A panegyric upon the Blessed Virgin Mary This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B04756 of text R181419 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P270). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B04756 Wing P270 ESTC R181419 52614815 ocm 52614815 175998 2240898648

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B04756) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 175998) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2758:12) A panegyric upon the Blessed Virgin Mary 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by H.H., London, : 1686. Caption title. Initial letter. "Publish'd with allowance." Reproduction of original in: Trinty College (Dublin, Ireland) Library. eng Mary, -- Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Religious poetry, English -- Scotland -- Early modern, 1500-1700. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo A panegyric upon the Blessed Virgin Mary. [no entry] 1686 1 597 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-07 Sampled and proofread 2008-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A PANEGYRIC UPON THE Blessed Virgin MARY . WHat Eye dares search the Brightness of the Sun ? What Pencil draw it ? What Conception Is clean enough Thy Pureness to descry , Or strong enough to speak Thy Dignity , Blest Mother of our Lord , whose Happy State None but an Angels Tongue did first relate ? Thou wert on Earth a Star most heavenly bright , That didst bring forth the Sun that lent Thee Light : An Earthly Vessel full of heavenly Grace , That broughtst forth Life to Adam's dying Race . For God on Earth Thou wert a Royal Throne , The Quarry to cut out our Corner-stone , The chosen Cloth to make his Mortal Weed , Soil blest with Fruit , yet free from Mortal Seed . In Marriage-bands thou ledst a Virgin-life , And , tho' untouch'd , becam'st a Fruitful Wife . Tho' Thou to aged Joseph wert assur'd , No Carnal Love that Sacred League procur'd , All vain Delights were far from your Assent , For chast by Vow you seal'd you chast Intent . Thus God his Paradise to Joseph lent , Wherein to plant the Tree of Life he meant , To raise a Birth miraculous , and by His sacred ways of Power disclose that high And holy Mystery , which Angels ( tho' So full of Light ) desir'd to look into . When Thou thy Maker didst bring forth , and he Whose Age had been from all Eternity , Was born an Infant from Thy Blessed Womb , He lay enclosed in that narrow Room , Whose Greatness Heaven and Earth could not contain . Who made the World , and Nature did ordain , Was made of Thy Flesh ; he , whose open'd Hand Feeds all the Creatures both by Sea and Land ; That even to Thee thy Life and Being lent , Did from Thy Breast receive his Nourishment . His Birth no Human Tongues were fit to sing : Th' Angelic Quire did greet their new-born King . So bright a Consort , and so sweet a Lay , Made Night more fair and chearful than the Day , And little Bethlem with more Glory fill'd Than all the Roman Palaces could yield . How wondrous great is then Thy Happiness , That wert his Mother ? But who can express So high a Bliss ? When we desire to fame Some other Maid or vertuous Womans Name , When we of other Ladies write the Lives , Of chast Maids , happy Mothers , constant Wives , Such as best Writers have renown'd of yore , When we have told their Noble Vertues o're , We draw Examples , and besides their own Fair Stories , praise them by Comparison . But in Thy Life we cannot ; Thou alone Canst not at all admit Comparison . So far thy happy Name and Honour lives Above all other Mothers , Maids , or Wives , That 't were a Sin , when we Thy Story tell , So much as once to think of Parallel . We 'll let Thee in Thine own pure Titles live , And speak no Praise of Thee but Positive ; As when we say , All Ages , Nations all Shall Thee most Happy among Women call ; That of the greatest Blessing God e're sent To sinful Man , Thou wert the Instrument .

Publish'd with Allowance .

LONDON , Printed by H. H. 1686.