s: And seems half ravish'd, when he looks upon


s: That bar, this bend; that fess, this cheveron;


s: This manch, that moon; this martlet, and that mound;


s: This counterchange of pearl and diamond.


s: What joy can Clunn have in that coat, or this,


s: For brave comportment, wit without offence,


s: Thou art that man of men, the man alone,


s: Who with thine own eyes read'st what we do write,


s: And giv'st our numbers euphony and weight;


s: Tell'st when a verse springs high, how understood


s: Lines have, or should have, thou the best can'st show.


s: For which, my Charles, it is my pride to be


s: Not so much known, as to be lov'd of thee.


s: Long may I live so, and my wreath of bays


s: Be less another's laurel than thy praise.


s: Brass, lead, or tin throw into th' mould;


s: Shall by this pleasing trespass quickly prove


s: _There's loathsomeness e'en in the sweets of love_.


s: Weep for the dead, for they have lost this light:


s: And weep for me, lost in an endless night.


s: Or mourn, or make a marble verse for me,


s: No man such rare parts hath that he can swim,


s: Lost to the world; lost to myself; alone


s: Here now I rest under this marble stone:


s: In depth of silence, heard and seen of none.


s: I will be short, and having quickly hurl'd


s: This line about, live thou throughout the world;


s: Who art a man for all scenes; unto whom,


s: What's hard to others, nothing's troublesome.


s: Can'st write the comic, tragic strain, and fall


s: From these to pen the pleasing pastoral:


s: Who fli'st at all heights: prose and verse run'st through;


s: Find'st here a fault, and mend'st the trespass too:


s: For which I might extol thee, but speak less,


s: Because thyself art coming to the press:


s: And then should I in praising thee be slow,


s: Tell me, young man, or did the Muses bring


s: Thee less to taste than to drink up their spring,


s: That none hereafter should be thought, or be


s: What was thy birth, thy star that makes thee known,


s: At twice ten years, a prime and public one?


s: Tell us thy nation, kindred, or the whence


s: Thou had'st and hast thy mighty influence,


s: That makes thee lov'd, and of the men desir'd,


s: And no less prais'd than of the maids admired.


s: Put on thy laurel then; and in that trim


s: Or let the unshorn god lend thee his lyre,


s: Offer thy gift; but first the law commands


s: Thee, Julia, first, to sanctify thy hands:


s: Do that, my Julia, which the rites require,


s: Then boldly give thine incense to the fire.


s: Handsome you are, and proper you will be


s: Live long and lovely, but yet grow no less


s: Spend on that stock: and when your life must fall,


s: If hap it must, that I must see thee lie


s: With solemn tears, and with much grief of heart,


s: I'll recollect thee, weeping, part by part;


s: And having wash'd thee, close thee in a chest


s: With spice; that done, I'll leave thee to thy rest.


s: Welcome, great Cæsar, welcome now you are


s: To repossess once more your long'd-for home.


s: A thousand altars smoke: a thousand thighs


s: Of beeves here ready stand for sacrifice.


s: Enter and prosper; while our eyes do wait


s: Under which sign we may the former stone


s: To whose free knees we may our temples tie


s: That should you stir, we and our altars too


s: _Chor._ Long live the King! and to accomplish this,


s: We'll from our own add far more years to his.


s: Stood as he had been turn'd from flesh to stone;


s: If but looked on; struck dead, if scann'd by thee.


s: Tell that brave man, fain thou would'st have access


s: To kiss his hands, but that for fearfulness;


s: Or else because th'art like a modest bride,


s: Ready to blush to death, should he but chide.


s: When first I find those numbers thou dost write,


s: To be most soft, terse, sweet, and perpolite:


s: Next, when I see thee tow'ring in the sky,


s: In an expansion no less large than high;


s: Then, in that compass, sailing here and there,


s: Following with love and active heat thy game,


s: Between Domitian's Martial then, and thee.


s: Descend from heaven to reconverse with men;


s: If Jove would speak, he would accept of thine.


s: Now thou art dead, no eye shall ever see,


s: For shape and service, spaniel like to thee.


s: This shall my love do, give thy sad death one


s: Let kings and rulers learn this line from me:


s: _Where power is weak, unsafe is majesty_.


s: Three zodiacs filled more, I shall stoop;


s: Then, while thou laugh'st, I'll sighing cry,


s: _Zodiacs_, used as symbols of the astronomical year.


s: Case is a lawyer, that ne'er pleads alone,


s: About their House, their clamorous Aye or No:


s: Then Case, as loud as any serjeant there,


s: Cries out: My lord, my lord, the case is clear.


s: But when all's hush'd, Case, than a fish more mute,


s: Bestirs his hand, but starves in hand the suit.


s: The person crowns the place; your lot doth fall


s: Howe'er it fortuned; know for truth, I meant


s: This stone can tell the story of my life,


s: What was my birth, to whom I was a wife:


s: In teeming years, how soon my sun was set.


s: Where now I rest, these may be known by jet.


s: Wherewith ye dressed the Christmas Hall:


s: He that will live of all cares dispossess'd,


s: Must shun the bad, aye, and suspect the best.


s: Welcome to this my college, and though late


s: Thou'st got a place here (standing candidate)


s: It matters not, since thou art chosen one


s: _Lacon._ Tell, and I'll lay down my pipe.


s: _Tears will spring where woes are deep_.


s: _Lacon._ Mournful maid, farewell to you;


s: Look upon Sappho's lip, and you will swear


s: There is a love-like leaven rising there.


s: _Care keeps the conquest; 'tis no less renown


s: Men must have bounds how far to walk; for we


s: Touch'd everywhere with such diffused grace,


s: Keeps line for line with beauty's parallels.


s: 'Tis still observ'd those men most valiant are,


s: That are most modest ere they come to war.


s: Why should we covet much, whenas we know


s: W'ave more to bear our charge than way to go?


s: _Kings must not use the axe for each offence:


s: Princes cure some faults by their patience._


s: _Despair takes heart, when there's no hope to speed:


s: The coward then takes arms and does the deed._


s: Let's strive to be the best; the gods, we know it,


s: Pillars and men, hate an indifferent poet.


s: I bring ye love: _Quest._ What will love do?


s: Which we, and times to come, shall wonder at.


s: Lift up thy sword; next, suffer it to fall,


s: How well contented in this private grange


s: Spend I my life, that's subject unto change:


s: Under whose roof with moss-work wrought, there I


s: Their cheeks unstained with shamefac'dness:


s: _Thumbless_, lazy: cp. painful thumb, _supra_.


s: This rule of manners I will teach my guests:


s: To come with their own bellies unto feasts;


s: Farced with the food that may themselves suffice.


s: Might stretch the cords of civil comeliness,


s: She with a dainty blush rebuk'd her face,


s: And call'd each line back to his rule and space.


s: Be not dismayed though crosses cast thee down;


s: _Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;


s: Nothing's so hard but search will find it out._


s: On with thy work, though thou be'st hardly press'd:


s: _Labour is held up by the hope of rest_.


s: Where virtue walks, not those that flow._


s: Great faults require great satisfaction._


s: And, noble friend, this answer I must give:


s: Drooping, I draw on to the vaults of death,


s: O'er which you'll walk, when I am laid beneath.


s: Where thrice we knock, and none will hear,


s: Cold comfort still I'm sure lives there.


s: Flushed was his face; his hairs with oil did shine;


s: And, as he spake, his mouth ran o'er with wine.


s: Tippled he was, and tippling lisped withal;


s: And lisping reeled, and reeling like to fall.


s: A young enchantress close by him did stand,


s: Tapping his plump thighs with a myrtle wand:


s: She smil'd; he kiss'd; and kissing, cull'd her too,


s: And being cup-shot, more he could not do.


s: For which, methought, in pretty anger she


s: Snatched off his crown, and gave the wreath to me;


s: Since when, methinks, my brains about do swim,


s: The bound, almost, now of my book I see,


s: Here we begin new life, while thousands quite


s: Are lost, and theirs, in everlasting night.


s: Man may at first transgress, but next do well:


s: _Vice doth in some but lodge a while, not dwell_.


s: Let others to the printing press run fast;


s: Since after death comes glory, I'll not haste.


s: What's got by justice is established sure:


s: _No kingdoms got by rapine long endure_.


s: Whereon so many stately structures stand:


s: To bathe in thee, as thousand others do;


s: In barge with boughs and rushes beautifi'd,


s: With soft-smooth virgins for our chaste disport,


s: Put from, or draw unto the faithful shore:


s: And landing here, or safely landing there,


s: Or to the golden Cheapside, where the earth


s: May all clean nymphs and curious water-dames


s: With swan-like state float up and down thy streams:


s: To make them lean and languishing at all.


s: No ruffling winds come hither to disease


s: Keep up your state, ye streams; and as ye spring,


s: Never make sick your banks by surfeiting.


s: Grow young with tides, and though I see ye never,


s: Receive this vow, so fare ye well for ever.


s: Those ends in war the best contentment bring,


s: _Whose peace is made up with a pardoning_.


s: _Great cities seldom rest; if there be none


s: T' invade from far, they'll find worse foes at home._


s: _'Twixt truth and error there's this difference known;


s: _Things are uncertain, and the more we get,


s: _Studies themselves will languish and decay,


s: When either price or praise is ta'en away._


s: Dread not the shackles: on with thine intent;


s: _Good wits get more fame by their punishment_.


s: Where bean's the king of the sport here;


s: Must revel, as queen, in the court here.


s: Be Twelfth-day queen for the night here.


s: A health to the king and the queen here.


s: _Cittern_, a kind of lute; _quill_, the plectrum for striking it.


s: Know when to speak; for many times it brings


s: Danger to give the best advice to kings.


s: Who loves too much, too much the lov'd will hate.


s: _Still take advice; though counsels, when they fly


s: And equal shares exclude all murmurings._


s: Who violates the customs, hurts the health,


s: Not of one man, but all the commonwealth.


s: _Our heat of youth can hardly keep the mean_.


s: Like will to like, each creature loves his kind;


s: Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind.


s: That is my hope, which if that slip, I'm one


s: 'Tis no discomfort in the world to fall,


s: When the great crack not crushes one, but all.


s: Than night now gone, and yet not sprung the day.


s: He who wears blacks, and mourns not for the dead,


s: No grief is grown so desperate, but the ill


s: Stripes, justly given, yerk us with their fall;


s: But causeless whipping smarts the most of all.


s: The primrose sick, and sickly everything;


s: The while my dear Anthea does but droop,


s: But when again she's got her healthful hour,


s: Each bending then will rise a proper flower.


s: Of thrice-boiled worts, or third-day's fish;


s: One that should drop his beads for thee.


s: _Who may do most, does least: the bravest will


s: Show mercy there, where they have power to kill._


s: Who plants an olive, but to eat the oil?


s: _Reward, we know, is the chief end of toil_.


s: This is my comfort when she's most unkind:


s: She can but spoil me of my means, not mind.


s: If, 'mongst these many numbers to be read,


s: Peruse my measures thoroughly, and where


s: Your judgment finds a guilty poem, there


s: The mean pass by, or over, none contemn;


s: The good applaud; the peccant less condemn,


s: Stand forth, brave man, here to the public sight;


s: And in my book now claim a twofold right:


s: The first as doctor, and the last as knight.


s: _That prince must govern with a gentle hand


s: Who will have love comply with his command._


s: _Her._ My dearest love, since thou wilt go,


s: _Ama._ In country meadows pearl'd with dew,


s: There, filling maunds with cowslips, you


s: _Her._ What have the meads to do with thee,


s: _Her._ Believe it, dearest, there's not one


s: When to thy porch I come and ravish'd see


s: The state of poets there attending thee,


s: Those bards and I, all in a chorus sing:


s: We are thy prophets, Porter, thou our king.


s: When times are troubled, then forbear; but speak


s: When a clear day out of a cloud does break.


s: The power of princes rests in the consent


s: Which if away, proud sceptres then will lie


s: Low, and of thrones the ancient majesty.


s: Who hath himself obeyed the sovereignty._


s: Trap of a player turn'd a priest now is:


s: If tithe-pigs fail, then will he shift the scene,


s: And from a priest turn player once again.


