Prince of great di&s;cent,</L>
<L>That &s;eeks your love, that tenders you affection;</L>
<L>Veiws your immode&s;t looks, your hearts intent,</L>
<L>Beholds full well to what you give &s;ubjection;</L>
<L>Blu&s;h you may at this, but ye cannot flee him,</L>
<L>He &s;ees you well, although you do not &s;ee him.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="31">
<HEAD>(31)</HEAD>
<L>Con&s;ider Maidens, &s;hould a worthy Suitor,</L>
<L>A well bred man, a man of noble birth;</L>
<L>Learned by vertue, having it his Tutor;</L>
<L>A comely per&s;on, owner of much wealth:</L>
<L>Should &s;uch a one unto you make a proffer</L>
<L>Of love, and would you then contemne his offer.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="32">
<PB N="97" REF="55">
<HEAD>(32)</HEAD>
<L>Would you before him, your &s;elves mi&s;-behave?</L>
<L>No, for your reputations you would not,</L>
<L>Although he did not from you favour crave,</L>
<L>Nor tender your affection one jot.</L>
<L>For fear that i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;hould be by him reported.</L>
<L>You were ill bred, to vanities be&s;otted.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="33">
<HEAD>(33)</HEAD>
<L>Think this in all the actions of your life,</L>
<L>For &s;ure Jehovah evermore doth eye ye,</L>
<L>He &s;ees what ills are in your natures <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ife,</L>
<L>In clo&s;e&s;t mi&s;demeanors he will &s;py ye.</L>
<L>Tremble hereat, for he will blaze the &s;ame,</L>
<L>More openly then by the trumpe of Fame.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="34">
<HEAD>(34)</HEAD>
<L>But further, Virgins, note your own behaviours,</L>
<L>Before, and to the per&s;on that doth tender</L>
<L>You hearty love, and daigns you many favours.</L>
<L>Con&s;ider well I &s;ay, how you do render</L>
<L>Your &s;elves unto him, al&s;o how before him,</L>
<L>You do behave ye (though you don't adore him.)</L>
</LG>
<LG N="35">
<HEAD>(35)</HEAD>
<L>Your looks are &s;ober, carriages &s;evere,</L>
<L>Mode&s;t your countenance, mo&s;t cha&s;t your eye;</L>
<L>You heed your ge&s;tures all (I mayn't &s;ay fear)</L>
<L>Le&s;t any ab&s;urd carriage he &s;hould &s;py.</L>
<L>You watch your words, &amp; &s;trictly gaurd your tongue,</L>
<L>And heed that wi&s;dom be your words among.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="36">
<PB N="98" REF="56">
<HEAD>(36)</HEAD>
<L>All this you do, nor can ye do ought le&s;s,</L>
<L>Whether ye re&s;pect the per&s;on ye or no,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e your worth lies in your carriages,</L>
<L>For credit and much prai&s;e ye do gain &s;o.</L>
<L>To e'ry per&s;on ye mu&s;t give re&s;pect,</L>
<L>Shew carriage good, though him ye do reject.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="37">
<HEAD>(37)</HEAD>
<L>But how much more, yea, with what aggravations,</L>
<L>Of all this do ye (with much care) demean</L>
<L>Your &s;elves to him, and to all his relations,</L>
<L>Whom of your be&s;t re&s;pects you worthy deem.</L>
<L>Yea, heed with patience, and much humblene&s;s,</L>
<L>Yet very gladly what he doth, expre&s;s.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="38">
<HEAD>(38)</HEAD>
<L>You &s;uit your &s;elves with him (prizing his love)</L>
<L>The temper of his Spirit you delight in;</L>
<L>Your will doth clo&s;e with his, and you approve</L>
<L>What e'r he doth, and love what he hath right in&punc;</L>
<L>An Onene&s;s &s;o is made up in your Spirits,</L>
<L>Nought you can do, but you think he it merits.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="39">
<HEAD>(39)</HEAD>
<L>Behold the worthie&s;t Suitor that did ever</L>
<L>Make &s;uit to Creature, Gods (&s;ole) elde&s;t Son,</L>
<L>Doth to you, Virgins, his hearts love deliver,</L>
<L>Expre&s;ly penned in what he hath done.</L>
