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Anniversary Poems-John Donne · Narrative of Frederick Douglass' Life

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  Speaker 1: The First Anniversary consisting of to the Praise of the
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  Speaker 1: Dead in the anatomy An Anatomy of the World, and
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  Speaker 1: An Anatomy of the World by John Dung, wherein by
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  Speaker 1: occasion of the untimely death of Mistress Elizabeth Drury, the
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  Speaker 1: frailty and the decay of this whole world is represented
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  Speaker 1: the first Anniversary to the Praise of the Dead, and
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  Speaker 1: the anatomy Well died the World that we might live
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  Speaker 1: to see this world of wit. In his anatomy, no
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  Speaker 1: evil wants is good. So wilder heirs bid you their
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  Speaker 1: father's tombs with forced tears, whose state requites their loss.
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  Speaker 1: Whilst thus we gain, well, may we walk in blacks
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  Speaker 1: but not complain? Yet, how can I con scent the
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  Speaker 1: world is dead? While this muse lives, which, in his
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  Speaker 1: spirit stead seems to inform a world, and bids it
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  Speaker 1: be in spite of loss or fray immortality. And thou
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  Speaker 1: the subject of this well born thought? Thrice noble maid
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  Speaker 1: couldst not have found nor sought a fitter time to
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  Speaker 1: yield to thy sad fate than whilst this spirit lives,
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  Speaker 1: that can relate thy worth so well to our last
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  Speaker 1: nephew's thine that they shall wonder both at his and
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  Speaker 1: thine admirred match where strives in mutual grace, the cunning
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  Speaker 1: pencil and the comely face, a task which thy fair
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  Speaker 1: goodness made too much for the bold pride of vulgar
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  Speaker 1: pens to touch. Enough is us to praise them, that
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  Speaker 1: praise thee, and say that, but enough those praises be,
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  Speaker 1: which hadst thou lived, had hid their fearful head from
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  Speaker 1: the angry checkings of thy mindest read death bar's reward
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  Speaker 1: and shame. When envy's gone and gain, tis safe to
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  Speaker 1: give the dead their own as then the wise Egyptians
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  Speaker 1: want to lay more in their tombs than houses, these
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  Speaker 1: of clay, but those of brass or marble work. So
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  Speaker 1: we give more unto thy ghost than unto THEE. Yet
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  Speaker 1: what we give to thee, thou gavest to us, and
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  Speaker 1: mayst but thank thyself for being thus. Yet what thou
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  Speaker 1: gav'st and wert o happy maid thy grace, profess'd all
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  Speaker 1: due were tis repaid. So these high songs that to
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  Speaker 1: thee suit had been served but to sound thy maker's
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  Speaker 1: praise in thine, which thy dear soul as sweetly sings
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  Speaker 1: to him amid the choir of saints and seraphim as
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  Speaker 1: any angel's tongue and sing of thee. The subjects differ,
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  Speaker 1: though the skill agree for or as by infant year's
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  Speaker 1: men judge of age, Thy early love, thy virtues did
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  Speaker 1: presage what on high part thou bear'st in those best songs,
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  Speaker 1: where to no burden nor no end belongs. Sing on thou,
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  Speaker 1: virgin soul, whose loss will gain thy love. Sick parents
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  Speaker 1: have bewail'd in vain. Never may thy name be in
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  Speaker 1: our songs for God, till we shall sing thy ditty
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  Speaker 1: and thy note. An anatomy of the world. The first
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  Speaker 1: anniversary when that rich soul which to her heaven is gone,
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  Speaker 1: whom all to celebrate, who know they have won? For
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  Speaker 1: who is sure he hath the soul unless it see
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  Speaker 1: and judge and follow worthiness, and by deeds praise it.
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  Speaker 1: He who doth not this may lodge an inmate soul,
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  Speaker 1: but tis not his When that Queen ended here her
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  Speaker 1: progress time, and as to a standing house to heaven
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  Speaker 1: did climb where loth to make the saints attend her long.
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  Speaker 1: She is now a part both of the choir and
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  Speaker 1: song this world. In that great earthquake languish it, for
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  Speaker 1: in a common bath of tears it bled, which drew
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  Speaker 1: the strongest vital spirits out, but succored then with a
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  Speaker 1: perplexed doubt whether the world did lose or gain in this,
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  Speaker 1: because since now no other way there is but goodness
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  Speaker 1: to see her, whom all would see almost endeavor to
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  Speaker 1: be good as she this great consumption to a fever turned,
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  Speaker 1: And so the world had fits, It joyed, it mourn'd.
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  Speaker 1: And as men think that egg Eus physic are and
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  Speaker 1: thegue beings spent give over care, so thou, sick world,
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  Speaker 1: mistakest thyself to be well, when alas thou in a lethargy,
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  Speaker 1: her death did wound and tame thee. Then and then
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  Speaker 1: thou might'st have better spared the sun or man. That
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  Speaker 1: wound was deep. But tis more misery that thou hast
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  Speaker 1: lost thy sense and memory twas heavy than to hear
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  Speaker 1: thy voice of moan. But this is worse that thou
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  Speaker 1: art speechless, grown, Thou hast forgot thy name, thou hadst
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  Speaker 1: thou wast nothing but she and her, thou'st or past,
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  Speaker 1: for as a child kept from the font until a
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  Speaker 1: prince expected long come to fulfill the ceremonies. Thou unnamed
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  Speaker 1: hast slaid, had not her coming. THEE her palace made
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  Speaker 1: her name defined. THEE gave thee form and frame, and
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  Speaker 1: thou forget'st to celebrate thy name. Some months she hath
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  Speaker 1: been dead, But being dead measures of time are all determined.
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  Speaker 1: But long sh hath been away, and long long yet
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  Speaker 1: none offers to tell us who it is that's gone.
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  Speaker 1: But as in states, doubtful of future errs, when sickness
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  Speaker 1: without remedy impairs the present prince, there loath it should
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  Speaker 1: is said, the Prince of the languish of the prince
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  Speaker 1: is dead. So mankind feeling now a general thaw, a
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  Speaker 1: strong example gone equal to law. The cement, which did
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  Speaker 1: faithfully compact and glue all virtues, now resolv'd and slack'd.
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  Speaker 1: Thought it some blasphemy to say she was dead, or
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  Speaker 1: that our weakness was discovered in that confession. Therefore, spoke
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  Speaker 1: no more than tongues. The soul being gone, the loss deplore.
