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"He knows no ill; those pangs, base men, are To me, and all the world, save him alone; [due But now he doth not hear my bitter moan;

Too late I cry, too late I plaints renew: Pale are his lips, down doth his head decline, Dim turn those eyes once wont so bright to shine.

"The Heavens which in their mansions constant move,

That they may not seem guilty of this crime,
Benighted have the golden eye of time.

[prove, Ungrateful Earth, canst thou such shame apAnd seem unmov'd, this done upon thy face?" Earth trembled then, and she did hold her peace.

COMPLAINT OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN.

THE mother stood, with grief confounded,
Near the cross; her tears abounded,

While her dear son hanged was,
Through whose soul her sighs forth venting,
Sadly mourning and lamenting,

Sharpest points of swords did pass :
O how sad and how distress'd
Was the mother, ever-bless'd,

Who God's only Son forth brought!
She in grief and woes did languish,
Quaking to behold what anguish

To her noble Son was wrought.

DEDICATION OF A CHURCH.

JERUSALEM, that place divine,

The vision of sweet peace is nam'd, In Heaven her glorious turrets shine, Her walls of living stones are fram'd; While angels guard her on each side, Fit company for such a bride.

She, deck'd in new attire from Heaven,
Her wedding chamber now descends,
Prepar'd in marriage to be given

To Christ, on whom her joy depends.
Her walls wherewith she is enclos'd,
And streets, are of pure gold compos'd.

The gates, adorn'd with pearls most bright,
The way to hidden glory show;
And thither, by the blessed might

Of faith in Jesus' merits, go

All these who are on Earth distress'd,
Because they have Christ's name profess'd.
These stones the workmen dress and beat,
Before they throughly polish'd are;
Then each is in his proper seat

Establish'd by the builder's care,
In this fair frame to stand for ever,
So join'd that them no force can sever.

To God, who sits in highest seat,
Glory and power given be;
To Father, Son, and Paraclete,

Who reign in equal dignity;
Whose boundless pow'r we still adore,
And sing their praise for evermore.

SONNETS AND MADRIGALS.

SONNET.

LET Fortune triumph now, and Io sing,
Sith I must fall beneath this load of care;
Let her what most I prize of ev'ry thing
Now wicked trophies in her temple rear.
She who high palmy empires doth not spare,
And tramples in the dust the proudest king;
Let her vaunt how my bliss she did impair,
To what low ebb she now my flow doth bring:
Let her count how (a new Ixion) me
She in her wheel did turn; how high or low
I never stood, but more to tortur'd be.
Weep soul, weep plaintful soul, thy sorrows know;
Weep, of thy tears till a black river swell,
Which may Cocytus be to this thy Hell.

SONNET.

O NIGHT, clear night, O dark and gloomy day!
O woeful waking! O soul-pleasing sleep!
O sweet conceits which in my brains did creep!
Yet sour conceits which went so soon away.
A sleep I had more than poor words can say ;
For, clos'd in arms, methought I did thee keep,
A sorry wretch plung'd in misfortunes deep.
Am I not wak'd, when light doth lyes bewray?
O that that night had ever still been black!
O that that day had never yet begun!
And you, mine eyes, would ye no time saw sun!
To have your sun in such a zodiac:
Lo, what is good of life is but a dream,
When sorrow is a never ebbing stream.

SONNET.

So grievous is my pain, so painful life,
That oft I find me in the arms of death;
But, breath half gone, that tyrant called Death,
Who others kills, restoreth me to life:
For while I think how woe shall end with life,
And that I quiet peace shall 'joy by death,
That thought ev'n doth o'erpow'r the pains of death,
And call me home again to loathed life:
Thus doth mine evil transcend both life and death,
While no death is so bad as is my life,
Nor no life such which doth not end by death,
And Protean changes turn my death and life:
O happy those who in their birth find death,
Sith but to languish Heaven affordeth life.

SONNET.

I CURSE the night, yet do from day me hide,
The Pandionian birds I tire with moans;
The echoes even are wearied with my groans,
Since absence did me from my bliss divide.

