. Pia desideria: or, divine addresses : in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates . I Love, my Life, I fee and know you now,My fecret Ecftacy diicovers with your voice, and ravifhd with your fly uncaird to your bclovd , thus 111 bind you to me, and preventhfecond fearch, the Soldiers A^ that my Arms were Chains, and each part , Hands and all, wQre Gives mdMma^les! K 4 Then Then with a triple band my Love Fd bind,Clofe as the Elm is by the Vine entwined;The fhaky Ivy fhoud not clofer crawlAbout the Ruines of its dear-lovd fTor/
. Pia desideria: or, divine addresses : in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates . I Love, my Life, I fee and know you now,My fecret Ecftacy diicovers with your voice, and ravifhd with your fly uncaird to your bclovd , thus 111 bind you to me, and preventhfecond fearch, the Soldiers A^ that my Arms were Chains, and each part , Hands and all, wQre Gives mdMma^les! K 4 Then Then with a triple band my Love Fd bind,Clofe as the Elm is by the Vine entwined;The fhaky Ivy fhoud not clofer crawlAbout the Ruines of its dear-lovd fTor//.And while my bufie hands your neck enclofe,Think that no burthen which their \(ind,ne[s fhows!Remember, Love^ you have been abfent long,And Time that did it muft repair the wrong:But of the Recompence you foon complain,And eer my Joys^(?g/Ai, ^xtgone ftay! ah too unkind, ungrateful! ftay !Nor fliall you fly, unlefs you force your way. laBed* (37) Beda in Cant. cap. j. When I had found him^ I held him fomuch the fafter^ by haw nntch thelonger I xpas in jinding him. XIIL But ri38). 3z/?- ilr^j^ecdrh^ mc fc held 771c J^i^i (M9) XII I. 3ut it u good for me to hold tr^tfaji by God^ topit my trtijl in the Lord Godj rHro what ftrange turns of Fortune have I gone,Jufc as a BaU from hand to hand is thrown ?i^4rs loud allarms were firft my fole delight,Vnd hope ofG/orj led me out to fight:IrrKs raised my courage, y^rrfts were all my care,Vs if I had no other bus nefs with a SoKg I paft my tedious hour,Vhile I ftood Centrj on fome lofty TowV :3ft I the Enemies intent betrayd,d fhew d their motions by }htjigns I made. learnt ^intrench a Camf^ and Bnlwarks rear,Vith all the cunning of an Engi^ieer, e\er forwaid was, and bold in fight, d did to Aftion the faint Troops excite. *vone better underftood the Art of iVar, s^one more the Soldiers or Commanders care : )ft in the Lybian Defart did I fweat, fir d with the Sand, and melted w ith the heat -. Choalid (i4
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