THING BUT SLEEP WHEN SHE PLEASETH.

That whom ill fate would ruin, it prefers; Charm all her senses; till the joyful Sun
For all the miserable are made her's.

Without a rival half his course has run:
So the fair tree, whereon the eagle builds,

Who, while my hand that fairer light confines,
Poor sheep from tempests, and their shepherds, May boast himself the brightest thing that shines.
The royal bird possesses all the boughs, (shields:
Bat shade and shelter to the flock allows.
Joy of our age, and safety of the next!

PUERPERIUM.
For which so oft thy fertile womb is vext:
Vably contented, for the public good,

Ye gods, that have the power
To raste thy spirits, and diffuse thy blood:

To trouble and compose
What Fast bopes may these islands entertain, All that's beneath your bower,
Where monarchs, thus descended, are to reign! Calm silence on the seas, on earth, impose.
Led by commanders of so fair a line,

Fair Venus, in thy soft arms
Our sas no longer shall our power confine.

The god of Rage confine; A brave romance, who would exactly frame,

For thy whispers are the charms Fr brings his knight from some immortal dame :

Which only can divert his fierce design. And then a weapon, and a flaming shield,

What though he frown, and to tumult do incline? Bright as his mother's eyes, he makes him wield;

Thou the fame,
Vree tnigbt the mother of Achilles be,

Kindled in his breast, caust tame,
But the fair pearl', and glory of the sea :
The man: to whom great Maro gives such fame,

With that snow, which, unmelted, lies on thine.
From the high bed of heavenly Venus came: Great goddess, give this thy sacred island rest,
And our next Charles, whom all the stars design Make heaven smile,
Like wonders to accomplish, spring from thine. That no storm disturb us, while

Thy chief care, our halcyon, builds her nest.
Great Gloriana! fair Gloriana !

Bright as high heaven is, and fertile as earth;
THE APOLOGY OF SLEEP,

Whose beauty relieves us,

Whose royal bed gives us POR NOT APPROACHING THE LADY, WHO CAN DO ANY

Both glory and peace:

Our present joy, and all our hopes increase.
My charge it is those breaches to repair,
Phich nature takes from sorrow, toil, and care:
Rest to the limbs, and quiet, I confer
On troubled minds: but nought can add to her,
bom Heaven, and her transcendent thoughts, have QUEEN-MOTHER OF FRANCE,

plac'd
Above those ills which wretched mortals taste.

Bright as the deathless gods, and happy, she Great queen of Europe! whence thy offspring wears Froon all that may infringe delight is free: All the chief crowns; where princes are thy heirs; Lore at her royal feet his quiver lays,

As welcome thou to sea-girt Britain's shore, And not his mother with more haste obeys.

As erst Latona (who fair Cynthia bore)
Such real pleasures, such true joys suspense, To Delos was: here shines a nymph as bright,
What dream can I present to recompense ? By thee disclos'd, with like increase of light.

Should I with lightning fill her awful hand, Why was her joy in Belgia confin'd ?
And make the clouds seem all at her command : Or why did you so much regard the wind ?
Or place her in Olympus' top, a guest

Scarce could the ocean (though inrag'd) have tost
Among th' immortals, who with nectar feast : Thy sovereign bark, but where th'obsequions coast
That power would seem, that entertainment, short Pays tribute to thy bed: Rome's conquering hand
Of the true splendour of her present court : More vanquish'd nations under her command
Where all the joys, and all the glories, are, Never reduc'd: here Berecynthia so
Of three great kingdoms, sever'd from the care. Among her deathless progeny did go:
1, that of fumes and humid vapours made,

A wreath of towers adorn'd her reverend head, Ascending do the seat of sense invade,

Mother of all that on ambrosia fed. No dood in so serene a mansion find,

Thy godlike race must sway the age to come; To ofercast her ever-shining mind :