<L>Had not he lov'd us, &s;ure he'd not have given</L>
<L>Him&s;elf to death, to purcha&s;e for us heaven.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="40">
<PB N="99" REF="56">
<HEAD>(40)</HEAD>
<L>But may this love be termed; or a debt</L>
<L>That's to him due, that &s;uffer'd &s;o much for us?</L>
<L>We are the purcha&s;e of his Blood, and yet</L>
<L>He craves our love, when as he might abhor us.</L>
<L>He need not &s;ue our hearts, enough are his,</L>
<L>If that a debt by way of purcha&s;e is.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="41">
<HEAD>(41)</HEAD>
<L>About this matter let me rea&s;on with yee;</L>
<L>Were we not his, we could not be our own;</L>
<L>His en by debt (mi&s;take me not I prethee)</L>
<L>He was our Help when we were helple&s;s grown.</L>
<L>When we were lo&s;t, why then he did us find;</L>
<L>When none regarded us, he did us mind.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="42">
<HEAD>(42)</HEAD>
<L>When we were Captives bound unto the Devil,</L>
<L>And to partake with him in his &s;ad doom,</L>
<L>Sold unto Sin, and to each &s;ordid evil,</L>
<L>For our Redemption, then his Grace did come</L>
<L>To &s;atisfie for us God's flaming ire,</L>
<L>And &s;ave our Souls from everla&s;ting fire.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="43">
<HEAD>(43)</HEAD>
<L>He drunk that Cup, which el&s;e we mu&s;t have drunk;</L>
<L>He felt for us&punc; what el&s;e we &s;hould have felt;</L>
<L>He plung'd tho&s;e deeps, wherein we &s;hould have &s;unk;</L>
<L>He bore that blow, that ju&s;tice to us dealt.</L>
<L>For Mankind's &s;afety he his life laid down,</L>
<L>And by his Death did purcha&s;e him a Crown.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="44">
<PB N="100" REF="57">
<HEAD>(44)</HEAD>
<L>Now doth he &s;ue, 'tis but his own he &s;ues for,</L>
<L>It is the purcha&s;e of his blood he craves,</L>
<L>Denial here is that, the &s;oul e'r rues for,</L>
<L>Who &s;o complies thereto the &s;ame he &s;aves;</L>
<L>Oh Virgins be ye &s;olid, be ye wi&s;e,</L>
<L>Undone for ever &s;he's his &s;uit denies.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="45">
<HEAD>(45)</HEAD>
<L>Be circum&s;pect, look well to your behaviours,</L>
<L>Return him for his love true love again,</L>
<L>Who doth not, Ingenuity not &s;avours,</L>
<L>And mu&s;t feel for it everla&s;ting pain;</L>
<L>He'as over-bought our love, who doth deny</L>
<L>To give't him, therefore's worthy aye to dye.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="46">
<HEAD>(46)</HEAD>
<L>Who doth accept his love, he makes his Wife,</L>
<L>Whom he doth cloath with Roabs of brighte&s;t glory,</L>
<L>Fills with all joy and peace, that's free from &s;trife,</L>
<L>Her &s;tate's then &s;uch, as Seraphims &s;carce can &s;tory;</L>
<L>The be&s;t of Sains cannot (while here) conceive it,</L>
<L>Oh may we ever faithfully believe it.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="47">
<HEAD>(47)</HEAD>
<L>His Grace doth &s;ue that we'd hold forth in carriage,</L>
<L>That him we prize, and love and do adore,</L>
<L>That we would live as tho&s;e that expect marriage</L>
<L>With him, that rules and reigns for evermore;</L>
<L>Mo&s;t rea&s;onable is this, then let's comply,</L>
<L>With mind and members, let us in&s;tantly.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="48">
<PB N="101" REF="57">
<HEAD>(48)<NOTE PLACE="marg">Parallel this with 34.</NOTE></HEAD>
<L>Oh! Virgin &s;ouls, can ye le&s;s worthy judge him,</L>
<L>Than carnal Lovers, that can gain re&s;pect,</L>
<L>At all hands from ye? Oh! how can ye grudge him</L>
<L>Tho&s;e common favours, and his love neglect?</L>
<L>Careful are ye to live as e'r before him,</L>
<L>And with your &s;ouls whole &s;trength do ye adore him.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="49">
<HEAD>(49)<NOTE PLACE="marg">This with the 35.</NOTE></HEAD>
