The
Preface
.
HAVING
some
Years
since
,
before
my
Admission
into
Holy
Orders
,
in
my
Preface
to
the
Paraphrase
upon
the
Psalms
,
discours'd
at
large
concerning
Christian
Poesy
,
without
resuming
that
Subject
,
or
prosecuting
it
any
further
,
I
shall
here
do
very
little
more
than
give
the
Reader
an
account
of
the
following
Papers
.
Being
therefore
very
often
solicited
to
Print
,
what
I
had
by
me
in
Verse
,
or
,
if
not
all
,
such
Rhythms
at
least
,
as
I
thought
most
proper
to
my
present
condition
,
amongst
a
great
many
more
,
I
with
difficulty
,
and
but
very
late
resolved
upon
those
,
which
are
now
herewith
Published
,
The
Song
of
Salomon
,
or
the
Canticles
;
and
other
Hymns
,
directly
laid
down
in
Holy
Scripture
,
with
some
few
Compositions
more
,
whose
Argument
,
as
to
the
greatest
part
of
them
,
is
either
thence
taken
,
or
thither
may
be
referr'd
.
As
for
the
Canticles
,
which
tho
almost
last
done
,
is
put
in
the
first
place
:
I
was
a
long
while
deterred
from
attempting
its
Version
,
or
Paraphrase
rather
;
tho
often
provoked
,
I
often
,
and
with
infinite
desire
thought
of
it
,
by
the
sublimeness
of
the
Subject
,
and
that
little
acquaintance
,
which
not
only
my self
,
I
ingenuously
confess
,
but
this
,
and
the
preceding
Ages
,
I
fear
,
for
many
Centuries
back
,
have
had
with
the
Eastern
Poesy
;
whose
manner
of
Wit
seems
to
be
altogether
different●
from
ours
,
and
not
to
be
brought
under
those
Laws
,
which
the
Greek
and
Latine
,
and
the
Modern
from
them
have
assigned
Verse
.
For
their
Metaphors
,
as
appears
in
our
Prosaic
Versions
,
and
especially
upon
Collation
to
any
who
are
but
reasonably
skill'd
in
the
Oriental
Languages
,
are
extremely
bold
,
their
Comparisons
,
Allusions
,
and
Similitudes
such
,
as
we
on
this
side
of
the
World
can
hardly
admit
as
decent
,
if
at
all
proportionable
;
and
their
Transitions
,
with
frequent
shifting
of
Persons
so
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
(
for
I
cannot
well
express
it
in
English
,
with
such
large
and
scarce
accountable
Breaches
)
that
there
lacks
a
great
number
of
words
to
be
inserted
between
Period
and
Period
,
to
render
the
Coherence
tolerable
.
The
not
throughly
considering
this
(
which
yet
possibly
might
be
avoided
,
nor
it
may
be
would
at
all
have
been
,
if
every
Sentence
were
reduced
to
its
proper
place
and
station
,
and
that
there
had
not
been
mistakes
in
transcribing
the
Original
Copies
(
as
some
think
there
have
)
has
been
one
occasion
in
my
Opinion
,
that
of
all
the
Versions
I
have
met
with
(
either
in
Greek
or
Latine
,
or
our
own
English
,
and
other
the
Modern
Languages
of
the
best
esteem
)
of
the
Song●
by
me
here
`
Paraphras'd
,
and
particularly
of
the
Canticles
,
very
few
are
to
be
reckoned
Verse
,
further
than
the
Character
of
Number
,
and
Cadence
reaches
,
and
fewer
yet
tolerable
Poetry
:
Bare
Translations
for
the
greatest
part
,
but
made
more
uneasie
to
be
read
,
and
much
more
perplext
,
as
to
the
Sense
,
by
the
Tortures
they
have
been
put
to
for
the
Verse
,
or
Rhythms-sake
.
Among
the
several
other
Papers
that
we
have
lost
of
the
Excellent
and
Divine
Spenser
,
one
of
the
happiest
Poets
that
this
Nation
ever
bred
,
(
and
out
of
it
the
World
,
it
may
be
(
all
things
considered
)
had
not
his
Fellow
,
excepting
only
such
as
were
immediately
Inspired
)
I
bewail
nothing
me-thinks
so
much
,
as
his
Version
of
the
Canticles
.
For
doubtless
,
in
my
poor
Judgment
,
never
was
Man
better
made
for
such
a
Work
,
and
the
Song
it self
so
directly
suited
,
with
his
Genius
,
and
manner
of
Poetry
(
that
I
mean
,
wherein
he
best
shews
and
even
excels
himself
,
His
Shepherds
Kalender
,
and
other
occasional
Poems
,
for
I
cannot
yet
say
the
same
directly
for
his
Faery
Queen
design'd
for
an
Heroic
Poem
)
that
it
could
not
but
from
him
receive
the
last
Perfection
,
whereof
it
was
capable
out
of
its
Original
.
Others
,
as
I
hinted
before
,
have
since
attempted
it
,
and
in
English
my self
now
among
the
rest
,
but
how
successfully
we
must
all
leave
both
to
those
who
have
skill
to
judg
,
and
to
those
who
have
not
to
censure
,
and
sit
down
,
having
pleased
our selves
,
(
if
yet
our selves
are
pleased
)
as
contented
under
their
Doom
as
we
can
;
for
since
we
will
be
Rhythming
,
and
Printing
too
forsooth
,
I
know
no
other
remedy
.
I
must
confess
it
is
a
Song
above
the
flight
of
Mortal
Wit
,
and
has
been
ever
lookt
upon
by
the
Sober
and
Religious
,
as
the
most
Noble
,
tho
most
Mysterious
,
and
difficult
part
of
the
Old
Testament
.
There
are
I
know
,
(
but
they
are
but
some
few
I
hope
)
in
this
,
and
others
there
have
been
,
in
the
last
Age
,
who
,
tho
else
very
Learned
,
and
it
is
to
be
charitably
supposed
truly
Pious
,
without
just
cause
have
gone
about
to
question
whether
it
ever
intended
any
more
than
it
expressed
,
as
to
the
Letter
,
and
by
debasing
it
to
that
,
which
it
seemed
most
to
sound
,
Humane
Love
,
to
call
it
no
worse
,
have
insinuated
at
least
,
(
because
Theocritus
,
and
some
other
of
the
Ancient
Greek
and
Latine
Poets
,
have
a
few
like
Phrases
in
their
amorous
Compositions
,
either
hence
first
taken
,
as
the
most
ancient
Original
in
the
kind
,
and
not
unknown
,
as
may
be
conjectured
,
to
the
Greeks
by
the
Translation
of
the
LXXII
,
and
by
them
Communicated
to
the
Latines
,
by
both
light
upon
by
chance
)
that
it
is
unworthy
the
place
where
it
stands
;
contrary
to
the
opinion
of
the
Jewish
Church
,
which
always
had
and
still
has
,
antiquated
,
and
broken
as
it
is
,
for
it
the
greatest
Reverence
;
reputed
it
through
all
Ages
uncontrovertedly
Canonical
,
of
Sense
purely
,
and
only
Mystical
,
and
thereupon
proclaimed
Salomon
,
the
inspired
Author
,
to
be
the
most
Spirituous
and
Heavenly
Interpreter
of
their
Law
:
And
contrary
also
to
the
Judgment
of
the
Christian
Church
,
which
from
our
Lord's
time
downward
(
and
in
the
beginning
of
the
Seventh
Century
,
if
not
in
the
latter
end
of
the
Sixt
,
Gregory
the
Great
,
piously
Commented
upon
it
)
has
trodden
in
the
same
steps
,
enlarging
only
,
as
I
may
say
,
the
Lines
of
Communication
,
and
transferring
to
the
Assembly
of
the
Faithful
,
under
the
Gospel
,
what
the
Jews
confined
to
the
Synagogue
:
Should
we
understand
it
only
,
or
even
chiefly
,
if
at
all
according
to
the
Letter
,
terminating
our
Conceptions
in
the
bare
words
,
it
might
very
easily
become
the
occasion
of
Scandal
to
the
unwary
Reader
;
nay
,
without
doubt
had
been
so
to
the
Jews
themselves
,
at
its
first
appearance
;
the
severity
of
that
Nation
not
allowing
in
the
Female
Sex
,
we
may
be
assured
,
such
open
demonstrations
of
Love
,
as
are
more
than
once
there
expressed
.
And
this
possibly
might
be
one
reason
,
amongst
many
other
to
be
urged
from
the
Propensity
,
which
is
in
Youth
especially
,
to
that
passion
,
too
apt
from
the
least
spark
to
take
fire
,
that
this
Book
,
together
with
the
three
first
Chapters
of
Genesis
,
and
the
beginning
,
and
end
of
the
Prophecy
of
Ezekiel
,
from
the
Fortieth
Chapter
,
was
only
permitted
them
to
read
,
who
had
arrived
to
the
Sacerdotal
Age
,
as
St.