s: Or whether those, in orders rare, or these


s: Or whether fairies, syrens, nymphs they were,


s: Or muses on their mountain sitting there;


s: This I am sure: I ravished stood, as one


s: Methought I saw them stir, and gently move,


s: And in their motion smelt much like to flowers


s: Inspir'd by th' sunbeams after dews and showers.


s: There did I see the reverend rectress stand,


s: Who with her eye's gleam, or a glance of hand,


s: Those spirits raised; and with like precepts then,


s: Or fear of it, but love keeps all in awe._


s: Live you, great mistress of your arts, and be


s: As those your ladies may in time be seen,


s: For grace and carriage, everyone a queen.


s: One birth their parents gave them; but their new,


s: And better being, they receive from you.


s: _Man's former birth is graceless; but the state


s: Of life comes in, when he's regenerate._


s: Thou say'st I'm dull; if edgeless so I be,


s: I'll whet my lips, and sharpen love on thee.


s: That love 'twixt men does ever longest last


s: Where war and peace the dice by turns do cast.


s: Love's of itself too sweet; the best of all


s: Is, when love's honey has a dash of gall.


s: When Chub brings in his harvest, still he cries,


s: "Aha, my boys! here's meat for Christmas pies!"


s: Soon after he for beer so scores his wheat,


s: That at the tide he has not bread to eat.


s: Where pleasures rule a kingdom, never there


s: Is sober virtue seen to move her sphere.


s: Twice five-and-twenty, bate me but one year;


s: Long I have lasted in this world, 'tis true,


s: But yet those years that I have lived, but few.


s: Who by his grey hairs doth his lusters tell,


s: Lives not those years, but he that lives them well.


s: One man has reach'd his sixty years, but he


s: Of all those threescore, has not liv'd half three.


s: _He lives, who lives to virtue; men who cast


s: Their ends for pleasure, do not live, but last._


s: Read thou my lines, my Swetnaham; if there be


s: A fault, 'tis hid if it be voic'd by thee.


s: Thy mouth will make the sourest numbers please:


s: How will it drop pure honey speaking these!


s: Then weep not, sweet; but thus much know,


s: Nor think that thou in this my book art worst,


s: Because not plac'd here with the midst, or first.


s: Since fame that sides with these, or goes before


s: Those, that must live with thee for evermore;


s: That fame, and fame's rear'd pillar, thou shalt see


s: In the next sheet, brave man, to follow thee.


s: Fix on that column then, and never fall,


s: I have been wanton and too bold, I fear,


s: To chafe o'ermuch the virgin's cheek or ear.


s: Grace with the gods who's sorry for his sin_.


s: That done, my Julia, dearest Julia, come


s: And go with me to choose my burial room:


s: My fates are ended; when thy Herrick dies,


s: Clasp thou his book, then close thou up his eyes.


s: _Kings must be dauntless; subjects will contemn


s: Those who want hearts and wear a diadem._


s: What others have with cheapness seen and ease


s: In varnish'd maps, by th' help of compasses,


s: Or read in volumes and those books with all


s: Thou hast beheld those seas and countries far,


s: And tell'st to us what once they were, and are.


s: So that with bold truth thou can'st now relate


s: This kingdom's fortune, and that empire's fate:


s: Can'st talk to us of Sharon, where a spring


s: Is, and hast seen, thy Saviour's sepulchre.


s: So that the man that will but lay his ears


s: Shall by his hearing quickly come to see


s: The truth of travels less in books than thee.


s: Rare is the voice itself: but when we sing


s: To th' lute or viol, then 'tis ravishing.


s: If kings and kingdoms once distracted be,


s: The sword of war must try the sovereignty


s: _That prince who may do nothing but what's just,


s: Rules but by leave, and takes his crown on trust._


s: All are not ill plots that do sometimes fail;


s: Nor those false vows which ofttimes don't prevail.


s: What is't that wastes a prince? example shows,


s: 'Tis flattery spends a king, more than his foes.


s: The body's salt the soul is; which when gone,


s: Against diseases here the strongest fence


s: When fear admits no hope of safety, then


s: Although our suffering meet with no relief,


s: _An equal mind is the best sauce for grief_.


s: Thou kill'st with heat, and I strike dead with cold.


s: Let's try of us who shall the first expire;


s: Or thou by frost, or I by quenchless fire:


s: _Extremes are fatal where they once do strike,


s: And bring to th' heart destruction both alike_.


s: _'Tis wisdom's part to doubt a faithful friend_.


s: I'll write no more of love; but now repent


s: Of all those times that I in it have spent.


s: I'll write no more of life; but wish 'twas ended,


s: And that my dust was to the earth commended.


s: Part of the work remains; one part is past:


s: And here my ship rides, having anchor cast.


s: My wearied bark, O let it now be crown'd!


s: The haven reach'd to which I first was bound.


s: The work is done: young men and maidens, set


s: Washed with sweet ointments: thus at last I come


s: But with this comfort, if my blood be shed,


s: The Muses will wear blacks when I am dead.


s: To his book's end this last line he'd have placed:


s: _Jocund his muse was, but his life was chaste_.


s: Ἴδμεν ψεύδεα πολλὰ λέγειν ἐτύμοισιν ὁμοῖα.


s: Ἴδμεν δ', εὖτ' ἐθέλωμεν, ἀληθέα μυθήσασθαι.


s: Look how our foul days do exceed our fair;


s: And as our bad, more than our good works are,


s: E'en so those lines, pen'd by my wanton wit,


s: Treble the number of these good I've writ.


s: Things precious are least numerous: men are prone


s: But if, 'mongst all, thou find'st here one


s: Tell me the motes, dust, sands, and spears


s: And is the best known, not defining Him.


s: God hath two wings which He doth ever move;


s: And with the last He still directs the just.


s: And when we think His looks are sour and grim,


s: 'Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend


s: Prayers and praises are those spotless two


s: Lambs, by the law, which God requires as due.


s: God ne'er afflicts us more than our desert,


s: Sometimes He strikes us more than flesh can bear;


s: But yet still less than grace can suffer here.


s: First, fear and shame without, then guilt within.


s: Suffer thy legs, but not thy tongue to walk:


s: God, the Most Wise, is sparing of His talk.


s: True mirth resides not in the smiling skin:


s: God loads and unloads, thus His work begins,


s: To load with blessings and unload from sins.


s: God's boundless mercy is, to sinful man,


s: Which though it sends forth thousand streams, 'tis ne'er


s: And though it takes all in, 'tis yet no more


s: Full, and fill'd full, than when full fill'd before.


s: God, He rejects all prayers that are slight


s: And want their poise: words ought to have their weight.


s: _Ver. Chor._ I come to Thee, in hope to find


s: _Verse._ In Gilead though no balm be found


s: _Ver. Chor._ Yet, Lord, I know there is with Thee


s: _Verse._ Then reach Thou forth that hand of Thine,


s: _Ver. Chor._ And let it work, for I'll endure


s: Men to repent, but when He strikes withal.


s: God scourgeth some severely, some He spares;


s: But all in smart have less or greater shares.


s: God's rod doth watch while men do sleep, and then


s: The rod doth sleep, while vigilant are men.


s: God, when for sin He makes His children smart,


s: His own He acts not, but another's part;


s: But when by stripes He saves them, then 'tis known


s: He comes to play the part that is His own.


s: Bettering them both, but by a double strain,


s: The first by patience, and the last by pain.


s: Do with me, God, as Thou didst deal with John,


s: Let me, like him, first cracks of thunder hear,


s: Then let the harps enchantments stroke mine ear:


s: Here give me thorns, there, in Thy kingdom, set


s: There give me day; but here my dreadful night:


s: My sackcloth here; but there my stole of white.


s: God has His whips here to a twofold end:


s: The bad to punish, and the good t' amend.


s: If all transgressions here should have their pay,


s: What need there then be of a reckoning day?


s: If God should punish no sin here of men,


s: His providence who would not question then?


s: God hears us when we pray, but yet defers


s: And though a while He makes requesters stay,


s: With princely hand He'll recompense delay.


s: God strikes His Church, but 'tis to this intent,


s: To make, not mar her, by this punishment;


s: So where He gives the bitter pills, be sure


s: 'Tis not to poison, but to make thee pure.


s: God pardons those who do through frailty sin,


s: The calf without meal ne'er was offered;


s: Without the heart lip-labour nothing is.


s: In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part,


s: Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.


s: But for to teach us, all the grace is there,


s: Then is the horror of the trespass seen.


s: If war or want shall make me grow so poor,


s: As for to beg my bread from door to door;


s: Lord! let me never act that beggar's part,


s: Who hath Thee in his mouth, not in his heart:


s: He who asks alms in that so sacred Name,


s: Without due reverence, plays the cheater's game.


s: Thou stop'dst St. Peter in the midst of sin;


s: A sin, than fall to weeping when 'tis done.


s: Adverse and prosperous fortunes both work on


s: Here, for the righteous man's salvation;


s: All serve to th' augmentation of his good.


s: Afflictions bring us joy in times to come,


s: When sins, by stripes, to us grow wearisome.


s: I'll come, I'll creep, though Thou dost threat,


s: 'Tis Thou that crown'st my glittering hearth


s: Can I not come to Thee, my God, for these


s: That slack my pace, but yet not make me stay?


s: Who slowly goes, rids, in the end, his way.


s: Clear Thou my paths, or shorten Thou my miles,


s: Remove the bars, or lift me o'er the stiles;


s: Since rough the way is, help me when I call,


s: And take me up; or else prevent the fall.


s: No, no, my God, Thou know'st my wishes be


s: To leave this life, not loving it, but Thee.


s: Thou bid'st me come; I cannot come; for why?


s: Thou dwell'st aloft, and I want wings to fly.


s: To mount my soul, she must have pinions given;


s: For 'tis no easy way from earth to heaven.


s: God will have all, or none; serve Him, or fall


s: Either be hot or cold: God doth despise,


s: Whatever comes, let's be content withal:


s: Among God's blessings there is no one small.


s: My book, 'tis this: that Thou, my God, art in't.


s: How am I bound to Two! God, who doth give


s: The mind; the king, the means whereby I live.


s: Where God is merry, there write down thy fears:


s: What He with laughter speaks, hear thou with tears.


s: With bread, and wine, and vessels furnished;


s: Are ready by, to make the guests all pure:


s: Who to that sweet bread unprepar'd doth come,


s: Better be starv'd, than but to taste one crumb.


s: Fine flour press'd down, and running o'er.


s: Of sin, we must strive 'gainst the stream of it;


s: And howsoe'er we have the conquest miss'd,


s: Christ, He requires still, wheresoe'er He comes


s: To feed or lodge, to have the best of rooms:


s: Give Him the choice; grant Him the nobler part


s: Of all the house: the best of all's the heart.


s: God could have made all rich, or all men poor;


s: But why He did not, let me tell wherefore:


s: Had all been rich, where then had patience been?


s: Had all been poor, who had His bounty seen?


s: To seek of God more than we well can find,


s: Give, if thou canst, an alms; if not, afford,


s: Instead of that, a sweet and gentle word:


s: _God crowns our goodness wheresoe'er He sees,


s: Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please


s: _Protonotary_, once the title of the chief clerk in the Courts of


s: Lord, I confess, that Thou alone art able


s: Be the seas water, and the land all soap,


s: Yet if Thy blood not wash me, there's no hope.


s: God is all sufferance here; here He doth show


s: His arrows fly, and all His stones are hurl'd


s: I dreamt, last night, Thou didst transfuse


s: Night hath no wings to him that cannot sleep,


s: And time seems then not for to fly, but creep;


s: Slowly her chariot drives, as if that she


s: Had broke her wheel, or crack'd her axletree.


s: Just so it is with me, who, list'ning, pray


s: The winds to blow the tedious night away,


s: That I might see the cheerful, peeping day.


s: Sick is my heart! O Saviour! do Thou please


s: Sleep not for ever in the vaults of death;


s: Let me Thy voice betimes i' th' morning hear:


s: Call, and I'll come; say Thou the when, and where.


s: Draw me but first, and after Thee I'll run


s: And make no one stop till my race be done.


s: Christ I shall see, with these same eyes:


s: Heaven, by Christ's mercies, not my merit.


