IDENTIFIL$$ F157O44|SecAn|Bodleian MS Tanner 876|sigs.E5-H5,pp. [1]-49 157.O44.HE1 %1The second Anniuersary%2. [E5] 157.O44.HE2 %9O#F%0 /THE PROGRES /%1of the Soule%2. 157.O44.001 N%+Othing could make me soo-/ner to confesse, 157.O44.001M %1The en-/trance%2. 157.O44.002 That this world had an euerla-/stingnesse, 157.O44.003 Then to consider, that a yeare is /runne, 157.O44.004 Since both this lower worlds, /and the Sunne's Sunne, 157.O44.005 The Lustre, and the vigor of /this All, [CW:Did] 157.O44.006 Did set; t'were Blasphemy, to /say, did fall. [E5v] 157.O44.007 But as a ship, which hath strooke /saile, doth runne%Y,%Z 157.O44.008 By force of that force, which be-/fore%Y,%Z it wonne: 157.O44.009 Or as sometimes in a beheaded /man, 157.O44.010 Through->(Though at those two Red seas, /which freely ran, 157.O44.011 One from the Trunke, another /from the Head, 157.O44.012 His soule %Jhe%K[Mvar:%Jbe%K] saild%Y,%Z to her eternall /bed,) 157.O44.013 His eies will twinckle, and his /tongue will roll, 157.O44.014 As though he beckned, and cal'd /backe his Soul, 157.O44.015 He graspes his hands, and he puls /vp his feet, 157.O44.016 And seemes to reach, and to step /forth to meet [CW:His] 157.O44.017 His soule; when all these moti-/ons which we saw, [E6] 157.O44.018 Are but as Ice, which crackles at /a thaw: 157.O44.019 Or as a lute, which, in moist wea-/ther, rings 157.O44.020 Her knell alone, by cracking of /her strings: 157.O44.021 So strugles this dead world, /now shee is gone; 157.O44.022 For there is motion in corrup-/tion.| 157.O44.023 As some Daies are, at the Crea-/tion, nam'd%Y,%Z 157.O44.024 Before the Sunne (the which / fram'd Daies) was fram'd; 157.O44.025 So, after this Sunnes set, some /show appeares, 157.O44.026 And orderly vicisitude of /yeares. 157.O44.027 Yet->Yea a new Deluge, and of %1Lethe%2 /flood, [CW:Hath] 157.O44.028 Hath drown'vs all; All haue for-/got all good, [E6v] 157.O44.029 Forgetting her, the %Ymiane%Z>>main<< Re-/serue of all. 157.O44.030 Yet in this Deluge, grosse and /generall, 157.O44.031 Thou seest me striue for life; my /life shall be, 157.O44.032 To bee hereafter prais'd, for /praysing thee, 157.O44.033 Immortall Maid! who (though /thou wouldst refuse 157.O44.034 The name of Mother) be vnto /my Muse, 157.O44.035 A Father; since her chast Ambi-/tion is%Y,%Z 157.O44.036 Yearely to bring forth such a /child as this.| 157.O44.037 These Hymes->Hymnes may worke on fu-/ture wits; and so 157.O44.038 May great Grand-children of /thy praises grow. [CW:And] 157.O44.039 And so, though not Reuiue, em-/balme, and spice [E7] 157.O44.040 The world, which else would pu-/trifie with vice. 157.O44.041 For thus, Man may extend thy /progeny, 157.O44.042 Vntill man doe but vanish, and /not die. 157.O44.043 These Hymn%Is, %Ythey%Z>>thy<< issue, may /encrease so long, 157.O44.044 As till Gods great %1Venite%2 change /the song. 157.O44.045 Thirst for that time, O my insa-/tiate soule! 157.O44.045M %1A iust dis-/estimation /of this /vvorld%2. 157.O44.046 And serue thy thirst, with Gods /sa%Jfe-fealin%Kg[M:%Jsafe-healing%K] Bowle. 157.O44.047 Bee thirsty still, and drinke still /till thou goe%Y;%Z 157.O44.048 To th'onely Health, to be Hy-/droptique so. 157.O44.049 Forget this rotten world; And /vnto thee%Y,%Z [CW:Let] 157.O44.050 Let thine owne times as an old /story be. [E7v] 157.O44.051 Be not concern'd: study not /why, nor whan; 157.O44.052 Doe not so much, as not beleeue /a man. 157.O44.053 For though to erre%Y,%Z be worst; to /try truths forth, 157.O44.054 Is far more busines, then this /world is worth. 157.O44.055 The world is but a carcasse; thou /art fed 157.O44.056 By it, but as a worme, that carcas /bred; 157.O44.057 And why shouldst thou, poore /worme! consider more, 157.O44.058 When this world will grow bet-/ter then before; 157.O44.059 Then those thy fellow-wormes /doe thinke vpone 157.O44.060 That carcasses last resurrecti-/one. [CW:Forget] 157.O44.061 Forget this world; and scarse /thinke of it so, [E8] 157.O44.062 As of old cloaths, cast off a yeere /agoe. 157.O44.063 To be thus stupid is Ala-/crity; 157.O44.064 Men %Jthus%K lethargique haue best /Memory. 