As she Olympus peopled with her womb. Which bolds resemblance with those spot! s skies, Would those commanders of mankind obey Where floxing Nilus want of rain supplies; Their honour'd parent; all pretences lay That crystal heaven, where Phoebus never shrouds Down at her royal feet; compose their jars, His golden beams, nor wraps his face in clouds. And on the growing Turk discharge these wars: But what so hard which numbers cannot force? The Christian knights that sacred tomb should wrest So stoops the moon, and rivers change their course. From pagan hands, and triumph o'er the east: The bold Mæonian 3 made me dare to steep Our England's prince and Gallia's dolphin might Joe's dreadful temples in the dew of sleep. Like young Rinaldo and Tancredi fight: And, since the muses do invoke my power,

In single combat by their swords again I shall no more decline that sacred bower, The proud Argantes, and fierce Soldan, slain : Where Gloriana, their great mistress, lies :

Again might we their valiant deeds recite, Bat, gently taming those victorious eyes,

And with your Tuscan Muse 4 exalt the fight.

TO THE

L'PON HER LANDING.

THE COUNTRY TO

IN MOURNING.

With greater bounty, and more sacred state,

The banquets of the gods to celebrate.
MY LADY OF CARLISLE.

But oh! what elocution might he use,

What potent charms, that could so soon infuse Madam, of all the sacred muse inspir’d

His absent master's love into the heart
Orpheus alone could with the woods comply; Of Henrietta ! forcing her to part
Their rude inhabitants his song admir'd,

From her lov'd brother, country, and the sun ;
And nature's self, in those that could not lie: And, like Camilla, o'er the waves to run
Your beauty next our solitude invades,

Into his arms; while the Parisian dames
And warms us, shining through the thickest shades. Mourn'd for the ravish'd glory; at her flames
Nor ought the tribute, which the wondering court No less amaz'd, than the amaz'd stars,

Pays your fair eyes, prevail with you to scorn When the bold charmer of Thessalia wars
The answer, and consent, to that report,

With heaven itself; and numbers does repeat,
Which echo-like, the country does returti: Which call descending Cynthia from her seat.
Mirrors are taught to flatter, but our springs
Present th' impartial images of things.
A rural judges dispos'd of beanty's prize ;

IN ANSWER TO ONE WHO WRIT A LIBEL AGAINST THE
A simple shepherd was prefer'd to Jove:

COUNTESS OF CARLISLE.
Down to the mountains from the partial skies
Came Juno, Pallas, and the queen of Love,

What fury has provok'd thy wit to dare
To plead for that, which was so justly given

With Diomede, to wound the queen

of Love? To the bright Carlisle of the court of Heaven. Thy mistress' envy, or thine own despair? Carlisle ! a name which all our woods are taught,

Not the just Pallas in thy breast did move Loud as their Amarillis, to resound:

So blind a rage, with such a different fate:
Carlisle ! a name which on the bark is wrought

He honour won, where thou hast purchas'd hate.
Of every tree, that's worthy of the wound: She gave assistance to his Trojan foe;
From Phoebus' rage, our shadows, and our streams,

Thou, that without a rival thou may'st love,
May guard us better, than from Carlisle's beams. Dost to the beauty of this lady owe;

While after her the gazing world does move,
Canst thou not be content to love alone ?

Or, is thy mistress not content with one?
THE COUNTESS OF CARLISLE

Hast thou not read of fairy Arthur's shield,

Which, but disclos'd, amaz'd the weaker eyes When from black clouds no part of sky is clear,

Of proudest foes, and won the doubtful field? But just so much as lets the sun appear;

So shall thy rebel wit become her prize. Heaven then would seem thy image, and reflect

Should thy iambics swell into a book, Those sable vestments, and that bright aspect.

All were confuted with one radiant look. A spark of virtue by the deepest shade

Heaven he oblig'd that plac'd her in the skies Of sad adversity is fairer made;

Rewarding Phæbus for inspiring so Nor less advantage doth thy beauty get:

His noble brain, by likening to those eyes A Venus rising from a sea of jet!

His joyful beams : but Phæbus is thy foe; Such was th' appearance of new-formed light,

And neither aids thy fancy nor thy sight;
While yet it struggled with eternal night.