Jerom
notes
in
his
Prologue
to
that
Prophet
,
that
is
,
the
Thirtieth
Year
,
in
whom
Youthful
Heats
,
by
that
time
,
were
thought
to
be
somewhat
allayed
,
and
who
thereupon
would
not
be
in
so
great
danger
to
pervert
the
Divine
Text
to
impure
,
and
wanton
Imaginations
.
Whether
Salomon
at
first
composed
it
to
represent
his
own
Loves
,
and
as
an
Epithalamium
upon
his
Marriages
with
Pharaoh's
Daughter
,
and
the
Sulamite
,
one
or
both
,
I
leave
to
others
to
dispute
;
tho
for
my
part
,
guessing
,
as
we
can
but
guess
at
the
time
of
those
Marriages
,
and
the
penning
this
Divine
Song
,
I
think
he
only
took
occasion
thence
,
as
from
a
thing
long
before
done
(
if
from
thence
he
took
any
occasion
at
all
)
to
give
his
Muse
,
as
I
may
call
it
,
an
higher
flight
,
and
under
the
terms
of
the
Spouse
and
her
Beloved
,
of
which
latter
himself
in
his
own
Person
was
to
be
the
Type
(
the
Spouse
,
whether
a
Stranger
of
Egypt
,
Symbolical
of
the
Gentiles
to
be
called
,
or
of
Jewish
Parentage
,
Typical
of
the
Seed
of
Abraham
)
to
sing
the
greatest
loves
this
World
e're
knew
,
and
which
shall
be
our
employment
through
all
Eternity
to
admire
.
The
Divine
Love
to
whole
Mankind
both
Jew
and
Gentile
,
(
these
first
call'd
,
and
those
invited
under
the
Person
of
the
Sulamite
to
return
)
expressed
in
the
Incarnation
of
the
Son
of
God
,
(
who
of
two
has
made
One
,
breaking
down
the
Wall
of
Partition
)
and
continued
through
all
the
Circumstances
,
and
the
very
manner
of
his
Appearance
in
our
Flesh
,
in
order
to
our
Salvation
.
Some
hereby
would
have
the
Glories
and
Prerogatives
of
the
Jewish
State
▪
both
Civil
,
and
Ecclesiastical
,
and
even
of
their
Country
under
Salomon's
auspicious
Reign
,
to
be
signified
under
the
Similitude
of
a
beautiful
Virgin
just
marriageable
,
and
the
rather
because
of
those
Resemblances
taken
from
Places
,
which
if
attributed
to
the
Female
Sex
,
as
according
to
the
Letter
they
sound
,
and
our
kind
of
Wit
,
as
it
is
called
,
are
so
hard
,
in
their
opinions
so
uncooth
,
stiff
,
and
unusual
,
that
otherwise
they
cannot
be
forced
,
as
I
said
in
the
beginning
,
into
any
tolerable
,
and
proportionable
decence
.
Yet
even
those
,
who
thus
judg
of
the
Letter
,
reduce
the
whole
according
to
the
Allegory
,
to
Christ
and
his
Church
,
and
the
sacred
Members
of
it
joyntly
,
and
severally
.
Be
the
immediate
occasion
therefore
of
its
writing
what
it
may
,
the
Jews
are
very
earnest
,
as
they
have
been
from
the
beginning
,
to
have
it
meant
of
their
Synagogue
only
,
the
Modern
among
our selves
,
of
the
Christian
Church
,
exclusive
wholly
of
the
Jews
,
and
both
so
dress
it
up
with
Allegories
(
for
scarce
will
they
permit
a
Word
,
or
Syllable
,
to
be
sure
not
a
Description
of
the
Time
,
or
Place
,
&c.
to
pass
without
half
a
score
at
least
)
that
according
to
the
Poet
,
—
Pars
minima
est
ipsa
Puella
sui
.
Without
therefore
determining
its
Sense
Mystical
directly
to
this
,
or
that
,
whether
private
,
or
more
communicative
Interpretation
,
I
have
in
my
Paraphrase
left
it
,
at
least
endeavoured
to
leave
it
,
as
I
found
it
,
and
even
in
those
places
,
where
I
have
taken
the
greatest
Liberty
,
have
not
gone
far
from
the
literal
Sence
,
not
at
all
from
that
,
which
approached
nearest
it
,
in
the
Judgment
of
the
most
sober
Commentators
.
Such
an
one
I
look
upon
the
learned
Jo.
Mercerus
to
be
,
whom
,
when
I
found
it
necessary
to
consult
the
Opinions
of
others
,
I
chiefly
followed
,
and
by
whose
pious
and
elaborate
Annotations
,
if
any
shall
take
the
pains
to
compare
my
Paraphrase
(
the
mistakes
of
the
Printer
being
amended
,
which
are
in
some
place
through
my
absence
during
the
whole
Impression
very
gross
)
the
greatest
difficulties
of
Sense
,
or
Expressions
,
may
very
easily
be
resolved
.
He
will
moreover
find
upon
Examination
,
that
if
he
be
content
soberly
to
Allegorize
,
I
have
left
him
as
much
scope
to
exercise
his
Religious
Invention
that
way
,
(
tho
it
were
to
be
wisht
that
Invention
had
not
prevail'd
too
much
with
otherwise
Grave
and
Religious
Expositors
)
as
he
can
well
desire
,
and
have
only
debarr'd
him
an
indeterminate
,
and
almost
infinite
Extravagance
.
The
Rhythms
I
have
purposely
design'd
various
,
not
going
always
in
the
same
Tract
,
lest
instead
of
raising
the
devout
Souls
Meditations
,
I
should
clap
Weights
on
them
;
and
create
in
him
a
loathing
of
the
most
exquisite
Delicacies
,
by
the
same
one
kind
of
ill
dressing
.
A
meer
Verbal
Translation
,
with
some
heavy
Cadences
only
,
I
have
studiously
avoided
,
because
I
would
not
incur
the
same
Fault
,
which
frequently
,
whether
justly
or
no
,
I
submit
to
my
Judges
to
decide
,
I
am
too
apt
to
blame
in
others
;
and
,
where
ever
occasion
was
offered
,
have
enlarged
upon
an
Hint
given
,
or
Description
,
as
they
fell
in
my
way
,
further
it
may
be
than
will
be
ordinarily
allowed
me
;
defending
my self
all
along
by
the
Analogie
of
Faith
,
Decence
,
and
Proportion
,
which
I
have
endeavoured
to
retain
.
In
two
or
three
places
I
ha●e
used
a
kind
of
Measure
,
which
may
possibly
seem
to
those
,
who
either
take
not
time
to
judg
of
the
occasion
,
or
will
not
allow
it
,
too
light
for
the
subject
in
hand
,
because
less
usual
;
tho
I
only
follow
therein
the
Greek
and
Latine
Poets
,
whose
metrical
Foot
consisted
not
always
of
Dissyllables
,
by
Sponde
,
Troche
,
or
Iambic
,
as
ours
,
the
French
,
Spanish
,
and
Italian
,
correctly
does
,
but
more
frequently
of
Trissyllables
,
and
sometimes
of
four
Syllables
intermixt
,
of
various
and
enterchanged
quantities
,
as
is
seen
especially
in
the
Drama
,
Ode
,
and
Epode
,
and
the
kinds
of
Verse
wherein
they
are
treated
;
tho
no
kind
of
Verse
amongst
them
is
without
the
intermixture
of
a
several
sort
of
Foot
,
and
the
most
ordinary
,
the
Hexameter
,
as
it
is
call'd
,
tho
it
is
the
greatest
,
and
the
most
majestic
,
has
the
Dactyl
and
Sponde
,
that
is
the
Dissyllable
of
two
long
,
and
the
Trissyllable
,
of
a
long
and
two
short
so
necessary
,
that
without
both
the
Verse
and
Music
cannot
subsist
,
yet
was
never
thence
accused
of
Levity
.
If
it
be
answered
,
that
we
in
the
Modern
Languages
have
Rhythm
,
or
a
coincidence
of
Sound
in
a
single
Termination
,
to
compensate
for
the
disuse
,
(
rather
than
want
)
of
the
Trissyllable
Foot
;
I
think
this
is
not
always
sufficient
,
and
the
Criticks
in
Verse
are
too
severe
,
who
would
thus
altogether
restrain
,
and
bind
up
us
Rhythmers
,
damning
the
Trissyllable
Foot
,
and
cadence
of
Sound
in
the
two
last
Syllables
to
the
Burlesque
only
,
as
the
principal
of
its
Characters
;
tho
why
it
should
be
so
,
if
the
Matter
be
otherwise
noble
,
and
becoming
,
for
my
part
I
see
no
great
reason
,
nor
why
the
number
of
a
Verse
should
be
esteemed
light
,
and
wanton
,
for
an
allowable
variety
only
,
when
the
Subject
so
requires
,
if
the
Language
be
capable
of
it
,
as
it
must
be
on
all
hands
confest
the
English
is
.
