This advertise he had that once in three weeks or a monk he would drop into the svelty gaore yours pack often acquaintance, the chief wherery were chrophy & du tiller Fidd pentlemen of Gray's Inn, the Bean's of those days but nothing near so bade, SONNETS. Hise now 213 213 days, with thee for Never he would so for make hold with his body as Mark Par 129 now then to keep XX. TO MR. LAWRENCE. president of Oliver's Council LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire Of Attic taste, with wine, whence we may rise XXI. TO CYRIAC SKINNER. CYRIAC, whose grandsire on the royal bench Coke pause, * Lawrence published a work called 'Of our Communion and Warre with Angels,' &c. 1646. 4to. Todd. See British Bibliographer, vol. i. p. 352. " Euclid] See Censura Literaria, vi. P. 144. wwith worse as then who give their lives Wrap only plot ereupon concluded & employ the little remaining cus was to enjoy in dompthin the greatest service for real it wasir any power to saver 2nd Defined 9 And what the Swede intends, and what the French. ? cataract seeffusion or 1655 XXII. TO THE SAME ur dronser year, 5 CYRIAC, this three years day these eyes, tho' clear, And what the Swede intends] So the MS. The first ed. 11 mild Heaven] So Son. xix. bear his mild yoke.' Sil. Italicus, iv. Par. Reg. ii. 125, these mild seats.' 795, Mite et cognatum est homini deus.' More's Poems, p. 196. 3 Bereft, &c.] In the printed copies, 'Bereft of sight their seeing have forgot, Or sun or moon. Newton. 7 a] In the printed copies,' one.' Newton. And Hen. Elly eyes are externally uninjured. They thine with an undraded light just like the cas like the eve of one whose vision who beck. This it is the only it in which I am against any will a hypoonte". inl. 27. Besed 1-t years who the exordium of Book the of Paradise cut was intre pathetic story the handuk Is little fouthaf ереже Of which all Europe rings from side to side, vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE, Catharine Woodcocks, marred 1651 a 165-gelohnson METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint And such, as yet once more I trust to have Her face was veil'd, yet to my fancied sight 10 But O, as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my 12 rings] So the printed copies before Newton's edition, 'Whereof all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through this world's vain mask, * The original various readings to the sonnets from the Tranity fades away to incompatible with the de occasion Work Pat) PSALMS. PSALM I. DONE INTO VERSE, 1653. BLESS'D is the man who hath not walk'd astray In counsel of the wicked, and i' th' way Of sinners hath not stood, and in the seat Of scorners hath not sat. PSALM II. DONE AUG. 8, 1653. TERZETTI, 5 10 WHY do the Gentiles tumult, and the nations Muse a vain thing, the kings of th' earth upstand With pow'r, and princes in their congregations Lay deep their plots together through each land Against the Lord and his Messiah dear? Let us break off, say they, by strength of hand Their bonds, and cast from us, no more to wear, Their twisted cords: He who in heav'n doth dwell Shall laugh, the Lord shall scoff them, then severe Speak to them in his wrath, and in his fell And fierce ire trouble them; but I, saith he, Anointed have my King (though ye rebel) On Sion my holy' hill. A firm decree I will declare; the Lord to me hath said Thou art my Son, I have begotten thee This day; ask of me, and the grant is made; As thy possession I on thee bestow 10 15 Th' Heathen, and as thy conquest to be sway'd Earth's utmost bounds: them shalt thou bring full low With iron sceptre bruised, and them disperse And now be wise at length ye Kings averse, If once his wrath take fire like fuel sere. 18 Heathen] Warton in both editions reads The Hea ven.' Todd. 25 |