<L>Are ye e'r &s;ober, mode&s;t, cha&s;te and wi&s;e,</L>
<L>Re&s;pective in each ge&s;ture, each behaviour,</L>
<L>All this you'l be before your Suitors eyes,</L>
<L>Your words or actions may of no ill &s;avour;</L>
<L>Solid you &s;eem, not gari&s;h in your looks,</L>
<L>No ill di&s;cour&s;e your ear (at that time) brooks.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="50">
<HEAD>(50)</HEAD>
<L>Can ye do this for them? le&s;s worthy deem him,</L>
<L>That as your Love, &s;o is your Lord and King;</L>
<L>Oh! can ye, can ye lightlier e&s;teem him?</L>
<L>Would ye far le&s;s re&s;pect unto him bring?</L>
<L>He eyes your carriages as well as they,</L>
<L>And thinks the &s;ame re&s;pect expect he may.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="51">
<HEAD>Staffe 37 (51)</HEAD>
<L>Do you love tho&s;e that are related to him?</L>
<L>Do you re&s;pect them as your Lovers kinne?</L>
<L>Think ye in love that your dear life ye owe him?</L>
<L>Spare ye for nought, his favour for to winne?</L>
<L>All this for lower Lovers ye will do,</L>
<L>To th' God of life and glory won't ye &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
</LG>
<LG N="52">
<PB N="102" REF="58">
<HEAD>(52)</HEAD>
<L>Your Lovers voy&s;e is plea&s;ant to your ear,</L>
<L>No burden is the precept he layes on you,</L>
<L>You joy as much to do't, as it to hear,</L>
<L>Di&s;&s;ent thereto in the lea&s;t tittle won't you;</L>
<L>The God of life for this &s;ame thing doth woo,</L>
<L>And ye will not for him comply thereto.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="53">
<HEAD>(53)</HEAD>
<L>Ah mu&s;t he be denied, that which his Creature</L>
<L>May gain, and have with joy ful cheerful heart,</L>
<L>Expre&s;&s;ed clear by many a lovely feature,</L>
<L>You will not &s;tick, nor with his Love won't part</L>
<L>You will maintain that love on any terms,</L>
<L>Your &s;ouls with &s;trong re&s;olves them&s;elves &s;o arms.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="54">
<HEAD>(54)</HEAD>
<L>This prince of Light, of Glory, Wealth and Peace,</L>
<L>Doth crave no more than what you to the&s;e give,</L>
<L>From evil cour&s;es he would have you cea&s;e,</L>
<L>And then a life conformed to him live;</L>
<L>Tender his Precepts, and obey his voyce,</L>
<L>Making his plea&s;ure your &s;elected choyce.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="55">
<HEAD>(55)</HEAD>
<L>He craves re&s;pect as lower Lovers have,</L>
<L>And then your hearts affection he doth &s;ue for,</L>
<L>He gives true love, and he true love doth crave,</L>
<L>Which for to do, bid all the World adieu for;</L>
<L>This &s;eems not har&s;h, for per&s;ons whom ye love</L>
<L>You'll all for&s;ake, and with them you will move.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="56">
<PB N="103" REF="58">
<HEAD>(56)</HEAD>
<L>"Who &s;o loves me, give ear unto my voyce,</L>
<L>"(Saies this ble&s;t heir) and note my precepts well,</L>
<L>"To keep my He&s;ts make evermore your choyce;</L>
<L>"And ever with you then I'll bide and dwell:</L>
<L>"Then unto you &s;hall my affections move,</L>
<L>"To joy and be enjoy'd in mutual love.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="57">
<HEAD>(57.)</HEAD>
<L>"If you love me then keep you my Commands,</L>
<L>"And you &s;hall loved be by the mo&s;t high;</L>
<L>"Of me the&s;e were my Fathers &s;trickt Demands,</L>
<L>"And I obey'd his glorious Maje&s;ty;</L>
<L>"Do thou obey, and his love eke and mine,</L>
<L>"Twi&s;ted together, &s;hall be both made <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">hine.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="58">
<HEAD>(58.)</HEAD>
<L>"Which when ye do, &s;ay then what is in Heaven</L>
<L>"That you de&s;ire, or that your &s;oul can crave,</L>
<L>"Which at your earne&s;t &s;uit &s;hall not be given?</L>
<L>"And at my hands mo&s;t freely ye can't have?</L>
