Part 32

[52 Points _A18_, _A25_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _TC:_ Pants _1633-69_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _O'F_]

[53 dejections _1633:_ detorsions _1635-69_, _O'F_]

[55 the] thy _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _TC_]

[61 fruitfully _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _TC:_ faithfully _1633-69_]

[63 That _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _TC:_ The _1633-69_]

_Resurrection, imperfect._

Sleep sleep old Sun, thou canst not have repast As yet, the wound thou took'st on friday last; Sleepe then, and rest; The world may beare thy stay, A better Sun rose before thee to day, Who, not content to'enlighten all that dwell 5 On the earths face, as thou, enlightned hell, And made the darke fires languish in that vale, As, at thy presence here, our fires grow pale. Whose body having walk'd on earth, and now Hasting to Heaven, would, that he might allow 10 Himselfe unto all stations, and fill all, For these three daies become a minerall; Hee was all gold when he lay downe, but rose All tincture, and doth not alone dispose Leaden and iron wills to good, but is 15 Of power to make even sinfull flesh like his. Had one of those, whose credulous pietie Thought, that a Soule one might discerne and see Goe from a body,'at this sepulcher been, And, issuing from the sheet, this body seen, 20 He would have justly thought this body a soule, If not of any man, yet of the whole. _Desunt cætera._

[Resurrection, imperfect. _1633-69_ (_following_ By Euphrates _&c._ _p._ 424), _A18_, _N_, _O'F_, _TCC_, _TCD_]

[15 good, _1633-69 and MSS.: Chambers queries_ gold]

[22 If] If, _1633-69_]

_The Annuntiation and Passion._

Tamely, fraile body,'abstaine to day; to day My soule eates twice, Christ hither and away. She sees him man, so like God made in this, That of them both a circle embleme is, Whose first and last concurre; this doubtfull day 5 Of feast or fast, Christ came, and went away. Shee sees him nothing twice at once, who'is all; Shee sees a Cedar plant it selfe, and fall, Her Maker put to making, and the head Of life, at once, not yet alive, yet dead. 10 She sees at once the virgin mother stay Reclus'd at home, Publique at Golgotha; Sad and rejoyc'd shee's seen at once, and seen At almost fiftie, and at scarce fifteene. At once a Sonne is promis'd her, and gone, 15 Gabriell gives Christ to her, He her to John; Not fully a mother, Shee's in Orbitie, At once receiver and the legacie. All this, and all betweene, this day hath showne, Th'Abridgement of Christs story, which makes one 20 (As in plaine Maps, the furthest West is East) Of the'Angels _Ave_,'and _Consummatum est_. How well the Church, Gods Court of faculties Deales, in some times, and seldome joyning these! As by the selfe-fix'd Pole wee never doe 25 Direct our course, but the next starre thereto, Which showes where the'other is, and which we say (Because it strayes not farre) doth never stray; So God by his Church, neerest to him, wee know, And stand firme, if wee by her motion goe; 30 His Spirit, as his fiery Pillar doth Leade, and his Church, as cloud; to one end both. This Church, by letting these daies joyne, hath shown Death and conception in mankinde is one; Or'twas in him the same humility, 35 That he would be a man, and leave to be: Or as creation he hath made, as God, With the last judgement, but one period, His imitating Spouse would joyne in one Manhoods extremes: He shall come, he is gone: 40 Or as though one blood drop, which thence did fall, Accepted, would have serv'd, he yet shed all; So though the least of his paines, deeds, or words, Would busie a life, she all this day affords; This treasure then, in grosse, my Soule uplay, 45 And in my life retaile it every day.

[The Annuntiation and Passion. _1633-69:_ Upon the Annuntiation and Passion falling upon one day. Anno D[^n]i 1608. _B_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96:_ _similarly_, _N_, _TCD:_ The Annuntiation. _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ _no title_, _P_]

[1 Tamely, fraile body, _Ed:_ Tamely fraile body _1633:_ Tamely fraile flesh, _1635-69_, _O'F_, _S96_ (_1650-69 accidentally drop second_ to day)]

[6 away.] away; _1633:_ away, _1635-39_]

[10 yet dead. _Ed:_ yet dead; _1633_, _B_, _P_, _S:_ and dead; _1635-69_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _TCD_ (_full stop_, _MSS._)]

[12 at Golgotha; _Ed:_ at Golgotha. _1633-69_]

