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And for all this can give no reason why :

This is an holy-fifter, verily.

THE FORCE

OF LOVE.

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PRESERVED FROM AN OLD MANUSCRIPT.

THROW an apple up a hill,

Down the apple tumbles still;

Roll it down, it never stops

Till within the vale it drops :

So are all things prone to Love,
All below, and all above.

Down the mountain flows the stream,
Up ascends the lambent flame ;
Smoke and vapour mount the skies;
All preserve their unities;

Nought below, and nought above,
Seems averfe, but prone to Love.
Stop the meteor in its flight,
Or the orient rays of light;
Bid Dan Phœbus not to shine,
Bid the planets not incline;
'Tis as vain, below, above,
To impede the course of Love.
Salamanders live in fire,
Eagles to the skies aspire,
Diamonds in their quarries lie,
Rivers do the fea supply :
Thus appears, below, above,
A propensity to Love.

Metals

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Metals grow within the mine,

Lufcious grapes upon

the vine;

Still the needle marks the pole ;
Parts are equal to whole :

'Tis a truth as clear, that Love
Quickens all, below, above.

Man is born to live and die,
Snakes to creep, and birds to fly ;
Fishes in the waters fwim,
Doves are mild, and lions grim:
Nature thus, below, above,
Pushes all things on to Love.

Does the cedar love the mountain ?
Or the thirsty deer the fountain?
Does the fhepherd love his crook ?
Or the willow court the brook?

Thus by Nature all things move,
Like a running stream, to Love.
Is the valiant hero bold?
Does the miser doat on gold?
Seek the birds in spring to pair?
Breathes the rofe-bud fcented air?

Should you this deny, you '11
Nature is averfe to Love.

As the wencher loves a lafs,
As the toper loves his glass,
As the friar loves his cowl,
Or the millar loves the toll,
So do all, below, above,
Fly precipitate to Love,

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When

When young maidens courtship shun,
When the moon out-fhines the fun,
When the tigers lambs beget,
When the fnow is black as jet,
When the planets cease to move,

Then fhali Nature ceafe to Love.

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RAM,

ON THE POWER OF LOVE.

BY MR. ABRAHAM COWLEY.

N. B. This is delivered down by tradition as a production of that celebrated poet; and was spoken at the Weftminster-School election, on the following fubjects.

"Nullis amor eft medicabilis herbis."

OVID.

OL Daphne fees, and feeing her admires,
Which adds new flames to his celeftial fires :

Had any remedy for Love been known,
The god of Phyfic, fure, had cur'd his own.

CON

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To the Right Worshipful, my very loving Master Mr.
Lambert Osbolston, Chief School-Master of Westmin-

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