The
Greek
and
Latine
Poets
,
as
I
said
,
admitted
as
the
great
Character
of
Verse
,
and
its
numerousness
,
this
Variety
;
both
because
their
Language
naturally
required
it
,
and
because
they
were
perfect
strangers
to
Rhythm
,
(
the
Greeks
always
,
till
grown
perfectly
Barbarous
,
and
the
Latines
till
after
the
Irruption
of
the
Goths
and
Vandals
,
their
Language
became
confined
to
the
Cloyster
,
and
durst
not
appear
walking
delicately
in
Verse
,
but
with
that
chain
of
Servitude
,
its
Conquerors
had
thrown
upon
it
)
.
Our
Language
a
Medly
of
all
the
Barbarous
Tongues
,
into
which
the
noble
Roman
was
humbled
,
but
partaking
most
of
that
which
most
humbled
it
,
beside
roughnesses
of
its
own
,
has
notwithstanding
been
so
refin'd
(
as
we
flatter
our selves
)
that
it
will
bear
Foot
,
and
Quantity
,
as
the
Greek
and
Latine
did
,
but
that
Rhythm
has
in
a
manner
so
thrust
them
out
,
that
contenting
,
or
rather
valuing
it self
(
for
the
greatness
of
Sense
and
Conceipt
whereof
,
it
is
indeed
capable
,
equal
with
any
of
the
now
living
,
or
long
since
dead
Languages
that
are
,
or
in
any
Age
were
spoken
in
the
World
,
)
upon
the
Dissyllable
Foot
,
whether
it
be
Sponde
,
or
Troche
,
but
chiefly
Iambic
,
instead
of
all
other
Quantities
,
it
thinks
it self
in
single
Cadence
,
a
greater
Prince
of
Verse
,
than
either
Rome
or
Athens
ever
were
in
all
their
admired
Variety
:
And
indeed
abating
this
,
as
the
Laws
of
Verse
now
stand
with
us
,
tho
we
have
Quantity
,
yet
so
uncertain
is
it
in
the
same
Syllable
,
and
so
easie
to
be
made
,
and
used
long
or
short
,
(
except
in
words
of
more
Syllables
than
two
,
translated
from
another
Language
,
and
some
few
Dissyllables
in
our
own
,
which
are
so
unalterable
as
to
their
Quantity
,
that
they
either
cannot
change
it
without
alteration
of
their
sense
,
or
cannot
be
used
in
Verse
but
in
such
certain
places
according
to
their
Proportion
and
Accent
)
and
so
great
is
the
number
of
Monosyllables
,
which
may
be
either
long
or
short
,
as
to
their
use
,
what
ever
they
are
as
to
their
nature
,
and
by
position
,
that
making
our
Metrical
Foot
to
consist
,
as
we
mostly
do
,
but
of
two
Syllables
,
it
is
very
hard
in
English
,
to
compose
a
Period
,
but
part
of
it
,
whether
we
will
or
no
,
shall
as
to
the
number
be
Verse
.
Tho
therefore
Blank
Verse
,
as
we
call
it
,
that
is
number
Metrical
(
as
they
would
have
it
)
without
Rhythm
,
considering
the
natural
fitness
,
and
customary
tendence
of
our
Language
,
may
do
excellently
in
the
Drama
,
because
it
comes
nearest
the
ordinary
way
of
Speech
,
wherein
the
Interloqutors
are
supposed
to
converse
(
and
indeed
to
use
Rhythm
,
or
chiming
Cadence
there
,
to
me
seems
at
least
impertinent
,
if
not
at
best
forced
,
and
a
strain
beyond
decence
,
such
as
has
nothing
of
the
Verisimile
in
it
)
yet
in
an
Epick
Poem
,
to
mention
no
other
,
I
know
not
how
with
us
it
can
be
well
maintain'd
.
For
it
wants
the
proper
and
particular
Character
,
which
we
assign
Verse
,
Rhythm
I
mean
,
and
were
it
written
as
Prose
usually
is
,
in
its
just
Periods
,
would
both
be
read
,
and
be
,
as
indeed
it
is
,
no
other
than
Poetical
Prose
;
that
is
,
Masculine
Prose
,
drest
up
like
Hercules
by
Omphale
,
in
the
attire
of
one
of
her
Women
,
but
whose
Shape
and
Warlike
Limbs
,
could
not
be
concealed
by
the
disguise
.
Take
an
Instance
of
it
from
that
most
excellent
,
and
divinely
flowing
Speech
of
our
first
Mother
,
in
the
fourth
Book
of
Mr.
Miltons
Paradise
Lost
,
than
which
neither
himself
ever
said
any
thing
softer
,
and
more
Poetical
,
nor
can
almost
be
imagin'd
to
be
said
of
Man
.
To
whom
thus
Eve
reply'd
;
O
Thou
for
whom
,
and
from
whom
I
was
form'd
,
Flesh
of
thy
Flesh
,
&c.
—
That
Day
I
oft
remember
,
when
from
sleep
I
first
awak't
,
and
found
my self
repos'd
under
a
Shade
,
on
Flowers
,
much
wondring
where
,
and
what
I
was
,
whence
thither
brought
,
and
how
.
Not
distant
far
from
thence
,
a
murmuring
sound
of
Waters
issu'd
from
a
Cave
,
and
spread
into
a
liquid
Plain
,
then
stood
unmoved
,
pure
as
the
Expanse
of
Heaven
.
I
thither
went
,
with
unexperienc'd
thought
,
and
laid
me
down
on
the
Green
Bank
,
to
look
into
the
cleer
smooth
Lake
,
that
to
me
seem'd
another
Skie
.
As
I
bent
down
to
look
,
just
opposite
a
Shape
within
the
watry
Gleam
appear'd
,
bending
to
look
on
me
.
I
started
back
,
it
started
back
,
but
pleas'd
I
soon
return'd
,
pleas'd
it
return'd
as
soon
,
with
answering
looks
of
Sympathy
and
Love
.
There
I
had
sixt
mine
Eyes
till
now
,
and
pine'd
with
vain
desire
,
had
not
a
Voice
thus
warn'd
me
,
What
thou
seest
,
what
there
thou
seest
,
Fair
Creature
,
is
thy Self
,
with
Thee
it
came
,
and
goes
;
but
follow
me
,
and
I
will
bring
Thee
where
no
Shadow
stays
thy
coming
,
&c.
—
Who
now
in
the
World
could
ever
dream
that
this
were
Verse
,
and
Verse
too
the
softest
,
and
most
tuneable
,
and
with
as
great
a
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
suitable
to
the
occasion
,
as
can
be
conceived
?
I
confess
some
few
words
,
and
manner
of
contexture
,
and
an
Image
of
the
thing
different
,
and
some
thing
more
tender
than
that
which
Prose
commonly
renders
,
would
make
it
suspected
,
that
the
Writer
was
in
a
Poetical
Rapture
;
but
still
,
through
the
Disguise
,
the
Prose
appears
,
or
rather
cannot
be
hid
,
any
more
than
the
Verse
,
in
the
following
Period
;
as
I
ghess
of
the
same
Author
,
in
an
Apology
,
in
Answer
to
the
Modest
Confutation
of
a
Libel
,
intituled
,
Animadversions
upon
the
Remonstrants
Defence
of
Smectymnuus
.
The
Period
is
Prose
,
but
I
I
shall
write
it
in
Blank
Verse
,
and
without
adding
,
or
diminishing
,
or
transposing
a
word
,
only
making
the
Verse
sometime
longer
,
sometime
shorter
,
as
in
the
Pindaric
,
whether
fitly
so
called
I
inquire
not
here
,
leave
it
to
the
Reader
to
judg
,
whether
there
is
not
in
both
the
same
numerous
Harmony
,
and
Contexture
,
the
same
turn
of
Words
,
boldness
of
Figure
,
and
height
of
Imaging
.
Then
Zeal
,
whose
substance
is
Aethereal
,
Arming
in
compleat
Diamond
,
ascends
His
Fiery
Chariot
,
drawn
with
two
blazin
,
Meteors
,
Figur'd
like
Beasts
,
but
of
an
higher
Breed
Than
any
the
Zodiac
yields
;
resembling
two
Of
those
Four
,
which
Ezekiel
,
&
St.