<L>"Enlarge your hearts, and crave what e'r you will,</L>
<L>I ready am, the &s;ame for to fulfill.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="59">
<HEAD>(59.)</HEAD>
<L>"Ask what you will and I'll accord unto it,</L>
<L>"For powers all in Heaven and Earth are mine,</L>
<L>"Soul &s;peak thy &s;uit, I won't refu&s;e to do it,</L>
<L>"My ear and heart, &s;hall thereunto incline;</L>
<L>"Thou can&s;t not ask what I can't to thee give;</L>
<L>Nor can&s;t thou fail becau&s;e I ever live&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG N="60">
<PB N="104" REF="59">
<HEAD>(60)</HEAD>
<L>Soul, if thou lov'&s;t him, then let the&s;e his words</L>
<L>Be &s;weeter to thee than the honey dewes;</L>
<L>For what&s;oever God or Heaven affords,</L>
<L>Of joy or peace, then to thy Soul acrews.</L>
<L>Thou then &s;halt have him here, and evermore</L>
<L>Po&s;&s;e&s;s him, after with all glorious &s;tore.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="61">
<HEAD>(61)<NOTE PLACE="marg">Staffe 38.</NOTE></HEAD>
<L>You &s;uit you to the temper of your Love,</L>
<L>Are pleas'd and delighted with his plea&s;ure;</L>
<L>What e're he wills you to, you do approve,</L>
<L>And his de&s;erts out by your love you mea&s;ure.</L>
<L>Demean your &s;elves to Je&s;us Chri&s;t but &s;o,</L>
<L>(You &s;hame to &s;ay to this Propo&s;al, No.)</L>
</LG>
<LG N="62">
<HEAD>(62)</HEAD>
<L>But if you reckon upon life and bli&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And that your Souls &s;hould &s;cape e'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">la&s;ting fire,</L>
<L>Clo&s;e with his love, your &s;afty el&s;e you mi&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And are fru&s;trated in your hearts de&s;ire.</L>
<L>Shall he enjoy you that did never love you,</L>
<L>Nor with a Lovers &s;uit did ever move you?</L>
</LG>
<LG N="63">
<HEAD>(63)</HEAD>
<L>Ah! Sure he &s;ha'nt; it is for love you marry,</L>
<L>'Tis mutual love that joyneth hearts together:</L>
<L>If you do'nt like the per&s;on, you will tarry.</L>
<L>The ca&s;e &s;tands thus 'tween us and Chri&s;t; for either</L>
<L>We mu&s;t love, prize, e&s;teem him above all,</L>
<L>Or '<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">is in vain him our lov'd Lord to call.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="64">
<PB N="105" REF="59">
<HEAD>(64)</HEAD>
<L>He will not &s;ave that Soul that doth not love him:</L>
<L>Marriage can't be where per&s;ons don't affect.</L>
<L>Can he unite with them thatn're did move him,</L>
<L>Nor &s;hew unto him any love Re&s;pect?</L>
<L>Life is not dear where love hath taken place,</L>
<L>How do we prize? How do we ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e his Grace?</L>
</LG>
<LG N="65">
<HEAD>(65)</HEAD>
<L>Make we no Con&s;cience of a cour&s;e of Sin?</L>
<L>Nor cool, nor quench, a &s;oul or vain de&s;ire;</L>
<L>Yet do we think his favou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> for to win,</L>
<L>And to be fill'd with that cele&s;tial fire?</L>
<L>That mutually doth joy and re-enjoy</L>
<L>Tho&s;e plea&s;ures in him, that can never cloy.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="66">
<HEAD>(66)</HEAD>
<L>Think we, Gods Son will marry with a Whore?</L>
<L>Wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">l he, that is the Heir of Earth and Heaven,</L>
<L>Aba&s;e him&s;elf &s;o much, as evermore</L>
<L>To honour per&s;ons of all good bereaven?</L>
<L>No, no, &s;uch per&s;ons as indulge in &s;in,</L>
<L>He will not own (if live and die therein.)</L>
</LG>
<LG N="67">
<HEAD>(67)</HEAD>
<L>I appeal to young Men (or to Virgins either)</L>
<L>Would they pre&s;ent her with true love, that's co~mon</L>
<L>With every man? (The like to Virgins) Whether</L>
<L>Could ye love him that deals with every Woman?</L>
<L>Much le&s;s may any One expect to win</L>