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  Speaker 1: But though it be too late to succor thee sick world,
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  Speaker 1: beye a dead, yea putrefied. Since she thy intrinsic balm
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  Speaker 1: and thy preservative can never be renewed. Thou never live, Ay,
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  Speaker 1: since no man can make thee live, will try what
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  Speaker 1: we may gain by thy anatomy. Her death hath taught
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  Speaker 1: us dearly that thou art corrupt and mortal in thy
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  Speaker 1: purest part. Let no man say the world itself being dead,
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  Speaker 1: tis labor lost to have discovered the world's infirmities, since
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  Speaker 1: there is none alive to study this dissection. Where as
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  Speaker 1: a kind of world remaining still, though she which did
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  Speaker 1: inanimate and fill the world begone, Yet in this last
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  Speaker 1: long night her ghost doth well. That is, a glimmering light,
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  Speaker 1: a faint, weak love of virtue and of good reflects
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  Speaker 1: from her on them which understood her worth. And though
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  Speaker 1: she have shut in all day, the twilight of her
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  Speaker 1: memory doth stay, which from the carcass of the old
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  Speaker 1: world free creates a new world, and new creatures be produced.
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  Speaker 1: The matter and the stuff of this her virtue and
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  Speaker 1: the form our practice is. And though to be thus alimented,
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  Speaker 1: arm these creatures from home born intrinsic harm for all
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  Speaker 1: assumed unto this dignity. So many weedless paradises be, which
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  Speaker 1: of themselves produce no venomous sin, except some foreign serpent
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  Speaker 1: bring it in. Yet, because outward storms the strongest break,
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  Speaker 1: and strength itself by confidence grows weak. This new world
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  Speaker 1: may be safer being told the dangers and diseases of
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  Speaker 1: the old. For with you temper men do then forego
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  Speaker 1: or covet things when they are true worth know there
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  Speaker 1: is no health. Physicians say that we at best enjoy
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  Speaker 1: but a neutrality. And can there be worse sickness than
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  Speaker 1: to know that we are never well? Nor can be
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  Speaker 1: so we are born ruin us poor mothers cry that
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  Speaker 1: children come not right nor orderly, except they headlong come
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  Speaker 1: and fall upon an ominous precipitation. How witty ruin, how
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  Speaker 1: importunate upon mankind. It labored to frustrate even God's purpose,
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  Speaker 1: and made woman sent for men's relief cause of his languishment.
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  Speaker 1: They were to good ends, though they are so still
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  Speaker 1: but accessory and principle in ill For that first marriage
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  Speaker 1: was our funeral. One woman at one blow then killed
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  Speaker 1: us all, and singly, one by one they kill us.
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  Speaker 1: Now we do delightfully ourselves allowed to that consumption, and
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  Speaker 1: profusely blind we kill ourselves to propagate our kind, And
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  Speaker 1: yet we do not that we are not men. There
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  Speaker 1: is not now that mankind which was then, when as
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  Speaker 1: the son and man did seem to strive joint tenants
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  Speaker 1: of the world, who should survive when stag and raven
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  Speaker 1: and the long lived tree compared with man died in minority,
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  Speaker 1: when if a slow paced star had stolen away from
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  Speaker 1: the observer's marking, they might stay too oh three hundred
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  Speaker 1: years to seat again and then make up his observation
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  Speaker 1: plain When as the age was long, the size was great,
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  Speaker 1: man's growth confessed and rancompens the meat so spacious and
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  Speaker 1: large that every soul did a fair kingdom and large
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  Speaker 1: realm controlled. And when the very stature thus erect, did
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  Speaker 1: that soul a good way towards Heaven direct? Where is
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  Speaker 1: this mankind now who lives to age fit to be
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  Speaker 1: Methusalemi's page alas we scarce live long enough to try
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  Speaker 1: whether a true made clock run right or lie? Old
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  Speaker 1: grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, and for our children
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  Speaker 1: we reserved tomorrow. So short is life that every peasant
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  Speaker 1: strives in a torn house afield to have three lives.
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  Speaker 1: And as in lasting, so in length is man contracted
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  Speaker 1: to an inch who was a span. For had a
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  Speaker 1: man at first in forests, strayed or shipwrecked in the sea,
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  Speaker 1: one would have laid a wager that an elephant a
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  Speaker 1: whale that met him would not hastily assail a thing
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  Speaker 1: so equal to him. Now, alas the fairies and the
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  Speaker 1: pygmies well may pass as credible, mankind decays so soon
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  Speaker 1: were scarce our father's shadows cast at noon. Only death
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  Speaker 1: adds to our length. Nor are we grown in stature
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  Speaker 1: to be men? Did we are none but this were light?
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  Speaker 1: Did our less volume hold all the old text? Or
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  Speaker 1: had we chang'd to gold their silver or dispos'd into
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  Speaker 1: less glass spirits of virtue which then scattered was but
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  Speaker 1: is not? So? We're not retired but damned. And as
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  Speaker 1: our bodies saw, our minds are cramped tis shrinking, not weaving.
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  Speaker 1: That hath thus in mind and body both bedwarfed us.
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  Speaker 1: We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo of nothing.
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  Speaker 1: He made us, and we strive to to bring ourselves
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  Speaker 1: to nothing back, and we do what we can to
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  Speaker 1: do it. So soon as he with new diseases on
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  Speaker 1: ourselves we wore, and with new physic a worse engine. Far.
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  Speaker 1: Thus Man, this world's vice emperor, in whom all faculties,
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  Speaker 1: all graces are at home. And if in other creatures
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  Speaker 1: they appear, they are but Man's ministers and legates, there
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  Speaker 1: to work on their rebellions and reduce them civility into
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  Speaker 1: man's use. This man, whom God did woo and loath
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  Speaker 1: to ten till man came up, did down to man,
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  Speaker 1: descend this man so great that all that is is his. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: what a trifle and poor thing he is. If man
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  Speaker 1: were anything, is nothing. Now help or at least some
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  Speaker 1: time to waste, Allow tis other wants. Yet when he
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  Speaker 1: did depart with her, whom we lament, he lost his heart.
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  Speaker 1: She of whom ancients seemed to prophesy when they called
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  Speaker 1: virtues by the name of She, She in whom virtue
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  Speaker 1: was so much refined that for a lay unto so
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  Speaker 1: pure a mind, she took the weaker sex. She that
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  Speaker 1: could drive the poisonous tincture and the stain of Eve
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  Speaker 1: out of her thoughts and deeds, and purify all by
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  Speaker 1: a true religious alchemy. She she is dead. She is dead.
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  Speaker 1: When thou know'st this, thou know'st how poor trifling thing
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  Speaker 1: man is, and learn'st thus much by our anatomy, the
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  Speaker 1: heart being perish'd, no part can be free. And that
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  Speaker 1: except thou feed not a banquet on the supernatural food religion,
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  Speaker 1: thy better growth grows withered and scant. Be more than man,
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  Speaker 1: or thou less than an ant. Then as mankind, so
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  Speaker 1: is the world's whole frame qright out of joint, almost
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  Speaker 1: created lame. For before God had made up all the rest,
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  Speaker 1: corruption entered and depraved the best it sees the angels.
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  Speaker 1: And then first of all the world did in her
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  Speaker 1: cradle take a fall, and turned her brains, and took
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  Speaker 1: a general maime, wronging each joint of the universal frame.