So ill thou rhym'st against so fair a light.
Then mourn no more, lest thou admit increase
Of glory, by thy noble lord's decease.

OF HER CHAMBER.
We find not, that the laughter-loving dame 6 They taste of death, that do at heaven arrive;
Mourn'd for Anchises; 'twas enough she came But we this paradise approach alive.
To grace the mortal with her deathless bed, Instead of Death, the dart of Love does strike;
And that his living eyes such beauty fed :

And renders all within these walls alike:
Had she been there, untimely joy, through all The high in titles, and the shepherd, here
Men's hearts diffus'd, had marr'd the funeral. Forgets his greatness, and forgets his fear.
Those eyes were made to banish grief: as well All stand amaz'd, and, gazing on the fair,
Bright Phæbus might affect in shades to dwell, Lose thought of what themselves or others are:
As they to put on sorrow: nothing stands,

Ambition lose; and have no other scope, But power to grieve, exempt from thy commands. Save Carlisle's favour to employ their hope. (true If thou lament, thou must do so alone;

The Thracian could (though all those tales were Grief in thy presence can lay hold of none. The bold Greeks tell) no greater wonders do: Yet still persist the memory to love

Before his feet so sheep and lions lay, Of that great Mercury of our mighty Jove; Fearless, and wrathless, while they heard him play. Who, by the power of his inchanting tongue, The gay, the wise, the gallant, and the grave, Swords from the hands of threatening monarchs Subdued alike, all but one passion þave: War he prevented, or soon made it cease; [wrung. No worthy mind, but finds in her's there is Instructing princes in the arts of peace;

Something proportion'd to the rule of his : Such as made Sheba's curious queen resort

While she with cheerful, but impartial grace, To the large-hearted Hebrew's 7 famous court. (Born for no one, but to delight the race Had Homer sat amongst his wondering guests, Of men) like Phæbus, so divides her light, He might have learn’d at those stupendous feasts, And warms us, that she stoops not from her height. 5 Paris. 6 Venus. 7 Solomon.

8 Orpheus.

TO

OF HIS LATE SICKNESS AND RECOVERY.

TO PHYLLIS... TO LORD NORTHUMBERLAND.

41 Suspended all the pleasures of your life, TO PHYLLIS.

And shorten'd the short joy of such a wife: Perlis, 'twas Love that injur'd you,

For which your country's more obliged, than And on that rock your Thyrsis threw;

For many lives of old, less happy, men.

You, that have sacrific'd so great a part
Who for proud Cælia could have dy'd,
While you no less accus'd his pride.

Of youth, and private bliss, ought to impart
Food Lore his darts at random throws,

Your sorrow too; and give your friends a right

As well in your affliction, as delight. And nothing springs from what he sows :

Then with Æmilian courage bear this cross, From foes discharg'd, as often meet

Since public persons only public loss The shining points of arrows fleet,

Ought to affect. And though her form, and youth, In the wide air creating fire ;

Her application to your will, and truth; As suls that join in one desire.

That noble sweetness, and that humble state, Lore made the lovely Venus burn

(All snatch'd away by such a hasty fate!) In rain, and for the cold youth' mour,

Might give excuse to any common breast, Who the pursuit of churlish beats

With the buge weight of so just grief opprest : Prefett'd, to sleeping on her breasts. Love makes so many hearts the prize

Yet, let no portion of your life be stain'd

With passion, but your character maintain'd
Of the bright Carlisle's conquering eyes;

To the last act; it is enough her stone
Which she regards no more, than they
The tears of lesser beauties weigh.

May honour'd be with superscription

Of the sole lady, who had power to move
So have I seen the lost clouds pour
Into the sea an useless shower;

The great Northumberland to grieve and love.
And the rex'd sailors curse the rain,
For which poor shepherds pray'd in vain.

Then, Phyllis, since our passions are
Goreni'd by chance; and not the care,
Bat sport of Heaven, which takes delight

MY LORD ADMIRAL,
To look upon this Parthian fight
Of Lore, still fiying, or in chase,
NETET encountering face to face;

With joy like ours, the Thracian youth invades No more to Love we'll sacrifice,

Orpheus, returning from th' Elysian shades; But to the best of deities :

Embrace the hero, and his stay implore; And let our hearts, which Love disjoin'd,

Make it their public suit, he would no more
By his kind mother be combin'd.