157.O44.065 Looke vpward; that's tow'ards /her, whose happy state 157.O44.066 We now lament not, but congra-/tulate. 157.O44.067 Shee, to whom all this world /twas->was but a stage, 157.O44.068 Where all sat harkning how her /youthfull age 157.O44.069 Should be emploid; because in /all, shee did, 157.O44.070 Some Figure of the Golden /times%Y,%Z was hid. 157.O44.071 Who could not lacke, what ere /this world could giue, [CW:Because] 157.O44.072 Because shee was the forme, /that made it liue; [E8v] 157.O44.073 Nor could complaine, that this /world was vnfit, 157.O44.074 To be staid in, then when shee /was in it; 157.O44.075 Shee that first tried indifferent /desires 157.O44.076 By vertue, and vertue by religi-/ous fires, 157.O44.077 Shee to whose person Paradise /adhear'd, 157.O44.078 As Courts to Princes; she whose /eies enspheard 157.O44.079 Star-light inough, t'haue made /the South controll, 157.O44.080 (Had shee beene there) the Star-/full Northern Pole; 157.O44.081 Shee, shee is gone; shee is gone; /when thou knowest this, 157.O44.082 What fragmentary rubbidge this /world is, [CW:Thou] 157.O44.083 Thou knowest, and that it is not /worth a thought; [F1] 157.O44.084 He honours it too much that /thinkes it nought. 157.O44.085 Thinke then, My soule, that /death is but a Groome, 157.O44.085M %1Contempla-/tion of our /state in our /death-bed%2. 157.O44.086 Which brings a Taper to the /outward roome, 157.O44.087 (Whence thou spiest first a little /glimmering light) 157.O44.088 And after brings it nearer to thy /sight: 157.O44.089 For such approches doth heauen /make in death. 157.O44.090 Thinke thy selfe labouring now /with broken breath; 157.O44.091 And thinke those broken & soft /Notes to bee 157.O44.092 Diuision, and thy happiest Har-/monee. 157.O44.093 Thinke thee laid on thy death-/bed, loose and slacke; [CW:And] 157.O44.094 And thinke %Jthat%K but vnbinding /of a packe, [F1v] 157.O44.095 To take one precious thing, thy /soule, from thence. 157.O44.096 Thinke thy selfe parch'd with /feuers violence; 157.O44.097 Anger thine Ague more, by cal-/ling it 157.O44.098 Thy Physicke; chide the slacknes /of the fit: 157.O44.099 Thinke that thou hear'st thy /knell, and thinke no more, 157.O44.100 But that, as Bels cal'd thee to /Church before, 157.O44.101 So this, to the Triumphant /Church, cals thee. 157.O44.102 Thinke Satans Sergeants round /about thee bee, 157.O44.103 And thinke that but for Lega-/cies they thrust; 157.O44.104 Giue one thy Pride, to'another /giue thy Lust: [CW:Giue] 157.O44.105 Giue them those sinnes which /they gaue thee before, [F2] 157.O44.106 And trust th'immaculate blood /to wash thy score. 157.O44.107 Thinke thy friends weeping /round, and thinke that thay 157.O44.108 Weepe but because they goe not /yet thy way. 157.O44.109 Thinke that they close thine /eyes, and thinke in this, 157.O44.110 That they confesse much in the /world, amisse, 157.O44.111 Who dare not trust a dead mans /eye with that, 157.O44.112 Which they from God, and An-/gels couer not. 157.O44.113 Thinke that they shourd thee /vp, and thinke from thence 157.O44.114 They reinuest thee in white in-/nocence. 157.O44.115 Thinke that thy body rots, and /(if so lowe, [CW:Thy] 157.O44.116 Thy soule exhalted so, thy /thoughts can goe.) [F2v] 157.O44.117 Thinke thee a Prince, who of /themselues create 157.O44.118 Wormes which insensibly de-/uoure their state. 157.O44.119 Thinke that they bury thee, and /thinke that right 157.O44.120 Laies thee to sleepe but a Saint /Lucies night. 