. Pia desideria: or, Divine addresses, in three books . had all the Drops which fellFrom this fair Spring, or that eternal WeillHow do I grudge the Clouds their envfd Rain !How wijh the boundlefs Treafures of the Main IThen jhmU my Tears, like that, juft motion hep,And 1 fhorfd take a jtrange delight to the fwift current of my Grief forbid,Till in the Waves this little World were hid -,Hid, as the neighbring Valleys are orefpread,When the warm Sun melts Pindus fnowy great Adrian, found in Jordans Seas,4 happy McdYms for his foul Difeafe -7 Bftp (40 ut what kind Torrent will
. Pia desideria: or, Divine addresses, in three books . had all the Drops which fellFrom this fair Spring, or that eternal WeillHow do I grudge the Clouds their envfd Rain !How wijh the boundlefs Treafures of the Main IThen jhmU my Tears, like that, juft motion hep,And 1 fhorfd take a jtrange delight to the fwift current of my Grief forbid,Till in the Waves this little World were hid -,Hid, as the neighbring Valleys are orefpread,When the warm Sun melts Pindus fnowy great Adrian, found in Jordans Seas,4 happy McdYms for his foul Difeafe -7 Bftp (40 ut what kind Torrent will my Cure begin,tnd cleanfe my filthier Leprofie of Sin ? See / from my Saviour^ fide a ftream of Blood /1 bath my felf in that Redeeming Flood:hat healing Torrent was on fttrpofe fpilt,o wajh my Stains^ and expiate all my Guilt,hat ever-flowing Ocean will fufficeor the defett of my exhaufted Eyes. Hieron. in Jerem. cap. 9. / were all dijfolvd to Tears, and thofe notonly fome few drops, but an Ocean or 4Deluge, 1 jhould never weep enough, IX. The (4*). r/i, mc >TamS cfMcll c, t&c J?tarc J of 32c amc jfoul:am evvrftxrh (4?) IX. The pains of Hell came about me: The fnaresof Death overtook me, Pfal. xviij. 4. WHile in this fad Diftrefs ray felf I view,Methinks I make that Heathen Fable true;[Of him whofe bleeding mangled Carcafs lay,iTo his own Hounds exposd a helplefs Prey.|Long I the Pleafures of the Wood purfud,Till, like its Beafts, my felf grew wild and rude;I hopd with Hunting to divert my Care,But almoft fell my felf7 into the Snare. Yet to thofe Woods (alas J) I did not go,Whofe inncent Sports give Health and Pleafure fpread no Toils to take the timrous Deer,Nor aimd my Javlin at the rugged , had I my Time fo well imployd,J^or had I been by my own Game deftroyd:I had not then mif-pent my Youthful Days,Nor torn my Flefli among (harp Thorny ways. But (44) But I (alas!) flill plyd the fparkling Wine^That poyfnous Juice of the pernicious Vk*\And this exposd m
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