<L>Chri&s;ts favovr, that trades with delight in &s;in.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="68">
<PB N="106" REF="60">
<HEAD>(68)</HEAD>
<L>Know what&s;oe'r thou art, that do&s;t commerce</L>
<L>Continually with &s;in, that thou &s;halt never</L>
<L>See or behold, much le&s;s, with have conver&s;e,</L>
<L>This glorious Bridgroome, that doth live fot ever;</L>
<L>No know thou that he's full of jealou&s;ie,</L>
<L>And cannot brook filthy Adultery.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="69">
<HEAD>(69)</HEAD>
<L>And when&s;oe'r thou hold'&s;t commerce with &s;in,</L>
<L>Thou play'&s;t the whore, commit'&s;t adultery.</L>
<L>Know when&s;o'r vain thoughts are lodged in</L>
<L>Thy brea&s;t, thou lo&s;e&s;t thy Virginity;</L>
<L>Sin doth pollute the heart, 'tis filthy, foul,</L>
<L>It doth corrupt, it doth defile the &s;oul.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="70">
<HEAD>(70.)</HEAD>
<L>You know that 'tis abominable in nature</L>
<L>To have a bed defil'd, it moveth rage,</L>
<L>And &s;tirreth up that fury in a creature,</L>
<L>That &s;carcely death and Divorce can a&s;&s;wage;</L>
<L>In noble per&s;ons 'tis the greater &s;in,</L>
<L>Noble I mean that wronged are therein.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="71">
<HEAD>(71.)</HEAD>
<L>Now 'tis a King, the everla&s;ting King,</L>
<L>That is concern'd in thee, O Virgin &s;oul;</L>
<L>'Tis he who&s;e worth the glorious Angels &s;ing,</L>
<L>Who&s;e nature doth abhor a deed that's foul;</L>
<L>'Tis he, no le&s;s per&s;on that thou wronge&s;t,</L>
<L>Thou art his intere&s;t, unto him belonge&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="72">
<PB N="107" REF="60">
<HEAD>(72.)</HEAD>
<L>They that defile his bed, are worthy &s;ure</L>
<L>Of a Divorce, and of perpetual pain,</L>
<L>Yea, they &s;hall be confined to endure</L>
<L>Such horrors as for evermore remain;</L>
<L>Sin doth the &s;oul divorce from God for ever,</L>
<L>Brings it to torment that expireth never.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="73">
<HEAD>(73.)</HEAD>
<L>To &s;um up all, then take the matter thus,</L>
<L>Virgins while Virgins &s;trickt are and &s;evere,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e their lives are then per&s;picuous</L>
<L>Unto all per&s;ons, great re&s;pective care</L>
<L>They have, that they mi&s;carry not in ought,</L>
<L>'Tis good behaviour makes them after &s;ought.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="74">
<HEAD>(74.)</HEAD>
<L>Their reputation lies in their behaviour</L>
<L>'Tis that gains love and meriteth re&s;pect,</L>
<L>'Tis that continueth their loveds favour,</L>
<L>That may they therefore by no means neglect;</L>
<L>O Virgin &s;ouls, remember all this carriage</L>
<L>To Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who proffers to you marriage.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="75">
<HEAD>(75.)</HEAD>
<L>When Wives they are, and in &s;trickt wedlock bound,</L>
<L>Such carriage mu&s;t they &s;hape, as be&s;t may plea&s;e,</L>
<L>Their &s;pou&s;ed Husbands, good Wives never &s;tound</L>
<L>To give it to them, as their &s;pou&s;al fees;</L>
<L>If thou art &s;pou&s;ed unto Chri&s;t, O &s;oul,</L>
<L>Remember this each &s;urgent I'll controule.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="76">
<PB N="108" REF="61">
<HEAD>(76.)</HEAD>
<L>But as thou &s;tand'&s;t in hope to be his Bride&punc;</L>
<L>Thou &s;tricktly art injoyn'd to live up to him,</L>
<L>To love him heartily and none be&s;ide</L>
<L>(Conforming to his will doth &s;trongly woo him)</L>
<L>In holy life an&s;wer his gracious love,</L>
<L>And he will thine repay, won't from thee move.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="77">
<HEAD>(77.)</HEAD>
<L>O Virgin &s;oul! triumph for to pre&s;ent</L>
<L>His Maje&s;ty with love, and heart entire,</L>