[13 Sad and rejoyc'd] Rejoyc'd and sad _B_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_]

[18 legacie. _Ed:_ legacie; _1633-69_]

[24 these! _Ed:_ these? _D_, _TCD:_ these; _1633:_ these. _1635-69_]

[31 as _1633:_ and _1635-69_]

[32 both. _1635-69:_ both: _1633_]

[33 these _B_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_, _TCD:_ those _1633-69_

daies _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD:_ feasts _1635-69_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_]

[34 one; _Ed:_ one. _1633:_ are one. _1635-69_ (one _1669_)]

[37 hath] had _B_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_]

_Goodfriday_, 1613. _Riding Westward._

Let mans Soule be a Spheare, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is, And as the other Spheares, by being growne Subject to forraigne motions, lose their owne, And being by others hurried every day, 5 Scarce in a yeare their naturall forme obey: Pleasure or businesse, so, our Soules admit For their first mover, and are whirld by it. Hence is't, that I am carryed towards the West This day, when my Soules forme bends toward the East. 10 There I should see a Sunne, by rising set, And by that setting endlesse day beget; But that Christ on this Crosse, did rise and fall, Sinne had eternally benighted all. Yet dare I'almost be glad, I do not see 15 That spectacle of too much weight for mee. Who sees Gods face, that is selfe life, must dye; What a death were it then to see God dye? It made his owne Lieutenant Nature shrinke, It made his footstoole crack, and the Sunne winke. 20 Could I behold those hands which span the Poles, And turne all spheares at once, peirc'd with those holes? Could I behold that endlesse height which is Zenith to us, and our Antipodes, Humbled below us? or that blood which is 25 The seat of all our Soules, if not of his, Made durt of dust, or that flesh which was worne By God, for his apparell, rag'd, and torne? If on these things I durst not looke, durst I Upon his miserable mother cast mine eye, 30 Who was Gods partner here, and furnish'd thus Halfe of that Sacrifice, which ransom'd us? Though these things, as I ride, be from mine eye, They'are present yet unto my memory, For that looks towards them; and thou look'st towards mee, 35 O Saviour, as thou hang'st upon the tree; I turne my backe to thee, but to receive Corrections, till thy mercies bid thee leave. O thinke mee worth thine anger, punish mee, Burne off my rusts, and my deformity, 40 Restore thine Image, so much, by thy grace, That thou may'st know mee, and I'll turne my face.

[Goodfriday, _&c._ _1633-69:_ Good Friday (_with or without date and_ Riding _&c._) _A18_, _B_, _Cy_, _N_, _S_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ Good Friday. 1613. Riding towards Wales. _D_, _Lec_, _O'F:_ Good Friday. 1613. Riding to S^r Edward Harbert in Wales. _H49:_ M^r J. Duñ goeing from Sir H. G. on good friday sent him back this meditation on the way. _A25_]

[4 motions _A18_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TC:_ motion, _1633-69_]

[8 and] _bis_ _1650-54_]

[10 toward _1633:_ _do. or_ towards _MSS.:_ to _1635-69_, _O'F_]

[12 beget _1633:_ beget. _1635-69_, _Chambers_]

[13 this Crosse, _1633_, _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TCC:_ his Crosse, _1635-69_, _B_, _Cy_, _N_, _TCD_]

[16 too] two _1639-69_]

[22 turne _A18_, _B_, _Cy_, _N_, _S_, _TC:_ tune _1633-69_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _S96_

once,] once _1633_]

[30 Upon his miserable _1633_, _A18_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TC:_

On his distressed _1635-69_]

[40 rusts, _1633_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TCD:_ rust, _1635-69_, _A18_, _S_, _TCC_]

THE LITANIE.

I.

_The_ FATHER.

Father of Heaven, and him, by whom It, and us for it, and all else, for us Thou madest, and govern'st ever, come And re-create mee, now growne ruinous: My heart is by dejection, clay, 5 And by selfe-murder, red. From this red earth, O Father, purge away All vicious tinctures, that new fashioned I may rise up from death, before I'am dead.

II.

_The_ SONNE.

O Sonne of God, who seeing two things, 10 Sinne, and death crept in, which were never made, By bearing one, tryed'st with what stings The other could thine heritage invade; O be thou nail'd unto my heart, And crucified againe, 15 Part not from it, though it from thee would part, But let it be, by applying so thy paine, Drown'd in thy blood, and in thy passion slaine.