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  Speaker 1: The noblest part man felt at first, and than both
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  Speaker 1: beasts and plants cursed in the curse of man. So
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  Speaker 1: did the world from the first hour decay that evening
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  Speaker 1: was beginning of the day. Now the springs and summers
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  Speaker 1: which we see see like sons of women after fifty
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  Speaker 1: be and new philosophy calls all in doubt. The element
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  Speaker 1: of fire is quite put out. The sun is lost,
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  Speaker 1: and the earth, And though men's wit can well direct
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  Speaker 1: him where to look for it, and freely men confess
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  Speaker 1: that this world spent. When in the planets and the
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  Speaker 1: firmament they seek so many new they see that this
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  Speaker 1: is crumbled out again to his atomies, tis all in pieces,
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  Speaker 1: all coherence gone, all just supply, and all relationan prince, subject,
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  Speaker 1: father son, are things for God. For every man alone
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  Speaker 1: thinks he hath got to be a phoenix, and that
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  Speaker 1: then can be none of that kind of which he is.
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  Speaker 1: But he this is the world's condition now. And now
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  Speaker 1: she that should all parts to reunion bow, She that
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  Speaker 1: had all magnetic force alone to draw and fasten sundered
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  Speaker 1: parts in one, She whom wise nature had invented. Then,
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  Speaker 1: when she observed that every sort of men did, in
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  Speaker 1: their voyage of this world see stray, and needed a
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  Speaker 1: new compass for their way, she that was best and
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  Speaker 1: first original of all fair copies, and the general steward
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  Speaker 1: to fate. She whose rich eyes and breast guilt the
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  Speaker 1: West Indies and perfumed the East, whose having breathed in
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  Speaker 1: this world, did bestow spice on those isles, and bade
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  Speaker 1: them still smell so. And that rich Indie which doth
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  Speaker 1: gold inter is but as single money coined from her.
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  Speaker 1: She to whom this world must itself refer as suburbs
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  Speaker 1: or the microcosm of her. She she is dead. She
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  Speaker 1: is dead. When thou know'st this, thou know'st how lame
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  Speaker 1: a cripple this world is, and learn'st thus much by
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  Speaker 1: our anatomy. That this world's general sickness doth not lie
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  Speaker 1: in any humor or one certain part. But as thou
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  Speaker 1: sawest it rotten at the heart, thou seest a hectic fever.
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  Speaker 1: Hath got hold of the whole substance not to be controll'd,
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  Speaker 1: And that thou hast but one way not to admit
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  Speaker 1: the world's infection to be none of it. For the
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  Speaker 1: world's subtlest, immaterial parts feel this, consuming wounds and ages darts.
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  Speaker 1: For the world's beauty is decayed or gone. Beauty that's
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  Speaker 1: color and proportia. We think the heavens enjoy their spherical,
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  Speaker 1: their round proportion, embracing all, but yet their various and
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  Speaker 1: perplexed course observ'd in divers ages, doth enforce men to
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  Speaker 1: find out so many eccentric parts such divers downright lines
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  Speaker 1: of overthwarts as disproportion that pure form. It tears the
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  Speaker 1: firmament in eight and forty shares. And in these constellations
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  Speaker 1: then arise new stars, and oh, do vanish from our eyes,
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  Speaker 1: as though heavens suffer'd earthquakes, peace or war? When new
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  Speaker 1: towers rise and old demolish'd, are they have impal'd within
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  Speaker 1: a zodiac? The free born sun and keep twelve signs
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  Speaker 1: awake to watch his steps. The goat and crab control
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  Speaker 1: and fright him back. Who else to either pole? Did
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  Speaker 1: not these tropics better he might run, for his course
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  Speaker 1: is not round, nor can the sun perfect a circle
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  Speaker 1: or maintain his way one inch direct. But where he
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  Speaker 1: rose to day he comes no more, but with a
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  Speaker 1: cozzening line steals by that point, And so is Serpentine,
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  Speaker 1: and seeming weary with his reeling, Thus he means to sleep,
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  Speaker 1: being now fall nearer us. So of the stars, which
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  Speaker 1: boast that they do run in circles, still none ends
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  Speaker 1: where he begun. All the proportions lame, It sinks, it
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  Speaker 1: swells for of meridians and parallels. Man hath weav'd out
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  Speaker 1: a net, and this net thrown upon the heavens. And
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  Speaker 1: now they are his own. Loath to go up the
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  Speaker 1: hill or labor thus to go to heaven, We make
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  Speaker 1: heaven come to us. We spur, we rain the stars.
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  Speaker 1: And in their race they're diversly content to bay our pace,
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  Speaker 1: but keeps the earth her round proportions. Still doth not
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  Speaker 1: a tenerif or higher hill rise so high like a
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  Speaker 1: rock that one might think the floating moon would shipwreck
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  Speaker 1: there and sink. Seas are so deep that whales, being
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  Speaker 1: struck to day, perchance to morrow scarce at middle way
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  Speaker 1: of their wish journeys, end the bottom die, and men
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  Speaker 1: to sound depth so much line untie as one might
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  Speaker 1: justly think that there would rise at then thereof one
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  Speaker 1: of antipodies. If under all a vault infernal bee, which
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  Speaker 1: sure is spacious, except that we invent another torment, that
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  Speaker 1: there must millions into a straight hot room be thrust,
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  Speaker 1: then solidness and roundness have no place. Are these but
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  Speaker 1: warts and pock holes in the face of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Think so, but yet confess in this the world's Proportionan disfigured,
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  Speaker 1: is that those two legs, whereon it doth rely reward
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  Speaker 1: and punishment are bent awry. And oh it can no
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  Speaker 1: more be questioned that beauty's best proportionan is dead, since
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  Speaker 1: even brief its self, which now alone is left us,
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  Speaker 1: is without proportion. She by whose lines proportion should be
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  Speaker 1: examin'd measure of all symmetry. Whom had that ancient scene
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  Speaker 1: who thought souls made of harmony, he would at next
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  Speaker 1: have said that harmony was she, and thence infer that
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  Speaker 1: souls were but resultances from her, and did from her
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  Speaker 1: into our bodies go as to our eyes the forms
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  Speaker 1: from objects blow. She who, if those great doctors truly
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  Speaker 1: said that dark to man's proportions was made, had been
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  Speaker 1: a type for that, as that might be a type
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  Speaker 1: of her in this that contrary both elements and passions
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  Speaker 1: lived at peace, In her who caused all civil war
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  Speaker 1: to cease. She after whom, what form soe'er we see
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  Speaker 1: is discord and root incongruity. She she is dead. She's dead.
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  Speaker 1: When thou know'st this, thou know'st how ugly a monster
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  Speaker 1: this world is, and learn'st thus much by our anatomy
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  Speaker 1: that here is nothing to enamore thee, and that not
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  Speaker 1: only faults in inward parts, corruptions in our brains or
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  Speaker 1: in our hearts, poisoning the fountains, when's our actions spring
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  Speaker 1: and danger us. But that if everything be not done
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  Speaker 1: fitly and in proportionan to satisfy wise and good lookers on.
