. Pia desideria; or, Divine addresses, in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates . I deeplyOnly to me, and him I love, is known ;What I defign in every filent VOW,Only my [elf, and my Beloved know sAnd my thick SIGHSa myftick Language prove,Unknown to all but me and Him I love How oft have I, with pious Fraud and Art,In a diffembled look belyd my heart ? Pleafttr (5) fleafure and Mirth without deludes the all within is Torment in the height. No Faith in Tears, for Tears have learnt deceit, No Faith in Smiles, unlefs your felf youd cheat. I weep, the hafty World believes
. Pia desideria; or, Divine addresses, in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates . I deeplyOnly to me, and him I love, is known ;What I defign in every filent VOW,Only my [elf, and my Beloved know sAnd my thick SIGHSa myftick Language prove,Unknown to all but me and Him I love How oft have I, with pious Fraud and Art,In a diffembled look belyd my heart ? Pleafttr (5) fleafure and Mirth without deludes the all within is Torment in the height. No Faith in Tears, for Tears have learnt deceit, No Faith in Smiles, unlefs your felf youd cheat. I weep, the hafty World believes Im fad 3 I laugh, and they as fail conclude me glad. How littlefhows my Face my Minds intent ? I {mile when grievd, when pleased, I mob lament, Not the Camelion changes more than thofe, Whofe every wifh new Mafquerades expofe *, None knows my fecret GROANS, md VOlVS,and SIGHS, None but we Two, and only^fuffice. Hcb. iv. 13. Neither is there any Creature that is not ma-nifefi in his fight, but all things are nakdand opened to the eyes of him with whomwe have to do. I*£ Ba SIGHS <<o. t/iea 27i t/ic 7iuj7ii-. Jja: z£. a. (7) SIGHS OF THE penitent J&ottl BOOK the Fir ft. I. With my Soul have I defired thee in the nightyIfa. xxvi. 9. HOW do my yvandring thoughts miftake their way,And in a Maze of darkibm Error (tray ?Loft in whofe MxmXLabrinth^ I concludeTh %/Egy^tian Plague is in my Soul cloudy, fearful, horrid 5 not one (parkOf Day 5 a Night for Night it felf too Scythian or Cimmerian Sky (b black, / fcfa. Tho Heavns bright Lamps thofe gloomy Shades for-Evn Hell, where Night in (able Triumph dwells,Yields to the terror of my darker Cells: B4 For (8) Fortho nofavouringStar imparts its light, To banifli thence the thick fubffiantial Night : Yet there fo much their punifhment they feel, As will not let them be infenfible: There the fad Shades bewail their want of Light ; And evn the dim Cimmerians fee tis Night, And, when the Scythians fix dark Moons
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