157.O44.121 Thinke these things cheerfully: /and if thou bee 157.O44.122 Drowsie or slacke, remember /then that %Jshee%K, 157.O44.123 She whose Complexion was so /euen made, 157.O44.124 That which of her Ingredients /should inuade 157.O44.125 The other three, no Feare, no /Art could guesse: 157.O44.126 So farre were all remou'd from /more or lesse. [CW:But] 157.O44.127 But as in Mithridate, or iust per-/fumes, [F3] 157.O44.128 Where all good things being /met, no one presumes 157.O44.129 To gouerne, or to triumph on /the rest, 157.O44.130 Onely because all were, no part /was best. 157.O44.131 And as, though all doe know, /that quantities 157.O44.132 Are made of lines, and lines from /Points arise, 157.O44.133 None can these lines or quanti-/ties vnioynt, 157.O44.134 And say this is a line, or this a /point, 157.O44.135 So though the Elements and /Humors were 157.O44.136 In her, one could not say, this /gouerns there. 157.O44.137 Whose euen constitution might /haue %Jworne%K>>%Jwonn%K<< [CW:Any] 157.O44.138 Any disease to venter on the /Sunne, [F3v] 157.O44.139 Rather then her: and make a spi-/rit feare 157.O44.140 That he to disuniting subiect /were. 157.O44.141 To whose proportions if we /would compare 157.O44.142 Cubes, th'are vnstable; Circles, Angulare; 157.O44.143 Shee who was such a Chaine, as /Fate emploies 157.O44.144 To bring mankind, all Fortunes /it enioyes, 157.O44.145 So fast, so euen wrought, as one /would thinke, 157.O44.146 No Accident, could threaten a-/ny linke, 157.O44.147 Shee, shee embrac'd a sicknesse, /gaue it meat, 157.O44.148 The purest Blood, and Breath, /that ere it eat. [CW:And] 157.O44.149 And hath taught vs that though /a good man hath [F4] 157.O44.150 Title to Heauen, and plead it by /his Faith, 157.O44.151 And though he may pretend a /conquest, since 157.O44.152 Heauen was content to suffer /violence, 157.O44.153 Yea though he plead a long pos-/session too, 157.O44.154 (For they're in heauen on earth, /who heauens workes do,) 157.O44.155 Though he had right, & power, /and place before, 157.O44.156 Yet Death must vsher, and vn-/locke the doore. 157.O44.157 Thinke further on thy selfe, my /soule, and thinke; 157.O44.157M %1Incommodi-/ties of the /Soule in the /Body%2. 157.O44.158 How thou at first wast made but /in a sinke; 157.O44.159 Thinke that it argued some in-/fermitee, [CW:That] 157.O44.160 That those two soules, which /then thou foundst in mee, [F4v] 157.O44.161 Thou fedst upon, and drewst in-/to thee, both 157.O44.162 My second soule of sence, and /first of growth. 157.O44.163 Thinke but how poore thou /wast, how obnoxious; 157.O44.164 Whom a small lumpe of flesh /could poyson thus. 157.O44.165 This curded milke, this poore /vnlittered whelpe 157.O44.166 My body, could, beyound es-/cape, or helpe, 157.O44.167 Infect thee with originall sinne, /and thou 157.O44.168 Couldst neither then refuse, nor /leaue it now. 157.O44.169 Thinke that no stubborne sullen /Anchorit, 157.O44.170 Which fixt to'a Pillar, or a Graue /doth sit [CW:Bedded] 157.O44.171 Bedded and Bath'd in all his Or-/dures, dwels [F5] 157.O44.172 So fowly as our soules, in their /first-built Cels. 157.O44.173 Thinke in how poore a prison /thou didst lie 157.O44.174 After, enabled but to sucke, and /crie. 157.O44.175 Thinke, when t'was growne to /most, t'was a poore Inne, 157.O44.176 A Prouince Pack'd vp in two /yards of skinne. 157.O44.177 And that vsurped, or threatned /with the rage 157.O44.178 Of sicknesses, or their true mo-/ther, Age. 157.O44.179 But thinke that Death hath now /enfranchis'd thee, 157.O44.179M %1Her liberty /by death%2. 157.O44.180 Thou hast thy'expausion now /and libertee; 157.O44.181 Thinke that a rusty Peece, dis-/charg'd, is flowen [CW:In] 157.O44.182 In peeces, and the bullet is his /owne, [F5v] 157.O44.183 And freely flies: This to thy /soule allow, 157.O44.184 Thinke thy sheell broke, thinke /thy Soule hatch'd but now. 157.O44.185 And think this slow-pac'd soule, /which late did cleaue, 157.O44.186 To'a body, and went but by the /bodies leaue, 157.O44.187 Twenty, perchance, or thirty /mile a day, 157.O44.188 Dispatches in a minute all the /way, 157.O44.189 Twixt Heauen, and Earth: shee /staies not in the Ayre, 157.O44.190 To looke what Meteors there /themselues prepare; 157.O44.191 Shee carries no desire to know, /nor sense, 157.O44.192 Whether th'Ayrs middle Regi-/on be intense, [CW:For] 157.O44.193 For th'Element of fire, shee doth /not know, [F6] 157.O44.194 Whether shee past by such a /place or