<L>Be &s;ure let nothing fru&s;trate thine intent,</L>
<L>In giving to him thy hearts &s;tronge&s;t fire;</L>
<L>Love is a mo&s;t delightful bed to lie in,</L>
<L>Loves flames are very plea&s;ant for to fry in.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="78">
<HEAD>(78.)</HEAD>
<L>But to continue my old method &s;till,</L>
<L>My &s;elf expre&s;&s;ing in a varied ver&s;e</L>
<L>For th' Readers plea&s;ure, therefore now I will</L>
<L>Put &s;top, and what remains therein rehear&s;e,</L>
<L>For both to th' outward and the inward man,</L>
<L>I'll &s;uit my &s;elf as plea&s;ant as I can.</L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="text">
<PB N="109" REF="61">
<LG N="1">
<HEAD>(1)</HEAD>
<L>NOw my &s;elf for to expre&s;s, then</L>
<L>In a varied plea&s;ant &s;train,</L>
<L>And &s;peak tho&s;e &s;weets I ta&s;te, when</L>
<L>Sin doth not my &s;oul di&s;train,</L>
<L>O may my Song</L>
<L>And Lungs be &s;trong</L>
<L>To tell what joyes there do remain.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="2">
<HEAD>(2)</HEAD>
<L>As a Virgin &s;worn to him,</L>
<L>Out of depth of true affection,</L>
<L>So am I, and won't forego him,</L>
<L>Nor refu&s;e his ble&s;t &s;ubjection;</L>
<L>Long may I &s;till</L>
<L>Maintain my will,</L>
<L>Obedient to his direction.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="3">
<HEAD>(3)</HEAD>
<L>I do my high glory count it,</L>
<L>To maintain a loyal heart</L>
<L>Unto his Grace; and think amount it,</L>
<L>Doth all trea&s;uries and art;</L>
<L>My &s;oul doth crave,</L>
<L>Still to behave</L>
<L>Her &s;elf &s;o, &s;he mayn't with him part&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG N="4">
<PB N="110" REF="62">
<HEAD>(4)</HEAD>
<L>He's my choice, and I do prize him</L>
<L>Above all the world can &s;how me;</L>
<L>My Soul's ravi&s;h'd when &s;he eyes him,</L>
<L>And all things are then below me.</L>
<L>She never meets,</L>
<L>With &s;uch like &s;weets,</L>
<L>As &s;he conceivs when he doth know me.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="5">
<HEAD>(5)</HEAD>
<L>As a Virgin, may I ever</L>
<L>My &s;elf humble cha&s;tily carry,</L>
<L>That di&s;plea&s;e him I may never,</L>
<L>That abide he may, and tarry</L>
<L>With me till th' time,</L>
<L>In th' glorious clime,</L>
<L>My worthle&s;s Soul doth with him marry.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="6">
<HEAD>(6)</HEAD>
<L>Ah! might I ever feel the power</L>
<L>Of his &s;oul-melting love,</L>
<L>That all &s;weet, and no whit &s;ower,</L>
<L>Ah then! how then &s;hould I move?</L>
<L>With quick'ned pace,</L>
<L>I'd keep no place,</L>
<L>Till in the Courts of great Jehove.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="7">
<HEAD>(7)</HEAD>
<L>O the &s;weets, the joyes, the plea&s;ures,</L>
<L>That the &s;oul doth ta&s;te and find!</L>
<PB N="111" REF="62">
<L>O the honors, glories, trea&s;ures,</L>
<L>That are po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by that mind;</L>
<L>That Chri&s;t doth love,</L>
<L>All things above,</L>
<L>Shewing not it &s;elf to him unkind!</L>
</LG>
<LG N="8">
<HEAD>(8)</HEAD>
<L>There's no earthly &s;weet can glo&s;s it,</L>
<L>Nor &s;hade it forth in meane&s;t hue;</L>
<L>There's no Arti&s;t that can do&s;e it,</L>
<L>Or dimention give it true;</L>
<L>No, rea&s;on's blind</L>
<L>And cannot find</L>
<L>Wherewith to &s;et it forth to view.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="9">
<HEAD>(9)</HEAD>
<L>May my Virgin-&s;oul enjoy him,</L>
<L>He &s;hall lodge between my brea&s;ts,</L>
<L>And that nothing may annoy him,</L>
<L>I'll keep watch while he there re&s;ts.</L>
<L>He &s;hall to me,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t welcome be,</L>
<L>So long as in my Soul he gue&s;ts.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="10">
<HEAD>(10)</HEAD>
<L>He knows my heart, I'd not di&s;plea&s;e him</L>
