. The poetical works of William Drummond of Hawthornden : with 'A cypresse grove' . 65 A CYPRESSE HOVGH it hath beene doubted, if therebee in the Soule such imperious andsuperexcellent Power, as that it can,by the vehement & earnest working ofit, dehuer knowledge to an other with-out bodilie Organes, and by oneHeConceptions and Ideas produce reallEffects; yet it hath beene euer, and of all, held, asinfalible and most certaine, that it often (either by10 outward inspiration or some secret motion in it selfe)is Augure of its owne Misfortunes, and hath shadowesof approaching Dangers prese
. The poetical works of William Drummond of Hawthornden : with 'A cypresse grove' . 65 A CYPRESSE HOVGH it hath beene doubted, if therebee in the Soule such imperious andsuperexcellent Power, as that it can,by the vehement & earnest working ofit, dehuer knowledge to an other with-out bodilie Organes, and by oneHeConceptions and Ideas produce reallEffects; yet it hath beene euer, and of all, held, asinfalible and most certaine, that it often (either by10 outward inspiration or some secret motion in it selfe)is Augure of its owne Misfortunes, and hath shadowesof approaching Dangers presented vnto it before theyfall forth. Hence so manie strange Apparitions andsignes, true Visions, vncouth heauinesse, and causelesse15 languishings : Of which to seeke a reason, vnlesse fromthe sparkling of God in the Soule, or from the God-likesparkles of the Soule, were to make Reason vnreason-able, by reasoning of things transcending her when I had giuen my selfe to rest in the quiet20 Solitarinesse of the Night, found often my imaginationtroubled with a confused feare, no, sorrow o
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