Desert them so; and for his spouse's sake,
His vanish'd love, tempt the Lethean lake:
The ladies too, the brightest of that time,
(Ambitious all his lofty bed to climb)

Their doubtful hopes with expectation feed,
LORD OF NORTHUMBERLAND, Who shall the fair Eurydice succeed:
UPON THE DEATH OF HIS LADY.

Eurydice! for whom his numerous moan

Makes listening trees and savage mountains groan: To this great loss a sea of tears is due:

Through all the air his sounding strings dilate But the whole debt not to be paid by you.

Sorrow, like that which touch'd our hearts of late. Charge not yourself with all, nor render vain Your pining sickness, and your restless pain, Those showers, the eyes of us your servants rain. At once the land affecting, and the main : Stall grief contract the largeness of that heart, When the glad news, that you were admiral, In which nor fear, nor anger, has a part? [dries, Scarce through the nation spread,'twas fear'd by all, Virtue would blush, if time should boast (which That our great Charles, whose wisdom shines in you, Her sole child dead, the tender mother's eyes) Would be perplexed how to choose a new. Your mind's relief; where reason triumphs so So more than private was the joy, and grief, Over all passions, that they ne'er could grow That at the worst it gave our souls relief, Berood their limits in your noble breast,

That in our age such sense of virtue liv'd; To harm another, or impeach your rest.

They joy'd so justly, and so justly griev'd. This we observ'd, delighting to obey

Nature (her fairest lights eclipsed) seems One, who did never from his great self stray: Herself to suffer in those sharp extremes : Whose mild example seemed to engage

While not from thine alone thy blood retires, Th' obsequious seas, and teach them not to rage. But from those cheeks which all the world admires.

Toe brave Æmilius, his great charge laid down, The stem thus threaten'd, and the sap in thee, (The force of Rome, and fate of Macedon) Droop all the branches of that noble tree! In his lost sons did feel the cruel stroke

Their beauty they, and we our love, suspend, O changing fortune; and thus highly spoke Nought can our wishes, save thy health, intend. Before Rome's people: “We did oft implore, As lilies overcharg'd-with rain, they bend That if the heavens had any bad in store

Their beauteous heads, and with high heaven conFor your Æmilius, they would pour that ill Fold thee within their snowy arms, and cry, (tend; On his own house, and let you flourish still.” He is too faultless, and too young, to die. Yea on the barren seas, my lord, bave spent So like immortals round about thee they Wble springs, and summers to the public lent: Sit, that they fright approaching Death away.

Who would not languish, by so fair a train 9 Adonis.

To be lamented, and restor'd again?

TO MY

Or, thus withheld, what hasty soul would go, From thy shop of beauty we
Though to the blest? O'er her Adonis so

Slaves return, that enter'd free.
Fair Venus mourn'd, and with the precious shower The heedless lover does not know
Of her warm tears cherish'd the springing flower. Whose eyes they are, that wound him so:

The next support, fair hope of your great name, But, confounded with thy art,
And second pillar of that noble frame,

Inquires her name, that has his heart. By loss of thee would no advantage have,

Another, who did long refrain, But step by step pursue thee to the grave.

Feels his old wound bleed fresh again,
And now, relentless Fate about to end

With dear remembrance of that face,
The line, which backwards does so far extend Where now he reads new hope of grace:
That antique stock, which still the world supplies Nor scorn nor cruelty does find :
With bravest spirits, and with brightest eyes; But gladly suffers a false wind
Kind Phæbus interposing, bid me say, (they, To blow the ashes of despair
Such storms no more shall shake that house; but From the reviving brand of care.
Like Neptune, and his sea-born niece ', shall be Fool! that forgets her stubborn look
The shining glories of the land and sea :

This softness from thy finger took.
With courage guard, and beauty warm, our age; Strange! that thy hand should not inspire
And lovers fill with like poetic rage.