Each dream, each toy, my reason doth affright;
And when remembrance reads the curious scroll
Of past contentments caused by her sight,
Then bitter anguish doth invade my soul,
While thus I live eclipsed of her light.
O me! what better am I than the mole?
Or those whose zenith is the only pole,
Whose hemisphere is hid with so long night?
Save that in earth he rests, they hope for sun;
I pine, and find mine endless night begun.

MADRIGAL

POOR turtle, thou bemoans
The loss of thy dear love,

And I for mine send forth these smoaking groans.
Unhappy widow'd dove!

While all about do sing,

I at the root, thou on the branch above,
Even weary with our moans the gaudy spring;
Yet these our plaints we do not spend in vain,
Sith sighing zephyrs answer us again.

SONNET.

As, in a dusky and tempestuous night,
A star is wont to spread her locks of gold,
And while her pleasant rays abroad are roll'd,
Some spiteful cloud doth rob us of her sight:
Fair soul, in this black age so shin'd thou bright,
And made all eyes with wonder thee behold;
Till ugly Death, depriving us of light,
In his grim misty arms thee did enfold.
Who more shall vaunt true beauty here to see?
What hope doth more in any heart remain,
That such perfections shall his reason rein,
If beauty, with thee born, too died with thee?
World, plain no more of Love, nor count his harms;
With his pale trophies Death has hung his arms.

MADRIGAL

I FEAR not henceforth death,

Sith after this departure yet I breathe.
Let rocks, and seas, and wind,
Their highest treasons show;
Let sky and earth combin'd

Strive (if they can) to end my life and woe;
Sith grief cannot, me nothing can o'erthrow;
Or, if that aught can cause my fatal lot,
It will be when I hear I am forgot.

MADRIGAL.

TRITONS, which bounding dive
Through Neptune's liquid plain,
When as ye shall arrive

With tilting tides where silver Ora plays,
And to your king his watʼry tribute pays,
Tell how I dying live,

And burn in midst of all the coldest main.

POLEMO-MIDDINIA

INTER VITARVAM ET NEBERNAM.

NYMPHAE, quæ colitis highissima monta Fifaea,
Seu vos Pittenwema tenent, seu Crelia crofta,
Sive Anstraea domus, ubi nat Haddocus in undis,
Codlineusque ingens, ubi Fleucca et Sketta pererrant
Per costam, et scopulis Lobster monifootus in udis
Creepat, et in mediis ludit Whitenius undis :
Et vos Skipperii, soliti qui per mare breddum
Valde procul lanchare foris, iterumque redire,
Linquite skellatas botas, shippasque picatas,
Whistlantesque simul fechtam memorate bloodæam,
Fechtam terribilem, quam marvellaverat omnis
Banda Deum,quoque Nympharum Cockelshelearum
Maia ubi sheepifeda, atque ubi Solgoosifera Bassa
Swellant in pelago, cum Sol bootatus Edenum
Postabat radiis madidis et shouribus atris,

Quo viso ad fechtæ noisam cecidere volucres
Ad terram, cecidere grues, plish plashque dedere
Solgoosæ in pelago prope littora Bruntiliana;
Sea-sutor obstupuit, summique in margine saxi
Scartavit prælustre caput, wingasque flapavit;
Quodque magis, alte volitans Heronius ipse
Ingeminans clig clag mediis shitavit in undis.

Namque a principio Storiam tellabimus omnem,
Muckrelium ingentem turbam Vitarva per agros
Nebernæ marchare fecit, et dixit ad illos,
"Ite hodie armati greppis, drývate caballos
Nebernæ per crofta, atque ipsas ante fenestras.
Quod si forte ipsa Neberna venerit extra,
Warrantabo omnes, et vos bene defendebo."