s: Temptations hurt not, though they have access:


s: Satan o'ercomes none, but by willingness.


s: When a man's faith is frozen up, as dead;


s: Sorrows our portion are: ere hence we go,


s: Crosses we must have; or, hereafter woe.


s: A man's transgressions God does then remit,


s: And fresh thy hearse-cloth, we will, here,


s: Receive, for this thy praise, our tears:


s: 'Tis we are dead, though not i' th' grave:


s: May sweets grow here: and smoke from hence


s: No boisterous winds, or storms, come hither


s: Thy soft sweet earth! but, like a spring,


s: Come forth to strew thy tomb with flow'rs:


s: _Male-incense_, incense in globular drops.


s: To spring; though now a wither'd flower.


s: _Shame checks our first attempts_; but then 'tis prov'd


s: _Sins first dislik'd are after that belov'd_.


s: Sin leads the way, but as it goes, it feels


s: The following plague still treading on his heels.


s: God, when He takes my goods and chattels hence,


s: He patience gives, He gives Himself to me.


s: What here we hope for, we shall once inherit;


s: By faith we all walk here, not by the Spirit.


s: High is the roof there; but the gate is low:


s: Whene'er thou speak'st, look with a lowly eye:


s: Our present tears here, not our present laughter,


s: Are but the handsels of our joys hereafter.


s: After true sorrow for our sins, our strife


s: Must last with Satan to the end of life.


s: Honour thy parents; but good manners call


s: _Chor._ What sweeter music can we bring,


s: _Chor._ We see Him come, and know Him ours,


s: Turns all the patient ground to flowers.


s: _Chor._ Which we will give Him; and bequeath


s: _The musical part was composed by M. Henry Lawes._


s: But 'cense the porch and place throughout.


s: To make things sweet. _Chor._ Yet all less sweet than He.


s: And hear'st His whimpering and His cries;


s: The birth is fruitless. _Chor._ Then the work God speed.


s: May roses grow to crown His own dear head.


s: _Chor._ Back, back again; each thing is done


s: To her warm bosom, then our rites are ended.


s: _Chor._ But let no Christmas mirth begin


s: Your hearts, and hands, lips, ears, and eyes.


s: _Chor._ The room is 'cens'd: help, help t' invoke


s: Bring'st, in Thy blood, a balm that shall


s: _Chor._ Long may He live till He hath told


s: A new-born Phœnix from His own chaste fire.


s: When I shall sin, pardon my trespass here;


s: For once in hell, none knows remission there.


s: Sin once reached up to God's eternal sphere,


s: Is that which gives to sin a livelihood.


s: _The Flourish of Music; then followed the Song._


s: Sleeps, laid within some ark of flowers,


s: Spangled with dew-light; thou canst clear


s: _Chor._ He's seen, He's seen! why then a round,


s: _Chor._ And when night comes, we'll give Him wassailing;


s: And that His treble honours may be seen,


s: We'll choose Him King, and make His mother Queen.


s: With golden censers, and with incense, here


s: To pay Thee that I owe, since what I see


s: In, or without, all, all belongs to Thee.


s: Where shall I now begin to make, for one


s: I'll kiss the tally, and confess the score.


s: Ten thousand talents lent me, Thou dost write;


s: 'Tis true, my God, but I can't pay one mite.


s: _Tally_, the record of his score or debt.


s: And if they do, they prove but cumbersome.


s: With that small stock Thy bounty gave or lent.


s: Gold I have none, but I present my need,


s: O Thou, that crown'st the will, where wants the deed.


s: Where rams are wanting, or large bullocks' thighs,


s: There a poor lamb's a plenteous sacrifice.


s: Take then his vows, who, if he had it, would


s: Devote to Thee both incense, myrrh and gold


s: Upon an altar rear'd by him, and crown'd


s: God makes not good men wantons, but doth bring


s: Them to the field, and, there, to skirmishing.


s: With trials those, with terrors these He proves,


s: And hazards those most whom the most He loves;


s: For Sceva, darts; for Cocles, dangers; thus


s: Death for stout Cato; and besides all these,


s: Torments for high Attilius; and, with want,


s: He never brings them once to th' push of pikes.


s: Play their offensive and defensive parts,


s: Till they be hid o'er with a wood of darts.


s: When man is punish'd, he is plagued still,


s: Not for the fault of nature, but of will.


s: All I have lost that could be rapt from me;


s: And fare it well: yet, Herrick, if so be


s: Thy dearest Saviour renders thee but one


s: Smile, that one smile's full restitution.


s: Pardon me, God, once more I Thee entreat,


s: That I have placed Thee in so mean a seat


s: Where round about Thou seest but all things vain,


s: Looks on the filth, but is not soil'd thereby,


s: So Thou, my God, may'st on this impure look,


s: But take no tincture from my sinful book:


s: And that will make me and my work divine.


s: I would to God that mine old age might have


s: Before my last, but here a living grave,


s: Some one poor almshouse; there to lie, or stir


s: Which rightly used, both in their time and place,


s: Might me excite to fore and after-grace.


s: Thy Cross, my Christ, fix'd 'fore mine eyes should be,


s: So, here the remnant of my days I'd spend,


s: When we 'gainst Satan stoutly fight, the more


s: He tears and tugs us than he did before;


s: Neglecting once to cast a frown on those


s: Whom ease makes his without the help of blows.


s: Where no one beam of comfort peeps in it.


s: The less our sorrows here and suff'rings cease,


s: The more our crowns of glory there increase.


s: Hell is the place where whipping-cheer abounds,


s: But no one jailer there to wash the wounds.


s: Clean washed, and laid out for the bier,


s: _Chor._ All's gone, and death hath taken


s: From whence the housewives' cloth did come:


s: Of those that prank it with their plumes,


s: Thy hands, though cold, yet spotless white,


s: These were thy acts, and thou shall have


s: _Maundy_, the alms given on Thursday in Holy Week.


s: _Calamus_, a fragrant plant, the sweet flag.


s: Let not that day God's friends and servants scare;


s: The bench is then their place, and not the bar.


s: Bleeding, that no blood touch the ground:


s: God's grace deserves here to be daily fed


s: That, thus increased, it might be perfected.


s: God had but one Son free from sin; but none


s: God, as He's potent, so He's likewise known


s: Christ, I have read, did to His chaplains say,


s: Sending them forth, Salute no man by th' way:


s: But to instruct them to avoid all snares


s: Manners are good; but till His errand ends,


s: Salute we must nor strangers, kin, or friends.


s: God from our eyes all tears hereafter wipes,


s: And gives His children kisses then, not stripes.


s: In vain our labours are whatsoe'er they be,


s: God is His name of nature; but that word


s: Implies His power when He's called the Lord.


s: God hides from man the reck'ning day, that he


s: Angels are called gods; yet of them, none


s: That manna, which God on His people cast,


s: True rev'rence is, as Cassiodore doth prove,


s: The fear of God commix'd with cleanly love.


s: God tempteth no one, as St. Austin saith,


s: For any ill, but for the proof of faith;


s: God's hands are round and smooth, that gifts may fall


s: Freely from them and hold none back at all.


s: The time the bridegroom stays from hence


s: Forced from the mighty dolour of the heart.


s: _He that is hurt seeks help_: sin is the wound;


s: The salve for this i' th' Eucharist is found.


s: To punish great sins, who small faults whipt here.


s: The mountains of the Scriptures are, some say,


s: The prophets, mountains of the Old are meant,


s: Th' apostles, mounts of the New Testament.


s: Great things ask for when thou dost pray,


s: But earth: _such vows ne'er reach God's ear_.


s: Christ was not sad, i' th' garden, for His own


s: Passion, but for His sheep's dispersion.


s: God, who's in heaven, will hear from thence;


s: God, as the learned Damascene doth write,


s: _The learned Damascene_, _i.e._, St. John of Damascus.


s: In clouds descending to the public doom.


s: The same who crowns the conqueror, will be


s: In God there's nothing, but 'tis known to be


s: God can do all things, save but what are known


s: Christ, when He hung the dreadful cross upon,


s: In this regard, in those great terrors He


s: Had no one beam from God's sweet majesty.


s: God then confounds man's face when He not bears


s: Though ne'er so rich, all beggars at His gate.


s: The bad among the good are here mix'd ever;


s: The good without the bad are here plac'd never.


s: Or good at all_, as learned Aquinas saith.


s: God on our youth bestows but little ease;


s: Draw out of bad a sovereign good to man.


s: Paradise is, as from the learn'd I gather,


s: _A choir of bless'd souls circling in the Father_.


s: To make them thereby mindful of their own


s: The Virgin Mother stood at distance, there,


s: From her Son's cross, not shedding once a tear,


s: Tortured her love not to transgress the law.


s: Sat by the grave; and sadly sitting there,


s: Shed for their Master many a bitter tear;


s: But 'twas not till their dearest Lord was dead


s: And then to weep they both were licensed.


s: Those tapers which we set upon the grave


s: In fun'ral pomp, but this importance have:


s: That souls departed are not put out quite;


s: But as they walked here in their vestures white,


s: One birth our Saviour had; the like none yet


s: To work a wonder, God would have her shown


s: At once a bud and yet a rose full-blown.


s: As sunbeams pierce the glass, and streaming in,


s: No crack or schism leave i' th' subtle skin:


s: So the Divine Hand worked and brake no thread,


s: God's said to leave this place, and for to come


s: Nearer to that place than to other some,


s: God is Jehovah call'd: which name of His


s: 'Tis, as St. Bernard saith, but seemingly.


s: God's said to dwell there, wheresoever He


s: Puts down some prints of His high Majesty;


s: As when to man He comes, and there doth place


s: His Holy Spirit, or doth plant His Grace.


s: Into the which He entered, but, the door


s: And though the Father be the first of Three,


s: So long, it seem'd, as Mary's faith was small,


s: Christ did her woman, not her Mary call;


s: But no more woman, being strong in faith,


s: But Mary call'd then, as St. Ambrose saith.


s: Placed north and south for these clean purposes;


s: That man's uncomely froth might not molest


s: God's ways and walks, which lie still east and west.


s: Sabbaths are threefold, as St. Austin says:


s: The first of time, or Sabbath here of days;


s: The second is a conscience trespass-free;


s: But hath th' extraction of some good from it:


s: As when we sin, God, the great Chemist, thence


s: Not by His essence, but commerce of grace.


s: God hath this world for many made, 'tis true:


s: But He hath made the World to Come for few.


s: These temporal goods God, the most wise, commends


s: To th' good and bad in common for two ends:


s: First, that these goods none here may o'er-esteem


s: Next, that these ills none cowardly may shun,


s: Being, oft here, the just man's portion.


s: The fire of hell this strange condition hath,


s: To burn, not shine, as learned Basil saith.


s: With God, than one that never sinned 'gainst Him.


s: God's present everywhere, but most of all


s: God, He is there, where's nothing else, schools say,


s: And nothing else is there where He's away.


s: For each one body that i' th' earth is sown,


s: But for each grain that in the ground is thrown,


s: Threescore or fourscore spring up thence for one:


s: Justly our dearest Saviour may abhor us,


s: Who hath more suffered by us far, than for us.


s: Either as when, the learned schoolmen say,


s: Men's sins destroyed are when they repent,


s: Or when, for sins, men suffer punishment.


s: God doth embrace the good with love; and gains


s: God bought man here with His heart's blood expense;


s: And man sold God here for base thirty pence.


s: Christ never did so great a work but there


s: Or ne'er so mean a piece but men might see


s: Art thou not destin'd? then with haste go on


s: If thou can'st change thy life, God then will please


s: To change, or call back, His past sentences.


s: Along with it some tempting blandishment.


s: Say 'tis not free, 'tis then no sin at all.


s: Sin is the cause of death; and sin's alone


s: And from God's prescience of man's sin doth flow


s: God's prescience makes none sinful; but th' offence


s: Of man's the chief cause of God's prescience.


s: To all our wounds here, whatsoe'er they be,


s: Christ took our nature on Him, not that He


s: 'Bove all things loved it for the purity:


s: No, but He dress'd Him with our human trim,


s: Because our flesh stood most in need of Him.


