. Pia desideria: or, divine addresses : in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates . rops which fellFrom this fair Spring, or that eternal fVe IIIHow do I grudge the Clouds their envyd Rain \Mffw wifh the boundlefs Treafures of the Main \Then Jhoud my Tears, like that, jufl motion Ifhoud takeaflrange delight to weep:Nor the fwift current of my grief in the Waves this Jittle World were , as the neighboring Valleys are oerfpread,When the warm Sun melts Pindus fnowy great Aflyrian, found in JordanV Seas,A happy MecCcine for his foul Difeale 5 Bui (
. Pia desideria: or, divine addresses : in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates . rops which fellFrom this fair Spring, or that eternal fVe IIIHow do I grudge the Clouds their envyd Rain \Mffw wifh the boundlefs Treafures of the Main \Then Jhoud my Tears, like that, jufl motion Ifhoud takeaflrange delight to weep:Nor the fwift current of my grief in the Waves this Jittle World were , as the neighboring Valleys are oerfpread,When the warm Sun melts Pindus fnowy great Aflyrian, found in JordanV Seas,A happy MecCcine for his foul Difeale 5 Bui ( 40 Bnt what kind Torrent mil my Cure hegut^And cleanfe my filthier Leprofic of Sin ? See ! from my SaviourV fide ci flream of Blood:/// bath myfelf in that Redeeming Flood ;That healing Torrent tpoa oh fur^ofe ffilt^To ypajlo my flidns^ and expiate all my ever-flowing Ocean yolll ftifficeFor the defeB of my exhaufted Eyes. Hieron. in Jerem. cap. 9. Jfltvere all dijfolv*d to Tears ^ and thofe notonly fbme few drops, hut an Ocean or aDeluge, / IbouU never rveep enough. IX, Tk (42). mc., fhc S?urcS of J^catfi cn-a^tacrJc T.^ (43) IX. The pains of Hell came about me: the flaresof Death overtook me^ P(al. xviij. 4. WHile ill this (ad diftrels my fclf I view,Methinks I make that Heathen Fable ti-ue^Of him whole bleeding mangled Carcafs his own Hounds exposed a helplds I the pleafures of the f^bod purCud,Till, like its Beails, my felf grew wild and rude;I hopd with Hunting to divert my care,But almoft fell my felf into the fiiaie. Yet CO ihofe Woods ( alas. ) I did not go,Whofe inncent Sports give health ^nd pleafure fpread no Toils to take the timrous Deer^Nor aimd my Javlin at the rugged , had I my fo well imployd,Nor had I been by my own Game deitroy d :I had not then mif-fpent my youthful days,Nor torn my flefh among fliarp thorny ways. But (44) But I (alas!) ftill plyd the fparkling nine,Tbat poysnous Juice of the pernicious V
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