<L>(Willingly) to &s;tire his ire,</L>
<L>But when I do, why then I lea&s;e him:</L>
<L>Yet then his patience I admire.</L>
<L>For when that I,</L>
<L>To him draw nigh,</L>
<L>With Grace he doth me re in&s;pire.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="11">
<PB N="112" REF="63">
<HEAD>(11)</HEAD>
<L>He's my joy, my crown, my glory,</L>
<L>Such contentment he affords,</L>
<L>As an Angel's Pen can't &s;tory,</L>
<L>Far beyond all &s;en&s;e of words,</L>
<L>Him for to gain,</L>
<L>I fear no pain,</L>
<L>Nor care I for the edge of Swords.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="12">
<HEAD>(12)</HEAD>
<L>For What's life to the enjoyment</L>
<L>Of his ever-ble&s;&s;ed-love?</L>
<L>The &s;weets of life oft prove a cloyment,</L>
<L>Oft a loathing: I'll not move.</L>
<L>I'll take no pain,</L>
<L>Them for to gain,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e they meer deceits do prove.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="13">
<HEAD>(13)</HEAD>
<L>But my joyes in love la&s;t ever,</L>
<L>When both light of Moon and Sun</L>
<L>Shall cea&s;e to be; yea, cea&s;e for ever:</L>
<L>And fierce fire this world &s;hall burn.</L>
<L>Say then &s;hall &s;he,</L>
<L><HI>Lo! This is he,</HI></L>
<L>That I have waited &s;o upon.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="14">
<HEAD>(14)</HEAD>
<L>Behold him now with glory claded,</L>
<L>And his great Maje&s;tick train;</L>
<PB N="113" REF="63">
<L>Oh now how my &s;oul is gladded!</L>
<L>I &s;hall with him e'r remain;</L>
<L>With Angels I</L>
<L>Eternally,</L>
<L>Shall prai&s;e him in melodious &s;train.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="15">
<HEAD>(15)</HEAD>
<L>Then will he in glory throne me,</L>
<L>With his &s;acred Maje&s;ty,</L>
<L>He as his dear &s;pou&s;e will own me,</L>
<L>I &s;hall bide e'r in his eye;</L>
<L>And live by love,</L>
<L>Of him above,</L>
<L>In heaven to all eternity.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="16">
<HEAD>(16)</HEAD>
<L>To &s;uch a Spou&s;e as thus'll advance me,</L>
<L>Say, may I be coy to love?</L>
<L>At what a rate &s;hould I inhaunce me?</L>
<L>With what hatred to &s;in move?</L>
<L>How coy how &s;hie</L>
<L>With heart defie</L>
<L>It? &s;eing he me terms his Dove.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="17">
<HEAD>(17)</HEAD>
<L>My noble &s;pirit &s;corns the aba&s;ement,</L>
<L>Of the &s;ervitude of &s;in,</L>
<L>It puts her beauties to defacement,</L>
<L>Bla&s;ts and &s;tains her Lilly-skin;</L>
<L>Far may it be,</L>
<L>The refore from me,</L>
<L>Its plea&s;ures by &s;uch lo&s;&s;e to win.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="18">
<PB N="114" REF="64">
<HEAD>(18)</HEAD>
<L>No, Sin avaunt, my Soul doth loath thee,</L>
<L>Thou do&s;t of my beauty &s;poyl me:</L>
<L>Begon, I &s;ay, my Soul abhors thee,</L>
<L>Thy plea&s;ures do not plea&s;e, but toyl me.</L>
<L>Thy delights,</L>
<L>My Soul affrights,</L>
<L>And thy ea&s;e doth greatly foyl me.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="19">
<HEAD>(19)</HEAD>
<L>My Virgin-Soul's of noble birth,</L>
<L>Of his royal blood de&s;cended,</L>
<L>That is Lord of Heaven and Earth,</L>
<L>Therefore ought to be attended</L>
<L>As &s;uch a One,</L>
<L>And not alone</L>
<L>Left, for to be by Sin offended.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="20">
<HEAD>(20)</HEAD>
<L>O Sin! Thou ba&s;e foul Blackamore,</L>
<L>Hell's off-&s;pring, and by Devils nur&s;t,</L>
<L>That part'&s;t from God for evermore,</L>
<L>And mak'&s;t all like thy &s;elf accur&s;t.</L>
<L>Thou deadly Foe,</L>
<L>Far from me go,</L>
<L>Into my pre&s;ence do not thru&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="21">
<HEAD>(21)</HEAD>
<L>For I am a Maid of Honour,</L>
<L>Spou&s;ed to God's only Son.</L>
<PB N="115" REF="64">
<L>O're whom he di&s;playes his Banner,</L>
