And after short abode fly back with speed,
As if to fhow what creatures Heav'n doth breed
23Thereby to fet the hearts of men on fire

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To fcorn the fordid world, and unto Heav'n afpire? X.

But oh why didft thou not stay here below

To blefs us with thy heav'n-lov'd innocence,65
To flake his wrath whom fin hath made our foe, I {
To turn fwift-rufhing black perdition hence,
Or drive away the flaughtering peftilence, inv
To ftand 'twixt us and our deferved fmart? 69
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But thou canst beft perform that office where thou art.

Then thou the Mother of fo fweet a Child I

Her falfe imagin'd lofs ceafe to lament,

And wifely learn to curb thy forrows wild,
Think what a prefent thou to God haft fent,A
And render him with patience what he lent; 75
This if thou do, he will an ofspring give, [live.
That till the world's laft end shall make thy name to

Anno

68. Or drive away the flaughter- great plague in London, which ing peftilence, It should be gives a peculiar propriety to this noted that at this time there was a whole ftanza.

These

II. Domas vandens tod

Anno Etatis 19. At a Vacation Exercife in the college, part Latin, part English. The Latin fpeeches ended, the English thus began.

AIL native Language, that by finews weak

HA

Didst move my firft endevoring tongue to speak, And mad ft imperfect words with childish trips, Half unpronounc'd, flide through my infant-lips, Driving dumb filence from the portal door, Where he had mutely fat two years before: Here I falute thee, and thy pardon afk, befor That now I use thee in my latter task

Small loss it is that thence can come unto thee,

I know my tongue but little grace can do thee:T Thou need'ft not be ambitious to be first,

Believe me I have thither packt the worst:* A And, if it happen as I did forecast,

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The daintieft dishes shall be serv'd up last.

I pray thee then deny me not thy aid

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For this fame small neglect that I have made:

But

These verses were made in 1627, in the edition of 1645, but were

that being the 19th year of the

first added in the edition of 1673.

author's age; and they were nor

29. Yet

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But hafte thee ftrait to do me once a pleafure,
And from thy wardrobe bring thy chiefest treasure,
Not those new fangled toys, and trimming flight
Which takes our late fantastics with delight,
But cull those richest robes, and gay'st attire
Which deepest spirits, and choicest wits desire :,"
I have fome naked thoughts that rove about, omna!
And loudly knock to have their paffage out;

And weary of their place do only stay

T

wo brat Till thou haft deck'd them in thy best array 3D. A That so they may without suspect or fears

Fly swiftly to this fair affembly's ears;

Yet I had rather, if I were to chufe,

T

Thy service in some graver fubject use,

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Such as may make thee fearch thy coffers round, A Before thou clothe my fancy in fit found:

Such where the deep tranfported mind may foard Above the wheeling poles, and at Heav'n's door a E Look in, and fee each blissful Deity

How he before the thunderous throne doth lie,
Lift'ning to what unfhorn Apollo fings...
To th' touch of golden wires, while Hebe brings
Immortal nectar to her kingly fire,

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Then paffing through the fpheres of watchful fire,
And mifty regions of wide air next under,
And hills of fnow and lofts of piled thunder,.
May tell at length how green-ey'd Neptune raves,
In Heav'n's defiance mustering all his waves ; k
Then fing of fecret things that came to pafs:45
When beldam Nature in her cradle was;

And last of kings and queens and heroes old, d
Such as the wife Demodocus once told

In folemn fongs at king Alcinous feast,
While fad Ulyffes foul and all the reft
Are held with his melodious harmony
In willing chains and sweet captivity.

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But fie, my wand'ring Muse, how thou doft ftray! Expectance calls thee now another way,

Thou know'st it must be now thy only bent f 55 To keep in compafs of thy predicament:

Then quick about thy purpos'd bufinefs come, OY That to the next I may refign my roomi Pad2 ind 4 aut ile 79'0

Then Ens is reprefented as father of the Predicaments his ten fons, whereof the eldest stood for Subftance with his canons, which Ens, thus fpeaking, explains.

OOD luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth

The faery ladies danc'd upon the hearth 66 Thy droufy nurse hath fworn fhe did them fpie Come tripping to the room where thou didst lie, And sweetly finging round about thy bed Strow all their bleflings on thy fleeping head.

and Ulyffes and the reft are affected in the manner here defcrib'd.

56.-of thy predicament:] What

She

the Greeks called a category, Boëthius first named a predicament: and if the reader is acquainted with Ari

ftotle's