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  Speaker 1: Since most men be such as most think they be,
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  Speaker 1: they're loathsome too by this deformity. For good and well
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  Speaker 1: must in our actions meet Wicked is not much worse
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  Speaker 1: than in distreet. But beauty's other second element, color and luster,
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  Speaker 1: now is as near spent, and had the world his
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  Speaker 1: just proportionan worried a ring still, yet the stone is
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  Speaker 1: gone as a compassionate turquoise, which doth tell by looking
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  Speaker 1: pale the wearer is not well as gold falls sick,
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  Speaker 1: being stung with mercury. All the world parts of such
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  Speaker 1: complexion be when nature was most busy. The first week
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  Speaker 1: swaddling the new born earth, God seemed to like that
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  Speaker 1: she should sport herself sometimes and play to mingle and
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  Speaker 1: vary colors every day, and then, as though she could
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  Speaker 1: not make a now himself is various rainbow did allow.
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  Speaker 1: Sight is the noblest sense of any one. Yet sight
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  Speaker 1: hath only color to feed on, and color is decay'd.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Summer's robe grows dusky, and like an oft dyed garment
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  Speaker 1: shows our blushing red, which used in cheeks to spread,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: is inward sunk, and only our souls are red. Perchance
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: the world might have recovered if she whom we lament,
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  Speaker 1: had not been dead. But she in whom all white
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: and red and blue beauty's ingredients voluntary grew as in
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: an unvexed paradise, from whom did all things verdure and
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: their luster come, whose composition was miraculous, being all color,
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  Speaker 1: all diaphanous for air and fire, but thick, gross bodies were,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: and liveliest stones, but drowsy and pale. To her, she
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: she is dead. She is dead. When thou know'st this,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: thou know'st how worn a ghost this our world is,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: And learn'st thus much by our anatomy, that it should
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: more affright than pleasure thee, And that since all fair
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: color then did sink, tis now but wicked vanity to
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: think to color vicious deeds with good pretense, with bought
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: colors to elude men's sense, nor in aught more this
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: world's decay appears than that her influence the heaven forbears,
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  Speaker 1: or that the elements do not feel this the father
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  Speaker 1: or the mother baronis. The clouds conceive, not rain, or
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  Speaker 1: do not pour in the due birth time down the
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  Speaker 1: bomby shower. There doth not motherly sit on the earth
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  Speaker 1: to hatch her seasons and give all things birth. Spring
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  Speaker 1: times were common cradles, but are tombs and false conceptions
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  Speaker 1: fill the general wounds. There show such meteors as none
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: can see, not only what they mean, but what they
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: be earth, Such new worms as would have troubled much
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the Egyptian Maiji's to have made more such what artist
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  Speaker 1: now dares boast that he can bring heaven hither or
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  Speaker 1: constellate anything, so as the influence of those stars may
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: be imprisoned in an earth, or charm or tree, and
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  Speaker 1: do by touch all which those stars could do. The
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  Speaker 1: art is lost and correspondence to for heaven gives little
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  Speaker 1: and the earth takes less, and man least knows their
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  Speaker 1: trade and purposes. If this commerce TwixT heaven and earth
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  Speaker 1: were not imbarred, and all this traffic quite forgot, she
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  Speaker 1: for whose loss we have lamented, thus would work more
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  Speaker 1: fully and powerfully on us, Since herbs and roots, by
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: dying lose not all, but they yea ashes too, are
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  Speaker 1: medicinal death could not quench her virtue. So but that
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: it would be if not follow'd wonder'd at, and all
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the world would be one dying swan to sing her
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: funeral praise and vanish them. But as some serpent's poison
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: hurteth not except it be from the live serpent shot,
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  Speaker 1: so doth her virtue need her here to fit that
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: unto us she working more than it. But she in
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: whom to such maturity virtue was grown past growth, that
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  Speaker 1: it must die. She from whose influence all impressions came,
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  Speaker 1: but by receiver's impotencies lame who, though she could not
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: transubstantiate all states to gold, yet gilded every state. So
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  Speaker 1: that some princes have some temperance, some counselors some purpose
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: to advance the common profit, and some people have some stay,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: no more than king should give to crave. Some women
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: have some taciturnity, some nunnery, some grains of chastity. She
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: that did thus much, and much more could do, but
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: that our age was iron and rusty, to she she
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: is dead. She is dead. When thou know'st this, thou
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  Speaker 1: know'st how dry a cinder this world is, and learn'st
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  Speaker 1: thus much by our anatomy, that tis in vain to
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  Speaker 1: dee a mollifiot with thy tears a sweat blood. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: is worth our travel, grief, or perishing, but those rich
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: joys which did possess her heart, of which she is
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: now partake her and apart. But as in cutting up
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: a man that's dead, the body will not last, out
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  Speaker 1: to have read on every part. And therefore men direct
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: their speech to parts that are of most effect. So
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: the world's carcase would not last if I were punctual
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: in this anatomy, nor smells it well to hearers if
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: one tell them the disease, who fain would think their well.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Here therefore be the end. Man, blessed maid of whom
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: is meant, whatever hath been said, or shall be spoken
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  Speaker 1: well by any tongue whose name refines coarse lines and
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: makes prose song. Accept this tribute and his first year's rent,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: to till his dark short tapers and bespent, as oft
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: as thy feast sees this widow'd earth will yearly celebrate
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  Speaker 1: thy second birth, that is thy death. For though the
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  Speaker 1: soul of man be got, when man is made, tis born,
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  Speaker 1: but than when men doth die. Our bodies as the womb,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: and as a midwife. Death directs at home, and you
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: her creatures, whom she works upon, and have your last
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: and best concoctionan from her example and her virtue, if you,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: in reverence to her, do think it due that no
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: one should her praises. Thus rehearse, as matter fit or
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: chronicle not Verse vouchsafe to call to mind that God
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: did make a last and lasting's peace a song. He
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: spake to Moses to deliver unto all that song, because
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: he knew they would let fall the law, the prophets,
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  Speaker 1: and the history, but keep the song still in their memory.