John
—
[
saw
;
The
one
Visag'd
like
a
Lion
,
to
express
Power
,
high
Authority
,
and
Indignation
;
The
other
of
Countenance
like
a
Man
,
to
ca●
Derision
,
and
Scorn
,
upon
perverse
,
And
fraudulent
Seducers
.
With
these
the'
Invincible
Warrier
Zeal
,
&c.
—
I
forbear
that
which
follows
,
for
Mr.
Milton's
sake
if
he
were
the
Author
;
if
not
,
what
I
have
quote
▪
here
will
not
be
lookt
upon
to
the
disgrace
of
〈◊〉
Learning
,
for
it
is
not
in
the
least
intended
so
〈◊〉
me
,
or
to
the
disparagement
of
any's
,
who
beside
hi●
may
have
been
Author
of
the
Apology
;
for
my
d●●sign
is
only
to
shew
by
both
these
Examples
,
th●●
take
away
Rhythm
from
our
English
Poetry
,
and
i●
remains
undistinguishable
,
by
any
other
Character●
from
Prose
;
at
least
not
so
distinct
,
but
th●●
through
the
Mascarade
it
may
be
discovered
,
havin●
the
Manly
Limbs
of
this
,
tho
it
may
be
the
softe
habit
of
the
other
.
Not
so
the
Italian
,
and
Spanish
Blank
Verse●
from
whom
the
same
great
and
learned
Mr.
Milto●●
I
believe
took
his
Measures
.
For
tho
to
instance
in
the
Italian
,
and
their
Compositions
of
that
kind
,
Anibal
Caro
,
in
his
most
excellent
Translation
of
Virgil
,
and
Torquato
Tasso
,
in
his
Sette
giornate
del
Mondo
creato
,
have
avoided
Rhythms
,
they
yet
retained
the
proper
Character
of
the
Italian
Verse
;
I
mean
as
to
the
Form
,
aequivalent
to
our
Rhythm
,
which
ever
ends
with
a
solitary
Syllable
for
the
last
Foot
,
unless
we
make
the
last
Foot
consist
rather
of
three
Syllables
,
by
an
Antibacchius
,
as
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Horrore
costume
,
or
by
an
Amphibrachus
,
as
in
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Piume
inānte
,
be
there
Rhythm
used
,
or
be
there
none
;
tho
if
there
be
Rhythm
,
the
Chime
,
or
Tune
,
rests
both
upon
the
last
,
and
the
last
Syllable
save
one
;
by
which
mark
or
trissyllable
Foot
indifferent
to
both
,
and
the
Syllabical
quantities
of
the
Italian
words
,
which
approach
,
and
except
in
some
few
instances
directly
follow
the
Latine
;
the
Italian
even
Blank
Verse
of
any
Author
,
howsoever
written
can
no
more
be
concealed
and
mistaken
for
Prose
,
than
the
Latine
Verse
of
Virgil
,
or
Ovid.
Take
an
Example
of
both
from
Tasso
,
and
first
of
the
Italian
Verse
with
Rhythm
,
in
that
famous
Stanza
of
his
Gierusalemme
Liberata
,
Canto
.
xx
.
Stanza
51.
which
himself
esteem'd
the
most
noble
of
the
whole
Poem
.
Gi'ace
'
il
caval
lo
'
al
su'o
signo
▪
re
'
appresso
,
Giace
il
Compagno
,
appo
il
Compagno
estinto
,
Giace
il
nemico
,
appo
il
nemico
,
&
spesso
Sul
morto
il
vivo
,
il
vin●itor
su'l
vinto
:
Non
v'
è
silentio
,
&
non
v'
è
grido
espresso
,
Ma
odi
,
un
non
sò
che
,
roco
,
ed
indistinto
,
Fremiti
di
furor
,
mormori
d'
ira
,
Gemiti
di
chi
langue
,
&
di
chi
spira
.
Where
every
Verse
,
like
our
Heroic
in
English
,
has
five
Feet
,
with
a
solitary
Syllable
in
the
last
liquescing
,
and
of
very
moderate
sound
,
but
whose
Penultima
is
ever
to
be
pronounced
,
with
Accent
,
more
strong
;
for
they
are
to
be
scann'd
as
we
call
it
at
School
,
(
where
we
are
first
taught
to
make
Verse
a
little
it
may
be
of
the
soonest
)
just
as
in
the
Latine
pure
lambic
,
or
as
in
the
Dimetrum
,
or
Senarium
,
allowing
never
above
two
Syllables
to
a
Foot
,
but
with
continual
Observation
,
contrary
to
us
,
and
which
yet
is
not
ever
by
them
strictly
noted
,
not
only
of
the
Synalaepha
,
which
melts
down
the
last
Vowel
of
the
former
word
into
the
first
Syllable
of
that
which
next
follows
,
beginning
with
a
Vowel
,
and
giving
it
its
sound
,
but
of
the
Synaeresis
in
the
same
word
,
contracting
two
Syllables
,
be
they
Vowels
,
or
Diphthongs
,
into
one
,
except
in
some
few
Irregulars
according
to
the
marks
of
both
Feet
,
and
Contraction
pointed
out
in
the
first
Verse
.
Vpon
the
solitary
Syllable
,
and
that
which
precedes
it
in
the
last
Foot
,
rests
the
Sound
,
or
Chime
,
and
which
in
the
Italian
Language
,
if
to
this
Character
of
Verse
they
think
fit
to
add
Rhythm
,
is
but
necessary
,
considering
that
the
Terminations
of
almost
all
perfect
words
,
except
some
few
Particles
,
end
in
a
Vowel
.
The
example
of
Blank
Verse
,
among
the
Italians
,
which
I
shall
give
,
is
taken
from
the
Description
of
the
last
Judgment
,
in
the
same
Tassos
Settima
Giornata
.
E'l
Rè
,
del
Ci'el
,
folgo
,
reggi'an
,
do
'
in
alto
,
Dimostrerassi
in
bianca
nube
accolto
;
E
come
nube
,
ch'
è
squarciata
,
ò
velo
,
I
cieli
à
lùi
dinanzi
aperti
e
scissi
,
Vedransi
rivelar
l'
alta
possanza
;
E
mille
appariranno
,
&
mille
ardenti
D'
essercito
divin
falangi
,
&
squadre
,
Risplendendo
là
su
di
luce
,
&
d'
armi
;
Fiammeggierà
con
l'oro
il
sino
elettro
Entr'
à
le
spaventose
oscure
nubi
;
E
vedransi
ir
vagando
à
nembo
,
a
nembo
:
E
piu
de
tuoni
spaventosi
udransi
Terribilmente
le
canore
trombe
.
Crollati
,
&
scossi
i
bei
stellanti
chiostri
Tremar
tutti
vedransi
al
gran
rimbombo
.
Tremara
ne'
l
horror
confusa
,
&
vinta
La
Natura
creata
,
hauran
temenza
Gli
Angeli
stessi
riverenti
in
alto
,
Al
folminante
Re
staranno
intorno
,
&c.
So
that
,
tho
there
be
no
Rhythms
,
the
number
is
purely
metrical
(
if
the
Language
also
be
not
so
too
,
both
by
the
turn
of
the
words
used
,
and
the
manner
of
their
use
,
by
frequenter
Apocopes
than
would
be
tolerated
in
Prose
)
and
cannot
but
be
owned
for
such
.
For
were
the
Blank
Verses
above
recited
,
written
as
Prose
,
in
their
just
Periods
,
for
those
very
Reasons
,
and
by
the
Marks
given
,
they
would
be
so
easily
distinguished
from
it
,
that
any
one
,
who
is
very
little
experienced
in
the
Italian
Language
and
Poetry
,
tho
there
be
no
Rhythms
,
would
presently
pronounce
them
,
and
very
safely
and
confidently
might
,
to
be
excellent
Verse
.
A
thing
,
which
I
think●
cannot
possibly
be
contrived
for
the
English
Blank
Verse
,
especially
if
it
be
the
grace
of
Prose
,
and
its
utmost
perfection
,
as
some
imagine
,
not
only
to
be
every
whit
as
numerous
,
but
in
the
same
way
to
be●
conceiv'd
,
I
mean
;
in
Blanks
.
