SICKNESS, the minister of Death, doth lay
So strong a siege against our brittle clay,
As, whilst it doth our weak forts singly win,
It hopes at length to take all mankind in.
First, it begins upon the womb to wait,
And doth the unborn child there uncreate;
Then rocks the cradle where the infant lies; 41
Where, ere it fully be alive, it dies.

It never leaves fond youth, until it have Hardin A
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By thousand subtle slights from heedless gan
It cuts the short allowance of a 'span's 151
And where both sober life and art combine
To keep it out, age makes them both resign.
Thus, by degrees, it only gain'd of late fat!
The weak, the aged, or intemperate ;*-
But now the tyrant hath found out a way ezt
By which the sober, strong, and young, decay;
Ent'ring his royal limbs, that is our head,
Through us, his mystic limbs, the pain is spread.
That man that doth not feel his part, hath neme
In any part of his dominion; 10% an
If he hold land, that earth is forfeited,
And he unfit on any ground to tread.
This grief is felt at court, where it doth move
Through every joint, like the true soul of love.
All those fair stars that do attend on him,”
Whence they derive their light, wax pale and din:
That ruddy morning-beam of majesty,
Which should the Sun's eclipsed light supply,
Is overcast with mists, and in the lieu

Of cheerful rays, sends us down drops of dew.
That curious form made of an earth refin'd,
At whose blest birth the gentle planets shin'd..
With fair aspects, and sent a glorious flame
To animate so beautiful a frame;-

That darling of the gods and men doth wear --
A cloud on 's brow, and in his eye a tear-de
And all the rest (save when his dread command
Doth bid them move) like lifeless statues stand
So full of grief, so generally worn,

Shows a good king is sick, and good men moura,

My rival, and did court my flame.

She did from hand to bosom skip,

And from her breath, her cheek, and lip,
Suck'd all the incense and the spice,
And grew a bird of paradise:

At last into her eye she flew,

There scorch'd in flames and drown'd in dew, Like Phaeton from the Sun's sphere,

her dropp'd a tear;

She fell, and with straight compos'd,"

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Wherein her ashes lie enclos'd.

Thus she receiv'd from Celia's eye," Funeral flame, tomb obsequy.

SONG.

CELIA SINGING.

HARK how my Celia, with the choice
Music of her hand and voice

Stills the loud wind; and makes the wild
Incensed boar and panther mild!

1Cupid.

SEEK not to know my love, for she
Hath vow'd her constant faith to me;
Her mild aspects are mine, and thou
Shalt only find a stormy brow:
For, if her beauty stir desire
In me, her kisses quench the fire
Or, I can to Love's fountain go,
Or dwell upon her ills of snow and wor
But when thou burn'st, she shall not spare
One gentle breath to cool the air; te
Thou shalt not climb those alpis, nor spy
Where the sweet springs of Venus lie.
Search hidden nature, and there find
A treasure to enrich thy minds.
Discover arts not yet reveal'd,
But let my mistress live conceal'd;
Though men by knowledge wiser grow,
Yet here 'tis wisdom not to know.

HENCE, vain intruder! hast away,
Wash not with unhallowed brine
The footsteps of my Celia's shrine;
Nor on her purer altars lay
Thy empty words, accents that may
Some looser dame to love incline :
She must have offerings more divine;
Such pearly drops, as youthful May
Scatters before the rising day;

Such smooth soft language, as each line
Might stroake' an angry god, or stay
Jove's thunder, make the hearers pine
With envy do this, thou shalt be
Servant to her, rival with me.

1 An ancient phrase for pacify.

BOLDNESS IN LOVE. MARK how the bashful morn in vain Courts the amorous marigold With sighing blasts and weeping rain Yet she refuses to unfold: But when the planet of the day Approacheth with his powerful ray, Then she spreads, then she receives His warmer beams into her virgin leaves?. So shalt thou thrive in love, fond boy; If thy tears and sighs discover Thy grief, thou never shalt enjoy

The just reward of a bold lover:" But when with moving accents thou Shalt constant faith and service vow, Thy Celia shall receive those charms With open ears, and with unfolded arms.

A modern poet seems to have availed himself of this beautiful passage, and made a very happy use of it. See the Fables of Flora, Fab. I.We may observe here, that many, very many of the most beautiful passages which are found in the poems of this age, have been borrowed from the neglected bards of the 16th and 17th centuries.

2 That the reader may not be surprised at our author's having entitled this piece a Pastoral Dialogue, in which we do not find even the most distant allusion drawn from pastoral life; it may be necessary to inform him, that it was a prevailing custom in our author's time, to style almost every poetical dialogue of which love was the subject, pastoral. Most of the wits of Charles's court left propriety to be studied by the following age.

They kist, and wept; and from their lips and eyes,
In a mixt dew of briny sweet,
Their joys and sorrows meet2;
But she crys out. NYм. Shepherd, arise,
The Sun betrays us else to spies.

'This pastoral dialogue seems to be entirely ap imitation of the scene between Romeo and Juliet, Act. iii. sc. 7. The time, the persons, the sentiments, the expressions, are the same. JUL. Yon light is not day-light, I know it well; It is some meteor, &c.

To light thee on thy way to Mantua.

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Else, as Semele, the bright, mitt mimi, trol
Deity in her full height? endala
May thy feeble soul oppresso
Strong perfumes and glaring light
Oft destroy both smell and sight.

with inattention. The delicacy of the thought is equalled only by the simplicity of the description. Those soft sensations which arise in lovers when. their joys and sorrows meet, as a man of genius only can describe them, so a man of taste only can 'conceive them.

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Loaden enough with my own woe:
Add not thy heaviness to mine;
Since fate our pleasures must disjoin,
Why should our sorrows meet? If I
Must go, and lose thy company,

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Away with me; so shall thy breast
And eyes, discharg'd, enjoy their rest
And it will glad my heart, to see
Thou wert thus loth to part with me,
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