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  Speaker 1: Such an opinion, in due measure, made me this great
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: office boldly to invade. Nor could incomprehensibleness deter me from
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: thus trying to imprison her, which when I saw that
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: a strict grave could do, I saw not why Verse
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  Speaker 1: might not do so too. Verse hath a middle nature,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: heav'n keeps souls, the grave keeps bodies. Verse The fame
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: en rose a funeral elegy tis lost to trust a
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: tomb with such a guest, or to confine her in
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: a marble chest, alas what's marble jetto porphyry prized with
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: the chrysolite of either eye, or with those pearls and
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: rubies which she was join the two indies in one
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  Speaker 1: tomb tis glass, And so is all to her materials,
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  Speaker 1: though every inch were ten escurials. Yet she is demolished.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Can we keep her then in works of hands or
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: of the wits of men? Can these memorials rags of
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: paper give life to that name by which name they
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: must live? Sickly? Alas short lived, abortive be those carcass
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: verses whose soul is not she? And can she who
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: no longer would be she being such a tabernacle stoop
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: to be in paper wrapped, or when she would not
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: lie in such a house dwell in an elegy? But
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: tis no matter. We may well allow verse to live
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: so long as the world will now for her death
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: wounded it. The world contains princes for arms, and counselors
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: for brains, lawyers for tongues, divines for hearts and more,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: the rich for stomachs and for backs, the poor the
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: officers for hands, merchants for feet, by which remote and
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: distant countries meet. But those fine spirits which to tune
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: and set this organ are those pieces which beget wonder
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: and love. And these were she, and she being spent,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: the world must needs decrepit be for since death will
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: proceed to triumph, still he can find nothing after her
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: to kill except the world itself. So great as she
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: thus brave and confident means nature be. Death cannot give
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: her such another blow, because she cannot such another show.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: But must we say she is dead? Might not be
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: said that as a sundred clock is piecemeal laid, not
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: to be lost, but by the maker's hand, repolished without error,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: then to stand, Or as the Afric Niger stream and
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: wounds itself into the earth, and after comes, having first
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: made a natural bridge to pass for many leagues far
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: greater than it was, may not be said that her
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: grave shall restore her greater, purer, firmer than before. Heaven.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: May say this and joyant. But can we who live
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: and lack her hear this vantage? See what is to us?
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Alas if there have been an angel made a throne
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: or cherubim, we lose by it, And as aged men
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: are glad, being tasteless, grown to joy and joys they had.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: So now the sick starved world must feed upon this
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: joy that we had her, who now is gone. Rejoice, then, Nature,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: and this world that you, fearing the last fires hastening
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: to subdue your force and vigor ere it were near gone,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: wisely bestowed and laid it all on one one whose
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: clear body was so pure and thin, because it need
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: disguise no thought within twas but a thru light scarf
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: her mind to roll or exhalation breathed out from her soul,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: one whom all men who durst no more admired, and
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: whom where had worth enough desired, As when a temple's built,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: saints emulate to which of them it shall be consecrate,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: But as when Heaven looks on us with new eyes
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: those new stars, every artist exercise what place they should
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: assign to them, they doubt, argue, and green not till
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: those stars go out. So the world studied whose this
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: spiece should be, till she can be nobodies else nor she,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: but like a lamp of balsamam, desired rather to dawn
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: than last. She soon expir'd cloth'd in her virgin white
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: integrity for marriage. Though it do not stain doth die
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: to scape the infirmities which wait upon woman. She went
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: away before she was won, and the world's busy noise
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: to overcome took so much death as served for opium.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: For though she could not, nor could choose to die,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: she hath yielded to too long an ecstasy. He which,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: not knowing her, said history should come to read the
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: book of Destiny, how fair and chaste, humble and high
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: should been much promis'd perform'd at not fifteen, and measuring
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: future things by things, before should turn the leaf to
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: read and read no more would think that either Destiny
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: mistook or that some leaves were torn out of the book.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: But tis not so. Fate did but usher her to
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: years of reason's use, and then infer her destiny to herself,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: which liberty she took, but for thus much, thus much
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: to die, her modesty, not suffering her to be fellow
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: commissioner with destiny, she did no more but die. If
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: after her any shall live, which dare true good prefer
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: every such person as her delicate to accomplish that which
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: should have been her fate. They shall make up that book,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: and shall have thanks of Fate and her for filling
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: up their blanks for future virtuous deeds are legacies which,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: from the gift of her example rise and tis in
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: heaven part of spiritual mirth to see how well the
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: good play her on earth. End of the first Anniversary
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: recording by Thomas Copeland. The second Anniversary by John Dunn,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: consisting of the Harbinger to the Progress and of the
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: progress of the Soul. This LibriVox recording is in the
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: public domain recording by Thomas Copeland of the Progress of
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: the Soul, wherein by occasion of the religious death of
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Miss Elizabeth Drury, the incommodities of the soul in this
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: life and her exultation in the next are contemplated. The
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: second Anniversary the Harbinger to the Progress. Two souls move
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: here and mine a third must move paces of admiration
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: and of love. Thy soul, dear Virgin, whose this tribute
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: is moved from this mortal sphere to lively bliss, and
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: yet move still and still aspires to see the world's
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: last day thy glorious full degree, like as those stars
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: which thou o' loookest far are in their place, and
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: yet still move it are no soul whiles with the
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: luggage of this clay clog it is can follow THEE
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: half way, or see thy flight, which doth thy thoughts
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: out go so fast that now the lightnings move but slow.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: But now thou art as high and heav'n flown as
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: heavens from us. What soul besides thine own can tell
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: thy joys, or say he can relate thy glorious journals
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: in that blessed state. I envy THEE rich soul. I
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: envy THEE, although I cannot yet thy glory see and
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: thou great spirit, which hers follow'd hast so fast as
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: none can follow thine so fast, so far as none
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: can follow thine so far. And if this flesh did
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: not the passage bar hadst caught her, let me wonder
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: at thy flight, which long agone hadst lost the vulgar sight.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: And now make'st proud the better eyes that they can
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: see THEE lessen'd in thine airy way. So while thou
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: mak'st her soul by progress known, thou makest a noble
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: progress of thine own from this world's carcase, having mounted
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: high to that pure life of immortality. Since thine aspiring
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: thoughts themselves so raise that more may not beseem a
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: creature's praise. Yet still thou vow'st her more, and every
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: year makest a new progress. While thou wanderest there still
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: upward mount and let thy maker's praise honor thy laura
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: and adorn thy lays. And since thy muse her head
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: in heaven shrouds, oh, let her know ever stoop below
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: the clouds. And if those glorious sainted souls may know
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: or what we do, or what we sing below those acts,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: those songs shall still content them best, which praise those
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: awful powers that make them blest of the progress of
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: the soul. The second anniversary. Nothing could make me sooner
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: to confess that this world had an everlastingness than to
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: consider that a year is run. Since both this lower
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: worlds and the Sun's sun, the luster and the vigor
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: of this all did set tw blasphemy to say did fall,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: but as a ship which hath struck sail, doth run
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: by force of that force which before it won, or
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: as sometimes in a beheaded man, though at those two
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: red seas which freely ran one from the trunk, another
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: from the head, his soul be sailed to her eternal bed.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: His eyes will twinkle and his tongue will roll, as
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: though he beckoned and called back his soul. He grasps
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: his hands, and he pulls up his feet, and seems