But
as
this
is
an●
impertinent
fineness
at
best
,
and
if
studied
,
and
design'd
so
below
the
gravity
of
an
Orator
,
that
it
〈◊〉
able
to
cast
upon
the
best
,
and
most
passionate
Speaker
reproach
and
contempt
,
it
is
unfit
in
my
opinion
to
subserve
his
great
end
,
the
moving
of
the
Mind
,
which
is
so
jealous
of
its
Honour
,
that
tho
it
willingly
suffers
it self
to
be
imposed
upon
,
from
a
principle
of
good
Nature
inherent
in
it
,
and
connatur●
to
its
being
,
as
long
as
it
perceives
no
Artifice
used
▪
yet
when
that
is
once
discovered
,
or
but
suspected
,
〈◊〉
grows
obstinate
,
and
puts
a
bar
to
the
best
that
is
,
〈◊〉
can
be
said
.
In
Verse
the
Mind
is
quite
otherwise
dispos'd
,
and
requires
naturally
another
kind
of
Movement
,
lively
Images
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
I
think
the
Greek●
call
them
,
which
it
has
common
with
Prose
,
but
mor●
exalted
,
and
as
it
were
with
a
different
kind
of
light
Number
also
and
Harmony
,
which
Prose
has
,
〈◊〉
under
another
Character
,
Rhythm
in
Our
Moder●
Languages
,
or
something
equivalent
to
it
,
varietye●
Feet
and
Measure
,
which
if
it
want
,
as
the
Verse
is
thereby
depriv'd
of
its
greatest
and
best
,
and
only
distinguishing
Ornaments
,
the
mind
also
that
came
prepar'd
to
tempt
its
Charms
,
and
expected
them
,
languishes
under
the
disappointment
.
This
therefore
,
as
I
conceive
it
was
,
which
made
the
Italians
when
they
omitted
Rhythms
,
still
to
retain
that
kind
of
Number
in
their
Blank
Verse
,
which
should
make
it
diverse
from
Prose
;
and
them
the
Spanish
follow
,
in
their
Metrical
Compositions
,
both
which
with
Rhythms
,
and
without
,
having
most
frequently
a
solitary
and
supernumerary
Syllable
either
in
,
or
for
the
last
Foot
.
The
French
,
as
nearer
us
in
Clime
and
Manners
,
come
nearer
us
too
in
their
model
of
Verse
,
which
they
conceive
much
after
the
same
Method
;
only
herein
I
think
they
have
the
advantage
,
that
considering
more
seriously
,
the
nature
of
Verse
,
and
of
their
Language
,
never
that
I
know
of
,
have
they
received
the
Blank
into
the
Epope
,
or
indeed
any
kind
of
Poem
.
Nay
,
so
great
admirers
are
they
of
Rhythm
,
(
tho
whether
they
have
been
so
long
,
I
leave
it
to
be
enquired
)
that
they
cannot
abstain
from
it
in
the
Drama
,
the
very
Farce
rarely
excepted
;
and
these
have
,
of
late
at
least
,
been
our
great
Law-givers
,
for
Affairs
of
the
Stage
,
(
how
properly
,
it
is
no
business
of
mine
,
any
where
,
especially
in
this
place
,
to
dispute
)
;
but
never
yet
have
they
been
able
to
prevail
with
us
to
admit
so
frequently
,
as
their
best
Poets
use
it
,
the
Dissyllable
Rhythm
,
or
Cadence
;
tho
since
it
is
in
so
great
repute
with
them
,
and
makes
so
necessary
a
part
of
Verse
with
the
Italian
and
Spaniard
,
when
they
use
Rhythm
,
that
it
is
else
lookt
upon
as
less
perfect
,
and
irregular
,
I
know
no
reason
,
why
if
the
Argument
be
otherwise
answerable
,
and
great
,
we
should
humble
it
to
the
Burlesque
,
or
Ridicule
only
,
and
give
either
that
,
or
the
Trissyllable
Foot
none
,
or
the
meanest
place
in
serious
Compositions
.
If
therefore
Our selves
,
or
the
French
will
use
Blank
Verse
,
either
in
an
Heroick
Poem
,
where
they
should
be
I
think
Couplets
,
as
in
Mr.
Cowley's
Davideis
,
(
for
the
Quadrains
of
Sir
William
Davenant
,
and
the
Stanza
of
Nine
in
Spensers
Faery
Queen
,
which
are
but
an
Improvement
of
the
Ottava
Rima
,
to
instance
in
no
more
,
seem
not
to
me
so
proper
)
or
in
an
Ode
or
Sonnet
,
(
which
remains
yet
to
be
attempted
)
since
we
want
that
Character
of
Verse
,
which
the
Greek
and
the
Latine
had
of
old
,
and
those
among
the
Modern
equivalently
observe
,
who
both
lie
nearer
Rome
,
and
retain
the
most
visible
Traces
of
its
Language
,
having
no
means
of
differencing
it
from
Prose
except
by
the
Rhythm
,
as
the
most
essential
Mark
,
let
us
give
it
the
Character
,
as
to
its
Form
,
which
it
anciently
had
,
a
Number
and
Movement
metrical
,
with
enterchang'd
variety
,
according
to
the
kind
of
our
Verse
,
of
diverse
sorts
of
Feet
.
But
this
we
in
English
have
found
,
by
the
Experience
of
Sir
Philip
Sidney
,
Ab.
France
,
and
others
in
the
last
Age
,
would
never
do
;
and
in
the
next
,
even
Our
now
cry'd-up
Blank
Verse
,
will
look
as
unfashionable
,
how
well
soever
as
a
Novelty
,
and
upon
his
Credit
,
who
was
the
Inventer
of
it
here
,
it
may
speed
in
this
.
Not
but
that
I
have
,
and
always
had
,
as
great
an
honour
for
Mr.
Milton's
Paradise
Lost
,
as
those
who
admire
,
him
most
,
and
look
upon
it
as
Mr.
Driden
has
very
well
observed
,
To
be
one
of
the
greatest
,
most
noble
and
most
sublime
Poems
,
take
it
altogether
,
which
either
this
Age
,
or
Nation
has
produced
.
Nay
,
that
it
shall
live
as
long
as
there
are
Men
left
in
our
English
World
to
read
,
and
understand
it
;
and
that
many
Ages
hence
translated
into
what-ever
speech
we
shall
be
then
changed
(
for
changing
we
have
been
from
Chaucer's
time
downward
with
a
Witness
,
however
it
be
call'd
Refining
)
that
shall
survive
the
Language
,
wherein
it
stands
written
,
and
therein
it self
.
Yet
still
I
say
,
the
Learned
only
must
and
shall
be
Judges
of
this
,
and
that
if
he
had
thought
to
give
it
the
Adornments
of
Rhythm
,
and
not
avoided
them
so
Religiously
,
as
any
one
may
perceive
he
now
and
then
does
,
to
the
debasing
of
his
great
Sense
,
it
had
been
so
absolute
a
piece
,
*
that
in
spight
of
whatever
the
World
Heathen
,
or
Christian
hitherto
has
seen
,
it
must
have
remain'd
as
the
standard
to
all
succeeding
Poets
&
Poesy
.
I
beg
my
Readers
pardon
for
this
very
long
Digression
,
which
has
swell'd
much
beyond
the
limits
I
intended
it
,
tho
I
hope
not
without
giving
him
some
Diversion
.
For
it
is
,
I
confess
,
beside
my
Province
,
and
if
I
have
taken
wrong
measures
of
Verse
,
and
Versifying
,
(
the
Standart
of
Verse
being
possibly
of
late
altered
)
I
submit
my
private
Fancy
,
and
all
I
have
said
here
,
to
its
great
Judges
and
Masters
,
for
I
only
thought
to
have
defended
my self
against
those
,
who
should
object
Lightness
in
a
place
or
two
to
the
manner
of
my
Verse
,
because
,
as
I
said
above
,
't
is
only
unusual
amongst
us
.
For
light
it
cannot
justly
be
thought
by
the
most
rigid
,
and
scrupulous
,
so
long
as
the
Argument
continues
the
same
;
nor
will
it
,
I
am
assur'd
,
be
judg'd
so
by
those
,
who
know
what
are
the
transports
of
the
noblest
Passion
,
but
then
especially
,
when
the
pious
Soul
,
rapt
beyond
it self
,
falls
into
an
extasie
of
Divine
Love
.
No
wonder
in
such
Circumstances
,
if
its
Speech
and
manner
of
Expression
be
also
Exstatical
.
The
roughness
of
my
Verse
now
and
then
seems
rather
to
be
obnoxious
to
a
Reprimende
,
and
possibly
it
may
deserve
it
,
but
I
much
willinger
chose
to
be
deficient
in
the
Tuneableness
of
my
Rhythms
,
than
have
the
Sense
broken
and
perplext
.
