To turn Swift-rushing black perdition hence, To ftand 'twixt us and our deserved smart But thou canst best perform that office where thou art. II. 70 Then thou the mother of so sweet a child Anno Etatis 19. At a Vacation Exercife in the Colledge, part Latin, part English. The Latin speeches ended, the English thus began. AIL native Language, that by finews weak to speak, And mad'st imperfect words with childish tripps, Here I falute thee and thy pardon ask, That now I use thee in my latter task: Small lofs it is that thence can come unto thee, Believe me I have thither packt the worst: The dainteft dishes fhall be ferv'd up laft. I thee then deny me not thy aide 20 pray For this fame small neglect that I have made : But hafte thee ftrait to do me once a Pleasure, And from thy wardrope bring thy chiefest treasure; Not those new fangled toys, and triming flight Which takes our late fantasticks with delight, But cull those richest Robes, and gay'st attire Which deepest Spirits, and choicest Wits defire: I have fome naked thoughts that rove about And loudly knock to have their passage out; And wearie of their place do only stay Till thou haft deck't them in thy best aray; That fo they may without suspect or fears Fly swiftly to this fair Affembly's ears; Yet I had rather if I were to chufe, Thy service in fome graver subject use, Such as may make thee search thy coffers round, Before thou cloath my fancy in fit found: Such where the deep transported mind may Above the wheeling poles, and at Heav'ns dore Look in, and fee each blissful Deitie 30 foare How he before the thunderous throne doth lie, Listening to what unfhorn Apollo fings To th'touch of golden wires, while Hebe brings Immortal Nectar to her Kingly Sire: 39 Then paffing through the Spherse of watchful fire, And mistie Regions of wide air next under, In folemn Songs at King Alcinous feast, 50 Then Ens is reprefented as Father of the Prædicaments his ten Sons, whereof the Eldeft food for Substance with his Canons, which Ens thus Speaking, explains. 60 Good luck befriend thee Son; for at thy birth [ftill Yet there is something that doth force my fear, 70 For once it was my dismal hap to hear And peace fhall lull him in her flowry lap; To harbour those that are at enmity. What power, what force, what mighty fpell, if not Your learned hands, can loofe this Gordian knot? The next Quantity and Quality, Spake in Profe, then Relation was call'd by his Name. 91 RIVERS arife; whether thou be the Son, Or Rockie Avon, or of Sedgie Lee, On the Morning of Chrift's I. HIS is the Month, and this the happy morn Wherein the Son of Heav'ns eternal King, Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born, Our great Redemption from above did bring; For fo the holy Sages once did fing, That he our deadly forfeit should release, And with his Father work us a perpetual peace. 2. That glorious Form, that Light unsufferable, Wherewith he wont at Heav'ns high Councel- He laid afide; and here with us to be, Forfook the Courts of everlasting Day, [Table, And chofe with us a darksom House of mortal Clay. 3. Say Heav'nly Muse, shall not thy facred vein |