III.

_The_ HOLY GHOST.

O Holy Ghost, whose temple I Am, but of mudde walls, and condensed dust, 20 And being sacrilegiously Halfe wasted with youths fires, of pride and lust, Must with new stormes be weatherbeat; Double in my heart thy flame, Which let devout sad teares intend; and let 25 (Though this glasse lanthorne, flesh, do suffer maime) Fire, Sacrifice, Priest, Altar be the same.

IV.

_The_ TRINITY.

O Blessed glorious Trinity, Bones to Philosophy, but milke to faith, Which, as wise serpents, diversly 30 Most slipperinesse, yet most entanglings hath, As you distinguish'd undistinct By power, love, knowledge bee, Give mee a such selfe different instinct Of these; let all mee elemented bee, 35 Of power, to love, to know, you unnumbred three.

V.

_The Virgin_ MARY.

For that faire blessed Mother-maid, Whose flesh redeem'd us; That she-Cherubin, Which unlock'd Paradise, and made One claime for innocence, and disseiz'd sinne, 40 Whose wombe was a strange heav'n, for there God cloath'd himselfe, and grew, Our zealous thankes wee poure. As her deeds were Our helpes, so are her prayers; nor can she sue In vaine, who hath such titles unto you. 45

VI.

_The Angels._

And since this life our nonage is, And wee in Wardship to thine Angels be, Native in heavens faire Palaces, Where we shall be but denizen'd by thee, As th'earth conceiving by the Sunne, 50 Yeelds faire diversitie, Yet never knowes which course that light doth run, So let mee study, that mine actions bee Worthy their sight, though blinde in how they see.

VII.

_The Patriarches._

And let thy Patriarches Desire 55 (Those great Grandfathers of thy Church, which saw More in the cloud, then wee in fire, Whom Nature clear'd more, then us Grace and Law, And now in Heaven still pray, that wee May use our new helpes right,) 60 Be satisfy'd, and fructifie in mee; Let not my minde be blinder by more light Nor Faith, by Reason added, lose her sight.

VIII.

_The Prophets._

Thy Eagle-sighted Prophets too, Which were thy Churches Organs, and did sound 65 That harmony, which made of two One law, and did unite, but not confound; Those heavenly Poëts which did see Thy will, and it expresse In rythmique feet, in common pray for mee, 70 That I by them excuse not my excesse In seeking secrets, or Poëtiquenesse.

IX.

_The Apostles._

And thy illustrious Zodiacke Of twelve Apostles, which ingirt this All, (From whom whosoever do not take 75 Their light, to darke deep pits, throw downe, and fall,) As through their prayers, thou'hast let mee know That their bookes are divine; May they pray still, and be heard, that I goe Th'old broad way in applying; O decline 80 Mee, when my comment would make thy word mine.

X.

_The Martyrs._

And since thou so desirously Did'st long to die, that long before thou could'st, And long since thou no more couldst dye, Thou in thy scatter'd mystique body wouldst 85 In Abel dye, and ever since In thine; let their blood come To begge for us, a discreet patience Of death, or of worse life: for Oh, to some Not to be Martyrs, is a martyrdome. 90

XI.

_The Confessors._

Therefore with thee triumpheth there A Virgin Squadron of white Confessors, Whose bloods betroth'd, not marryed were, Tender'd, not taken by those Ravishers: They know, and pray, that wee may know, 95 In every Christian Hourly tempestuous persecutions grow; Tentations martyr us alive; A man Is to himselfe a Dioclesian.

XII.

_The Virgins._

The cold white snowie Nunnery, 100 Which, as thy mother, their high Abbesse, sent Their bodies backe againe to thee, As thou hadst lent them, cleane and innocent, Though they have not obtain'd of thee, That or thy Church, or I, 105 Should keep, as they, our first integrity; Divorce thou sinne in us, or bid it die, And call chast widowhead Virginitie.

XIII.

_The Doctors._

Thy sacred Academic above Of Doctors, whose paines have unclasp'd, and taught 110 Both bookes of life to us (for love To know thy Scriptures tells us, we are wrote In thy other booke) pray for us there That what they have misdone Or mis-said, wee to that may not adhere; 115 Their zeale may be our sinne. Lord let us runne Meane waies, and call them stars, but not the Sunne.

XIV.

