Supplicis ancillæ feries miferanda dolorum Ah! ne, dum referat, vultum indue, quo trepidantes Eft mandare Tuum; mihi Juffa capeffere fas eft: Et quanquam ah! renovem crudelia vulnera fando; Si modò Tu facilem vultum præbere querenti Digneris, luctus fi Rex miferetur obortos, Perfruar his lacrymis & fundam fræna dolori. Te, Tellus, & Vos, ô confcia fydera, teftor, Magne Parens, animas hominum qui numine torques Occulto, varioque doces fe flectere motu; Cur blanda avertens morbo medicamina, tantis Abjungis fpatiis caufam finemque dolorum? Ille, meo fævos qui pectore fufcitat ignes, Splendentique oculo neglectam heu! perculit Abram; Ob If the great Mafter will defcend to hear The humble Series of His Hand-maid's Care; O! while She tells it, let him not put on The Look, that awes the Nations from the Throne: O! let not Death fevere in Glory lye In the King's Frown, and Terror of his Eye. Mine to obey; Thy Part is to ordain: Flow faft my Tears, full rifing his Delight. O! Witness Earth beneath, and Heav'n above; For can I hide it? I am fick of Love: If Madness may the Name of Paffion bear; Or Love be call'd, what is indeed Despair. Thou Sov'reign Pow'r, whofe fecret Will controlls The inward Bent and Motion of our Souls! Why haft Thou plac'd fuch infinite Degrees Between the Cause and Cure of my Disease? The mighty Object of that raging Fire, In which unpity'd ABRA must expire, } Had Obscurâ fi ftirpe fatus, fi Patre Bubulco Lumina per campos; trepida inter fpemq; metumque, Sin vultu meliore Deus, flammæque benignus, (Nec mihi vana fides tam puram in pectora flammam Cœlitus immitti) natalem ornaverat horam Splendore imperii & Proavorum Stemmate longo, Cor Had He been born fome fimple Shepherd's Heir, Or if kind Heav'n propitious to my Flame Cor impunè altùm fe evexerat, & mea vota Sic nata, attigeram has terras prior ipfa Sabæâ Principe, fpectandum Formâ magis omnibus unum Luftratura Virum; molles avidâ aure Poetæ Exceptura fonos & ab ore fluentia mella. Libaffem fimul à rofeis redolentia labris Ofcula, quæ dulces viciffent thuris odores. Ut vultus atque ora Viri laudare juvâffet Singulaque eximiæ miracula pingere formæ ! Quam radii mites oculorum; Solis adinftar, Pura repercuffos ignes cum temperat unda! Quam rubet aureus ora; finumque argenteus albet! Flexibus intorti placidis nigredine crines Cornicis plumam exfuperant; certare labellis Coccineus metuat rubor, Hefperiumque corallum. Ut dentes nitido ftant ordine, more coævi Jam tonfi Gregis, emerfique à flumine vivo, · Candida in aprico ficcantis vellera faxo! Sapphiris ut fiquis ebur rutilantibus ornet, Vena fuper niveam turgefcens cærula dextram Effulget. Quas Crura oftentant fortia vires, Quamque decora nitent, Parias imitata Columnas ! Ut |