no; 157.O44.195 Shee baits not at the Moone, nor /cares to trie, 157.O44.196 Whether in that new world, /men liue, and die. 157.O44.197 Venus recards her not, to'en-/quire, how shee 157.O44.198 Can, (being one Star) Hesper, /and Vesper bee, 157.O44.199 Hee that charm'd Argus eyes, /sweet Mercury, 157.O44.200 Workes not on her, who now is /growen all Ey; 157.O44.201 Who, if shee meete the body of /the Sunne, 157.O44.202 Goes through, not staying till /his course be runne; 157.O44.203 Who finds in Mars his Campe, /no corps of Guard; [CW:Nor] 157.O44.204 Nor is by Ioue, nor by his father /bard; [F6v] 157.O44.205 But ere she can consider how she /went, 157.O44.206 At once is at, and through the /Firmament. 157.O44.207 And as these starres were but so /many beades 157.O44.208 Strunge on one string, speed vn-/distinguish'd leades 157.O44.209 Her through those spheares, as /through the beades, a string, 157.O44.210 Whose quicke succession makes /it still one thing: 157.O44.211 As %Jdoth%K the Pith (which, least->lest /our Bodies slacke, 157.O44.212 Strings fast the little bones of /necke, and backe; 157.O44.213 So by the soule %Jdoth%K death string /Heauen and Earth,| 157.O44.214 For, when our soule enioyes this /her third birth, [CW:(Creation][miscatch] 157.O44.215 (Creation gaue her one, a se-/cond, grace,) [F7] 157.O44.216 Heauen is as neare, and present /to her face, 157.O44.217 As colours are, and obiects (in a /roome 157.O44.218 Where darkenesse was before) /when Tapers come. 157.O44.219 This must, my soule, thy long-/short Progresse bee;| 157.O44.220 To'aduance these thoughts, re-/member then, that s%Jhee%K 157.O44.221 Shee, whose faire body no such /prison was, 157.O44.222 But that a soule might well be /pleas'd to passe 157.O44.223 An age in her; %Jshe%K whose rich /beauty lent 157.O44.224 Mintage to others beauties (for /they went 157.O44.225 But for so much, as they were /like to her;) [CW:Shee,] 157.O44.226 Shee, in whose body (if we dare /prefer [F7v] 157.O44.227 This low world%Y,%Z to so high a /marke, as shee,) 157.O44.228 The Westerne treasure, Esterne /spiceree, 157.O44.229 Europe, and Afrique, and the /vnknowen rest 157.O44.230 Were easily found, or what in /them was best; 157.O44.231 And (when w'haue made this /large Discoueree. 157.O44.232 Of all in her) some one part then /will bee 157.O44.233 Twenty such patts,->partts; whose plenty /and riches is 157.O44.234 Inough to make twenty such /worlds as this; 157.O44.235 %JShe%Ke, whom had %Jthe%Ky knowne /(who did first betroth 157.O44.236 The Tutelar Angels, and assig-/ned one%Y,%Z both [CW:To] 157.O44.237 To Nations, Cities, and to /Companies, [F8] 157.O44.238 To Fuctions, Offices, and Dig-/nities, 157.O44.239 And to each seuerall man, to /him, and him,) 157.O44.240 They would haue giuen her one /for euery limme; 157.O44.241 Shee, of whose soule%Y,%Z if we may /say, t'was Gold; 157.O44.242 Her body was th'Electrum, and /did hold 157.O44.243 Many degrees of that; (we vn-/stood 157.O44.244 Her by her sight; her pure and /eloquent blood 157.O44.245 Spoke in her cheekes, and so di-/stinckly wrought, 157.O44.246 That one might almost say, her /body thought) 157.O44.247 Shee, shee, thus rich%Yly%Z, & largely /hous'd, is gone: [CW:And] 157.O44.248 And chides vs slow-pac'd snailes /who crawle vpon [F8v] 157.O44.249 Our p%Jrisons-priso%Kn, earth; nor /thinke vs well 157.O44.250 Longer, then whil'st we beare /our brittle shell. 157.O44.251 But t'were but little to haue /chang'd our roome, 157.O44.251M %1Her igno-/rance in this /life and /knovvledge /in the next%2. 157.O44.252 If, as we were in this our liuing /Toombe 157.O44.253 Oppress'd with ignorance, we /still were so; 157.O44.254 Poore soule! in this thy flesh /what do'st thou know? 157.O44.255 Thou know'st thy selfe so little, /as thou know'st not, 157.O44.256 How thou didst die, nor how /thou wast begot. 