. Paradise regain'd : a poem in four books to which is added Samson Agonistes and poems upon several occasions, with a Tractate of Education . his wings in airy fliream Of lively portraiture difplayd. Softly on my eye-lids laid. And as 1 awake, fweet mufick breath Above, about, or underneath, Sent by fome fpirit to mortals good. Or thunfeen Genius of the Wood. £ut Toems on feveral Occafions. i ^ i But let my due feet never fail To walk the ftudious Cloyfters pale. And love the high embowed Roof, With antick Pillar mafly proof^ And ftoried Windows richly dight, Cafting a dim religious light. Th
. Paradise regain'd : a poem in four books to which is added Samson Agonistes and poems upon several occasions, with a Tractate of Education . his wings in airy fliream Of lively portraiture difplayd. Softly on my eye-lids laid. And as 1 awake, fweet mufick breath Above, about, or underneath, Sent by fome fpirit to mortals good. Or thunfeen Genius of the Wood. £ut Toems on feveral Occafions. i ^ i But let my due feet never fail To walk the ftudious Cloyfters pale. And love the high embowed Roof, With antick Pillar mafly proof^ And ftoried Windows richly dight, Cafting a dim religious light. There let the pealing Organ blow. To the full voiced Quire below. In Service high, and Anthems clear. As may with fweetnefs, through mine ear, DilTolve me into extafies, And bring all Heavn before miiae eyes. And may at laft my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage. The hairy Gown and mofly Cell, Where I may fit and rightly fpell Of every Star that Heavn doth fhew. And every Herb that fips the dew 3 Till old experience do attain To fomething like Prophetic ftraln. Thefe pleafures Melancholy give. And I with thee will choofe to H4 AR- 15 2 Toems on feveral Occafons. ARCADES. *Part of an Entertainmentprefented tothe Countefs dowager of Derby atHarefieW, by fome Noble Terfdns ofher Family, izho appear on the Scenein T^afioral Habit, moving towardthe feat of State, with this Song, I. Son g. y O O K ^nd Shepherds look^il J NJ^hat fuddeii blaze of MajeftyIs that which we from hence divine to be miftook : This, this is fheTo whom our vows and wifties our folemn fearch hath that her high worth to raife,Seemd erft fo lavifli and may juftly now accufeOf detraftion from her praife ; Lefs thaiihalf we find expreft. Envy bid conceal the Vvhat radiant ftate fhe circle round her fhining her beams like filver threds :This, this is fhe alone. Sitting like a Goddefs bright. In the center of her light.
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