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: to reach and to step forth to meet his soul.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: When all these motions which we saw are but as
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: ice which crackles at a thaw, or as a lute,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: which in moist weather wrings her knell alone by cracking
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: of her strings. So struggles this dead world. Now she
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: is gone, for there is motion and corruption, as some
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: days are at the creation named before the sun, the
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: which framed days was framed. So after this sun set
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: some show appears and orderly vicissitude of years. Yet a
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: new deluge and of leathy flood hath drowned us all
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: all have forgot all good forgetting her, the main reserve
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: of all. Yet in this deluge, gross and general, thou
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: seest me strive for life. My life shall be to
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: be hereafter praise for praising thee immortal maid, who, though
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: thou wouldst refuse the name of mother, be unto my
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: muse of father, since her chaste ambition is yearly to
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: bring forth such a child as this. These hymns may
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: work on future wits, and so may great grandchildren of
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: thy praises grow, And so though not revive, embalm and
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: spice the world which else would putrefy with vice. For
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: thus man may extend thy progeny until man do but
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: vanish and not die these hymns Thy issue may increase
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: so long as till God's great venitie change the song. Thirst.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: For that time, O my insatiate soul and serve thy
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: thirst with God's safest sealing bowl. Be THIRSTI is still,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: and drink still till thou go to the only health
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: to be hydroptic. So forget this rotten world, and unto
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: thee let thine own times. As an old story be
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: be not concerned. Study not why nor when do not
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: so much as not believe a man? For though to
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: err be worst, to try truths forth is far more
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: business than this world is worth. The world is but
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: a carcass. Thou art fed by it, but as a
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: worm that carcass bread. And why shouldst thou poor worm
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: consider more? When this world will grow better than before
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: than those thy fellow worms do think upon that carcass's
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: last resurrection. Forget this world, and scarce think of it,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: so as of old clothes cast off a year ago.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: To be thus stupid is alacrity. Men. Thus lethargic have
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: best memory. Look upward, that's towards her, whose happy state
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: we now a meant not but congratulate, she to whom
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: all this world was but a stage where all sat heartening.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: How her youthful aide should be employed, because in all
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: she did, some figure of the golden times was hid,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: who could not lack whate'er this world could give, because
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: she was the form that made it live, nor could
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: complain that this world was unfit to be stayed in.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Then when she was in it, she that first tried
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: indifferent desires by virtue, and virtue by religious fires. She
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: to whose person paradise adhered as courts to princes. She
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: whose eyes and sphered starlight enough to have made the
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: South control had she been there, the starful Northern pole.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: She she is gone. She's gone. When thou know'st this
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: what fragmentary rubbish this world is, thou knowst and that
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: it is not worth a thought? He honors it too,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: much that thinks it not, Think, then, my soul, that
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: death is but a groom which brings a taper to
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: the outward room. Whence thou spi'st first a little glimmering light,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: and after brings it nearer to thy sight. For such
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: approach as doth Heaven make in death, Think thyself laboring
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: now with broken breath, and think those broken and soft
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: notes to be division and thy happiest harmony. Think THEE
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: laid on thy death bed loose and slack, and think that,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: but I'm binding of a pack to take one precious
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: thing thy soul from. Thence think thyself parch'd with fever's violence.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Anger Thine egg you more by calling it thy physic
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: chide the slackness of the fit. Think that thou hear'st
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: thy knell, and think no more. But as bells call
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: THEE to church before, so this to the triumphant church
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: calls thee. Think Satan's sergeants round about thee be, and
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: think that but for legacies they thrust, give one thy
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: pride to another, give thy lust, give them those sins
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: which they gave THEE before, and trust immaculate blood to
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: wash thy score. Think thy friends weeping round, and think
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  Speaker 1: that they weep, but because they go not yet thy way,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Think that they close thine eyes. And think in this
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: that they confess much in the world amiss, who dare
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  Speaker 1: not trust a dead man's eye with that which they
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  Speaker 1: from God and angels cover not. Think that they shroud
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: THEE up, And think from thence they reinvest THEE in
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  Speaker 1: white innocence. Think that thy body rots, and if so
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  Speaker 1: low thy soul exalted, so thy thoughts can go. Think
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  Speaker 1: THEE a prince who of themselves create worms which insensibly
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  Speaker 1: devour their state, Think that they bury THEE, and think
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: that right lays THEE to sleep. But a saint Lucy's night.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Think these things cheerfully. And if thou be drowsy or slack,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: remember then that she she whose complexion was so even made,
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  Speaker 1: that which of her ingredients should invade the other three
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: no fear, no art could guess. So far were all
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: removed for more or less. But as in Mithridate or
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: just perfumes, where all good things being met, no one
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: presumes to govern nor to triumph on the rest. Only
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: because all were no part was best. And as though
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: all do know that quantities are made of lines, and
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: lines from points arise. None can these lines or qualities
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: unjoint and say this is a line, or this a point.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: So though the elements and huge were in her, one
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: could not say this governs there whose even constitution might
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: have won any disease to venture on the sun rather
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: than her, and make a spirit fear that he to
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: disuniting subject were to whose proportions, if we would compare cubes,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: they're unstable circles angular. She who was such a chain
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: as fate employs to bring mankind all fortunes it enjoys
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: so fast, so even wrought, as one would think, no
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  Speaker 1: accident could threaten any link. She she embraced a sickness,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: gave it meet the purest blood and breath that e'er
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: it eat, And hath taught us that though a good
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: man hath title to Heaven and plead it by his faith,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: And though he may pretend a conquest, since Heaven was
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: content to suffer violence, yea, though he plead a long
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: possession too, for there in heav'n on earth who Heaven's
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  Speaker 1: works do though he had right and power and place before,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: yet death must usher and unlock the door. Think further
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  Speaker 1: on thyself my soul, And think how thou at first
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  Speaker 1: wast made but in a sink. Think that it argu'd
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  Speaker 1: some infirmity. That those two souls which then thou foundst
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  Speaker 1: in me, Thou fetcht upon and drust into thee, both
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: my second soul of sense and first of growth. Think
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  Speaker 1: but how poor thou west, how obnoxious whom a small
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: lump of flesh could poison. Thus this kourded milk, this poor,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: unlitter'd wealth my body could beyond escape or help infect
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: thee with original sin, and thou couldst neither then refuse
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: nor leave it. Now, Think that no stubborn, sullen anchor
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: it which fix'd to a pillar or a grave, doth
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  Speaker 1: sit bed and bathed in all his orders dwells so
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  Speaker 1: foully as our souls in their first built cells. Think
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: in how poor a prison thou didst lie after, enabled
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  Speaker 1: but to suck and cry. Think when twas grown to
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: most twas a poor inn a province, pack'd up in
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: two yards of skin, and that usurp'd or threaten'd with
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: the rage of sicknesses or their true mother age. But
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: think that death hath now enfranchised thee thou hast thy expansion.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: Now and liberty think that a rusty piece discharg'd is
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: flown in pieces, and the bullet is his own, and
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: freely flies. This to thy soul, Allow, think thy shell broke,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: think thy soul hatch'd. But now and think this slow
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: paced soul, which late did cleave to a body and went,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: but by the bodies leave twenty perchance or thirty miles
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: a day, despatches in a minute, oh the way TwixT
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: heaven and her. She stays not in the air to
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: look what meteors they themselves prepare. She carries no desire
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: to know nor sense whether theirs middle region be intense
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: with the element of fire. She doth not know whether
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: she passed by such a place or no. She bates
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: not at the moon, nor cares to try whether in
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: that new world men live and die. Venus retards her,