s: Heaven is not given for our good works here;


s: God has four keys, which He reserves alone:


s: The first of rain; the key of hell next known;


s: With the third key He opes and shuts the womb;


s: And with the fourth key he unlocks the tomb.


s: Give unto all, lest he, whom thou deni'st,


s: May chance to be no other man but Christ.


s: One only fire has hell; but yet it shall


s: Not after one sort there excruciate all:


s: But look, how each transgressor onward went


s: Boldly in sin, shall feel more punishment.


s: By hours we all live here; in Heaven is known


s: No spring of time, or time's succession.


s: Be those few hours, which I have yet to spend,


s: Though they be few in number, I'm content:


s: Nor makes it matter Nestor's years to tell,


s: If man lives long and if he live not well.


s: Might I make choice, long life should be withstood;


s: Nor would I care how short it were, if good:


s: Possess my thoughts, "Next comes my doleful knell":


s: And when the night persuades me to my bed,


s: So shall the blankets which come over me


s: Present those turfs which once must cover me:


s: The sheet I sleep in as my winding-sheet.


s: When sleep shall bathe his body in mine eyes,


s: And if I chance to wake and rise thereon,


s: Which must produce me to that General Doom,


s: To which the peasant, so the prince, must come,


s: To hear the Judge give sentence on the throne,


s: Tears, at that day, shall make but weak defence,


s: When hell and horror fright the conscience.


s: Let me, though late, yet at the last, begin


s: Man to th' alluring object gives his will.


s: Such let my life assure me, when my breath


s: Goes thieving from me, I am safe in death;


s: Which is the height of comfort: when I fall,


s: Shall fray that silk or fret this cloth.


s: In doing justice God shall then be known,


s: Who showing mercy here, few prized, or none.


s: More stripes than God lays on the sufferer.


s: God suffers not His saints and servants dear


s: To have continual pain or pleasure here;


s: But look how night succeeds the day, so He


s: Gives them by turns their grief and jollity.


s: God has a right hand, but is quite bereft


s: That if the twig should chance too much to smart,


s: The staff might come to play the friendly part.


s: God still rewards us more than our desert;


s: But when He strikes, He quarter-acts His part.


s: The first of sin is, and the next of praise.


s: If ill it goes with thee, thy faults confess:


s: If well, then chant God's praise with cheerfulness.


s: God is then said for to descend, when He


s: Doth here on earth some thing of novity;


s: And though all joys spring from the glance


s: But that He rose, that's Christians' faith.


s: We are co-heirs with Christ; nor shall His own


s: The number here of heirs shall from the state


s: Of His great birthright nothing derogate.


s: And when He bless'd each sev'ral day whereon


s: 'Tis never read there, as the fathers say,


s: God bless'd His work done on the second day;


s: Wherefore two prayers ought not to be said,


s: Or by ourselves, or from the pulpit read.


s: God doth not promise here to man that He


s: But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,


s: That I shall ne'er that trespass recommit


s: When I have done true penance here for it.


s: When well we speak and nothing do that's good,


s: We not divide the hoof, but chew the cud;


s: But when good words by good works have their proof,


s: We then both chew the cud and cleave the hoof.


s: _Calenture_, delirium caused by excessive heat.


s: _Level-coil_, the old Christmas game of changing chairs; to "keep


s: God can't be wrathful: but we may conclude


s: God's wrathful said to be, when He doth do


s: That without wrath which wrath doth force us to.


s: In God's commands ne'er ask the reason why;


s: If I have played the truant, or have here


s: Failed in my part, oh! Thou that art my dear,


s: I know that faults will many here be found,


s: But where sin swells there let Thy grace abound.


s: That done, with honour Thou dost me create


s: Thine hour is come, and the tormentor stands


s: Ready to pierce Thy tender feet and hands.


s: Long before this, the base, the dull, the rude,


s: Yawn for Thy coming; some ere this time cry,


s: Amongst this scum, the soldier with his spear


s: His sponge, and stick, do ask why Thou dost stay;


s: So do the scurf and bran too. Go Thy way,


s: Thy way, Thou guiltless man, and satisfy


s: By Thine approach each their beholding eye.


s: Not as a thief shalt Thou ascend the mount,


s: The Cross shall be Thy stage, and Thou shalt there


s: The spacious field have for Thy theatre.


s: Thou art that Roscius and that marked-out man


s: Whom all the flux of nations comes to see,


s: Not those poor thieves that act their parts with Thee;


s: Those act without regard, when once a king


s: And God, as Thou art, comes to suffering.


s: No, no; this scene from Thee takes life, and sense,


s: And soul, and spirit, plot and excellence.


s: Why then, begin, great King! ascend Thy throne,


s: To such an height, to such a period raised,


s: As hell, and earth, and heav'n may stand amazed.


s: God and good angels guide Thee; and so bless


s: Thee in Thy several parts of bitterness,


s: That those who see Thee nail'd unto the tree


s: May, though they scorn Thee, praise and pity Thee.


s: And we, Thy lovers, while we see Thee keep


s: The laws of action, will both sigh and weep,


s: And bring our spices to embalm Thee dead;


s: That done, we'll see Thee sweetly buried.


s: When Thou wast taken, Lord, I oft have read,


s: All Thy disciples Thee forsook and fled.


s: The cross, the cords, the nails, the spear,


s: Drunk up the wine of God's fierce wrath;


s: Pierced through and dropping blood for me,


s: _Vers._ But yet it wounds my soul to think


s: _Chor._ Lord, I'll not see Thee to drink all


s: _Vers. Chor._ But I will sip a little wine;


s: Which done, Lord, say: The rest is Mine.


s: Here all things ready are, make haste, make haste away;


s: For long this  work will be,  and very short  this day.


s: Why then,  go on to  act:  here's  wonders to be  done


s: Before the last  least sand of  Thy ninth  hour be run;


s: Or ere dark  clouds do dull  or dead the mid-day's sun.


s: _Panchaia_, a fabulous spice island in the Erythrean Sea.


s: Hence they have borne my Lord; behold! the stone


s: Is rolled away and my sweet Saviour's gone.


s: Tell me, white angel, what is now become


s: Of Him we lately sealed up in this tomb?


s: Is He, from hence, gone to the shades beneath,


s: To vanquish hell as here He conquered death?


s: If so, I'll thither follow without fear,


s: And live in hell if that my Christ stays there.


s: Of all the good things whatsoe'er we do,


s: Whose head, befringed with bescattered tresses,


s: Shows like Apollo's when the morn he dresses,[B]


s: Her long, dishevell'd, rose-crown'd trammelets:


s: Her forehead smooth, full, polish'd, bright and high


s: Under the which two crawling eyebrows twine


s: Like to the tendrils of a flatt'ring vine,


s: Under whose shade two starry sparkling eyes


s: Are beautifi'd with fair fring'd canopies.


s: Like purest white, stands in the middle place,


s: Parting the pair, as we may well suppose.


s: Each cheek resembling still a damask rose,


s: Which sweetly mixed both with white and red,


s: Like rose leaves, white and red, seem[C] mingled.


s: Two smelling, swelling, bashful cherrylets,


s: The which with ruby redness being tipp'd,


s: Do speak a virgin, merry, cherry-lipp'd.


s: Over the which a neat, sweet skin is drawn,


s: Which makes them show like roses under lawn:


s: Which ope themselves to show a holy shrine


s: Whose breath is rich perfume, that to the sense


s: Smells like the burn'd Sabean frankincense:


s: In which the tongue, though but a member small,


s: And her white teeth, which in the gums are set


s: Like pearl and gold, make one rich cabinet.


s: Next doth her chin with dimpled beauty strive


s: For his white, plump, and smooth prerogative;


s: At whose fair top, to please the sight, there grows


s: The fairest[D] image of a blushing rose,


s: Mov'd by the chin, whose motion causeth this,


s: That both her lips do part, do meet, do kiss;


s: Her ears, which like two labyrinths are plac'd


s: The gem is grac'd, or they grac'd by the gem.


s: Is the swan-staining, fair, rare, stately neck


s: Which with ambitious humbleness stands under,


s: Bearing aloft this rich, round world of wonder.


s: Her breast, a place for beauty's throne most fit,


s: Bears up two globes where love and pleasure sit,


s: Which, headed with two rich, round rubies, show


s: Like wanton rosebuds growing out of snow;


s: Sits Cupid, kissing of his mother queen,


s: Fingering the paps that feel like sieved silk,


s: And press'd a little they will weep pure milk.


s: Then comes the belly, seated next below,


s: Where Nature, in a whiteness without spot,


s: Now love invites me to survey her thighs,


s: Swelling in likeness like two crystal skies,


s: Which to the knees by Nature fastened on,


s: Her legs with two clear calves, like silver tri'd,


s: Kindly swell up with little pretty pride,


s: Leaving a distance for the comely[E] small


s: Then lowly, yet most lovely stand the feet,


s: Round, short and clear, like pounded spices sweet,


s: They make it scent like bruised cinnamon.


s: From which two arms like branches seem to spread


s: With tender rind[F] and silver coloured,


s: With little hands and fingers long and small


s: In length each finger doth his next excel,


s: (Those which must grow to virtuous deeds),


s: There must be plac'd, for seasoned fears


s: With which love chafes and warms the soul,


s: And have their harvest, which must stand


s: That smooth as oil, sweet, soft and clean


s: Hatched o'er with moonshine from their stolen delight


s: (When this to that, and that to this, had given


s: Or while that each from other's breath did drink


s: Health to the rose, the violet, or pink),


s: Call'd on the sudden by the jealous mother,


s: Some stricter mistress or suspicious other,


s: Urging divorcement (worse than death to these)


s: By the soon jingling of some sleepy keys,


s: Part with a hasty kiss; and in that show


s: How stay they would, yet forced they are to go.


s: Natures like ours, we who have spent our time


s: Both from the morning to the evening chime.


s: Nay, till the bellman of the night had tolled


s: Past noon of night, yet wear the hours not old


s: Nor dulled with iron sleep, but have outworn


s: The fresh and fairest nourish of the morn


s: With flame and rapture; drinking to the odd


s: Number of nine which makes us full with God,


s: And in that mystic frenzy we have hurled,


s: As with a tempest, nature through the world,


s: And in a whirlwind twirl'd her home, aghast


s: Thus crowned with rosebuds, sack, thou mad'st me fly


s: Like fire-drakes, yet didst me no harm thereby.


s: White fame and resurrection to the good;


s: Shoring them up 'bove ruin till the doom,


s: The general April of the world doth come


s: That makes all equal. Many thousands should,


s: Were't not for thee, have crumbled into mould,


s: And with their serecloths rotted, not to show


s: Whether the world such spirits had or no,


s: Whereas by thee those and a million since,


s: Nor fate, nor envy, can their fames convince.


s: Held their eternal fires, and ours of late


s: (Thy mercy helping) shall resist strong fate,


s: Nor stoop to the centre, but survive as long


s: As fame or rumour hath or trump or tongue;


s: (Heaven and my soul bear record of my vow)


s: I my desires screw from thee, and direct


s: Them and my thoughts to that sublim'd respect


s: And conscience unto priesthood; 'tis not need


s: (The scarecrow unto mankind) that doth breed


s: I've more to bear my charge than way to go,


s: Or had I not, I'd stop the spreading itch


s: And shapes my function for more glorious ends.


s: Kiss, so depart, yet stay a while to see


s: The lines of sorrow that lie drawn in me


s: In speech, in picture; no otherwise than when,


s: Judgment and death denounced 'gainst guilty men,


s: Each takes a weeping farewell, racked in mind


s: With joys before and pleasures left behind;


s: Shaking the head, whilst each to each doth mourn,


s: With thought they go whence they must ne'er return.


s: So with like looks, as once the ministrel


s: Cast, leading his Eurydice through hell,


s: Thee with mine eyes or in or out of view.


s: Throwing his eyeballs backward to survey


s: So Tully looked when from the breasts of Rome


s: The sad soul went, not with his love, but doom,


s: Shooting his eyedarts 'gainst it to surprise


s: Such is my parting with thee, and to prove


s: But substance, lo! receive this pearly tear


s: Frozen with grief and place it in thine ear.