The beauty only, but the fire :
Not the form alone, and grace,
But act, and power, of a face.

May'st thou yet thyself as well,
SONG.

As all the world besides, excel !
Stay, Phoebus, stay!

So you th' unfeigned truth rehearse, The world, to which you Ay so fast,

(That I may make it live in verse)

Why thou couldst not, at one assay, Conveying day

That face to after-times convey, From us to them, can pay your haste

Which this admires. Was it thy wit, With no such object, nor salute your rise

To make her oft before thee sit? With no such wonder, as De Mornay's eyes.

Confess, and we'll forgive thee this: Well does this prove

For who would not repeat that bliss ? The errour of those antique books,

And frequent sight of such a dame Which made you move

Buy, with the hazard of his fame? About the world : her charming looks

Yet who can tax thy blameless skill,
Would fix your beams, and make it ever day, Though thy good hand had failed still;
Did not the rolling earth snatch her away.

When Nature's self so often errs?
She, for this many thousand years,
Seems to have practis'ů with much care,
To frame the race of women fair ;

Yet never could a perfect birth
LADY DOROTHY SIDNEY'S PICTURE. Produce before, to grace the earth:

Which waxed old, ere it could see
Such was Philoclea, and such Dorus'? Aame; Her, that amaz'd thy art, and thee.
The matchless Sidney 3, that immortal frame But now 'tis done, O let me know
Of perfect beauty, on two pillars plac'd :

Where those immortal colours grow,
Not his high fancy could one pattern, grac'd That could this deathless piece compose?
With such extremes of excellence, compose; In lilies? or the fading rose ?
Wonders so distant in one face disclose !

No; for this theft thou hast climb'd higher,
Such cheerful modesty, such humble state, Than did Prometheus for his fire.
Moves certain love; but with as doubtful fate,
As when, beyond our greedy reach, we see
Inviting fruit on too sublime a tree.
All the rich flowers through his Arcadia found,

AT PENS-HURST.
Amaz'd we see in this one garland bound.

Hap Dorothea liv'd when mortals made Had but this copy (which the artist took

Choice of their deities, this sacred shade From the fair picture of that noble book)

Had held an altar to her power, that gave
Stood at Kalander's, the brave friends 4 had jarrd; The peace and glory which these alleys have :
And, rivals made, th' ensuing story marr'd. Embroider'd so with flowers where she stood,
Just Nature, first instructed by his thought, That it became a garden of a wood.
In his own house thus practis'd what he taught: Her presence has such more than human grace,
This glorious piece transcends what he could think; That it can civilize the rudest place:
So mạch his blood is nobler than his ink!

And beauty too, and order can impart,
Where Nature ne'er intended it, nor art.
The plants acknowledge this, and her admire,

No less than those of old did Orpheus' lyre :
TO VAN DYCK.

If she sit down, with tops all tow'rds her bow'd, Rare artisan, whose pencil moves

They round about her into arbours crowd ; Not our delights alone, but loves !

Or if she walk, in even ranks they stand,

Like some well-marshall’d and obsequious band. I Venus. Pamela.

Amphion so made stones and timber leap 3 Sir Philip Sidney, 4 Pyrocles and Musidorus. | Into fair figures, from a confus'd heap:

ON MY

2

TO

TO MY LORD OF LEICESTER...OF THE LADY..

43 And in the symmetry of her parts is found Nor would exchange with Jove, to hide the skies A poser, like that of harmony in sound.

In dark’ning clouds, the power to close her eyes : Ye lofty beeches, tell this matchless dame, Eyes, which so far all other lights control, That if together ye fed all one flame,

They warm our mortal parts, but these our soul ! It could not equalize the hundredth part

Let her free spirit, whose unconquer'd breast Of=bat her eyes have kindled in my heart! Holds such deep quiet, and untroubled rest, 6 bov, and carve this passion on the bark Know, that though Venus and her son should spare Of coder tree, which stands the sacred mark Her rebel heart, and never teach her care; Of wble Sidney's birth; when such benign, Yet Hymen may in force his vigils keep; Such more than mortal making stars did shine; And, for another's joy, suspend her sleep. That there they cannot but for ever prove The monument and pledge of humble love:

OF THE MISREPORT OF HER BEING PAINTED.
His humble love, whose hope shall ne'er rise higher, As when a sort of wolves infest the night,
Tuan for a pardon that he dares admire.