Hic aderant Geordy Akinhedius, et little Johnus,
Et Jamy Richæus, et stout Michel Hendersonus,
Qui jolly tryppas ante alios dansare solebat,
Et bobbare bene, et lassas kissare bonaeas;
Duncan Olyphantus, valde stalvartus, et ejus
Filius eldestus jolyboyus, atque oldmoudus,
Qui pleugham longo gaddo dryvare solebat;
Et Rob Gib wantonus homo, atque Oliver Hutchin,
Et ploucky-fac'd Watty Strang, atque in-kneed Al-
sinder Atken
[nium,
Et Willy Dick heavy-arstus homo, pigerrimus om-
Qui tulit in pileo magnum rubrumque favorem,
Valde lethus pugnare, sed hunc Corngrevius heros
Noutheadum vocavit, atque illum forcit ad arma.
Insuper hic aderant Tom. Taylor, et Hen. Wat-

sonus,

Et Tomy Gilchristus, et fool Jocky Robinsonus
Andrew Alshenderus, et Jamy Tomsonus, et unus
Norland-bornus homo, valde valde Anticovenanter,
Nomine Gordonus, valde blackmoudus, et alter
(Deil stick it ignoro nomen) slavry beardius homo
Qui pottas dightavit, et assas jecerat extra.

Denique præ reliquis Geordeum affatur, et inquit,
Georde mi formane, inter stoutissimus omnes,
Huc ades et crook-saddelos, hemmasque, creilesque,
Brechemmesque simul omnes bindato jumentis;
Amblentemque meum naggum, fattumque mariti
Cursorem, et reliquos trottantes sumito averos.
In cartis yokkato omnes, extrahito muckam
Crofta per et riggas, atque ipsas ante fenestras
Nebernæ, et aliquid sin ipsa contra loquatur,
In sydis tu pone manus, et dicito fart jade.

Nec mora, formannus cunctos flankavit averos,
Workmannosque ad workam omnes vocavit, et illi

Extemplo cartas bene fillavere jigantes:
Whistlavere viri, workhorsosque ordine swieros
Drivavere foras, donec iterumque iterumque
Fartavere omnes, et sic turba horrida mustrat,
Haud aliter quam si cum multis Spinola troupis
Proudus ad Ostendam marchasset fortiter urbem.
Interea ante alios Dux Piper Laius heros
Præcedens, magnamque gerens cum burdine pypam
Incipit Harlai cunctis sonare batellum.
Tunc Neberna furens yettam ipsa egressa, vidensque
Muck-cartas transire viam, valde angria facta
Non tulit affrontam tantam, verum, agmine facto,
Convocat extemplo Barowmannos atque Ladæos,
Jackmannumque, Hiremannos, Pleughdrivsters at-
que Pleughmannos,

Tumlantesque simul reekoso ex kitchine boyos,
Hunc qui dirtiferas tersit cum dishclouty dishas,
Hunc qui gruelias scivit bene lickere plettas,
Et saltpaunifumos, et widebricatos fisheros,
Hellæosque etiam salteros duxit ab antris,
Coalheughos nigri girnantes more Divelli,
Lifeguardamque sibi sævas vocat improba lassas,
Maggeam magis doctam milkare cowæas,
Et doctam sweepare flooras, et sternere beddas,
Quæque novit spinnare, et longas ducere threedas;
Nansæam, claves bene quæ keepaverat omnes,
Yellantemque Elpen, longobardamque Anapellam,
Fartantemque simul Gyllam, gliedamque Katæam
Egregie indutam blacko caput sooty clouto;
Mammæamque simul vetulam, quæ sciverat apte
Infantum teneras blande oscularier arsas;
Quæque lanam cardare solet greasy-fingria Betty.
Tum demum hungræos ventres Neberna gruelis
Farsit, et guttas rawsuinibus implet amaris,
Postea newbarmæ ingentem dedit omnibus haustum,
Staggravere omnes, grandesque ad sydera riftas
Barmifumi attollunt, et sic ad prælia marchant.
Nec mora, marchavit forás longo ordine turma,
Ipsa prior Neberna suis stout facta ribaldis,
Rustæum manibus gestans furibunda gulæum:
Tandem Muckreilios vocat ad pell-mellia flaidos.
"Ite, ait, uglæi Fellows, si quis modo posthac
Muckifer has nostras tentet crossare fenestras,
Juro quod ego ejus longum extrahabo thrapelium,
Et totam rivabo faciem, luggasque gulæo hoc
Ex capite cuttabo ferox, totumque videbo
Heartbloodum fluere in terram." Sic verba finivit.
Obstupuit Vitarva diu dirtfluida, sed inde
Couragium accipiens, Muckreilios ordine cunctos
Middini in medio faciem turnare coegit.