I
think
I
need
not
take
any
notice
of
the
several
Titles
which
I
have
given
each
Chapter
;
for
the
Song
being
of
all
Expositors
acknowledged
,
as
to
its
general
Form
,
to
be
Dramatic
,
because
of
the
several
Interlocutors
,
which
are
introduced
(
tho
considered
as
an
Epithalamium
for
its
great
Argument
,
consisting
of
many
Odes
,
it
has
more
of
the
Lyric
,
whereupon
the
speeches
being
not
so
directly
continued
,
nor
short
,
and
in
Repartee
,
as
they
say
,
each
to
other
,
as
in
the
Drama
,
I
have
taken
occasion
to
put
it
mostly
in
the
Lyric
dress
)
I
could
not
do
as
I
thought
any
thing
more
proper
.
However
,
to
prevent
all
manner
of
Offence
that
may
be
taken
,
I
will
uncompelled
account
for
it
to
the
Ingenuous
Reader
,
in
as
few
words
as
I
can
.
Supposing
therefore
,
which
I
think
none
will
deny
,
that
it
is
,
as
I
said
,
a
Drama
,
the
Persons
speaking
may
well
be
allowed
to
be
,
as
following
the
best
Expositors
I
have
fixt
them
,
The
Spouse
,
and
Her
Beloved
,
with
the
Friends
on
either
side
in
the
Chorus
,
tho
,
who
,
according
to
the
Mystery
,
by
these
are
signified
,
further
than
briefly
toucht
before
,
I
leave
to
them
to
interpret
.
Instead
of
a
Prologue
,
I
have
called
the
Stanzas
immediately
preceding
the
Hymn
it self
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Praecentio
,
or
Praeludium
,
tho
if
I
had
call'd
them
the
Prologue
,
since
they
serve
to
the
same
end
as
the
Prologue
in
the
Drama
,
I
see
no
inconvenience
,
nor
any
whom
the
name
can
offend
,
save
the
Ignorant
.
That
which
I
have
design'd
instead
of
the
Epilogue
,
I
have
I
think
by
the
most
regular
name
,
rather
called
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
than
Epilogus
.
For
the
Song
it self
sounding
as
to
the
letter
nothing
but
Love
,
and
tho
intended
by
the
sacred
Penman
to
be
meant
of
the
Divine
Love
only
,
too
apt
to
be
distorted
to
that
which
is
sensual
,
carnal
and
brutish
,
through
the
Pravity
of
our
Nature
,
even
untranslated
into
Metre
,
and
as
it
lies
in
the
Text
,
the
Epode
serves
according
to
the
true
sense
of
its
name
,
Carmen
ad
amoliendum
quicquid
,
noxium
est
,
to
remove
the
Vail
,
and
to
take
away
all
occasion
of
perverting
the
sublime
Mysteries
.
The
Legend
further
of
Love
I
have
stiled
it
,
for
honours
sake
to
the
great
Spenser
,
whose
Stanza
of
Nine
I
have
used
,
and
who
has
Intituled
the
six
Books
which
we
have
compleat
of
his
Faery
Queen
,
by
the
several
Legends
of
Holiness
,
Temperance
,
Chastity
,
Friendship
,
Justice
,
and
Courtesy
,
and
to
any
who
knows
what
the
word
Legend
there
,
or
in
its
true
and
first
notion
signifies
,
it
will
neither
seem
strange
,
ridiculous
,
or
improper
:
I
have
made
it
to
consist
of
three
Cantos
,
agreeable
enough
to
the
nature
of
an
Epode
,
or
Legend
,
if
it
be
judged
indecent
,
as
indeed
it
is
,
considering
its
length
,
for
an
Epilogue
;
In
the
first
whereof
taking
occasion
from
the
Canticles
,
to
which
in
the
beginning
it
refers
,
I
have
endeavoured
to
shew
the
true
Nature
of
Love
,
and
what
it
was
in
the
state
of
Innocence
,
describing
it
by
the
liveliest
Images
,
which
I
could
form
to
my self
suitable
to
a
Poetical
Composition
.
In
the
second
I
have
considered
the
thing
,
whatever
it
be
,
vulgarly
called
Love
,
under
the
dominion
and
government
of
Sense
,
exclusive
of
Reason
,
which
it
too
often
either
draws
to
its
party
,
or
wholly
extinguishes
,
than
which
nothing
can
be
conceived
more
absurd
,
unreasonable
,
extravagant
,
and
inhumane
.
The
third
Canto
,
in
the
close
of
it
,
is
design'd
for
the
Restauration
of
Love
,
by
Sacred
Marriage
,
or
Wedlock
,
according
to
the
Divine
Institutiin
,
to
its
ancient
Dignity
and
Lustre
;
The
very
cause
,
amongst
others
there-under
adumbrated
,
for
which
Salomon
,
divinely
inspired
,
wrote
this
Song
,
which
subserves
thereunto
by
so
noble
an
Instance
,
that
they
only
betray
their
Impiety
,
or
Atheism
,
who
in
an
Age
so
Wise
and
Critically
Rational
,
as
this
would
be
thought
,
can
find
no
more
becoming
occasion
to
sh●w
and
vend
their
Wit
,
than
what
is
made
by
exposing
tbe
sublimest
Mysteries
of
Our
Religion
,
and
the
most
glorious
displays
of
Our
both
present
and
future
Happiness
.
If
therefore
any
,
who
are
able
to
judg
,
shall
chance
to
find
there
,
or
in
any
of
my
Compositions
,
the
least
Word
,
or
Sentence
,
which
may
choque
them
,
or
escape
me
,
not
agreeable
to
the
sentiments
of
this
Best
of
Churches
,
and
Good
Manners
,
I
hereby
utterly
disclaim
it
,
and
beseech
them
to
give
the
place
a
double
thrust
,
for
t●eir
own
Revenge
,
and
mine
,
who
would
not
have
put
them
to
the
trouble
,
had
my self
perceived
it
.
There
is
more
of
it
a
great
deal
,
than
at
first
was
intended
,
but
,
I
know
not
how
,
it
grew
so
strangely
under
my
hands
,
that
I
have
been
forced
to
lay
aside
more
thoughts
,
than
I
have
been
at
the
pains
to
dress
up
,
to
reduce
it
within
the
present
Compass
.
However
,
I
hope
,
it
is
in
all
parts
consonant
to
sound
Doctrine
,
whose
limits
,
for
tbe
greatest
glories
of
Verse
,
I
would
not
willingly
transgress
.
As
to
the
Song
it self
following
the
Division
,
or
Partition
of
it
,
which
the
Church
allows
in
the
distinction
of
Chapters
,
I
have
called
the
first
Divini
Amoris
Ecstasis
,
or
Protasis
,
tho
it
may
be
by
the
latter
Title
not
altogether
so
naturally
.
But
seeing
visibly
in
the
Song
all
the
other
parts
which
are
by
the
Ancients
assign'd
the
Drama
,
(
who
it
may
be
hence
first
of
all
took
their
Rules
)
I
fixt
the
Protasis
here
as
in
the
usual
place
,
and
more
designedly
,
because
in
this
and
the
following
Chapter
,
we
have
as
it
were
the
sum
of
the
whole
laid
down
,
and
the
mind
kept
in
suspence
for
the
event
,
which
was
the
business
,
as
is
known
by
the
learned
,
of
the
Protasis
.
The
next
great
part
of
the
Drama
was
the
Epitasis
,
or
the
counterturn
,
as
I
may
call
it
,
of
Action
,
which
I
have
placed
in
the
third
Chapter
,
under
the
title
of
Dolor
de
Absentia
Sponsi
,
seu
Epitasis
,
(
tho
this
latter
in
the
Printing
off
the
sheet
is
omitted
,
and
with
another
escape
or
two
consequent
thereof
,
has
given
me
the
trouble
of
advising
the
Reader
of
it
here
,
that
he
may
rectifie
the
mistake
)
where
,
as
in
the
Epitasis
excitantur
turbae
,
&
caligine
quâdam
res
involvuntur
,
We
find
the
Spouse
all
Joy
before
,
Mourning
for
the
absence
of
her
Beloved
,
and
all
things
for
a
while
seem
to
incline
to
the
worst
.
The
Catastasis
before
its
time
in
the
printed
Copy
,
is
intituled
to
the
fourth
Partition
,
but
belongs
rightly
to
the
fifth
Chapter
,
or
Division
(
where
I
have
also
caused
it
,
as
soon
as
by
seeing
the
sheets
,
I
perceived
the
Error
of
the
Press
again
to
be
set
,
desiring
the
Reader
,
instead
of
that
Title
in
the
fourth
Chapter
,
to
put
Desiderium
)
successive
of
the
Epitasis
in
the
third
.
