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So mounting up in icy-pearled car,
Through middle empire of the freezing air
He wander'd long, till thee he'spy'd from far;
There ended was his quest, there ceas'd his care.
Down he defcended from his fnow-foft chair,

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But all unwares with his cold-kind embrace 20 Unhous'd thy virgin foul from her fair biding place. IV.

Yet art thou not inglorious in thy fate;
For fo Apollo, with unweeting hand,
Whilome did flay his dearly-loved mate,
Young Hyacinth born on Eurota's ftrand,
Young Hyacinth the pride of Spartan land;

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But then transform'd him to a purple flower: Alack that fo to change thee Winter had no power. J V.

Yet can I not perfuade me thou art dead,
Or that thy corfe corrupts in 'earth's dark womb,
Or that thy beauties lie in wormy bed,

Hid from the world in a low delved tomb;
Could Heav'n for pity thee so strictly doom?

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Oh no! for fomething in thy face did shine Above mortality, that show'd thou waft divine. 35 VI.

Resolve me then, oh Soul most surely blest,
(If so it be that thou these plaints dost hear)
Tell me bright Spirit where'er thou hoverest,

Whether

Whether above that high first-moving sphere,
Or in th' Elysian fields (if such there were)

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Oh say me true, if thou wert mortal wight, And why from us fo quickly thou didft take thy flight. VII..

Wert thou fome ftar which from the ruin'd roof,
Of fhak'd Olympus by mischance didst fall;
Which careful Jove in nature's true behoof
Took up, and in fit place did reinstall?
Or did of late earth's fons besiege the wall

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Of sheeny Heav'n, and thou fome Goddess fled Amongst us here below to hide thy nectar'd head? VIII.

Or wert thou that juft Maid who once before 50-
Forfook the hated earth, O tell me footh,
And cam'ft again to visit us once more?
Or wert thou that sweet smiling Youth?

Or that crown'd matron fage white-robed Truth?
Or any other of that heav'nly brood

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Or wert thou of the golden-winged hoft,
Who having clad thyfelf in human weed,
To carth from thy prefixed feat didst post,
And after short abode fly back with speed,
As if to fhow what creatures Heav'n doth breed,
Thereby to fet the hearts of men on fire
To fcorn the fordid world, and unto heav'n afpire?

But

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But oh why didst thou not stay here below
To bless us with thy heav'n-lov'd innocence, 65
To flake his wrath whom fin hath made our foe,
To turn swift-rushing black perdition hence,
Or drive away the flaughtering peftilence,

To ftand 'twixt us and our deserved smart? 69 But thou canst beft perform that office where thou art. XI.

Then thou the mother of so sweet a Child
Her false imagin'd lofs cease to lament,
And wifely learn to curb thy forrow's wild;
Think what a present thou to God hast sent,
And render him with patience what he lent; 75
This if thou do, he will an ofspring give, (live.
That till the world's laft end fhall make thy name to
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Anno AEtatis 19. At a Vacation Exercife in the college, part Latin, part English. The Latin Speeches ended, the English thus began:

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AIL native Language, that by finews weak Didst move my first endevoring tongue to speak, And mad'st imperfect words with childish trips, Half unpronounc'd, flide through my infant-lips, Driving dumb filence from the portal door, Where he had mutely fat two years before: Here I falute thee, and thy pardon afk,

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That now I use thee in my latter task :

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Small lofs it is that thence can come unto thee,
I know my tongue but little grace can do thee: 10
Thou need'ft not be ambitious to the first,
Believe me I have thither packt the worst:
And, if it happen as I did forecast,

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The daintieft dishes shall be ferv'd up laft.
I pray thee then deny me not thy aid
For this fame fmall neglect that I have made :
But hafte thee ftrait to do me once a pleasure,
And from thy wardrobe bring thy chiefeft treasure,
Not those new fangled toys, and trimming slight
Which takes our late fantastics with delight,
But cull those richest robes, and gay'st attire
Which deepest spirits, and choiceft wits defire:
I have some naked thoughts that rove about,
And loudly knock to have their passage out;
And weary of their place do only stay
Till thou haft deck'd them in thy best array;
That so they may without suspect or fears
Fly swiftly to this fair assembly's ears;
Yet I had rather, if I were to chuse,

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Thy service in some graver subject use,

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Such as may make thee search thy coffers round, Before thou clothe my fancy in fit sound:

may foar

Such where the deep transported mind
Above the wheeling poles, and at Heav'n's door
Look in, and fee each blissful Deity

How he before the thunderous throne doth lie,

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Lift'ning

Lift'ning to what unfhorn Apollo fings

To th' touch of golden wires, while Hebe brings Immortal nectar to her kingly fire:

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Then paffing through the spheres of watchful fire,
And mifty regions of wide air next under,
And hills of snow and lofts of piled thunder,
May tell at length how green-ey'd Neptune raves,
In Heav'n's defiance mustering all his waves;
Then fing of fecret things that came to pass
When beldam Nature in her cradle was;
And laft of kings and queens and heroes old,
Such as the wife Demodocus once told
In folemn fongs at king Alcinous feast,

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While fad Ulyffes foul and all the rest
Are held with his melodious harmony
In willing chains and sweet captivity.
But fie, my wand'ring Muse, how thou doft stray!
Expectance calls thee now another way,
Thou know'ft it must be now thy only bent
To keep in compass of thy predicament:
Then quick about thy purpos'd business come,
That to the next I may resign my room.
Then Ens is represented as father of the Predicaments his
ten fons, whereof the eldest stood for Substance with his
canons, which Ens, thus fpeaking, explains:

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OOD luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth

The faery ladies danc'd upon the hearth; 60

Thy

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