O qualem primo fleuram gustasses in ipso
Battelli onsetto! Pugnat Muckreilius Heros
Fortiter, et Muckam per posteriora cadentem
In creilibus shoolare ardet. Sic dirta volavit.

O quale hoc hurly burly fuit, si forte vidisses Pypantes arsas, et flavo sanguine breeckas Dripantes, hominumque heartas ad prælia faintas!

O qualis firy fary fuit, namque alteri nemo
Ne vel footbreddum yerde yieldare volebat,
Stout erat ambo quidem, valdeque hardhearta ca-
terva!

Tum vero e medio Muckdryvster prosilit unus
Gallantæus homo, et greppam minatur in ipsam
Nebernam, (quoniam misere scaldaverat omnes)
Dirtavitque totam peticotam gutture thicko,
Pearlineasque ejus skirtas, silkamque gownæam,.
Vasquineamque rubram Mucksherda begariavit.
Et tunc ille fuit valde faintheartus, et ivit
Valde procul, metuens shottam woundumque pro-
fundum.

Sed nec valde procul fuerat revengia in illum;
Extemplo Gillæa ferox invasit, et ejus

In faciem girnavit atrox, et Tigrida facta
Bublentem grippans berdam, sic dixit ad illum:
Vade domum, filthae nequam, aut te interficiabo.
Tunc cum gerculeo magnum fecit Gilly whip-
pum,

Ingentemque manu sherdam levavit, et omnem
Gallantæi hominis gashbeardam besmeariavit;
Sume tibi hoc, inquit, sneezing valde operativum,
Pro præmio, Swingere, tuo; tum denique fleido
Ingentem Gilly wamphra dedit, validamque ne-
vellam,

Ingeminatque iterum, donec his fecerit ignem
Ambobus fugere ex oculis; sic Gylla triumphat.
Obstupuit bombaizdus homo, backumque repente
Turnavit veluti nasus bloodasset; et O fy!
Ter quater exclamat, et ô quam fœde neezavit!
Disjuniumque omne evomuit valde hungrius homo,
Lausavitque supra atque infra, miserabile visu,
Et luggas necko imponens, sic cucurrit absens;
Non audens gimpare iterum, ne worsa tulisset.

Hæc Neberna videns yellavit turpia verba,
Et fy, fy! exclamat, prope nunc victoria losta est.
Nec mora, terribilem fillavit dira canonem,
Elatisque hippis magno cum murmure fartam
Barytonam emisit, veluti Monsmegga cracasset.
Tum vero quackarunt hostes, flightamque repente
Sumpserunt, retrospexit Jackmannus, et ipse
Sheepheadus metuit sonitumque ictumque buleti.

Quod si king Spanius, Philippus n' mine, septem
Hisce consimiles habuisset forte canones
Batterare Sluissam, Sluissam dungasset in assam.
Aut si tot magnus Lodovicus forte dedisset
Ingentes fartas ad monia Montalbana,
Ipsam continuo townam dungasset in yerdam:

Exin Corngrevius, wracco omnia tendere videns,
Consiliumque meum si non accipitis, inquit,
Pulchras scartabo facies, et vos worriabo:
Sed needlo per seustram broddatus, inque privatas
Partes stobbatus, greitans, lookansque grivate,
Barlafumel clamat, et dixit, O Deus! O God!
Quid multis? sic fraya fuit, sic guisa peracta est,
Una nec interea spillata est droppa cruoris.

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