. Paradise regain'd : a poem in four books to which is added Samson Agonistes and poems upon several occasions, with a Tractate of Education . MASK Prefented at LUDLOW-CASTLE, 1(534. The firft Scene difcovers a wild Wood. The attendant Spirit defcends or enters, Efbre the ftarr) threfhold of Joves Court My manfion is,where thofe immortal Shapes Of bright aereal Spirits live infpherd In Regions mild of calm and ferene Air, Above the fmoak and ftirr of this dim fpot. Which men call Earth, and with lov^^-thoughted care Confind, and pefterd in this pin-fold here, Strne to keep lip a frail and feav
. Paradise regain'd : a poem in four books to which is added Samson Agonistes and poems upon several occasions, with a Tractate of Education . MASK Prefented at LUDLOW-CASTLE, 1(534. The firft Scene difcovers a wild Wood. The attendant Spirit defcends or enters, Efbre the ftarr) threfhold of Joves Court My manfion is,where thofe immortal Shapes Of bright aereal Spirits live infpherd In Regions mild of calm and ferene Air, Above the fmoak and ftirr of this dim fpot. Which men call Earth, and with lov^^-thoughted care Confind, and pefterd in this pin-fold here, Strne to keep lip a frail and feaverifh being. Unmindful of the Crown that Virtue gives. After this mortal change, to her true Servants Amoni^ft the enthrond Gods on Sainted feats. ° YcJ. 1^4 Poems on feveral Occajions, Yet fome there be thnt by due fteps afpire To lay their juil: hands on that Golden Key That opes the Palace of Eternity ; To fuch my errand is, and but for fuch, 1 would not foil thefe pure Ambrofial weeds. With the rank vapours of this Siii-worn mould. But to my task. Keptune, befides the fwayOf every fait Flood, and each ebbing Stream,Took m by lot twixt high and neather Jove,Imperial rule of all the Sea-girt Ifles,That like to rich and various Gemms inlayThe unadorned bofom of the Deep,Which he to grace his tributary GodsBy courfe commits to feveral Government,And gives them leave to wear their Saphire CrowrtS,And wield their little Trid-nti^ ; but rhis Kic,The greateft and the belt of ali the Main,He quarters to his blue-haird Deities,And all this trad that fronts the falling SunA noble Peer of mickle truft and powerHas in his charge, with temperd awe to guideAn old, and haughty Nation proud in Arms :•Where his fair off-fpring nursd in Princely lo
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