For through this breft, and through this hart (uri

To this faire tree thy fword shall paffage find.

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He lift his brand, nor car'd though oft she praid,
And the her forme to other shape did change;
Such monfters huge, when men in dreames are laid,
Oft in their idle fancies roame and range:
Her bodie fweld, her face obfcure was maid,
Vanisht her garments rich, and veftures strange,
A gianteffe before him high fhe ftands,
Like Briareus armd with an hundreth hands:

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With fiftie fwords, and fiftie targets bright,
She threatned death, the roared, cride and fought;
Each other nymph in armour likewise dight,
A Cyclops great became : he feard them nought,
But on the myrtle fmote with all his might,
That groand like living foules to death nie
brought;

The skie feemed Plutoes court, the aire feemd hell,
Therein fuch monfters roare, fuch fpirits yell:

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Lightned the heav'n above, the earth below zco Roared aloud, that thundred, and this shooke;

Bluftred the tempefts ftrong, the whirlwinds blow,
The bitter ftorme drove hailestones in his looke;
But yet his arm grew neither weake nor flow,
Nor of that furie heed or care he tooke, 205
Till low to earth, the wounded tree down ben-
ded;

Then fled the spirits all, the charmes all ended.

66 THE

PURPLE ISLAND,

OR THE

ISLE OF MAN."

BY PHINEAS FLETCHER.

CANT. I. STAN. I.

THE warmer fun the golden bull outran,
And with the twins made hafte to inne and play;
Scatt'ring ten thousand flowres, he new began
To paint the world, and piece the length'ning day :
(The world more aged by new youths accrewing)
Ah wretched man, this wretched world pursuing,
Which ftill grows worse by age, and older by re-
newing!

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The shepherd-boyes, who with the Mufes dwell, Met in the plain their May-lords new to chufe,

Born 15.; dyed 16... The above poem, under the form of a romance, contains an anatomical defcription of the human body.

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(For two they yearely chufe) to order well
Their rurall sports, and yeare that next ensues:
Now were they fat, where by the orchyard walls
The learned Chame with stealing water crawls,
And lowly down before that royall temple falls.15

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Among the rout they take two gentle fwains, Whose sprouting youth did now but greenly bud: Well could they pipe and fing; but yet their strains Were onely known unto the filent wood :

Their nearest bloud from felf-fame fountains

flow,

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Their fouls felf-fame in nearer love did grow: So feem'd two joyn'd in one, or one disjoyn'd in

two.

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Now when the shepherd-lads with common voice Their first confent had firmly ratifi'd,

A gentle boy thus 'gan to wave their choice: 25 Thirfil, (faid he) though yet thy mufe untri'd Hath onely learn'd in private fhades to feigne Soft fighs of love unto a looser strain,

Or thy poore Thelgons wrong in mournfull verse to plain;

V. 13.

The river Cam, which flows by Cambridge.

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Yet fince the shepherd-fwains do all confent
To make thee lord of them, and of their art,
And that choice lad (to give a full content)
Hath joyn'd with thee in office, as in heart;
Wake, wake thy long- (thy too long) fleeping
mufe,

And thank them with a fong as is the use: 35 Such honour thus conferr'd thou mayst not well re

fuse.

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Sing what thou lift, be it of Cupids spite,
(Ah lovely spite, and spitefull lovelineffe !)
Or Gemma's grief, if sadder be thy sprite :
Begin, thou loved fwain, with good fucceffe.

Ah, (faid the bashfull boy) such wanton toyes A better minde and facred vow destroyes, Since in a higher love I fetled all my joyes.

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New light new love, new love new life hath bred;
A life that lives by love, and loves by light: 45
A love to him, to whom all loves are wed;
A light, to whom the funne is darkest night:
Eyes light, hearts love, fouls onely life he is:
Life, foul, love, heart, light, eye, and all are

his:

He eye, light, heart, love, foul; he all my joy,

and bliffe,

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