157.O44.257 Thou neither know'st, how thou /at first cam'st in, 157.O44.258 Nor how thou took'st the poy-/son of mans sin. [CW:Nor] 157.O44.259 Nor dost thou, (though thou /knowst, that thou art so) [G1] 157.O44.260 By what way thou art made /immortall, know. 157.O44.261 Thou art to->too narrow, wretch, /to comprehend 157.O44.262 Euen thy selfe: yea though thou /wouldst but bend 157.O44.263 To know thy body. Haue not /all soules thought 157.O44.264 For many ages, that our body'is /wrought 157.O44.265 Of Ayre, and Fire, and other E-/lements? 157.O44.266 And now they thinke of new in-/gredients. 157.O44.267 And one soule thinkes one, and /another way 157.O44.268 Another thinkes; and ty's an /euen lay. 157.O44.269 Know'st thou but how the stone /doth enter in [CW:The] 157.O44.270 The bladders Caue, and neuer /brake the skin? [G1v] 157.O44.271 Knowst thou how blood, which /to the heart doth flow, 157.O44.272 Doth from one ventricle to /th'other goe? 157.O44.273 And for the putrid stuffe, which /thou dost spit; 157.O44.274 Knowst thou how thy lungs /haue attracted it? 157.O44.275 There are no passages: so that /there is 157.O44.276 (For ought thou knowst) pier-/cing of substances. 157.O44.277 And of those many opinions /which men raise 157.O44.278 Of Nayles and Haires; dost thou /know which to praise? 157.O44.279 What hope haue we to know /our selues, when we 157.O44.280 Know not the least things, which /for our vse be? [CW:We] 157.O44.281 We see in Authors, too stiffe to /recant. [G2] 157.O44.282 A hundred controuersies of an /Ant. 157.O44.283 And yet one watches, starues, freeses, and sweats, 157.O44.284 To know but Catechismes and /Alphabets 157.O44.285 Of vnconcerning things; mat-/ters of fact; 157.O44.286 How others on our stage their /parts did Act; 157.O44.287 What %1Cae%Lsar%2 did, yea, and what /%1Cicero%2 said.| 157.O44.288 Why grasse is greene, or why /our blood is red, 157.O44.289 Are mysteries which none haue /reach'd vnto. 157.O44.290 In this low forme, poore soule /what wilt thou doe? 157.O44.291 When wilt thou shake off this /Pedantery, [CW:Of] 157.O44.292 Of being %Ythought%Z>>taught<< by sense, and /Fantasy? [G2v] 157.O44.293 Thou look'st through spectacles; /small things seeme great, 157.O44.294 Below; But vp vnto the watch-/towre get, 157.O44.295 And see all things despoyld of /fallacies: 157.O44.296 Thou shalt not peepe through /lattices of eies, 157.O44.297 Nor heare through Laberinths /of eares, nor learne 157.O44.298 By circuit, or collections to dis-/cerne. 157.O44.299 In h%Jeauen%K thou straight know'st /all, concerning %Jit%K, 157.O44.300 And what concerns %Jit%K not, shall->shalt /straight forget. 157.O44.301 There thou (but in no other /schoole) maist bee 157.O44.302 Purchance, as learned, and as /full, as shee, [CW:Shee] 157.O44.303 Shee who all Libraries had /throughly red [G3] 157.O44.304 At home, in her own thoughts, /and practised 157.O44.305 So much good as would make as /many more: 157.O44.306 Shee whose example they must /all implore, 157.O44.307 Who would or doe, or thinke /well, and confesse 157.O44.308 That aie->all the vertuous Actions /they expresse, 157.O44.309 Are but a new, and worse /edition, 157.O44.310 Of her some-one-thought, or /one action: 157.O44.311 Shee, who in th'Art of knowing /Heauen, was growen 157.O44.312 Here vpon Earth, to such perfe-/ction, 157.O44.313 That shee hath, euer since to /Heauen shee came, [CW:(In] 157.O44.314 (In a far fairer %Ypoint%Z>>print<<,) but read /the same: [G3v] 157.O44.315 Shee, shee, not satisfied withall /this %Ywaite%Z>>weight<<, 157.O44.316 (For so much knowledge, as /would ouer-fraite 157.O44.317 Another, did but Ballast her) is /gone, 157.O44.318 As well t'enioy, as get /perfectione, 157.O44.319 And cal's vs %Jafter h%Ker, in that shee /tooke, 157.O44.320 (Taking her selfe) our best, and /worthiest booke. 157.O44.321 Returne not, my soule, from this /extasee, 157.O44.321M %1Of our com-/pany in this /life and in /the next%2. 157.O44.322 And meditation of what thou /shalt bee, 157.O44.323 To earthly thoughts, till it to /thee appeare, 157.O44.324 With whom thy conuersation /must be there. [CW:With 157.O44.325 With whom wilt thou Con-/uerse? what station [G4] 157.O44.326 Canst thou choose out, free /from infection, 157.O44.327 That will nor giue thee theirs, /nor drinke in thine? 