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Musica
mentis
,
medicina
moestus
S.
P.
E.
P.
Bernard
Langford
Blue
Bible
IT
may
seeme
something
strange
,
that
so
meane
a
Muse
as
mine
,
upon
so
unworthy
a
Subject
as
this
,
should
so
rudely
dare
to
shelter
it selfe
under
the
protection
of
your
Name
,
or
intrude
upon
the
consure
of
so
solid
a
judgement
as
resides
in
your
brest
;
considering
how
conversant
you
daily
are
with
raptures
both
of
a
higher
straine
and
better
nature
,
daily
proffered
to
your
view
and
censure
:
But
the
perswasion
of
your
courteous
acceptation
of
such
wild
Olives
as
these
are
(
as
of
Plants
which
inoculated
and
pruned
,
in
time
may
produce
more
mature
and
delicious
fruites
unto
her
fosterers
)
hath
emboldned
me
to
it
and
shall
therefore
(
I
hope
)
be
the
better
excused
(
though
it
want
much
of
what
I
wish
it
had
)
because
it
flyes
to
you
as
a
Refuge
,
under
whose
Hands
it
hath
both
security
and
warrant
.
Expect
no
quaint
language
nor
fragrant
Flowers
of
flowing
Rhetorick
,
but
such
as
use
to
proceed
from
springing
youth
,
they
are
the
wanton
fruits
of
idle
houres
,
and
so
happily
cannot
yeeld
that
rellish
that
may
be
expected
from
them
But
yet
your
ingenuity
and
generous
disposition
assures
the
acceptation
being
the
first
fruits
of
my
Muses
springing
.
)
And
that
you
cherish
them
,
that
they
dye
not
in
their
Bud
,
but
(
by
your
promptitude
)
may
be
preferred
from
the
blast
of
envy
,
and
the
rot
of
time
and
oblivion
.
The
perswasion
of
your
liberall
acceptation
vouchsafed
me
,
not
onely
ympes
my
Muses
wings
for
a
higher
flight
in
the
future
,
but
vowes
me
to
acknowledge
my selfe
now
and
ever