And let fome ftrange myfterious dream

Wave at his wings in airy ftream
Of lively portrature difplay'd,
Softly on my eye-lids laid.

And as I wake, fweet mufick breath
Above, about, or underneath,
Sent by fome fpirit to mortals good,
Or th'unfeen Genius of the wood.
But let my due feet never fail,
To walk the ftudious cloyfters pale,
And love the high embowed roof,
With antick pillars maffy proof,
And ftoried windows richly dight,
Cafting a dimm religious light.
There let the pealing Organ blow,
To the full voic'd Quire below,

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In fervice high, and anthems clear,

As may with fweetness, through mine ear,
Diffolve me into extafies,

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And bring all Heav'n before mine eyes;

And may at last my weary age

Find out the peaceful hermitage,
The hairy gown and mofly Cell,
Where I may fit and rightly fpell
Of every Star that Heav'n doth shew,
And every herb that fips the dew ;.
Till old experience do attain
To fomething like prophetic ftrain.
Thefe pleasures Melancholy give,
And I with thee will choose to live,

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Part of an Entertainment prefented to the Countess dowager of Derby at Harefield, by fome Noble Perfons of her Family, who appear on the Scene in Paftoral habit, moving toward the feat of State, with this Song.

1. SONG.

Ook Nymphs, and Shepherds look,
What fudden blaze of Majesty
Is that which we from hence descry
Too divine to be miftook:

This this is the

To whom our vows and wishes bend,
Here our folemn fearch hath end.
Fame that her high worth to raise,
Seem'd erft fo lavish and profufe,
We may justly now accufe
Of detraction from her praife;
Lefs than half we find expreft,
Envy bid conceal the rest.
Mark what radiant ftate fhe fpreds,
In circle round her fhining throne,
Shooting her beams like filver threds,
This this is the alone,

Sitting like a Goddess bright,
In the center of her light.
Might the the wife Latona be,
Or the towred Cybele,

Mother of a hundred Gods;
Juno dares not give her odds;

Who had thought this clime had held
A Deity fo unparallel'd?

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