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: not inquire how she can, being one star hesper and vesper,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: be either charmed, argus eyed. Sweet mercury works not on her,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: who now is grown all aye, Who, if she meet
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: the body of the Sun, goes through, not staying till
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: his course be run. Who finds in Mars's camp No
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: core of guard, nor is by jove, nor by his
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: father barred. But ere she can consider how she went
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: at once is at and through the firmament. And as
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: these stars were but so many beads strung on one's string,
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: speed undistinguish'd leads her through those spheres, as through the beads,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: a string whose quick succession makes it still one thing.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: As doth the pith which lest our body slack, strings
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: fast the little bones of neck and back. So by
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: the soul doth death string heaven and earth. For when
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: our soul enjoys this, her third birth creation gave her
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: one a second grace. Heaven is as near and present
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: to her face as colors are, and objects in a
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: room where darkness was before, when tapers come, This must
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: my soul, thy long short progress be to advance these thoughts.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Remember then, that she she whose fair body no such
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: prison was, but that a soul might well be pleased
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: to pass an age in her, She whose rich beauty
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: lent mintage to other beauties, for they went but for
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: so much as they were like to her. She in
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: whose body, if we dare prefer this low world to
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: so high a mark as she the western treasure, Eastern Spicery,
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: Europe and afric and the unknown rest were easily found,
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: or what in them was best. And when we've made
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: this large discovery of all in her, some one part
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: then will be twenty such parts, whose plenty and riches
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: is enough to make twenty such worlds as this. She
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: who had they known who did first betrothed the tuteler
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: angels and assign'd one both to nations, cities, and to companies,
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: to functions, offices, and dignities, and to each several men,
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: to him and him, they would have given her one
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: for every limb, she of whose soul, if we may say,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: twas gold, her body was the electrun, and did hold
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: many degrees of that. We understood her by her sight,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: her pure and eloquent blood, spoken her cheeks, and so
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: distinctly wrought that one might almost say her body thought
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: she she thus richly and largely housed, is gone, and
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: chides us slow paced snails who crawl upon our prison's
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: prison earth, nor think us well longer than whilst we
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: bear our brittle shell. But twere but little to have
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: changed our room. If as we were in this our
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: living tomb, oppress'd with ignorance, we still were so poor
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: soul in this thy flesh. What dost thou know thou
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: know'st thyself so little as thou KNOW'ST, not how thou
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: didst die, nor how thou wast begot. Thou neither KNOW'ST
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: how thou at first camest in, nor how thou took'st
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: the poison of man sin. Nor dost thou though thou
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: KNOW'ST that thou art so by what way thou art
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: made immortal? Know thou art too narrow wretch to comprehend
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: ee and thyself yea, though thou wouldst but bend to
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: know thy body? Have not all souls thought for many
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: ages that our body is wrought of air and fire
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: and other elements. And now they think of new ingredients.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: And one soul thinks one, and another way another thinks.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: And tis an even lay, knowst thou, But how the
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: stone doth enter in the bladder's cave and never break
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: the skin? Knowst thou are blood which to the heart
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: doth flow, doth from one ventricle to the other. Go,
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: And for the putrid stuff which thou dost spit, knowst
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: thou how thy lungs have attracted it. There are no passages,
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: so that there is for art. Thou know'st piercing of substances.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: And of those many opinions which men raise of nails
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: and hairs, dost thou know which to praise? What hope
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: have we to know ourselves? When we know not the
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: least things which for our use be We see in
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: author's too stiff to recant a hundred controversies of an ant,
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: And yet one watches stars, freezes, and sweats to know,
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: but catechisms and alphabets of unconcerning things matters of fact,
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: how others on our stage, their parts did act. What
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: Caesar did yea? And what Cicero said? Why grass is
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: green or wire blood is red? Are mysteries which none
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: have reached unto in this low form, poor soul, What
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: wilt thou do? When wilt thou shake off this pedantary
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: of being taught by sense and fantasy? Thou lookest through
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: spectacles small things seem'd great below, but up unto the
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: watch target, and see all things despoiled of fallacies. Thou
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: shalt not peep through lattices of eyes, nor hear through
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: labyrinths of ears, nor learn'd by circuit or collections, to
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: discern in Heaven thou straight nost all concerning it, and
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: what concerns it not shall straight forget there thou, But
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: in no other school mayst be perchance as learned and
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: as full as she, She whom all libraries had truly
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: read at home in her own thoughts, and practice it
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: as much good as would make as many more. She
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: whose example they must all implore, who would or do
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: or think well, and confess that all the virtuous actions
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: they express are but a new and worse edition of her,
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: some one thought or one action, She who, in thought
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: of knowing Heaven, was grown here upon earth to such
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: perfection that she hath ever since to Heaven she came
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: in a far fairer print, but read the same. She
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: she not satisfied with all this weight for so much knowledge,
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: as would overfreight another it would balanst her is gone
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: as well in joy as get perfectiona, and calls us
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: after her in that she took, taking herself our best
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: and worthiest book. Return not myself from this ecstasy and
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: meditation of what thou shalt be to earthly thoughts, till
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: it to thee appear with whom thy conversation must be.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: There with whom thou converse. What station canst thou choose
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: out free from infection, that wilt not give thee theirs?
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: Nor drink in thine? Shalt thou not find a spongy
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: slack divine drink and suck in the instructions of great men,
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: and for the word of God vent them again? Are
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: there not some courts? And then no things be so
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: like as courts? Which in this let us see that
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: wits and tongues of libelers are weak, because they do
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: more ill than these can speak. The poisons gone through.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: All poisons effect chiefly the chiefest parts, but some effect
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: in nails and hares. Yea excrements will show. So lies
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: the poison of sin in the most low. Up up
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: my drowsy soul, where thy new ear shall in the
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: Angel's song snow discord. Here where thou shalt see the
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: blessed Mother made joy in not being that which men
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: have sayd, where she is exalted more for being good
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: than for her interest of motherhood. Up to those patriarchs
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: which did longer sit expecting Christ than they've enjur'd him.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: Yet up to those prophets which now gladly see their
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: prophecies grown to be history. Up to the apostles, who
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: did bravely run all the sun's course with more light
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: than the sun. Up to those martyrs who did calmly
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: bleed oil to the Apostle's lamps, dew to their seed.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: Up to those virgins who thought that almost they made
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: joint tenants with the Holy Ghost. If they to any
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: should his te give ap ap For in that squadron
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: there doth live she who hath carried thither new degrees
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: as to their number, to their dignities. She who, being
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: to herself a state, enjoyed all royalties which any state employed.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: For she made wars and triumphed reasons, still did not
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: orthrow but rectify her will. And she made peace, For
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: no peace is like this, the beauty and chastity together kiss.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: She did high justice, for she crucified every first motion
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: of rebellious pride, and she gave pardons, and was liberal
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: for only herself, except she pardoned all. She coined in
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: this that her impressions gave to all our actions all
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: the worth they have. She gave protections the thoughts of
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: her breast Satan's rude officers could ne'er arrest. As these
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: prerogatives being met in one made her a sovereign state.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: Religion made her a church, and these too made her all.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: She who was all this all, and could not fall
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: to worse by company, for she was still more antidote
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: than all the world was ill she she doth leave it,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: and by death survive all this in heaven. Whither who
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: doth not strive the more because she is there? He
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: doth not know that accidental joys in heaven do grow?