s: Then part in name of peace, and softly on


s: Amongst the thrice three sacred virgins, fill


s: A full-brimm'd bowl of fury and of rage,


s: And quaff it to the prophets of our age;


s: When drunk with rapture curse the blind and lame,


s: And foul thy altar; charm some into frogs,


s: Into the loathsom'st shapes thou canst devise


s: To make fools hate them, only by disguise;


s: Thus with a kiss of warmth and love I part


s: Shall stand for ever, though I do address


s: Know yet, rare soul, when my diviner muse


s: Shall want a handmaid (as she oft will use),


s: Be ready, thou for me, to wait upon her,


s: Though as a servant, yet a maid of honour.


s: Doing's the fruit of doing well. Farewell.


s: 'Twas brave, 'twas brave, could we command the hand


s: Keep up those flames, and though you shroud


s: Languish and look, but thy return see never.


s: 'Tis not my voice but Heaven's that bids thee go;


s: Spring hence thy faith, nor think it ill desert


s: I find in thee that makes me thus to part.


s: But voice of fame, and voice of Heaven have thundered


s: We both were lost, if both of us not sundered.


s: Fold now thine arms, and in thy last look rear


s: One sigh of love, and cool it with a tear.


s: Since part we must, let's kiss; that done, retire


s: With as cold frost as erst we met with fire;


s: With such white vows as fate can ne'er dissever,


s: But truth knit fast; and so, farewell for ever.


s: Apollo sings, his harp resounds: give room,


s: Thy pomp of plays which thousands come to see


s: O volume! worthy, leaf by leaf and cover,


s: To be with juice of cedar wash'd all over;


s: Here words with lines and lines with scenes consent


s: Here melting numbers, words of power to move


s: Young men to swoon and maids to die for love.


s: _Love lies a-bleeding_ here, _Evadne_, there


s: Swells with brave rage, yet comely everywhere;


s: Here's _A mad lover_, there that high design


s: Of _King and no King_, and the rare plot thine.


s: So that whene'er we circumvolve our eyes,


s: Such rich, such fresh, such sweet varieties


s: Ravish our spirits, that entranc'd we see


s: None writes love's passion in the world like thee.


s: _The musical part being set by Mr. Henry Lawes._


s: _Euc._ Charon, O Charon, draw thy boat to th' shore,


s: _Cha._ Who calls? who calls? _Euc._ One overwhelm'd with ruth;


s: But first cast off thy wonted churlishness.


s: _Cha._ I will be gentle as that air which yields


s: A breath of balm along the Elysian fields.


s: Speak, what art thou? _Euc_. One once that had a lover,


s: Than which thyself ne'er wafted sweeter over.


s: He was---- _Cha._ Say what? _Euc._ Ah me, my woes are deep.


s: _Cha._ Prithee relate, while I give ear and weep.


s: _Euc._ He was a Hastings; and that one name has


s: He was my life, my love, my joy, but died


s: Some hours before I should have been his bride.


s: _Chorus._ Thus, thus the gods celestial still decree,


s: _Euc._ The hallowed tapers all prepared were,


s: And Hymen call'd to bless the rites. _Cha._ Stop there.


s: _Euc._ Great are my woes. _Cha._ And great must that grief be


s: That makes grim Charon thus to pity thee.


s: But now come in. _Euc._ More let me yet relate.


s: _Cha._ I cannot stay; more souls for waftage wait


s: And I must hence. _Euc._ Yet let me thus much know,


s: Departing hence, where good and bad souls go?


s: Where, dress'd with garlands, there they walk the ground


s: Whose blessed youth with endless flowers is crown'd.


s: But such as have been drown'd in this wild sea,


s: Where with their own contagion they are fed,


s: This known, the rest of thy sad story tell


s: When on the flood that nine times circles hell.


s: _Chorus._ We sail along to visit mortals never;


s: But there to live where love shall last for ever.


s: These have their fate and wear away as men;


s: Times, titles, trophies may be lost and spent,


s: What more than these can tombs or tombstones pay?


s: These two asleep are: I'll but be undress'd


s: And so to bed: pray wish us all good rest.


s: "So soon as each his dangling locks hath crown'd


s: With Rosie Chaplets, Lilies, Pansies red,


s: Soft Saffron Circles to perfume the head";


s: "Unto the Prince of Shades, whom once his Pen


s: And flatt'ring _joy, we'll have to_ recite their plays,


s: _Shakespeare and Beamond_, Swans to whom _the Spheres_


s: Listen while they _call back the former year[s]


s: To teach the truth of scenes_, and more for thee,


s: There yet remains, _brave soul_, than thou can'st see,"


s: "To be of that high Hierarchy where none


s: Immediately from heaven; but hark the cock," etc.;


s: Nocte latent mendæ vitioque ignoscitur omni,


s: Crede mihi, mores distant a carmine nostri:


s: Were it of hoot or cold, or moyste, or drye,


s: And where engendered and of what humour".


s: Fleres si scires unum tua tempora mensem:


s: "And though they sweep their hearths no less


s: reminiscences of Horace, II. _Od._ x. 17, and ix.


s: To laugh and quaff, and drink old sherry".


s: "Charon! O Charon! the wafter of all souls to bliss or bane!


s: Come near and say who lives in bliss and who in pain.


s: Those that die well eternal bliss shall follow.


s: Those that die ill their own black deeds shall swallow.


s: Shall thy black barge those guilty spirits row


s: That kill themselves for love? Oh, no! oh, no!


s: My cordage cracks when such foul sins draw near,


s: No wind blows fair, nor I my boat can steer.


s: Those harmless souls that love and are beloved again.


s: That soul that lives in love and fain would die to win,


s: Shall he go free? Oh, no! it is too foul a sin.


s: He must not come aboard, I dare not row,


s: Storms of despair my boat will overblow.


s: Sed non videmus manticae quod in tergo est,


s: _Rich compost._ Cp. the same thought in 662.


s: Suetonius: Boni pastoris est tondere oves, non deglubere. Herrick


s: He that unburied lies wants not his hearse,


s: At Volusi annales Paduam morientur ad ipsam,


s: Λέγουσιν αἱ γυναῖκες


s: Ἀνακρέων γέρων εἶ κ.τ.λ.


s: With a significant variation--"Ill it fits"--for μᾶλλον πρέπει.


s: Militiae species amor est: discedite segnes!


s: Non sunt haec timidis signa tuenda viris.


s: Sic nisi vitaris quicquid renovabit amorem,


s: Flamma redardescet quae modo nulla fuit.


s: Ὠναξ, ᾧ δαμάλης Ἔρως


s: καὶ Νύμφαι κυανώπιδες


s: πορφυρέη τ' Ἀφροδίτη


s: συμπαίζουσιν ... γουνοῦμαί σε, κ.τ.λ.


s: Prisca juvent alios: ego me nunc denique natum


s: Sit mihi verna satur: sit non doctissima conjux:


s: Sit nox cum somno, sit sine lite dies, etc.


s: Primos passa toros et adhuc placanda marito


s: Dum fugit amplexus: sed prodidit unda latentem,


s: Condita sic puro numerantur lilia vitro,


s: Insilui mersusque vadis luctantia carpsi


s: Quamvis thura deos irataque numina placent,


s: χρῆν γὰρ ἀλλοθέν ποθεν βροτοὺς


s: παῖδας τεκνοῦσθαι, θῆλυ δ' οὐκ εἶναι γένος·


s: χοὒτως ἂν οὐκ ἦν οὐδὲν ἀνθρώποις κακόν.


s: _When Cato, the severe, entered the circumspacious theatre._ The


s: allusion is to the visit of Cato to the games of Flora, given by


s: whereupon the moralist obligingly retired, amidst applause.


s: Vos, tamen, o nostri, ne festinate, libelli:


s: _Golden Cheapside._ My friend, Mr. Herbert Horne, in his


s: "Of Twelfth-Tide cakes, of Peas and Beans,


s: _Nisa._ I have the pea and must be queen.


s: _Mel._ I the bean, and king. I must command."


s: "Have I not blest thee? Then go forth, nor fear


s: Or spice, or fish, or fire, or close-stools here";


s: fortunatum isti putant, Uxorem nunquam habui.


s: church-warden. He was buried in the Abbey, 1673.


s: Pars superest caepti, pars est exhausta laboris:


s: Contigimus portum, quo mihi cursus erat.


s: Finis adest operi: palmam date, grata juventus,


s: turbatur. _Enchir. ad Laurent._ 33: Cum irasci dicitur Deus, non


s: significatur perturbatio, qualis est in animo irascentis hominis.


s: attributed rather to George Herbert than to Herrick.


s: Another of her midnight orisons was the poem beginning:--


s: The last couplet, it should be noted, is misquoted from No. 56.


s: _Will show these garments._ So Acts ix. 39.


s: dereliquisti? "Why hast Thou forsaken me?" Herrick took it from


s: reference to Leo of Modena, _Degli Riti Hebraici_, Part I.


s: occupant of Dean Court and the magnate of the parish.


s: Both Mr. Hazlitt and Dr. Grosart have slightly misrepresented the


s: _Hesperides_ was published in 1648, and the editions of _Witts


s: In the Notes to the present edition I have drawn attention to all


s: for Richard Harper, and are to be sold | at his shop, at the


s: "Deep-skilled Geographers, whose art and skill


s: Do traverse all the world, and with their quill


s: Declare the strangeness of each several clime,


s: And deep informèd skill could not impart


s: In what set climate of this Orb or Isle,


s: The King of Fairies kept, whose honoured style


s: Is here inclosed, with the sincere description


s: Of his abode, his nature, and the region


s: In which he rules: read, and thou shalt find


s: Delightful mirth, fit to content thy mind.


s: May the contents thereof thy palate suit,


s: With its mellifluous and pleasing fruit:


s: For nought can more be sweetened to my mind


s: Than that this Pamphlet thy contentment find;


s: Which if it shall, my labour is sufficed,


s: Even with its weight: he needs would wear


s: That pleased him well, 'twas wondrous thin.


s: Made of the four-leaved, true-loved grass,


s: Drawn by the unctuous snail's slow pace,


s: To which the finest, purest, silver thread


s: Dropped from the eyes of some poor girl,


s: Moles' eyes he tastes, then adders' ears;


s: To these for sauce the slain stags' tears,


s: On the next page is printed: "Orpheus. Thrice excelling, for the


s: Herrick's Christian name, and of the poems in the issues of the


s: In the 1667 issue the paragraph about the Pole runs: "Where the


s: A gyges ring they bear about them still, II. 61.


s: A just man's like a rock that turns the wrath, I. 190.


s: A little saint best fits a little shrine, II. 59.


s: A long life's-day I've taken pains, II. 11.


s: A man prepar'd against all ills to come, I. 160.


s: A man's transgressions God does then remit, II. 196.


s: A master of a house, as I have read, II. 73.


s: A roll of parchment Clunn about him bears, II. 117.


s: A way enchased with glass and beads, I. 111.


s: A wearied pilgrim, I have wandered here, II. 157.


s: A willow garland thou didst send, I. 201.


s: Abundant plagues I late have had, II. 188.


s: Adverse and prosperous fortunes both work on, II. 182.


s: Adversity hurts none but only such, II. 47.


s: Afflictions bring us joy in time to come, II. 182.


s: Afflictions they most profitable are, II. 174.


s: After the feast, my Shapcot, see, I. 204.


s: After the rare arch-poet, Jonson, died, I. 188.


s: After this life, the wages shall, II. 225.


s: After thy labour take thine ease, II. 163.


s: After true sorrow for our sins, our strife, II. 201.


s: Against diseases here the strongest fence, II. 162.


s: Ah, me! I love; give him your hand to kiss, II. 91.


s: Ah, my Anthea! Must my heart still break, I. 27.


s: Ah, my Perilla! dost thou grieve to see, I. 8.


s: Ah, Posthumus! our years hence fly, I. 165.


s: Alas! I can't, for tell me how, II. 159.


s: All are not ill plots that do sometimes fail, II. 162.


s: All has been plundered from me but my wit, II. 90.


s: All I have lost that could be rapt from me, II. 212.


s: All things are open to these two events, I. 227.


s: All things decay with time: the forest sees, I. 25.