And
it
is
a
continuance
of
the
Spouses
trouble
for
the
absence
of
her
Lord
there
first
hinted
;
and
whereas
in
the
Epitasis
,
eadem
cernitur
rerum
perturbatio
,
but
somewhat
greater
,
and
opens
the
way
to
the
clearing
of
all
in
the
following
Partitions
under
their
several
Titles
,
till
the
Drama
comes
to
its
last
Period
in
the
Catastrophe
,
which
I
have
placed
at
the
eighth
Partition
,
tho
if
any
one
will
,
he
may
make
the
Catastrophe
begin
at
the
seventh
,
and
in
the
eighth
bring
the
Spouse
ad
Sponsi
fores
,
after
the
Jewish
Custom
,
in
pursuance
and
complement
of
it
;
That
which
is
signified
by
the
Catastrophe
in
the
Drama
,
being
the
conclusion
of
the
whole
,
according
to
its
expected
or
unlookt-for
event
.
I
might
add
here
a
great
deal
concerning
the
Unity
of
Action
,
strictly
observed
in
this
Hymn
,
and
the
Chorus
,
which
is
every
where
regular
,
but
I
pass
them
both
over
.
With
respect
to
what
I
have
already
laid
down
,
I
will
not
say
that
Salomon
design'd
all
,
or
any
of
these
parts
in
this
Divine
Song
,
or
in
the
manner
that
I
,
following
the
Ancients
,
have
bounded
them
;
but
this
I
dare
say
,
that
whosoever
knows
the
Motions
of
the
Pious
Soul
in
its
love
to
God
,
knows
also
that
these
several
parts
make
it
up
,
which
I
shall
endeavour
thus
briefly
to
evidence
,
and
appeal
to
those
who
understand
it
best
,
and
have
try'd
the
great
experiment
.
No
sooner
therefore
by
the
Preaching
of
the
Gospel
,
and
the
most
benign
Operations
of
the
good
Spirit
of
God
,
comes
the
devout
Soul
,
to
be
convinced
of
the
Divine
Love
,
in
it self
and
infinite
Perfections
how
beyond
expression
amiable
,
to
the
Soul
by
ten
thousand
Experiences
how
indeared
,
but
being
first
loved
,
and
knowing
assuredly
it self
to
be
loved
,
it
endeavours
according
to
its
unequal
measure
to
return
love
for
love
;
Is
all
as
it
were
on
a
flame
towards
its
Beloved
,
and
thinks
nothing
comparative
with
him
Lovely
,
nothing
for
his
sake
too
hard
or
grievous
to
be
undertaken
.
The
World
to
such
an
One
and
all
its
gaudy
Pageantry
appears
,
as
it
truly
is
,
a
dead
and
lifeless
and
accursed
thing
;
without
any
Charms
except
to
betray
and
ensnare
,
and
with
Pleasures
(
such
as
they
are
)
which
continue
but
for
a
moment
,
and
perish
in
the
using
;
nor
can
it
find
any
relish
or
satisfaction
but
in
the
enjoyment
of
those
Real
and
Eternal
Beauties
,
on
which
Time
and
Age
have
no
effect
,
and
whose
most
frequent
use
encrease
only
,
and
heighten
their
delight
.
Of
these
it
continually
thinks
,
loves
and
admires
none
but
these
;
and
is
so
wholly
transformed
into
what
it
loves
,
that
it
is
no
more
it self
,
nor
lives
any
other
Life
than
what
that
inspires
.
Or
in
St.
Paul's
phrase
,
Being
Crucified
with
Christ
,
nevertheless
it
lives
,
or
Christ
rather
lives
in
it
,
and
the
Life
which
it
lives
in
the
Flesh
,
it
lives
by
the
Faith
of
the
Son
of
God
,
who
loved
it
,
and
gave
himself
for
it
.
In
this
Extasy
,
while
it
continues
,
the
Pious
Soul
once
enflamed
with
the
Love
of
God
,
exults
with
joy
unspeakable
;
and
continue
the
Extasy
will
,
till
either
Our
love
by
degrees
,
as
is
not
unusual
(
the
more
wretched
We
)
grow
cold
in
its
once
most
ardent
pursuits
,
or
the
violence
of
a
Temptation
intervene
,
or
the
most
Highest
,
for
either
the
punishment
of
our
Remissness
,
or
trial
of
our
Sincerity
,
for
a
while
withdraw
himself
;
but
then
,
the
happier
we
once
to
perceive
and
take
notice
of
it
,
how
is
the
Soul
that
truly
loves
,
perplext
?
This
way
it
runs
,
and
that
;
and
only
thoughtful
of
its
Misery
,
and
what
it
would
find
,
where
yet
to
find
it
knows
not
.
Here
comes
in
the
true
Epitasis
:
Another
face
of
things
appears
than
was
wont
,
and
instead
of
Hymns
,
and
joyous
Acclamations
,
which
used
before
to
be
its
constant
Companions
,
nothing
is
heard
,
in
all
its
Retreats
,
but
the
Sighs
and
Laments
,
as
of
one
forsaken
.
The
Soul
is
overwhelmed
almost
with
Sorrow
,
which
to
prove
the
most
Intense
,
Hearty
,
and
Sincere
,
it
endeavours
all
it
can
,
to
clear
its
Innocence
,
calling
Heaven
and
God
to
witness
it
;
of
yet
which
,
having
paused
a
while
and
not
daring
in
cooler
Blood
to
be
too
confident
,
it
reflects
upon
its
former
coldness
and
negligence
,
and
resolves
on
greater
Care
and
Circumspection
for
the
future
,
is
angry
with
it self
,
and
afraid
,
and
mourns
bitterly
,
and
begs
but
once
more
to
be
try'd
,
and
professes
its
Zeal
,
and
passes
ten
thousand
Promises
,
binding
them
with
as
many
Vows
,
and
resolves
so
throughly
to
be
revenged
of
it self
,
that
it
will
never
give
over
its
unweary
search
,
till
it
has
found
its
Beloved
.
Away
in
this
heat
it
flies
out
of
it self
as
it
were
,
and
seeks
,
and
asks
after
him
of
all
it
meets
;
and
tho
affronted
frequently
by
the
way
,
bears
the
Indignity
with
patience
,
and
feels
the
smart
of
no
Wound
received
in
the
inquiry
,
comparable
to
his
absence
;
till
almost
quite
tired
,
now
and
again
,
and
the
third
time
(
and
it
were
well
if
but
the
three
hundredth
time
the
Epitasis
and
the
Catastasis
consequent
of
it
recurr'd
)
.
Lo
!
he
whom
the
Soul
loves
,
and
who
infinitely
more
loves
the
Soul
,
taking
pity
of
its
Labours
,
and
approving
its
Integrity
,
at
length
discovers
himself
a-new
,
with
greater
Attractives
than
before
.
And
now
all
is
perfectly
well
again
.
Peace
and
Joy
,
and
the
tender
endearments
of
a
mutual
Affection
blown
up
to
a
Flame
,
which
no
Waters
can
quench
,
sparkle
in
both
.
No
Discourse
passes
,
but
of
the
constancy
of
each
others
Love
,
its
Charms
how
great
,
its
Renewals
how
surprizing
.
The
happy
Nuptials
,
which
make
the
Catastrophe
seem
not
to
be
far
off
,
and
by
Faith
through
the
Vail
the
Soul
looks
,
and
sees
the
Preparations
,
and
hastens
the
time
by
its
calls
,
and
even
dies
with
Impatience
,
because
it
is
but
a
moment
deferr'd
.
This
is
the
Progress
of
Divine
Love
in
the
holy
Soul
,
adumbrated
as
I
conceive
,
in
this
Mysterious
Song
,
but
so
coldly
and
imperfectly
displayed
by
me
(
God
help
poor
Mortals
!
)
that
suspected
thence
,
as
I
fear
for
my self
I
justly
may
,
never
to
have
been
really
touched
with
it
,
I
can
only
appeal
to
Him
,
who
searches
the
Heart
,
with
the
most
earnest
Obtestations
,
that
if
my
Love
to
my
Lord
and
Saviour
be
not
such
as
it
ought
,
with
a
flame
so
pure
,
and
great
as
to
warm
,
and
enlighten
others
,
according
to
the
Prerogative
of
my
Office
;
it
may
yet
be
sufficient
to
keep
my self
from
either
freezing
,
or
stumbling
;
especially
from
either
thinking
,
or
speaking
any
thing
unbecoming
it
,
at
least
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
and
in
the
too
much
despised
Rank
of
a
Christian
Poet.
As
for
the
other
sacred
Hymns
,
they
seem
to
me
to
be
of
those
parts
of
Scripture
concerning
which
I
may
truly
say
,
omitting
their
Divine
Inspiration
,
that
being
compared
with
the
best
and
most
Majestie
of
Pindar
,
or
Horace
,
they
are
so
far
from
losing
any
thing
of
their
Beauty
,
that
they
only
receive
thence
the
greater
Lustre
,
and
cast
upon
the
noblest
thoughts
of
those
next
to
Immortal
Lyrics
,
whom
the
Heathen
World
,
and
we
above
all
the
Heathen
most
deservedly
admire
,
the
honourable
Office
of
serving
but
as
a
proper
Foyl
,
to
make
them
appear
the
more
Glorious
.
