V. Per certo i bei voftr'occhi, Donna mia Scoffo mi il petto, e poi n'uscendo poco Giovane piano, e femplicetto amante De penfieri leggiadro, accorto, e buono; 5 10 5 Quando rugge il gran mondo, e fcocca il tuono, 、 S'arma di fe, e d'intero diamante, Tanto del forse, e d'invidia ficuro, Di timori, e fperanze al popol use Quanto d'ingegno, e d' alto valor vago, E di cetra fonora, e delle mufe: ΙΟ Sol Sol troverete in tol parte`men duro Ove Amor mise l'infanabil ago. VII. On his being arriv'd to the age of 23. How foon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, That I to manhood am arriv'd fo near, And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits indu'th. Yet be it lefs or more, or foon or flow, 5 ΙΟ It fhall be ftill in ftricteft measure even To that fame lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of HeaAll is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye. VIII. (ven; When the affault was intended to the City. Captain or Colonel, or Knight in arms, Whofe chance on thefe defenfelefs doors may feife, If deed of honor did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee, for he knows the charms That call fame on fuch gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and feas, 5 What Whatever clime the fun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy fpear against the Mufes bow'r: The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple' and tow'r Went to the ground: And the repeated air Of fad Electra's poet had the pow'r To fave th' Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX. To a virtuous young Lady. 5 Lady that in the prime of earliest youth To fill thy odorous lamp with deeds of light, 10 And hope that reaps not fhame. Therefore be fure Thou, when the bridegroom with his feastful friends Paffes to blifs at the mid hour of night, Haft gain'd thy entrance, Virgin wife and pure. X. To the Lady Margaret Ley. Daughter to that good Earl, once President Who Who liv'd in both, unstain'd with gold or fee, And left them both, more in himself content Till fad the breaking of that Parlament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chæronea, fatal to liberty, Kill'd with report that old man eloquent. Though later born than to have known the days Wherein father florish'd, yet by you, your Madam, methinks I fee him living yet? So well your words his noble virtues praise, XI. 5 ΙΟ On the detraction which follow'd upon my writing certain treatifes. A book was writ of late call'd Tetrachordon, And woven close, both matter, form and flile; The subject new it walk'd the town a while, Numbering good intellects; now feldom por'd on. Cries the ftall-reader, Blefs us! what a word on 5 A title page is this! and fome in file Stand fpelling falfe, while one might walk to MileEnd Green. Why is it harder Sirs than Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galafp? 9 Those rugged names to our like mouths grow fleek, That would have made Quintilian ftare and gasp. Thy age, like ours, O Soul of Sir John Cheek, Hated Hated not learning worse than toad or asp, I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs Which after held the fun and moon in fee. To Mr. H. LAWES on his Airs. Harry, whofe tuneful and well-measur'd fong 6 tongue. M m Thou |