s: All things o'er-ruled are here, by chance, I. 248.


s: All things subjected are to fate, II. 7.


s: Along the dark and silent night, II. 214.


s: Although our sufferings meet with no relief, II. 163.


s: Although we cannot turn the fervent fit, II. 192.


s: Among disasters that dissension brings, II. 75.


s: Among these tempests great and manifold, II. 147.


s: And as time past when Cato, the severe, II. 124.


s: And must we part, because some say, I. 57.


s: Angels are called gods; yet of them none, II. 224.


s: Anthea laugh'd, and fearing lest excess, II. 137.


s: Apollo sings, his harp resounds: give room, II. 269.


s: Art quickens nature; care will make a face, I. 120.


s: Art thou not destin'd? then with haste go on, II. 237.


s: As in our clothes, so likewise he who looks, I. 254.


s: As is your name, so is your comely face, II. 133.


s: As many laws and lawyers do express, II. 53.


s: As oft as night is banish'd by the morn, I. 29.


s: As shows the air when with a rainbow grac'd, I. 47.


s: As sunbeams pierce the glass, and streaming in, II. 231.


s: As thou deserv'st, be proud; then gladly let, I. 244.


s: As wearied pilgrims, once possessed, II. 16.


s: Ask me what hunger is, and I'll reply, II. 115.


s: At post and pair, or slam, Tom Tuck would play, II. 46.


s: At stool-ball, Lucia, let us play, II. 45.


s: Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt, II. 137.


s: Away enchased with glass and beads, I. 111.


s: Away with silks, away with lawn, I. 193.


s: Bad are the times. And worse than they are we, I. 198.


s: Be bold, my book, nor be abash'd, or fear, II. 11.


s: Be not dismayed, though crosses cast thee down. II. 137.


s: Be those few hours, which I have yet to spend, II. 241.


s: Beauty no other thing is than a beam, I. 39.


s: Beauty's no other but a lovely grace, II. 92.


s: Before man's fall the rose was born, II. 246.


s: Before the press scarce one could see, II. 107.


s: Begin to charm, and as thou strok'st mine ears, I. 81.


s: Begin with Jove; then is the work half-done, I. 159.


s: Bellman of night if I about shall go, II. 182.


s: Besides us two, i' th' temple here's not one, I. 210.


s: Bid me to live, and I will live, I. 135.


s: Bind me but to thee with thine hair, II. 115.


s: Break off delay, since we but read of one, II. 63.


s: Breathe, Julia, breathe, and I'll protest, I. 84.


s: Bring me my rosebuds, drawer, come, II. 6.


s: Burn or drown me, choose ye whether, II. 67.


s: But born, and like a short delight, I. 84.


s: By dream I saw one of the three, I. 192.


s: By hours we all live here; in Heaven is known, II. 240.


s: By the next kindling of the day, II. 88.


s: By the weak'st means things mighty are o'erthrown, II. 48.


s: By time and counsel do the best we can, I. 150.


s: Can I not come to Thee, my God, for these, II. 186.


s: Can I not sin, but thou wilt be, II. 193.


s: Care keeps the conquest; 'tis no less renown, II. 132.


s: Case is a lawyer that ne'er pleads alone, II. 127.


s: Charm me asleep, and melt me so, I. 117.


s: Charms that call down the moon from out her sphere, I. 122.


s: Charon, O Charon, draw thy boat to th' shore, II. 270.


s: Charon! O gentle Charon! let me woo thee, II. 58.


s: Christ, He requires still, wheresoe'er He comes, II. 192.


s: Christ, I have read, did to His chaplains say, II. 223.


s: Christ never did so great a work but there, II. 237.


s: Christ took our nature on Him, not that He, II. 238.


s: Christ was not sad, i' the garden, for His own, II. 227.


s: Christ, when He hung the dreadful cross upon, II. 228.


s: Close keep your lips, if that you mean, II. 61.


s: Come, blitheful neat-herds, let us lay, II. 51.


s: Come, bring your sampler, and with art, I. 10.


s: Come down and dance ye in the toil, I. 9.


s: Come, guard this night the Christmas-pie, II. 80.


s: Come, leave this loathed country life, and then, I. 214.


s: Come, pity us, all ye who see, II., 216.


s: Come, sit we by the fire's side, II. 20.


s: Come, skilful Lupo, now, and take, I. 46.


s: Come, sons of summer, by whose toil, I. 125.


s: Come, then, and like two doves with silv'ry wings, II. 2.


s: Come thou not near those men who are like bread, I. 5.


s: Come thou, who art the wine and wit, I. 238.


s: Come to me God; but do not come, II. 242.


s: Come with the spring-time forth, fair maid, and be, I. 176.


s: Command the roof, great Genius, and from thence, II. 55.


s: Confession twofold is, as Austine says, II. 244.


s: Conformity gives comeliness to things, II. 147.


s: Conquer we shall, but we must first contend, II. 115.


s: Consider sorrows, how they are aright, II. 84.


s: Consult ere thou begin'st, that done, go on, II. 65.


s: Crab faces gowns with sundry furs; 'tis known, II. 37.


s: Dark and dull night, fly hence away, II. 203.


s: Dead falls the cause if once the hand be mute, I. 154.


s: Dean Bourne, farewell; I never look to see, I. 33.


s: Dear, though to part it be a hell, I. 39.


s: Dearest of thousands, now the time draws near, II. 20.


s: Despair takes heart, when there's no hope to speed, II. 135.


s: Did I or love, or could I others draw, I. 253.


s: Die ere long, I'm sure I shall, II. 151.


s: Discreet and prudent we that discord call, II. 64.


s: Display thy breasts my Julia--Here let me, I. 119.


s: Do with me, God, as Thou didst deal with John, II. 174.


s: Does fortune rend thee? Bear with thy hard fate, II. 87.


s: Down with the rosemary and bays, II. 104.


s: Down with the rosemary, and so, II. 129.


s: Dread not the shackles: on with thine intent, II. 144.


s: Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may, II. 31.


s: Droop, droop no more, or hang the head, I. 6.


s: Dry your sweet cheek, long drown'd with sorrow's rain, I. 131.


s: Dull to myself, and almost dead to these, II. 13.


s: Each must in virtue strive for to excel, I. 151.


s: Eaten I have; and though I had good cheer, I. 248.


s: Empires of kings are now, and ever were, I. 202.


s: End now the white loaf and the pie, II. 105.


s: Ere I go hence, and be no more, II. 260.


s: Evil no nature hath; the loss of good, II. 207.


s: Examples lead us, and we likely see, II. 68.


s: Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, I. 175.


s: Fair and foul days trip cross and pile; the fair, I. 237.


s: Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, I. 220.


s: Fair was the dawn; and but e'en now the skies, I. 99.


s: Faith is a thing that's four-square; let it fall, II. 114.


s: Fame's pillar here, at last, we set, II. 165.


s: Farewell, thou thing, time past so known, so dear, I. 53.


s: Fat be my hind; unlearned be my wife, II. 116.


s: Fight thou with shafts of silver and o'ercome, I. 23.


s: Fill me my wine in crystal; thus, and thus, I. 234.


s: First, April, she with mellow showers, I. 26.


s: First, for effusions due unto the dead, I. 26.


s: First, for your shape, the curious cannot show, I. 237.


s: First, may the hand of bounty bring, II. 112.


s: First offer incense, then thy field and meads, I. 180.


s: Fled are the frosts, and now the fields appear, II. 27.


s: Fly hence, pale care, no more remember, II. 267.


s: Fly to my mistress, pretty pilfering bee, I. 124.


s: Fold now thine arms and hang the head, I. 56.


s: For all our works a recompense is sure, II. 93.


s: For all thy many courtesies to me, II. 83.


s: For being comely, consonant, and free, II. 8.


s: For civil, clean, and circumcised wit, I. 244.


s: For each one body that i' th' earth is sown, II. 236.


s: For my embalming, Julia, do but this, I. 161.


s: For my neighbour, I'll not know, I. 103.


s: For one so rarely tun'd to fit all parts, I. 152.


s: For punishment in war it will suffice, I. 165.


s: For sport my Julia threw a lace, I. 145.


s: For those, my unbaptised rhymes, II. 169.


s: For truth I may this sentence tell, II. 151.


s: Fortune no higher project can devise, I. 246.


s: Fortune's a blind profuser of her own, II. 45.


s: From noise of scare-fires rest ye free, I. 151.


s: From the dull confines of the drooping West, II. 150.


s: From this bleeding hand of mine, I. 108.


s: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, I. 102.


s: Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morn, I. 82.


s: Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known, II. 116.


s: Give if thou canst an alms; if not, afford, II. 193.


s: Give me a man that is not dull, II. 146.


s: Give me honours! what are these, II. 191.


s: Give me that man that dares bestride, I. 35.


s: Give me the food that satisfies a guest, II. 82.


s: Give unto all, lest he, whom thou deni'st, II. 239.


s: Give Want her welcome if she comes; we find. II. 12.


s: Give way, and be ye ravish'd by the sun, I. 246.


s: Give way, give way now; now my Charles shines here, II. 43.


s: Give way, give way, ye gates and win, I. 223.


s: Glory no other thing is, Tullie says, II. 50.


s: Go hence, and with this parting kiss, I. 217.


s: Go hence away, and in thy parting know, II. 269.


s: Go, perjured man; and if thou e'er return, I. 59.


s: Go on, brave Hopton, to effectuate that, II. 136.


s: Go, pretty child, and bear this flower, II. 189.


s: Go thou forth, my book, though late, II. 164.


s: Go, woo young Charles no more to look, II. 13.


s: God, as He's potent, so He's likewise known, II. 222.


s: God, as the learned Damascene doth write, II. 227.


s: God bought man here with His heart's blood expense, II. 237.


s: God can do all things, save but what are known, II. 228.


s: God can't be wrathful; but we may conclude, II. 248.


s: God could have made all rich, or all men poor, II. 192.


s: God did forbid the Israelites to bring, II. 230.


s: God doth not promise here to man that He, II. 247.


s: God from our eyes, all tears hereafter wipes, II. 223.


s: God gives not only corn for need, II. 191.


s: God gives to none so absolute an ease, II. 234.


s: God had but one Son free from sin; but none, II. 222.


s: God has a right hand, but is quite bereft, II. 244.


s: God has four keys, which He reserves alone, II. 239.


s: God has His whips here to a twofold end, II. 175.


s: God hates the dual numbers, being known, II. 246.


s: God hath this world for many made, 'tis true, II. 234.


s: God hath two wings which He doth ever move, II. 171.


s: God, He refuseth no man, but makes way, II. 222.


s: God, He rejects all prayers that are slight, II. 173.


s: God hears us when we pray, but yet defers, II. 176.


s: God hides from man the reck'ning day, that he, II. 224.


s: God in His own day will be then severe, II. 226.


s: God, in the holy tongue, they call, II. 231.


s: God is above the sphere of our esteem, II. 170.


s: God is all forepart; for, we never see, II. 173.


s: God is all present to whate'er we do, II. 243.


s: God is all sufferance here, here He doth show, II. 194.


s: God is His name of nature; but that word, II. 223.


s: God is Jehovah called: which name of His, II. 232.


s: God is more here than in another place, II. 234.


s: God is not only merciful to call, II. 173.


s: God is so potent, as His power can, II. 229.


s: God is then said for to descend, when He, II. 245.


s: God loads and unloads, thus His work begins, II. 172.


s: God makes not good men wantons, but doth bring, II. 211.


s: God ne'er afflicts us more than our desert, II. 171.


s: God on our youth bestows but little ease, II. 229.


s: God pardons those who do through frailty sin, II. 176.


s: God scourgeth some severely, some He spares, II. 174.


s: God still rewards us more than our desert, II. 244.


s: God strikes His Church, but 'tis to this intent, II. 176.


s: God suffers not His saints and servants dear, II. 243.


s: God tempteth no one, as St. Aug'stine saith, II. 225.


s: God then confounds man's face when He not hears, II. 228.


s: God! to my little meal and oil, II. 221.


s: God, when for sin He makes His children smart, II. 174.


s: God, when He's angry here with anyone, II. 171.


s: God, when He takes my goods and chattels hence, II. 200.


