THE THIRD ELEGIE. Ich, churlish LAND! that hid'st so long in thee, R My treasures, rich, alas, by robbing mee. Needs must my miseryes owe that man a spite But ly'n lock't up safe in their sacred shores. Men had not spurn'd at mountaines; nor made warrs With rocks; nor bold hands struck the world's strong barres. Nor lost in too larg bounds, our little Rome Full sweetly with it selfe had dwell't at home. Had under some low roofe lov'd his plain wife Wittnesse, chast heavns! no happyer vowes I know Nor doe embraces onely make a bride. The QUEEN of angels, (and men chast as You) With happy gain her maiden vowes made good. My bosome's guard, a SPIRIT great & strong, Wakefull, her dear vowes undefil'd to keep. PALLAS beares armes, forsooth, and should there be No gaping gorgon, this. Of your learn'd lyes. None, like the rest lyes. Here you'l find no such jest. Half true, alas, half false, proves that poor line. N DESCRIPTION OF A RELIGIOUS HOUSE AND CONDITION OF LIFE (OUT OF BARCLAY.) O roofes of gold o're riotous tables shining Whole dayes & suns devour'd with endlesse dining; False lights of flairing gemmes; tumultuous joyes; Our lodgings hard & homely as our fare. That chast & cheap, as the few clothes we weare. Obedient slumbers; that can wake & weep, Hands full of harty labours; doe much, that more they may, New drops, wash off the sweat of this daye's sorrows. A respiration of reviving deaths. But neither are there those ignoble stings That nip the bosome of the world's best things, And lash Earth-laboring souls. No cruell guard of diligent cares, that keep Home to the originall sourse of LIGHT & intellectuall Day. ΑΝ EPITAPH UPON A YOUNG MARRIED COUPLE DEAD AND BURYED TOGETHER. To these, whom DEATH again did wed, This GRAVE's their second Marriage-bed; Love made the bed; They'l take no harm |