And whil'st this universall Quire, That Church in triumph, this in warfare here, Warm'd with one all-partaking fire 120 Of love, that none be lost, which cost thee deare, Prayes ceaslesly,'and thou hearken too, (Since to be gratious Our taske is treble, to pray, beare, and doe) Heare this prayer Lord: O Lord deliver us 125 From trusting in those prayers, though powr'd out thus.

XV.

From being anxious, or secure, Dead clods of sadnesse, or light squibs of mirth, From thinking, that great courts immure All, or no happinesse, or that this earth 130 Is only for our prison fram'd, Or that thou art covetous To them whom thou lovest, or that they are maim'd From reaching this worlds sweet, who seek thee thus, With all their might, Good Lord deliver us. 135

XVI.

From needing danger, to bee good, From owing thee yesterdaies teares to day, From trusting so much to thy blood, That in that hope, wee wound our soule away, From bribing thee with Almes, to excuse 140 Some sinne more burdenous, From light affecting, in religion, newes, From thinking us all soule, neglecting thus Our mutuall duties, Lord deliver us.

XVII.

From tempting Satan to tempt us, 145 By our connivence, or slack companie, From measuring ill by vitious, Neglecting to choake sins spawne, Vanitie, From indiscreet humilitie, Which might be scandalous, 150 And cast reproach on Christianitie, From being spies, or to spies pervious, From thirst, or scorne of fame, deliver us.

XVIII.

Deliver us for thy descent Into the Virgin, whose wombe was a place 155 Of middle kind; and thou being sent To'ungratious us, staid'st at her full of grace; And through thy poore birth, where first thou Glorifiedst Povertie, And yet soone after riches didst allow, 160 By accepting Kings gifts in the Epiphanie, Deliver, and make us, to both waies free.

XIX.

And through that bitter agonie, Which is still the agonie of pious wits, Disputing what distorted thee, 165 And interrupted evennesse, with fits; And through thy free confession Though thereby they were then Made blind, so that thou might'st from them have gone, Good Lord deliver us, and teach us when 170 Wee may not, and we may blinde unjust men.

XX.

Through thy submitting all, to blowes Thy face, thy clothes to spoile; thy fame to scorne, All waies, which rage, or Justice knowes, And by which thou could'st shew, that thou wast born; 175 And through thy gallant humblenesse Which thou in death did'st shew, Dying before thy soule they could expresse, Deliver us from death, by dying so, To this world, ere this world doe bid us goe. 180

XXI.

When senses, which thy souldiers are, Wee arme against thee, and they fight for sinne, When want, sent but to tame, doth warre And worke despaire a breach to enter in, When plenty, Gods image, and seale 185 Makes us Idolatrous, And love it, not him, whom it should reveale, When wee are mov'd to seeme religious Only to vent wit, Lord deliver us.

XXII.

In Churches, when the'infirmitie 190 Of him which speakes, diminishes the Word, When Magistrates doe mis-apply To us, as we judge, lay or ghostly sword, When plague, which is thine Angell, raignes, Or wars, thy Champions, swaie, 195 When Heresie, thy second deluge, gaines; In th'houre of death, the'Eve of last judgement day, Deliver us from the sinister way.

XXIII.

Heare us, O heare us Lord; to thee A sinner is more musique, when he prayes, 200 Then spheares, or Angels praises bee, In Panegyrique Allelujaes; Heare us, for till thou heare us, Lord We know not what to say; Thine eare to'our sighes, teares, thoughts gives voice and word. 205 O Thou who Satan heard'st in Jobs sicke day, Heare thy selfe now, for thou in us dost pray.

XXIV.

That wee may change to evennesse This intermitting aguish Pietie; That snatching cramps of wickednesse 210 And Apoplexies of fast sin, may die; That musique of thy promises, Not threats in Thunder may Awaken us to our just offices; What in thy booke, thou dost, or creatures say, 215 That we may heare, Lord heare us, when wee pray.

XXV.

That our eares sicknesse wee may cure, And rectifie those Labyrinths aright, That wee, by harkning, not procure Our praise, nor others dispraise so invite, 220 That wee get not a slipperinesse And senslesly decline, From hearing bold wits jeast at Kings excesse, To'admit the like of majestie divine, That we may locke our eares, Lord open thine. 225

XXVI.