s: God, who me gives a will for to repent, II. 247.


s: God, who's in heaven, will hear from thence, II. 227.


s: God will have all or none; serve Him, or fall, II. 187.


s: God's boundless mercy is, to sinful man, II. 172.


s: God's bounty, that ebbs less and less, II. 194.


s: God's evident, and may be said to be, II. 232.


s: God's grace deserves here to be daily fed, II. 222.


s: God's hands are round and smooth, that gifts may fall, II. 225.


s: God's prescience makes none sinful; but th' offence, II. 238.


s: God's present everywhere, but most of all, II. 236.


s: God's rod doth watch while men do sleep, and then, II. 74.


s: God's said our hearts to harden then, II. 246.


s: God's said to dwell there, wheresoever He, II. 232.


s: God's said to leave this place, and for to come, II. 231.


s: God's undivided, One in Persons Three, II. 232.


s: Goddess of youth, and lady of the spring, I. 133.


s: Gold I have none, but I present my need, II. 209.


s: Gold I've none, for use or show, I. 109.


s: Gold serves for tribute to the king, II. 247.


s: Good and great God! how should I fear, II. 245.


s: Good-day, Mirtello. And to you no less, I. 105.


s: Good precepts we must firmly hold, I. 235.


s: Good princes must be pray'd for; for the bad, I. 37.


s: Good things that come, of course, for less do please. I. 154.


s: Great cities seldom rest; if there be none, II. 144.


s: Great men by small means oft are overthrown, I. 227.


s: Grow for two ends, it matters not at all, II. 37.


s: Grow up in beauty, as thou dost begin, II. 129.


s: Hail holy and all-honoured tomb, II. 254.


s: Handsome you are, and proper you will be, II. 123.


s: Hang up hooks and shears to scare, II. 104.


s: Happy's that man to whom God gives, II. 185.


s: Hard are the two first stairs unto a crown, II. 114.


s: Hast thou attempted greatness? then go on, II. 64.


s: Hast thou begun an act? ne'er then give o'er, II. 42.


s: Haste is unhappy: what we rashly do, II. 85.


s: Have, have ye no regard, all ye, II. 251.


s: Have I not blest thee? Then go forth, nor fear, I. 193.


s: Have ye beheld (with much delight), I. 203.


s: He that ascended in a cloud shall come, II. 227.


s: He that is hurt seeks help: sin is the wound, II. 226.


s: He that may sin, sins least: leave to transgress, I. 136.


s: He that will live of all cares dispossess'd, II. 129.


s: He who commends the vanquished, speaks the power, I. 252.


s: He who has suffered shipwreck fears to sail, II. 11.


s: He who wears blacks and mourns not for the dead, II. 148.


s: Health is no other, as the learned hold, II. 42.


s: Health is the first good lent to men, I. 50.


s: Hear, ye virgins, and I'll teach, I. 151.


s: Heaven is most fair; but fairer He, II. 227.


s: Heaven is not given for our good works here, II. 239.


s: Hell is no other but a soundless pit, II. 214.


s: Hell is the place where whipping-cheer abounds, II. 214.


s: Hence, hence, profane, and none appear, II. 205.


s: Hence, hence, profane! soft silence let us have, I. 109.


s: Hence they have borne my Lord; behold! the stone, II. 255.


s: Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, II. 17.


s: Here down my wearied limbs I'll lay, I. 153.


s: Here, here I live with what my board, I. 251.


s: Here I myself might likewise die, II. 82.


s: Here lies a virgin, and as sweet, II. 71.


s: Here lies Jonson with the rest, II. 109.


s: Here we are all by day; by night we're hurl'd, I. 23.


s: Holyrood, come forth and shield, I. 222.


s: Honour thy parents; but good manners call, II. 202.


s: How am I bound to Two! God who doth give, II. 190.


s: How am I ravish'd! when I do but see, I. 174.


s: How can I choose but love and follow her, I. 227.


s: How dull and dead are books that cannot show, I. 177.


s: How fierce was I, when I did see, II. 117.


s: How long, Perenna, wilt thou see, I. 222.


s: How rich a man is all desire to know, I. 161.


s: How rich and pleasing thou, my Julia, art, I. 34.


s: How well contented in this private grange, II. 136.


s: Humble we must be, if to heaven we go, II. 200.


s: I asked thee oft what poets thou hast read, I. 80.


s: I brake thy bracelet 'gainst my will, II. 48.


s: I bring ye love. What will love do? II. 135.


s: I can but name thee, and methinks I call, I. 163.


s: I cannot love as I have lov'd before, II. 72.


s: I cannot pipe as I was wont to do, II. 2.


s: I cannot suffer; and in this my part, I. 210.


s: I crawl, I creep; my Christ, I come, II. 221.


s: I dreamt, last night, Thou didst transfuse, II. 194.


s: I freeze, I freeze, and nothing dwells, I. 8.


s: I have a leaden, thou a shaft of gold, II. 163.


s: I have been wanton and too bold, I fear, II. 160.


s: I have beheld two lovers in a night, II. 263.


s: I have my laurel chaplet on my head, II. 151.


s: I heard ye could cool heat, and came, I. 196.


s: I held Love's head while it did ache, I. 236.


s: I lately fri'd, but now behold, II. 111.


s: I make no haste to have my numbers read, II. 19.


s: I played with Love, as with the foe, I. 255.


s: I press'd my Julia's lips, and in the kiss, II. 48.


s: I send, I send here my supremest kiss, II. 143.


s: I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers, I. 3.


s: I, who have favour'd many, come to be, I. 179.


s: I will be short, and having quickly hurl'd, II. 121.


s: I would to God that mine old age might have, II. 213.


s: I'll come, I'll creep, though Thou dost threat, II. 182.


s: I'll come to thee in all those shapes, I. 70.


s: I'll do my best to win when e'er I woo, I. 36.


s: I'll sing no more, nor will I longer write, II. 32.


s: I'll write no more of love; but now repent, II. 164.


s: I'm free from thee; and thou no more shalt bear, I. 18.


s: I've paid thee what I promis'd; that's not all, I. 209.


s: If accusation only can draw blood, I. 244.


s: If after rude and boisterous seas, I. 117.


s: If all transgressions here should have their pay, II. 175.


s: If anything delight me for to print, II. 190.


s: If, dear Anthea, my hard fate it be, I. 11.


s: If hap it must, that I must see thee lie, II. 123.


s: If I dare write to you, my lord, who are, I. 235.


s: If I have played the truant, or have here, II. 249.


s: If kings and kingdoms once distracted be, II. 161.


s: If little labour, little are our gains, II. 66.


s: If meat the gods give, I the steam, I. 24.


s: If men can say that beauty dies, I. 256.


s: If 'mongst my many poems I can see, I. 76.


s: If nine times you your bridegroom kiss, II. 6.


s: If that my fate has now fulfil'd my year, II. 96.


s: If thou ask me, dear, wherefore, I. 234.


s: If thou be'st taken, God forbid, II. 251.


s: If thou hast found a honey comb, II. 109.


s: If war or want shall make me grow so poor, II. 179.


s: If well the dice run, let's applaud the cast, II. 18.


s: If well thou hast begun, go on fore-right, I. 154.


s: If when these lyrics, Cæsar, you shall hear, I. 133.


s: If wholesome diet can re-cure a man, II. 148.


s: Imparity doth ever discord bring, II. 85.


s: In all our high designments 'twill appear, II. 114.


s: In all thy need be thou possess'd, II. 57.


s: In battles what disasters fall, II. 111.


s: In desp'rate cases all, or most, are known, II. 89.


s: In doing justice God shall then be known, II. 243.


s: In God's commands ne'er ask the reason why, II. 248.


s: In God there's nothing, but 'tis known to be, II. 227.


s: In holy meetings there a man may be, I. 203.


s: In man ambition is the common'st thing, I. 23.


s: In numbers, and but these a few, II. 176.


s: In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, II. 178.


s: In sober mornings, do not thou rehearse, I. 5.


s: In the old Scripture I have often read, II. 178.


s: In this misfortune kings do most excel, II. 115.


s: In this world, the isle of dreams, II. 220.


s: In time of life I graced ye with my verse, I. 173.


s: In vain our labours are whatsoe'er they be, II. 223.


s: In ways to greatness, think on this, II. 33.


s: Instruct me now what love will do, II. 155.


s: Is this a life, to break thy sleep, II. 37.


s: Jacob God's beggar was; and so we wait, II. 228.


s: Jealous girls these sometimes were, I. 234.


s: Jove may afford us thousands of reliefs, I. 192.


s: Judith has cast her old skin and got new, I. 177.


s: Justly our dearest Saviour may abhor us, II. 236.


s: Kindle the Christmas brand, and then, II. 105.


s: Kings must be dauntless; subjects will contemn, II. 160.


s: Kings must not oft be seen by public eyes, II. 42.


s: Kings must not only cherish up the good, II. 75.


s: Kings must not use the axe for each offence, II. 135.


s: Knew'st thou one month would take thy life away, II. 49.


s: Know when to speak for many times it brings, II. 146.


s: Labour we must, and labour hard, II. 225.


s: Laid out for dead, let thy last kindness be, I. 20.


s: Last night I drew up mine account, II. 210.


s: Lay by the good a while; a resting field, II. 113.


s: Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, I. 192.


s: Let all chaste matrons when they chance to see, I. 70.


s: Let but thy voice engender with the string, I. 127.


s: Let kings and rulers learn this line from me, II. 126.


s: Let kings command and do the best they may, I. 174.


s: Let me be warm, let me be fully fed, I. 36.


s: Let me not live if I do not love, II. 157.


s: Let moderation on thy passions wait, II. 146.


s: Let not that day God's friends and servants scare, II. 220.


s: Let not thy tombstone e'er be lain by me, II. 101.


s: Let others look for pearl or gold, II. 190.


s: Let others to the printing press run fast, II. 141.


s: Let there be patrons, patrons like to thee, I. 49.


s: Let us, though late, at last, my Silvia, wed, I. 6.


s: Let's call for Hymen if agreed thou art, II. 77.


s: Let's live in haste; use pleasures while we may, I. 213.


s: Let's live with that small pittance that we have, II. 12.


s: Let's strive to be the best: the gods, we know it, II. 135.


s: Life of my life, take not so soon thy flight, I. 88.


s: Life is the body's light, which once declining, II. 5.


s: Like those infernal deities which eat, II. 88.


s: Like to a bride, come forth my book, at last, I. 92.


s: Like to the income must be our expense, I. 147.


s: Like will to like, each creature loves his kind, II. 147.


s: Lilies will languish; violets look ill, I. 49.


s: Little you are, for woman's sake be proud, II. 11.


s: Live by thy muse thou shalt, when others die, II. 9.


s: Live, live with me, and thou shalt see, I. 240.


s: Live with a thrifty, not a needy fate, I. 13.


s: Look how our foul days do exceed our fair, II. 169.


s: Look how the rainbow doth appear, I. 175.


s: Look in my book, and herein see, II. 108.


s: Look upon Sappho's lip, and you will swear, II. 131.


s: Lord, I confess that Thou alone art able, II. 194.


s: Lord, Thou hast given me a cell, II. 183.


s: Lost to the world; lost to myself alone, II. 121.


s: Loth to depart, but yet at last each one, I. 176.


s: Love and myself, believe me, on a day, I. 19.


s: Love and the graces evermore do wait, II. 68.


s: Love brought me to a silent grove, II. 97.


s: Love he that will, it best likes me, I. 195.


s: Love in a shower of blossoms came, II. 102.


s: Love is a circle, and an endless sphere, II. 91.


s: Love is a circle that doth restless move, I. 13.


s: Love is a kind of war: hence those who fear, II. 100.


s: Love is a leaven; and a loving kiss, II. 120.


s: Love is a syrup, and whoe'er we see, II. 120.


s: Love is maintain'd by wealth; when all is spent, II. 41.


s: Love, love begets, then never be, II. 64.


s: Love, love me now, because I place, II. 96.


s: Love scorch'd my finger, but did spare, I. 33.


s: Love's of itself too sweet; the best of all, II. 157.


s: Maids' nays are nothing, they are shy, II. 60.


s: Make haste away, and let one be, II. 92.