With their wild howlings at fair Cynthia's light;
The noise may chase sweet slumber from her eyes,
But never reach the mistress of the skies:
So, with the news of Sacharissa's wrongs,

Her vexed servants blame those envious tongues :
MY LORD OF LEICESTER.

Call Love to witness, that no painted fire

Can scorch men so, or kindle such desire: Vct that thy trees at Pens-Hurst groan,

While, unconcerned, she seems mov'd no more Oppressed with their timely load,

With this new malice, than our loves before; And seem to make their silent moan,

But, from the height of her great mind, looks down That their great lord is now abroad :

On both our passions, without smile or frown. Ther, to delight his taste, or eye,

Su little care of what is done below Tould spend themselves in fruit, and die.

Hath the bright dame, whom Heaven affecteth so!

Paints her, 'tis true, with the same hand which Not that thy harmless deer repine,

spreads And think themselves unjustly slain

Like glorious colours through the flowery meads, By any other hand than thine,

When lavish nature, with her best attire, Whase arrows they would gladly stain :

Clothes the gay spring, the season of desire. Na por thy friends, which hold too dear

Paints her, 'tis true, and does her cheek adorn, That peace with France, which keeps thee there.

With the same art, wherewith she paints the morn: All these are less than that great cause,

With the same art, wherewith she gildeth so Which now exacts your presence here;

Those painted clouds, which form Thaumantias' bow. herein there meet the divers laws Of pablic and domestic care.

OF HER PASSING THROUGH A CROWD OF PEOPLE. For one bright nymph our youth contends,

As in old Chaos (heaven with earth confus'd, Add on your prudent choice depends.

And stars with rocks together crush'd and bruis'd) Nat the bright shield of Thetis' son",

The Sun his light no further could extend (For which such stern debate did rise,

Than the next hill, which on his shoulders lean'd; That the great Ajax Telamon

So in this throng bright Sacharissa far'd, Refus'd to live without the prize)

Oppress'd by those, who strove to be her guard : Those achire peers did more engage,

As ships, though never so obsequious, fall Than sbe the gallants of our age.

Foul in a tempest on their admiral.

A greater favour this disorder brought That beam of beauty, which begun

Cnto her servants, than their awful thought To warm us so, when thou wert here,

Durst entertain, when, thus compell’d, they prest Now scorches like the raging sun, When Sirius does first appear.

The yielding marble of her snowy breast.

While Love insults, disguised in the cloud, O fix this flame; and let despair

And welcome force of that unruly crowd.
Redeem the rest from endless care!

So th' amorous tree, while yet the air is calm,
Just distance keeps from his desired Palm:
But when the wind her ravish'd branches throws

Into his arms, and mingles all their boughs;
OF THE LADY

Though loth he seems her tender leaves to press,
WHO CAN SLEEP WHEN SHE PLEASES.

More loth he is that friendly storm should cease;

From whose rude bounty he the double use
No wonder sleep from careful lovers flies,

At once receives, of pleasure and excuse.
To bathe himself in Sacharissa's eyes.
As fair Astræa once from earth to heaven,
Bs strife and loud impiety was driven :
Si with our plaints offended, and our tears,
Wise Somnus to that paradise repairs;

PHEBUS AND DAPHNE
Waits on her will, and wretches does forsake,
To court the nymph, for whom those wretches wake.

APPLIED.
More proud than Phoebus of his throne of gold Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train,
is the soft god, those softer limbs to hold :

Fair Sacharissa lov'd, but lov'd in vain :

Like Phæbus sung the no less amorous boy; 5 Achilles.

Like Daphne she, as lovely, and as coy!

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