<L>And thereby hath conque&s;t won,</L>
<L>'Tis vain for you,</L>
<L>Therefore to &s;ue,</L>
<L>Bold Sin avaunt, away be gone.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="22">
<HEAD>(22)</HEAD>
<L>A cha&s;te Virgin I mu&s;t keep me,</L>
<L>Till the day of Marriage come;</L>
<L>At which time, who &s;hould, may reap me,</L>
<L>Giving unto me this doom.</L>
<L>True ha&s;t thou been</L>
<L>(As I have &s;een,)</L>
<L>To me, Therefore enjoy me, Come.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="23">
<HEAD>(23)</HEAD>
<L>I know my Lord views my behaviour,</L>
<L>I know he notes each ge&s;ture well,</L>
<L>He regards how I him favour,</L>
<L>And whereupon my thoughts do dwell:</L>
<L>My Virgin Soul,</L>
<L>If &s;he prove foul,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t with the Devils bide in Hell,</L>
</LG>
<LG N="24">
<HEAD>(24)</HEAD>
<L>Loath&s;ome Sin, begone far from me,</L>
<L>I dare not lodge thee: No I dare not,</L>
<L>Thou brings grief and horrour to me;</L>
<L>Therefore for thy joyes I care not.</L>
<L>Thy &s;eeming joyes,</L>
<L>Are &s;ad annoyes,</L>
<L>Shall I tran&s;gre&s;&s;e? O No, I dare not&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG N="25">
<PB N="116" REF="65">
<HEAD>(25)</HEAD>
<L>What, &s;hall &s;uch a one as I am,</L>
<L>Pro&s;titute my &s;elf to &s;in?</L>
<L>No its plea&s;ures I defie? em,</L>
<L>And its waies to per&s;i&s;t in,</L>
<L>No I may not.</L>
<L>Give place a jot,</L>
<L>For the di&s;grace of my kin.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="26">
<HEAD>(26)</HEAD>
<L>Shall I dare my &s;elf to bani&s;h.</L>
<L>From my &s;ouls own native &s;oyle?</L>
<L>For &s;ins &s;ake that &s;oon doth vani&s;h,</L>
<L>And my choice&s;t plea&s;ures &s;poyl?</L>
<L>Oh! &s;ure I won't;</L>
<L>Therefore &s;in don't,</L>
<L>Di&s;turb me more, keep &s;uch a coyle.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="27">
<HEAD>(27)</HEAD>
<L>Shall I be bewitcht with evil,</L>
<L>So as with my God to part?</L>
<L>Give my members to the Devil,</L>
<L>And with them my mind and heart?</L>
<L>Make I no more,</L>
<L>To play the whore,</L>
<L>And from my loved Lord to &s;tart?</L>
</LG>
<LG N="28">
<HEAD>(28)</HEAD>
<L>No, I am a Virgin &s;worn,</L>
<L>Unto great Jehovahs Son,</L>
<PB N="117" REF="65">
<L>And my Virgin &s;oul doth &s;corn,</L>
<L>To be by another won;</L>
<L>To do an act,</L>
<L>Or any fact,</L>
<L>That he prohibits to be done.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="29">
<HEAD>(29)</HEAD>
<L>For life's to me far le&s;s dearer,</L>
<L>Than his pretious matchle&s;s love,</L>
<L>Oh that that I were to him nearer,</L>
<L>In his glorious hou&s;e above,</L>
<L>Him to enjoy</L>
<L>Without annoy,</L>
<L>And never more from him to move.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="30">
<HEAD>(30)</HEAD>
<L>Deare&s;t Lord, let me for ever,</L>
<L>While I in this vale abide,</L>
<L>Be di&s;&s;erted of thee never,</L>
<L>What ills e'r &s;o me betide;</L>
<L>So &s;in &s;hall be</L>
<L>Abhor'd by me,</L>
<L>And all its motives e'r deny'd,</L>
</LG>
<LG N="31">
<HEAD>(31)</HEAD>
<L>For thy looks revive my &s;pirit,</L>
<L>And new life therein in&s;pire,</L>
<L>They do give me to inherit,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e delights that I de&s;ire;</L>
<L>Accord to me,</L>
<L>Let me them &s;ee,</L>
<L>And &s;o they never &s;hall expire.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="32">
<PB N="118" REF="66">
<HEAD>(32)</HEAD>
<L>Mo&s;t Endeared, let me woo thee,</L>
<L>With thy Coun&s;els me to guide,</L>
<L>And that nothing may undo me,</L>
<L>Let thy pre&s;ence with me bide;</L>
<L>And &s;o &s;hall I</L>
<L>Mo&s;t con&s;tantly,</L>
<L>Keep clo&s;e unto thy foot and &s;ide.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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