s: Make, make me Thine, my gracious God, II. 185.


s: Make me a heaven and make me there, I. 56.


s: Man is a watch, wound up at first, but never, I. 254.


s: Man is compos'd here of a twofold part, I. 191.


s: Man knows where first he ships himself, but he, I. 221.


s: Man may at first transgress, but next do well, II. 141.


s: Man may want land to live in, but for all, II. 84.


s: Man must do well out of a good intent, II. 112.


s: Man's disposition is for to requite, II. 114.


s: Many we are, and yet but few possess, I. 221.


s: Men are not born kings, but are men renown'd, II. 49.


s: Men are suspicious, prone to discontent, II. 113.


s: Men must have bounds how far to walk; for we, II. 132.


s: Men say y'are fair, and fair ye are, 'tis true, I. 122.


s: Mercy, the wise Athenians held to be, II. 225.


s: Methought I saw, as I did dream in bed, II. 139.


s: Methought last night love in an anger came, I. 18.


s: Milk still your fountains and your springs, for why? II. 90.


s: Mine eyes, like clouds, were drizzling rain, II. 44.


s: Mop-eyed I am, as some have said, I. 120.


s: More white than whitest lilies far, I. 40.


s: Music, thou queen of heaven, care-charming spell, I. 128.


s: My dearest love, since thou wilt go, II. 153.


s: My faithful friend, if you can see, I. 97.


s: My many cares and much distress, II. 139.


s: My muse in meads has spent her many hours, I. 116.


s: My soul would one day go and seek, II. 101.


s: My wearied bark, O let it now be crown'd, II. 164.


s: My wooing's ended: now my wedding's near, I. 225.


s: Naught are all women: I say no, II. 102.


s: Need is no vice at all, though here it be, II. 48.


s: Nero commanded; but withdrew his eyes, II. 42.


s: Never my book's perfection did appear, I. 123.


s: Never was day so over-sick with showers, I. 62.


s: Next is your lot, fair, to be numbered one, I. 236.


s: Night hath no wings to him that cannot sleep, II. 195.


s: Night hides our thefts, all faults then pardon'd be, II. 8.


s: Night makes no difference 'twixt priest and clerk, II. 97.


s: No grief is grown so desperate, but the ill, II. 148.


s: No man comes late unto that place from whence, II. 31.


s: No man is tempted so but may o'ercome, II. 236.


s: No man so well a kingdom rules, as he, II. 155.


s: No man such rare parts hath, that he can swim, II. 121.


s: No more, my Sylvia, do I mean to pray, II. 2.


s: No more shall I, since I am driven hence, I. 164.


s: No news of navies burnt at seas, I. 157.


s: No trust to metals, nor to marbles, when, II. 272.


s: No wrath of men or rage of seas, II. 14.


s: Noah the first was, as tradition says, II. 233.


s: None goes to warfare but with this intent, I. 50.


s: Noonday and midnight shall at once be seen, I. 71.


s: Nor art thou less esteem'd that I have plac'd, II. 70.


s: Nor is my number full till I inscribe, I. 250.


s: Nor think that thou in this my book art worst, II. 159.


s: Not all thy flushing suns are set, I. 87.


s: Nothing can be more loathsome than to see, II. 10.


s: Nothing comes free-cost here; Jove will not let, I. 221.


s: Nothing hard or harsh can prove, II. 48.


s: Nothing is new, we walk where others went, I. 175.


s: Now is the time, when all the lights wax dim, I. 22.


s: Now is your turn, my dearest, to be set, II. 81.


s: Now, now's the time, so oft by truth, I. 63.


s: Now thou art dead, no eye shall ever see, II. 125.


s: O earth! earth! earth! hear thou my voice, and be, I. 21.


s: O Thou, the wonder of all days! II. 196.


s: Of all our parts, the eyes express, I. 152.


s: Of all the good things whatsoe'er we do, II. 255.


s: Of all those three brave brothers fall'n i' th' war, I. 212.


s: Of both our fortunes good and bad we find, II. 71.


s: Offer thy gift; but first the law commands, II. 122.


s: Oft bend the bow, and thou with ease shalt do, II. 55.


s: Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, I. 187.


s: Old wives have often told how they, I. 19.


s: On, as thou hast begun, brave youth, and get, I. 188.


s: On with thy work, though thou be'st hardly press'd, II. 137.


s: One ask'd me where the roses grew, I. 19.


s: One birth our Saviour had; the like none yet, II. 231.


s: One ear tingles, some there be, II. 160.


s: One feeds on lard, and yet is lean, I. 216.


s: One man repentant is of more esteem, II. 235.


s: One more by thee, love, and desert have sent, I. 239.


s: One night i' th' year, my dearest beauties, come, II. 23.


s: One of the five straight branches of my hand, I. 256.


s: One only fire has hell; but yet it shall, II. 239.


s: Or look'd I back unto the time hence flown, II. 39.


s: Other men's sins we ever bear in mind, II. 66.


s: Our crosses are no other than the rods, II. 97.


s: Our honours and our commendations be, I. 150.


s: Our household gods our parents be, II. 29.


s: Our mortal parts may wrapp'd in sear-clothes lie, I. 251.


s: Our present tears here, not our present laughter, II. 201.


s: Out of the world he must, who once comes in, I. 251.


s: Paradise is, as from the learn'd I gather, II. 229.


s: Pardon me, God, once more I Thee entreat, II. 212.


s: Pardon my trespass, Silvia, I confess, II. 116.


s: Part of the work remains; one part is past, II. 164.


s: Paul, he began ill, but he ended well, II. 234.


s: Permit me, Julia, now to go away, I. 72.


s: Physicians fight not against men; but these, II. 29.


s: Physicians say repletion springs, II. 121.


s: Play I could once; but gentle friend, you see, I. 103.


s: Play their offensive and defensive parts, II. 211.


s: Please your grace, from out your store, II. 25.


s: Ponder my words, if so that any be, II. 111.


s: Praise they that will times past; I joy to see, II. 114.


s: Prat, he writes satires, but herein's the fault, II. 46.


s: Prayers and praises are those spotless two, II. 171.


s: Predestination is the cause alone, II. 237.


s: Prepare for songs; He's come, He's come, II. 204.


s: Preposterous is that government, and rude, I. 246.


s: Preposterous is that order, when we run, II. 49.


s: Princes and fav'rites are most dear, while they, II. 67.


s: Puss and her 'prentice both at drawgloves play, II. 75.


s: Put off thy robe of purple, then go on, II. 249.


s: Put on thy holy filletings, and so, II. 106.


s: Put on your silks, and piece by piece, I. 22.


s: Rapine has yet took nought from me, II. 219.


s: Rare are thy cheeks, Susanna, which do show, I. 243.


s: Rare is the voice itself: but when we sing, II. 161.


s: Rare temples thou hast seen, I know, I. 111.


s: Reach with your whiter hands, to me, I. 232.


s: Read thou my lines, my Swetnaham; if there be, II. 158.


s: Reproach we may the living, not the dead, II. 19.


s: Rise, household gods, and let us go, I. 138.


s: Roaring is nothing but a weeping part, II. 226.


s: Sabbaths are threefold, as St. Austine says, II. 233.


s: See and not see, and if thou chance t'espy, I. 37.


s: See how the poor do waiting stand, I. 175.


s: Seeing thee, Soame, I see a goodly man, I. 220.


s: See'st thou that cloud as silver clear, I. 174.


s: See'st thou that cloud that rides in state, II. 86.


s: See'st thou those diamonds which she wears, I. 163.


s: Shame checks our first attempts; but when 'tis prov'd, II. 200.


s: Shame is a bad attendant to a state, I. 227.


s: Shapcot! to thee the fairy state, I. 148.


s: She by the river sat, and sitting there, II. 63.


s: She wept upon her cheeks, and weeping so, II. 62.


s: Should I not put on blacks when each one here, II. 108.


s: Show me thy feet, show me thy legs, thy thighs, I. 193.


s: Shut not so soon; the dull-ey'd night, I. 203.


s: Sick is Anthea, sickly is the spring, II. 149.


s: Sin is an act so free, that if we shall, II. 238.


s: Sin is the cause of death; and sin's alone, II. 238.


s: Sin leads the way, but as it goes it feels, II. 200.


s: Sin never slew a soul unless there went, II. 238.


s: Sin no existence; nature none it hath, II. 229.


s: Sin once reached up to God's eternal sphere, II. 207.


s: Since, for thy full deserts, with all the rest, I. 191.


s: Since shed or cottage I have none, II. 150.


s: Since to the country first I came, I. 228.


s: Sing me to death; for till thy voice be clear, I. 190.


s: Sinners confounded are a twofold way, II. 236.


s: Smooth was the sea, and seem'd to call, II. 116,


s: So good luck came, and on my roof did light, I. 124.


s: So long it seem'd, as Mary's faith was small, II. 233.


s: So long you did not sing or touch your hue, I. 119.


s: So look the mornings when the sun, II. 85.


s: So looks Anthea, when in bed she lies, I. 39.


s: So smell those odours that do rise, I. 181.


s: So smooth, so sweet, so silv'ry is thy voice, I. 25.


s: So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles, I. 93.


s: Some ask'd me where the rubies grew, I. 28.


s: Some parts may perish, die thou canst not all, I. 252.


s: Some salve to every sore we may apply, II. 92.


s: Sorrows divided amongst many, less, II. 48.


s: Sorrows our portion are: ere hence we go, II. 196.


s: Sound teeth has Lucy, pure as pearl, and small, II. 29.


s: Speak, did the blood of Abel cry, II. 235.


s: Spend, harmless shade, thy nightly hours, II. 110.


s: Spring with the lark, most comely bride, and meet, II. 16.


s: Stand by the magic of my powerful rhymes, II. 98.


s: Stand forth, brave man, since fate has made thee here, II. 63.


s: Stand with thy graces forth, brave man, and rise, I. 226.


s: Stately goddess, do thou please, I. 178.


s: Still take advice; though counsels, when they fly, II. 146.


s: Still to our gains our chief respect is had, I. 175.


s: Stripes justly given yerk us with their fall, II. 148.


s: Studies themselves will languish and decay, II. 144.


s: Suffer thy legs but not thy tongue to walk, II. 172.


s: Suspicion, discontent, and strife, I. 58.


s: Sweet are my Julia's lips, and clean, II. 95.


s: Sweet, be not proud of those two eyes, I. 74.


s: Sweet Bridget blush'd, and therewithal, I. 255.


s: Sweet country life, to such unknown, II. 33.


s: Sweet virgin, that I do not set, I. 182.


s: Sweet western wind, whose luck it is, I. 128.


s: Take mine advice, and go not near, II. 98.


s: Tears most prevail; with tears, too, thou mayst move, II. 107.


s: Tears quickly dry, griefs will in time decay, II. 115.


s: Tears, though they're here below the sinner's brine, II. 29.


s: Tell if thou canst, and truly, whence doth come, I. 196.


s: Tell me, rich man, for what intent. II. 244.


s: Tell me, what needs those rich deceits, II. 101.


s: Tell me, young man, or did the muses bring, II. 122.


s: Tell that brave man, fain thou wouldst have access, II. 125.


s: Tell us, thou clear and heavenly tongue, II. 207.


s: Temptations hurt not, though they have access II. 196.


s: Th' art hence removing (like a shepherd's tent), I. 235.


s: Th' 'ast dar'd too far; but, fury, now forbear, I. 100.


s: That Christ did die, the pagan saith, II. 245.


s: That flow of gallants which approach, II. 47.


s: That for seven lusters I did never come, I. 31.


s: That happiness does still the longest thrive, II. 81.


s: That hour-glass which there you see, I. 52.


s: That little, pretty, bleeding part, II. 279.


s: That love last long, let it thy first care be, I. 232.


s: That love 'twixt men does ever longest last, II. 157.


s: That manna, which God on His people cast, II. 224.


s: That morn which saw me made a bride, I. 136.


s: That prince must govern with a gentle hand, II. 153.


s: That prince takes soon enough the victor's room, I. 136.


s: That prince who may do nothing but what's just, II. 162.


s: That princes may possess a surer seat, I. 203.


s: That there's a God we all do know, II. 243.