157.O44.328 Shalt thou not finde a spungy /slacke Diuine 157.O44.329 Drinke and sucke-in th'Instructi-/ons of Great men; 157.O44.330 And for the word of God, vent /them agen? 157.O44.331 Are there not some Courts, /(And then, no things bee 157.O44.332 So like as Courts) which, in %Jthis%K, /let vs see, 157.O44.333 That wits and tongues of Libel-/lars are weake, 157.O44.334 %JBecause%K they doe more ill, then /%Jthese%K can speake? 157.O44.335 The poyson'is gone through all, /poysons affect [CW:Chiefly] 157.O44.336 Chiefly the cheefest parts, but /some effect [G4v] 157.O44.337 In Nailes, and Haires, yea excre-/ments, will show; 157.O44.338 So wise[Mvar:so#will] the poyso'n of sinne%Y,%Z in /the most low. 157.O44.339 Vp vp, my drowsie soule, where /thy new eare 157.O44.340 Shall in the Angels songs no dis-/cord heare; 157.O44.341 Where thou shalt see the blessed /Mother-maid 157.O44.342 Ioy in not being that, which /men haue said. 157.O44.343 Where shee'is exalted more for /being good, 157.O44.344 Then for her interest, of mo-/ther-hood. 157.O44.345 Vp to those Patriarckes, which /did longer sit 157.O44.346 Expecting Christ, then'they /haue enioy'd him yet. [CW:Vp] 157.O44.347 Vp to those Prophets, which /now gladly see 157.O44.348 Their Prophesies growen to be /Historee. 157.O44.349 Vp to th'Apostles, who did /brauely runne, 157.O44.350 All the Suns course, with more /light then the Sunne. 157.O44.351 Vp to those Martyrs, who did /calmely bleed 157.O44.352 Oyle to th'Apostles lamps, dew /to their seed. 157.O44.353 Vp to those Virgins, who /thought%Ys%Z that almost 157.O44.354 They made ioyntenants with /the Holy Ghost, 157.O44.355 If they to any should his Tem-/ple giue. 157.O44.356 Vp, vp, for in that squadron /there doth liue 157.O44.357 Shee, who hath carried thether, /new degrees [CW:(As] 157.O44.358 (As to their number) to their /dignitees. [G5v] 157.O44.359 Shee, who (beeing to herselfe, a /state) enioyd 157.O44.360 All royalties, which any state /emploid. 157.O44.361 For shee made wars, and tri-/umph'd; reason still 157.O44.362 Did not oue'rthrow, but rectifie /her will: 157.O44.363 And shee made peace, for no /peace is like this, 157.O44.364 That beauty and chastity toge-/ther kisse: 157.O44.365 Shee did high iustice; for shee /crucified 157.O44.366 Euery first motion of rebellious /pride: 157.O44.367 And shee gaue pardons, and was /liberall; 157.O44.368 For, onely her selfe except, shee /pardond all: [CW:Shee] 157.O44.369 Shee coynd, in this; that her im-/pressions gaue [G6] 157.O44.370 To all our actions all the worth /they haue: 157.O44.371 Shee gaue protections; the /thoughts of her brest 157.O44.372 Satans rude Officers could nere /arrest. 157.O44.373 As these prerogatiues, being met /in one, 157.O44.374 Made her a soueraigne state; re-/ligion 157.O44.375 Made her a Church; and these /two made her all. 157.O44.376 Shee who was all this All, and /could not fall 157.O44.377 To worse, by company; (for she /was still 157.O44.378 More Antidote, then all the /world was ill, 157.O44.379 Shee, shee doth leaue it, and by /Death, suruiue [CW:All] 157.O44.380 All this, in Heauen; whether /who doth not striue [G6v] 157.O44.381 The more, because shee's there, /he doth not know 157.O44.382 That accidentall ioyes in Hea-/uen doe grow. 157.O44.383 But pause, My soule, and study /(ere thou fall 157.O44.384 On a%Jcciden%Ktall ioyes) th'es%Jsen%Kti-/all. 157.O44.384M %1Of essentiall /ioy in this /life and in /the next%2. [Keyed#to#line#383] 157.O44.385 Still, before Accessories doe /abide 157.O44.386 A triall; must the principall be /tride. 157.O44.387 And what essentiall ioy canst /thou expect 157.O44.388 Here vpon earth? what perma-/nent effect 157.O44.389 Of transitory causes? Dost thou /loue 157.O44.390 Beauty? (And Beauty worthy'st /is to moue) [CW:Poore] 157.O44.391 Poore couse'ned cose'nor! %Jtha%Kt /she, and %Jtha%Kt thou, [G7] 157.O44.392 Which did begin to loue, are /neither now. 157.O44.393 You are both fluid, chang'd /since yesterday; 157.O44.394 Next day repaires, (but ill) last /dayes decay. 