Castara The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier Ones of 1634, 1635

Archaic, dialectical and other spellings not in current usage have been left as in the original book. Obvious misprints have been fixed. Details of the changes appear at the end...

i. A CHARACTER. _The Holy Man._ 112 ii. TWENTY-TWO Poems, chiefly Sacred, with mottoes from the Vulgate. We have here given the equivalent passages in the Authorized version: in...

While you dare trust the loudest tongue of fame, The zeale you heare your Mistresse to proclaim To th' talking world: I in the silent'st grove, Scarce to my selfe dare whisper t...

With your calme precepts goe, and lay a storme, In some brest flegmaticke which would conforme Her life to your cold lawes: In vain y' engage Your selfe on me. I will obey my ra...

Why would you blush _Castara_, when the name Of love you heare? Who never felt his flame, Ith' shade of melancholly night doth stray, A blind Cymmerian banisht from the day. Let...

ARAPH. If on my skin the noysome skar I should oth'leprosie, or canker weare; Or if the sulph'rous breath of warre Should blast my youth; Should I not be thy feare?

If your example be obey'd The serious few will live ith' silent shade: And not indanger by the wind Or Sunshine, the complexion of their mind: Whose beauty weares so cleare a sk...

Twere malice to the fame; to weepe alone And not enforce an universall groane From ruinous man, and make the World complaine: Yet I'le forbid my griefe to be prophane In mention...

Forgive my envie to the World; while I Commend those sober thoughts, perswade you The glorious troubles of the Court. For though The vale lyes open to each overflow, And in the...

Were it your appetite of glory, (which In noblest times, did bravest soules bewitch To fall in love with danger,) that now drawes You to the fate of warre; it claimes applause:...