VPON BISHOP ANDREWS' PICTURE BEFORE

HIS SERMONS.1

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THIS reverend shadow cast that setting sun,
Whose glorious course through our horrizon run,
Left the dimme face of this dull hemisphere,
All one great eye, all drown'd in one great teare.
Whose faire, illustrious soule, led his free thought
Through Learning's vniverse, and (vainly) sought
Room for her spatious selfe, untill at length
Shee found the way home, with an holy strength;
Snatch't her self hence to Heaven: fill'd a bright place,
'Mongst those immortall fires, and on the face

Of her great Maker fixt her flaming eye,

There still to read true, pure divinity.

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1 The first edition of Bishop Andrewes' Sermons was published in 1629. Its title was 'XCVI Sermons by the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God, Launcelot Andrewes, late Lord Bishop of Winchester.' It is dedicated to the King by Laud and Buckeridge, Bishop of Ely, the latter adding a funeral sermon. It has no frontispiece. LOWNDES, as other bibliographers, does not seem to have known the edition of 1629. He calls that of 1631 the first, while it was the second; and he says it had a frontispiece, which is incorrect, if I may judge from a number of copies personally examined. The third edition (1635) I have not seen: but in the quarto (1641) appears a frontispiece-portrait, having the lines above, but no name or initials. Line 8 TURNBULL misprints and, with holy.' G.

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Ne're sathol. vet his little arrow,

Of Heaven's high'st arches to fall narrow.
Ti.. 11 that on his quiver smiles,

Deceives non's fares with flattering wiles.
Bat O—to well my wouds can tell--
With bitter shafts 'tis sane't too well.
He is all crull, cruell all,

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His torch imperious though but small
Makes the sunne - of flames the sire-
Worse than sun burnt in his fire.

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Wheresoe're you chance to find him

Ceaze him, bring him--but first bind him

Pity not lim, but feare thy selfe

Though thou see the crafty elfe,

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Fell down his silver drops unto thee:

They're Counterteit, and will undoe thee.
With baited smiles if he display

His tawning cheeks, looke not that way.

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If he offer signed kisses,

Start, and say, the serpent hisses.

Draw him, drag him, though he pray

Wooe, intreat, and crying say

Prethee, sweet, now let me go,

Here's my quiver, shafts and bow,

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Ile give thee all, take all; take heed

Lest his kindnesse make thee bleed.

What e're it be Loue offers, still presume

That though it shines, 'tis fire and will consume.

VPON BISHOP ANDREWS' PICTURE BEFORE

HIS SERMONS.1

I

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THIS reverend shadow cast that setting sun,
Whose glorious course through our horrizon run,
Left the dimme face of this dull hemisphere,
All one great eye, all drown'd in one great teare.
Whose faire, illustrious soule, led his free thought
Through Learning's vniverse, and (vainly) sought
Room for her spatious selfe, untill at length
Shee found the way home, with an holy strength;
Snatch't her self hence to Heaven: fill'd a bright place,
'Mongst those immortall fires, and on the face.

Of her great Maker fixt her flaming eye,
There still to read true, pure divinity.

1 The first edition of Bishop Andrewes' Sermons was published in 1629. Its title was 'XCVI Sermons by the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God, Launcelot Andrewes, late Lord Bishop of Winchester.' It is dedicated to the King by Laud and Buckeridge, Bishop of Ely, the latter adding a funeral sermon. It has no frontispiece. LOWNDES, as other bibliographers, does not seem to have known the edition of 1629. He calls that of 1631 the first, while it was the second; and he says it had a frontispiece, which is incorrect, if I may judge from a number of copies personally examined. The third edition (1635) I have not seen: but in the quarto (1641) appears a frontispiece-portrait, having the lines above, but no name or initials. Line 8 TURNBULL misprints and, with holy.' G.

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