That living law, the Magistrate, Which to give us, and make us physicke, doth Our vices often aggravate, That Preachers taxing sinne, before her growth, That Satan, and invenom'd men 230 Which well, if we starve, dine, When they doe most accuse us, may see then Us, to amendment, heare them; thee decline: That we may open our eares, Lord lock thine.

XXVII.

That learning, thine Ambassador, 235 From thine allegeance wee never tempt, That beauty, paradises flower For physicke made, from poyson be exempt, That wit, borne apt high good to doe, By dwelling lazily 240 On Natures nothing, be not nothing too, That our affections kill us not, nor dye, Heare us, weake ecchoes, O thou eare, and cry.

XXVIII.

Sonne of God heare us, and since thou By taking our blood, owest it us againe, 245 Gaine to thy self, or us allow; And let not both us and thy selfe be slaine; O Lambe of God, which took'st our sinne Which could not stick to thee, O let it not returne to us againe, 250 But Patient and Physition being free, As sinne is nothing, let it no where be.

[The Litanie. _1633-69:_ A Letanie. _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD_]

[17 be, _D:_ be _1633-69_]

[30 serpents, _Ed:_ serpents _1633-69_]

[34 a such _1633:_ such _1635-69_, _JC:_ such a _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _S_, _TC_

instinct _1633:_ instinct, _1635-69_]

[35 these; _Ed:_ these, _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ these _1633-69:_ thee _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[48 Native] Natives _B_, _JC_, _S_

in heavens faire Palaces, _D:_ in heavens faire Palaces _1633-39:_ in heavens Palaces, _1650-69_]

[52 which _1633:_ what _1635-69_]

[56 Grandfathers] Grandfathers, _1633_]

[58 then] that _1635-39_]

[58 Grace and Law, _D:_ grace and law, _1633-69_]

[61 satisfy'd, _1635-69_, _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _N_, _S96_, _TC:_ sanctified, _1633_

fructifie] fructified _A18_, _JC_]

[63 Faith, _D:_ Faith _1633-69_]

[93 were, _Ed:_ were; _1633-69_]

[97 grow; _Ed:_ grow, _1633-69_]

[100 The] Thy _B_, _D_, _H49_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_]

[109 Thy] The _1635-69_

Academie _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ Academ _1635-69:_ Academe _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TC_]

[112 thy] the _1650-69_

Scriptures] Scripture _1669_

wrote] _spelt_ wrought _1633 and MSS._]

[115 adhere; _Ed:_ adhere, _1633-69_]

[122 too, _D:_ too _1633-69_]

[125 Lord: _Ed:_ Lord, _1633-69_]

[128 clods _1633:_ clouds _1635-69_, _B_, _O'F_ (_which corrects_), _S96_]

[133 whom] _om. D_, _H49_, _Lec_

them] _om. A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[134 sweet, _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _S96:_ sweets, _1635-69_, _A18_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _TC_]

[137 owing] owning _1669_]

[139 soule] souls _1669_, _JC_, _O'F_, _S_]

[153 fame,] flame, _1633_]

[154 for _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _N_, _S_, _TC:_ through _1635-69_, _JC_, _O'F_, _S96_, _Chambers_]

[156 middle] midle _1633_, _D_]

[157 grace;] grace, _1633_]

[159 Glorifiedst] Glorifiest _1633 some copies_, _D_, _H49_]

[162 Deliver, and] Deliver us, and _Chambers_]

[163 through] though, _1633_

that] thy _B_, _JC_, _O'F_, _S96_]

[164 is still] still is _1633 some copies_, _1635-69_]

[166 fits;] fits, _1633_]

[173 clothes _1633_, _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _S_, _TC:_ robes _1635-69_, _B_ (robe), _JC_, _O'F_, _S96_]

[175 born; _Ed:_ born, _1633-69_]

[196 When] Where _many MSS._]

[197 last judgement] the last _JC_, _S:_ Gods judgement _B_]

[202 Allelujaes; _1635-69:_ Allelujaes, _1633_]

[204 say; _D:_ say. _1633-69_]

[209 Pietie; _Ed:_ Pietie, _1633-69_]

[214 offices;] offices, _1633_]

[217 wee _1633:_ me _1635-69_]

[219 wee, _Ed:_ wee _1633-69_

harkning, not _1633-69:_ heark'ning not _Chambers_]

[231 well, _1633_ (_but altered to_ will, _in some copies_), _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _N_, _S_, _TC:_ will, _1635-69_, _Lec_, _Chambers_, _Grolier_]