Shalt flote; where while thou layst thy lovely head, Nor feare the boysterous names of Bloud and Warre: They've here no other businesse but to die. To the Queen. But stay; what glimpse was that? why blusht the day? Why ran the started aire trembling away? Who's this that comes circled in rayes that scorn Stept from her throne of starres, deignes to be seen? 'Tis she, 'tis she: Her awful beauties chase The Day's abashed glories, and in face Of noon wear their own Sunshine. O thou bright Illustrious sweetnesse! in thy faithfull wombe, Then let the Eastern world brag and be proud Of one coy Phenix, while we have a brood, A brood of Phenixes; while we have Brother And Sister-Phenixes, and still the Mother. And may we long! Long mayst Thou live t'increase The house and family of Phenixes. Nor may the life that gives their eye-lids light E're prove the dismall morning of thy night: Ne're may a birth of thine be bought so dear O mayst thou thus make all the year thine own, And see such names of joy sit white upon The brow of every month! And when th'hast done, Repeated, and that son still in another, Pardon, bright Excellence, an untun'd string, That in thy eares thus keeps a murmuring. O speake a lowly Muses pardon, speake Her pardon, or her sentence; onely breake Thy silence. Speake, and she shall take from thence Numbers, and sweetnesse, and an influence Confessing Thee. Or if too long I stay, O speake Thou, and my Pipe hath nought to say: But Gods are gracious; and their Altars make Q Bulla. Uid tibi vana suos offert mea bulla tumores? Quid facit ad vestrum pondus inane meum? Expectat nostros humeros toga fortior; ista En mea bulla, lares en tua dextra mihi. Quid tu? qua nova machina, Sphærâ plena volubili. Iris lubrica cursitans Centum per species vagas, Et campi levis æquore Ordo insanus obambulans Passim se fugit, & fugat; Passim perdit, & invenit. Pulchrum spargitur hîc Chaos. Hic viva, hic vaga flumina Ripâ non propriâ meant, Sed miscent socias vias, Communig sub alveo Stipant delicias suas. Quarum proximitas vaga Tam discrimine lubrico, Tam subtilibus arguit Juncturam tenuem notis, Pompa ut florida nullibi Sinceras habeat vias; Nec vultu niteat suo. Sed dulcis cumulus novos Miscens purpureus sinus Flagrant divitiis suis, Privatum renuens jubar. Floris diluvio vagi, Floris Sydere publico Latè ver subit aureum, Atque effunditur in suæ Vires undique Copia. Nempe omnis quia cernitur, Nullus cernitur hic color, Et vicinia contumax Allidit species vagas. Illic contiguis aquis Marcent pallidulæ faces. Unda hic vena tenellulæ, Flammis ebria proximis Discit purpureas vias, Et rubro salit alveo. Ostri Sanguineum jubar Lambunt lactea flumina; Suasu cærulei maris Mansuescit seges aurea; Et lucis faciles gene Et quicquid rota lubrica |