IDENTILIN$$  F189AF1|Tilman|Mapletoft vol.(1633)|pp. [411-13]\JSC\mf\2-06-03\p&c:mvf\mf(AF1)\2-26-07\P:o\GAS\8-18-09\E:MF\8-26-09
189.AF1.HE1  %XTo M%5r%6 Tilman after He /%Xhad taken Orders.
189.AF1.001  Thou, whose Diviner Soul hath caus'd thee now,
189.AF1.002  To put thy hand unto the holy plough,
189.AF1.003  Making Lay-scornings of the Ministry,
189.AF1.004  Not an impediment, but Victory,
189.AF1.005  What bringst thou home with thee? how is thy mind
189.AF1.006  Affected since the vintage? dost Thou find
189.AF1.007  New thoughts & stirrings in thee? & as Steel
189.AF1.008  Toucht with a Loadstone dost new motions feel?
189.AF1.009  Or, as a ship after much pain and care, [p.412]
189.AF1.010  For Iron and cloth brings home rich, Indian ware,
189.AF1.011  Hast thou thus traffiqu'd, but with far more gain
189.AF1.012  Of noble goods, and with less time and pain?
189.AF1.013  Thou art the same materials as before,
189.AF1.014  Only the stamp is changed, but no more.
189.AF1.015  And as new crowned Kings alter the face,
189.AF1.016  But not the monies substance, so hath grace
189.AF1.017  Chang'd only God's old Image by%>at creation,
189.AF1.018  To Christs new stamp at this thy coronation:
189.AF1.019  Or as we paint Angels with wings because
189.AF1.020  They bear Gods message, and proclaime his laws,
189.AF1.021  Since Thou must do the like, and so must move,
189.AF1.022  Art thou new feather'd with celestiall love?
189.AF1.023  Dear, tell me where thy purchase lies, and shew
189.AF1.024  What thy advantage is above, below;
189.AF1.025  But if thy gainings do surmount expression,
189.AF1.026  Why do[sic] the foolish world scorn that profession,
189.AF1.027  Whose joyes passe speech? why do they think unfitt,
189.AF1.028  That Gentry should joyn families with it?
189.AF1.029  As if their day were onely to be spent
189.AF1.030  In dressing, Mistressing, and complement;
189.AF1.031  Alass poor joyes, but poorer men, whose trust
189.AF1.032  Seems richly placed in sublimed dust!
189.AF1.033  (For such as cloaths, and beauty, which though gay,  
189.AF1.034  Are at the best but of sublimed clay)
189.AF1.035  Let then the world thy calling disrespect,
189.AF1.036  But goe thou on, and pity their neglect.
189.AF1.037  What function is so noble as to be
189.AF1.038  Embassadour to God and destiny?
189.AF1.039  To open [sic]live, to give Kingdomes to more
189.AF1.040  Than Kings give dignities, to keep heavens door?
189.AF1.041  Maries Prerogative was to bear Christ, so
189.AF1.042  'Tis preachers to convey him, for they do
189.AF1.043  As Angels out of clouds, from Pulpits speak,
189.AF1.044  And bless the poor beneath, the lame, the weak.
189.AF1.045  If then th'Astronomers, wheras[sic] they spy
189.AF1.046  A new-found Star, their Opticks magnifie,
189.AF1.047  How brave are those who with their engine, can [p.413]
189.AF1.048  Bring man to heaven, and heaven again to man?
189.AF1.049  These are thy titles and preheminences,
189.AF1.050  In whom must meet Gods graces, mens offences,
189.AF1.051  And so the heavens which beget all things here,
189.AF1.052  And the earth our mother, which these things doth bear,
189.AF1.053  Both these in thee are in thy calling knit,
189.AF1.054  And make thee now a blest Hermaphrodite.
189.AF1.0SS  [om]
189.AF1.0$$  Poem copied by hand onto blank pp. at back of a copy of A; no 
sts; no ind; pointing small & hard to see on mf, so check orig. well