157.O44.395 Nor are, (Although the riuer /keepe the name) 157.O44.396 Yesterdayes waters, and to daies /the same. 157.O44.397 So flowes her face, & thine eies: /n%Jeithe%Kr now 157.O44.398 That Saint, nor Pilgrime, which /your louing %Jrow%K>>%Jvow%K<< 157.O44.399 Concernd, remaines, but whil'st /you thinke you bee 157.O44.400 Constant, you'are hourely in in-/constancee. 157.O44.401 Honour may haue pretence vn-/to our loue, [CW:Be-] 157.O44.402 Because that God did liue so /long aboue [G7v] 157.O44.403 Without this Honour, and then /lou'd it so, 157.O44.404 That he at last made Creatures /to bestow 157.O44.405 Honour on him; not that he nee-/ded it, 157.O44.406 But that, to his hands, man might /grow more fit. 157.O44.407 But since all honours from infe-/riours flow, 157.O44.408 (For they doe giue it; Princes /doe but show 157.O44.409 Whom they would haue so ho-/nord) and that this 157.O44.410 On such opinions, and capaci-/ties 157.O44.411 Is built, as rise, and fall, to more /and lesse, 157.O44.412 Alas, tis but a casuall happi-/nesse. [CW:Hath] 157.O44.413 Hath euer any man to'himselfe /assigned [G8] 157.O44.414 This or that happinesse, to'arrest /his minde, 157.O44.415 But that another man, which /takes a worse, 157.O44.416 Thinke him a foole for hauing /tane that course? 157.O44.417 They who did labour Babels /tower to'erect, 157.O44.418 Might haue considered, that for /that effect, 157.O44.419 All this whole solid Earth could /not allow 157.O44.420 Nor furnish forth Materials /enow; 157.O44.421 And that his Center, to raise /such a place 157.O44.422 Was farre too little, to haue /beene the Base; 157.O44.423 No more affoords this worlds, /foundatione [CW:To] 157.O44.424 To erect true ioye, were all the /meanes in one. [G8v] 157.O44.425 But as the Heathen made them /seuerall gods, 157.O44.426 Of all Gods Benefits, and all his /Rods, 157.O44.427 (For as the Wine, and Corne, /and Onions are 157.O44.428 Gods vnto them, so Agues bee, /and warre) 157.O44.429 And %Jas%K by changing that whole /precious Gold 157.O44.430 To such small copper coynes, /they lost the old, 157.O44.431 And lost their onely God, who /euer must 157.O44.432 Be sought alone, and not in such /a thrust, 157.O44.433 %JSo%K much mankind true happi-/nesse mistakes; 157.O44.434 No Ioye enioyes that man, that /many makes. [CW:Then,] 157.O44.435 Then, soule, to thy first pitch /worke vpon againe; [H1] 157.O44.436 Know that all lines which cir-/cles doe containe, 157.O44.437 For once that they the Center /touch, doe touch 157.O44.438 Twice the circumference; and /be thou such: 157.O44.439 Double on heauen%Y,%Z thy thoughts, /on earth emploid; 157.O44.440 All will not serue; Onely who /haue enioyd 157.O44.441 The sight of God, in fulnesse, /can thinke it; 157.O44.442 For it is both the obiect, and the /wit. 157.O44.423 This is essentiall ioye, where nei-/ther hee 157.O44.444 Can suffer Diminution, nor /wee; 157.O44.445 Tis such a full, and such a filling /good; [CW:Had] 157.O44.446 Had th'Angels once look'd on /him, they had stood. [H1v] 157.O44.447 To fill the place of %Jone%K of them, /or %Jmore%K, 157.O44.448 Shee whom we celebrate, is /gone before. 157.O44.449 Shee, who had Here so much /essentiall ioy. 157.O44.450 As no chance could distract, /much lesse destroy; 157.O44.451 Who with Gods presence was /acquainted so, 157.O44.452 (Hearing, and speaking to him) /as to know 157.O44.453 His face, in any naturall Stone, /or Tree, 157.O44.454 Better then when in Images they /bee: 157.O44.455 Who kept by diligent deuo-/tion, 157.O44.456 Gods Image, in such repara-/tion, [CW:Within] 157.O44.457 Within her heart, that what de-/cay was growen, [H2] 157.O44.458 Was her first Parents fault, and /not her own: 157.O44.459 Who being solicited to any /Act, 157.O44.460 Still heard God pleading his safe /precontract; 157.O44.461 Who by a faithfull confidence, /was here 157.O44.462 Betrothed to God, and now is /married there, 157.O44.463 Whose twilights were more /cleare, then our mid-day, 157.O44.464 Who dreamt deuoutlier, then /most vse to pray; 157.O44.465 Who being here fild with grace, /yet stroue to bee, 157.O44.466 Both where more grace, & more /capacitee 157.O44.467 At once is giuen: she to Heauen /is gone, [CW:Who] 157.O44.468 Who made this world in some /[NI]proportion [H2v] 157.O44.469 A heauen, and here, became vn-/to vs all, 157.O44.470 Ioye, (as our ioyes admit) essen-/tiall. 