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: But pause my soul and study? Has thou fall on
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: accidental joys? Essential? Still, before accessories do abide? A trial?
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: Must the principle be tried? And what essential joy canst
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: thou expect here upon earth? What permanent effect of transitory causes?
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: Dost thou love? Beauty? And beauty worthy is to move
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: poor cousin, cousiner, that she and that thou which did
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: begin to love, are neither. Now you are both fluid
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: changed since yesterday next day repairs, but ill last days decay,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: nor are Although the river keep the name yesterday's waters,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: and a day's the same, so flows her face and
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: thine eyes neither now that saint nor pilgrim, which your
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: loving thou concerned, remains. But whilst you think you be constant,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: you're hourly in inconstancy. Honor may have pretense unto our love,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: because that God did live so long above without this honor,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: and then loved it, so that he at last made
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: creatures to bestow honor on him, not that he needed it,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: but that to his hands man might grow more fit.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: But since all honors from inferiors flow, for they do
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: give it princes to, but show whom they would have
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: so honored. And that this on such opinions and capacities
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: is built as rise and fall to more and less
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: alas tis but a casual happiness. Hath ever any man
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: to himself assigned this or that happiness to arrest his mind,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: But that another man, which takes a worse thinks him
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: a fool for having tained that course. They who did
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: labor Babel's tower to wreck might have considered that for
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: that effect all this whole solid earth could not allow
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: nor furnish forth materials in noow and that this center
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: to raise such a place was far too little to
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: have been the base. No more affords this world foundation
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: direct true joy, for all the means in one. But
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: as the heathen made them several gods of all God's
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: benefits and all his rods. For as the wine and
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: corn at uns are gods unto them, so egguse be
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: in war. And as by changing that whole precious gold
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: to such small copper coins, they lost the old and
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: lost their only God, who ever must be sought alone,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: and not in such a thrust. So much mankind true
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: happiness mistakes no joy enjoys that man that many makes.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: Then so to thy first pitch work up again. Know
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: that all lines which circles do contain, for once that
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: they the center touch, to touch twice the circumference. And
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: be thou such double on heaven, Thy thoughts on earth
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: employed all will not serve. Only who have enjoyed the
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: sight of God in fullness can think it. For it
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: is both the object and the wit. This is essential joy,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: when neither he can suffer DIMINUTIONI nor weed. Tis such
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: a full and such a filling good. Had the angels
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: once looked on him, they had stood to fill the
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: place of one of them. Or more, she whom we
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: celebrate is gone before she who had here so much
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: essential joy, as no chance could distract, much less destroy,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: who with God's presence was acquainted so hearing and speaking
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: to Him as to know his face in any natural
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: stone or tree, better than when in images they be,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: who kept, by diligent devotion in God's image in such
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: reparation within her heart, that what decay was grown was
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: her first parent's fault and not her own, Who, being
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: solicited to any act, still heard God pleading his safe precontract,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: Who by a faithful confidence, was here betrothed to God
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: and now is married there, whose twilights were more clear
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: than our mid day, who dreamt devoutlier than most used
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: to pray, who, being here filled with grace, yet strove
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: to be both where more grace and more capacity at
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: once is given. She to Heav'n is gone, who made
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: this world in some proportion a heav'n, and here became
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: unto us all joy as our joys admit essential. But
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: could this low world joy's essential touch Heav'n's accidental joys
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: would pass them much, how poor and lame must than
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: our casual be. If thy Prince will his subjects to
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: call thee my lord, and this do swell thee thou
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: art than by being greater, grown to be less man.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: When no physician of redress can speak a joyful casual
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: violence may break a dangerous apostom in thy breast, And
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: whilst thou joyst in this yes, the dangerous rest the
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: bag may rise up and so strangle thee. But ere
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: was casual, may ever be? What should the nature change
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: or make the same certain which was but casual when
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: it came? All casual joy doth loud and plainly say
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: only by coming that it can away. Only in heaven.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: Joy's strength is never spent, and accidental things are permanent.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: Joy of a soul's arrival near decays, for that soul
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: ever joys and ever stays joy that their last great
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: consummation approaches in the resurrection, when earthly bodies more celestial
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: shall be than angels were, for they could fall. This
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: kind of joy doth every day admit degrees of growth,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: but none of losing it. In this fresh joy tis
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: no small part that she she in whose goodness he
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: that names degree, doth injure her tis loss to be
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: called best. There where the stuff is not such as
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: the rest. She who left such a body as even
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  Speaker 1: she only in heaven could learn how it can be
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  Speaker 1: made better. For she rather was two souls, or like
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  Speaker 1: to full on both sides written rolls where eyes might
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  Speaker 1: read upon the outward skin as strong records for God,
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  Speaker 1: as minds within. She who, by making full perfection grow
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  Speaker 1: pieces a circle and still keeps it so long'd for
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  Speaker 1: and longing for it to Heaven, is gone where she
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  Speaker 1: receives and gives a titian Here in a place where
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  Speaker 1: mis devotion frames a thousand prayers to saints whose very
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  Speaker 1: names the ancient church knew not, Heaven knows not yet,
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  Speaker 1: and where what laws of poetry admit, laws of re
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  Speaker 1: life religion have at least the same immortal made I
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: might invoke thy name. Could any saint provoke that appetite thou?
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  Speaker 1: Here shouldst make me a French competite, for thou wouldst not,
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  Speaker 1: nor wouldst thou be content to take this for my
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  Speaker 1: second year's true rent? Did this coin bear any other
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  Speaker 1: stamp than his that gave thee power to do me
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  Speaker 1: to say this? Since his will is that to posterity
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  Speaker 1: thou shouldst for life and death a pattern be and
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  Speaker 1: that the world should notice have of this the purpose
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  Speaker 1: and the authority is his. Thou art the proclamation, and
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  Speaker 1: I am the trumpet at whose voice the people came.
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  Speaker 1: End of the second Anniversary. End of the Anniversary Poems
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  Speaker 1: recording by Thomas Copeland