For
nothing
can
be
conceived
more
Poetical
,
nothing
more
Tuneful
and
Harmonious
,
nothing
more
Dithyrambic
and
Ecstatical
.
Of
this
latter
sort
are
the
Songs
of
Moses
,
Deborah
,
and
Habakkuk
.
And
had
I
not
a
design
of
drawing
to
an
end
of
this
long
Preface
,
as
soon
as
possible
,
I
might
instance
in
the
several
Graces
,
which
are
proper
to
the
rest
,
not
as
turned
by
me
,
but
as
they
lie
in
the
Original
;
Of
which
yet
they
are
not
wholly
divested
by
the
most
barbarous
Translation
,
into
any
Language
,
and
in
some
of
which
,
the
Latine
particularly
of
Castellio
,
and
the
Italian
of
Diodati
,
not
to
say
our
own
,
which
may
Vye
with
the
best
,
they
shine
with
a
Ray
only
second
to
what
they
receiv'd
upon
their
immediate
Inspiration
.
The
Compositions
,
which
are
my
own
purely
,
or
Translated
occasionally
out
of
the
Originals
,
noted
in
the
Titles
or
Margin
,
are
of
an
infinite
baser
Alloy
;
and
all
I
dare
presume
to
say
for
them
,
is
;
That
when
I
either
made
,
or
turned
them
,
they
suited
well
enough
my
then
present
Temper
;
and
I
have
a
kindness
for
them
,
proportionable
to
the
Diversion
they
at
that
time
gave
my self
,
and
have
since
given
my
Friends
,
at
whose
request
I
did
some
of
them
.
However
I
had
not
been
thus
confident
to
Print
them
now
,
and
publickly
own
them
in
this
Habit
,
but
that
unknown
to
me
,
and
unallowed
,
after
very
false
Copies
some
of
them
have
been
already
Published
.
I
have
here
and
there
added
the
Dates
,
not
for
Ostentation
,
any
one
may
think
,
but
thereby
to
give
some
little
account
how
I
have
been
wont
to
spend
part
of
my
Time
,
both
before
I
was
admitted
into
Holy
Orders
,
and
since
;
and
that
if
some
of
my
Rhythms
may
not
so
directly
suit
with
my
present
Circumstances
,
and
seem
too
inflate
with
the
Muses
imaginary
Profits
and
Honours
,
and
idle
Tattle
to
no
purpose
in
the
World
;
the
time
wherein
I
did
them
,
may
be
my
Apology
,
as
it
has
serv'd
others
before
me
;
tho
there
be
none
of
them
I
hope
,
which
will
not
be
allowed
as
a
tolerable
Diversion
for
the
severest
Divine
,
their
subject
being
either
Religious
,
or
exemplary
Moral
.
And
I
am
not
ashamed
to
profess
,
that
wearied
with
more
abstruse
studies
,
I
have
been
wont
in
a
Country
Village
barren
of
other
Diversions
thus
to
unbend
,
and
refresh
my self
.
I
might
amongst
the
rest
have
added
the
Muses
Complaint
,
but
beside
that
I
thank
God
I
have
no
great
need
,
being
content
with
my
Fortune
,
I
never
yet
found
any
good
come
of
it
,
and
Mr.
Cowley's
,
and
Mr.
Spenser's
before
him
,
will
indifferently
serve
for
any
of
the
Trade
,
and
he
values
himself
too
highly
who
dares
expect
better
fortune
than
they
met
.
My
change
of
Habit
,
I
acknowledg
,
and
manner
of
Living
,
with
encrease
of
Years
,
have
much
taken
me
off
from
these
kind
of
Delights
,
tho
had
I
no
greater
loss
of
time
at
last
to
repent
,
than
what
has
been
spent
among
the
Muses
,
I
should
,
in
my
own
Opinion
at
least
,
be
a
very
happy
Man
.
Nay
,
I
am
so
far
at
present
from
repenting
it
,
for
the
main
,
that
as
the
late
Cardinal
Palavicino
,
on
the
like
occasion
says
,
Giovommi
,
che
in
eta
,
&
in
professione
più
libera
,
Io
sopra
modo
fui
vago
d'alcuni
autori
,
la
cui
frequente
lezione
sarebbe
ora
poco
dicevole
,
alla
maturita
de
miei
anni
,
ed
alla
serjetà
del
mio
stato
;
si
che
me
è
auvenuto
,
come
a
coloro
,
i
quali
con
più
animoso
,
che
sicuro
consiglio
praticarono
lungamente
fra
gli
aliti
pericolosi
delle
sotterranee
miniere
,
che
uscendone
salvi
,
hannosi
comperata
,
con
questo
rischio
,
qualche
più
interna
contezza
intorno
alle
naturali
proprietà
,
delle
gioie
&
dell'
oro
.
Some
of
my
Adventures
in
this
kind
,
I
have
been
at
the
pains
to
rehearse
(
and
I
might
have
added
many
more
)
in
the
Ode
,
called
the
Voyage
,
others
I
have
glanced
at
in
the
Odes
of
Petrarch
,
reducing
as
far
as
was
convenient
that
excellent
Poets
sense
,
to
my
own
Condition
.
And
now
,
having
in
the
body
of
this
Preface
troubled
my
Reader
with
a
particular
defence
of
Rhythm
,
as
the
most
natural
,
and
proper
Character
of
Verse
,
in
the
Modern
,
and
it
may
be
in
all
Languages
,
that
are
or
ever
were
spoken
in
the
World
,
(
the
Greek
and
Latine
only
excepted
)
and
without
which
,
especially
in
English
,
it
cannot
appear
distinguished
from
Prose
;
(
and
which
,
if
we
look
either
to
the
first
Original
of
Rhythm
,
is
so
far
from
being
the
Invention
of
a
late
Barbarous
Age
,
or
People
,
that
it
was
known
,
as
is
judged
by
the
Learned
,
and
allow'd
by
the
Hebrews
,
and
Eastern
Nations
,
long
before
the
Greeks
,
and
Romans
were
grown
to
that
height
,
as
to
stile
all
but
themselves
Barbarous
;
if
to
its
present
Vniversal
use
,
and
particularly
with
those
,
whom
the
now
Civil
and
Christi●n
World
more
modestly
and
justly
call
so
,
and
who
,
tho
they
never
heard
of
the
Greeks
and
Romans
,
nor
it
may
be
till
of
late
of
any
People
less
Barbarous
than
themselves
,
have
a
kind
of
Number
received
from
their
Ancestors
distinct
from
their
Prose
,
whose
Character
is
Rhythm
or
Cadence
,
seems
to
be
in
all
Countries
the
direction
of
pure
Nature
,
uncultivated
by
Art
;
and
)
that
I
may
not
in
Act
condemn
,
what
I
have
in
Word
taken
upon
me
the
confidence
to
defend
,
I
have
stiled
the
whole
Second
Part
by
the
fittest
,
as
I
think
,
of
the
most
Ancient
,
as
well
as
Modern
names
,
RIMES
.
I
confess
I
have
consulted
none
of
my
Friends
in
it
,
nor
know
I
whether
they
,
and
the
Censors
of
English
Verse
will
allow
it
me
,
tho
Casa
,
and
the
●est
of
the
Italians
,
(
to
instance
in
no
more
)
are
my
Compurgators
.
Yet
not
purely
hence
,
and
upon
their
Authority
barely
have
I
staid
my self
,
but
from
a
principle
of
Modesty
,
if
my
Reader
dare
credit
me
,
that
I
may
neither
forestal
and
deceive
him
,
nor
usurp
for
such
occasional
Compositions
,
an
Honour
and
Title
which
belongs
not
to
them
.
The
noble
Title
of
Poems
I
mean
,
too
great
a
bearing
for
so
mean
an
estate
of
Verse
as
that
to
which
of
the
most
they
are
vulgarly
affixt
.
If
others
are
of
another
mind
for
the
Examples
sake
,
(
the
first
it
may
be
in
English
of
the
despised
Name
given
to
any
thing
that
was
grave
and
serious
)
there
's
no
hurt
done
;
and
I
am
conte●t
,
(
tho
whether
I
be
or
no
,
't
is
no
great
matter
)
that
for
their
own
Diversions
,
they
●●ll
them
by
what
Names
they
please
,
so
they
give
me
●he
like
liberty
,
as
I
list
,
to
name
mine
.