157.O44.471 But could this low world ioyes /effentiall touch, 157.O44.471M %1Of acciden-/tall ioyes in /both places%2. 157.O44.472 Heauens accidentall ioies would /passe them much. 157.O44.473 How poore and lame, must then /our casuall bee? 157.O44.474 If thy Prince will his subiects to /call thee 157.O44.475 My Lord, and this doe swell /thee, thou art than, 157.O44.476 By being a greater, growen to /be lesse Man, 157.O44.477 When no Physician of %YReders%Z>>Redress<< /can speake, 157.O44.478 A ioyfull casuall violence may /breake [CW:A] 157.O44.479 A dangerous Apostem in thy /brest; [H3] 157.O44.480 And whilst thou ioyest in this, /the dangerous rest, 157.O44.481 The bag may rise vp, and so /strangle thee. 157.O44.482 What %Yeye%Z>>ere<< was casuall, may euer /bee. 157.O44.483 What should the Nature /change? Or make the same 157.O44.484 Certaine, which was but casuall, /when it came? 157.O44.485 All casuall ioye doth loud and /plainly say, 157.O44.486 Onely by comming, that it can /away. 157.O44.487 Onely in Heauen ioies strength /is neuer spent; 157.O44.488 And accidentall things are per-/manent. 157.O44.489 Ioy of a soules arriuall neere de-/caies; [CW:For] 157.O44.490 For that soule euer ioyes & euer /staies. [H3v] 157.O44.491 Ioy that their last great Con-/summation 157.O44.492 Approches in the resur-/rection; 157.O44.493 When earthly bodies more cele-/stiall 157.O44.494 Shalbe, then Angels were, for /they could fall; 157.O44.495 This kind of ioy doth euery day /admit 157.O44.496 Degrees of grouth, but none of /loosing it. 157.O44.497 In this fresh ioy, tis no small part, /that shee, 157.O44.498 Shee, in whose goodnesse, he /that names degree, 157.O44.499 Doth iniure her; (Tis losse to be /cald best, 157.O44.500 There where the stuffe is not /such as the rest) [CW:Shee,] 157.O44.501 Shee, who left such a body, as /euen shee [H4] 157.O44.502 Onely in Heauen could learne, /how it can bee 157.O44.503 Made better; for shee rather was /two soules, 157.O44.504 Or like to full, on both sides /written Rols, 157.O44.505 Where eies might read vpon the /outward skin, 157.O44.506 As strong Records for God, as /mindes within, 157.O44.507 Shee, who by making full per-/fection grow, 157.O44.508 Peeces a Circle, and still keepes /it so, 157.O44.509 Long'd for, and longing for'it, to /heauen is gon, 157.O44.510 Where shee receiues, and giues /addition. 157.O44.511 Here in a place, where mis-deuo-/tion frames 157.O44.511M %1Conclusion%2. [CW:A] 157.O44.512 A thousand praiers to Saints, /whose very names [H4v] 157.O44.513 The ancient Church knew not, /Heauen knowes not yet, 157.O44.514 And where, what lawes of Poe-/try admit, 157.O44.515 Lawes of Religion, haue at least /the same, 157.O44.516 Immortall Maid, I might in-/roque->in-/voque thy name. 157.O44.517 Could any Saint prouoke that /appetite, 157.O44.518 Thou here shouldst make mee a /french conuertite. 157.O44.519 But thou wouldst not; nor /wouldst thou be content, 157.O44.520 To take this, for my second /yeeres true Rent, 157.O44.521 Did this Coine beare any other /stampe, then his, 157.O44.522 That gaue %Jthee%K power to %Jdoe%K; /%Jme%K, to say this. [CW:Since] 157.O44.523 Since his will is, that to poste-/ritee, [H5] 157.O44.524 Thou shouldest for life, & death, /a patterne bee, 157.O44.525 And that the world should no-/tice haue of this, 157.O44.526 The purpose, and th'Authority /is his; 157.O44.527 Thou art the Proclamation; and /I ame 157.O44.528 The Trumpet, at whose voice /the people came. 157.O44.SS %X%1F#I#N#I#S%2. 157.O44.0$$ MS emendations in a copy of c.