We're always moving hence,

Like lines from the circumference,

To some more in-lodged excellence.

But He is one unmoved self-centr'd point of rest.

NORRIS.

The Prospect.

WHAT a strange moment will that be,
My soul, how full of curiosity,

When winged, and ready for thy eternal flight,
On the utmost edges of thy tottering clay,
Hovering and wishing longer stay,

Thou shalt advance, and have eternity in sight.

When just about to try that unknown sea,
What a strange moment will that be.

And yet how much more strange that state,

When loosen'd from the embrace of this close mate.

Thou shalt at once be plunged at liberty,

And move as swift and active as a ray
Shot from the lucid spring of day!

Thou, who just now was clogg'd with dull mortality,
How wilt thou bear the mighty change, how know
Whether thou'rt then the same or no?

Then to strange mansions of the air,
And stranger company must thou repair.
What a new scene of things will then appear.

This world thou by degrees wast taught to know,
Which lessened thy surprise below,

But knowledge all at once will overflow thee there.
That world, as the first man did this, thou❜lt see,
Ripe grown, in full maturity.

There with bright splendours must thou dwell,
And be what only those pure forms can tell.
There must thou live awhile, gaze and admire,
Till the great angel's trump this fabric shake,
And all the slumbering dead awake,

Then to thy old forgotten state must thou retire.
This union then will seem as strange, or more
Than thy new liberty before.

NORRIS.

The Retraction.

I'VE often charged all sublunary bliss,
With vanity and emptiness:

Ye woods and streams have heard me oft complain
How all things, even your delights, were vain.
Methought I could with one short simple view,
Glance o'er all human joys, and see them through.
But now, great preacher, pardon me,

I cannot wholly to thy charge agree,
For Music sure and Friendship have no vanity.

No, each of these is a firm, massy joy,
Which, though eternal, will not cloy.

Here may the venturous soul love on, and find,
Grasp what she can, that more remains behind,
Such depths of joy these living springs contain,
As man to eternity can never drain.
These sweets the truth of Heaven prove,
Only there's greater bliss with saints above,

Because they've better Music there, and firmer Love.

NORRIS.

THE END.

LIST OF AUTHORS.

Austin, John, (-

-1669).

Bacon, Francis, Lord, (1560-1-1626)

Baxter, Richard, (1615-1691)

Barns, Barnaby, (pub. 1595).

Beaumont, Sir John, (1582-1628)

Beaumont, Francis, (1586-1615-16)

Beaumont, Joseph, (1615-1699)

Breton, Sir Nicholas, (pub. 1595–1616)

Brooke, Fulke Greville, Lord, (pub. 1633)

Browne, Sir Thomas, (1605-1682)
Bunyan, John, (1628-1688)
Buxton, Robert, 1576-1639-40
B. N., supposed Nicholas Breton .

--1618)

Davies, Sir John, (1569-1626)
Dekker, Thomas, (reign of James I.)
Donne, John, D.D., (1573–1631)
Drayton, Michael, (1563-1631).
Drummond, William, (1586-1649)
Dunbar, William, (cir. 1465-cir. 1530)

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213

58

171, 172

89

112, 113

115, 116
171

47, 49
45, 46, 47

157

196, 197, 197

107

52

182

134

53

4, 5, 6

90

183, 185, 187

174, 175, 177, 178, 180

Habbington, William, (1605-1654)

158

Hagthorpe, (pub. 1622)

Hall, Joseph, D.D., of Exeter, (1574-1656)

Henrysoun, Robert, of Dunfermline, (reign of Henry VIII.)

Herrick, Robert, (1591-1674?) .

195

89

7, 7

137, 138, 139, 140,

141, 142

Margaret, Duchess, of Newcastle, (1625-1673)
Marlowe, Christopher, (cir. 1562-cir. 1593)

Marshall, Thomas, (cir. 1620-1685)

135, 136

183

194

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188

Marvell, Andrew, (1620-1678)

189, 190, 191

Montgomerie, Alexander, (pub. 1597)

55

More, Henry, (1614-1687)

169, 170

Mure, Sir William, (1594–1657).

152

Pembroke, Mary Sidney, Countess of, (-
Phillips, Catherine, (1631-1664)

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Sandys, George, (1577-1643)

Shirley, James, (1594-1666)

Sidney, Sir Philip, (1554-1586)
Southwell, Robert, (1560-1595) .
Spenser, Edmund, (1553–1598-9)

Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of, (cir. 1580-1640) 111,

Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, (1515-20-1546-7)
Sylvester, Joshua, (1563–1618)

Tate, Faithful, D.D., (middle of 17th cent.)

Vaux, Thomas, Lord, of Harwedon, (1520–

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20, 20

68, 69, 70

204, 208

Taylor, Jeremy, D.D., (1615–1667) 164, 165, 166, 167, 168

22, 23

163

151

199

54

15, 16

131, 132, 133

77, 78, 79, 80

105

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Wither, George, (1588-1667)
Wotton, Sir Henry, (1568-1639)

W. A., (16th cent.)

Anonymous, MSS. in Brit. Mus., (1456)

Do. (pub. 1515?-1537?)

159, 162