an Heroick Poem.
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67.
He bids her wear her beauty free as light;
By Ears as open be to all endeer'd;
For the unthinking Croud judge by their sight,
And seem half eas'd, when they are fully heard.
He bids her wear her beauty free as light;
By Ears as open be to all endeer'd;
For the unthinking Croud judge by their sight,
And seem half eas'd, when they are fully heard.
68.
He shuts her breast even from familiar Eyes;
For he who secrets (Pow'rs chief Treasure) spends
To purchase Friendship, friendship dearly buys:
Since Pow'r seeks great Confed'rates, more than friends.
He shuts her breast even from familiar Eyes;
For he who secrets (Pow'rs chief Treasure) spends
To purchase Friendship, friendship dearly buys:
Since Pow'r seeks great Confed'rates, more than friends.
69.
And now with Counsels more particular,
He taught her how to wear tow'rds Rhodalind
Her looks, which of the Mind false pictures are,
And then how Orna may believe her kind.
And now with Counsels more particular,
He taught her how to wear tow'rds Rhodalind
Her looks, which of the Mind false pictures are,
And then how Orna may believe her kind.
70.
How Laura too may be (whose practis'd Eyes
Can more detect the shape of forward love)
By treaty caught, though not by a surprize;
Whose aid would precious to her faction prove.
How Laura too may be (whose practis'd Eyes
Can more detect the shape of forward love)
By treaty caught, though not by a surprize;
Whose aid would precious to her faction prove.
71.
But here he ends his Lecture, for he spy'd
(Adorn'd, as if to grace Magnifick Feasts)
Bright Rhodalind, with the elected Bride;
And with the Bride, all her selected Guests.
But here he ends his Lecture, for he spy'd
(Adorn'd, as if to grace Magnifick Feasts)
Bright Rhodalind, with the elected Bride;
And with the Bride, all her selected Guests.
72.
They Gartha in their civil pitie sought,
Whom they in midst of triumphs mis'd, and fear
Lest her full breast (with Huberts sorrows fraught)
She, like a Mourner, came to empty here.
They Gartha in their civil pitie sought,
Whom they in midst of triumphs mis'd, and fear
Lest her full breast (with Huberts sorrows fraught)
She, like a Mourner, came to empty here.
73.
But she, and Hermegild, are wild with haste,
As Traitors are whom Visitants surprise;
Decyphring that which fearfully they cast
In some dark place, where worser Treason lies.
But she, and Hermegild, are wild with haste,
As Traitors are whom Visitants surprise;
Decyphring that which fearfully they cast
In some dark place, where worser Treason lies.
So
