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

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...

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...

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...

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?

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...