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An Epitaph On The Marchioness Of Winchester

...too soon,
After so short time of breath,
To house with darknes, and with death. 
Yet had the number of her days
Bin as compleat as was her praise,
Nature and fate had had no strife
In giving limit to her life.
Her high birth, and her graces sweet,
Quickly found a lover meet;
The Virgin quire for her request
The God that sits at marriage feast;
He at their invoking came
But with a scarce-wel-lighted flame; 
And in his Garland as he stood,
Ye might discern a Cipress bud.
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Jubilate Agno: Fragment B Part 1

...st musick in his power. 

Let Shamgar rejoice with Otis, who looks about him for the glory of God, and sees the horizon compleat at once. 

Let Bohan rejoice with the Scythian Stag -- he is beef and breeches against want and nakedness. 

Let Achsah rejoice with the Pigeon who is an antidote to malignity and will carry a letter. 

Let Tohu rejoice with the Grouse -- the Lord further the cultivating of heaths and the peopling of deserts. 

Let Hillel rejoice with Ammodytes, who...Read more of this...

Jubilate Agno: Fragment B Part 4

...tells him he's a good Cat. 

For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon. 

For every house is incompleat without him and a blessing is lacking in the spirit. 

For the Lord commanded Moses concerning the cats at the departure of the Children of Israel from Egypt. 

For every family had one cat at least in the bag. 

For the English Cats are the best in Europe. 

For he is the cleanest in the use of his fore-paws of any quadrupede. 

For the dexterity o...Read more of this...

Jubilate Agno: Fragment C

...consists of two and three. 

For Six is very good consisting of twice three. 

For Seven is very good consisting of two compleat numbers. 

For Eight is good for the same reason and propitious to me Eighth of March 1761 hallelujah. 

For Nine is a number very good and harmonious. 

For Cipher is a note of augmentation very good. 

For innumerable ciphers will amount to something. 

For the mind of man cannot bear a tedious accumulation of nothings without effect. 

For infini...Read more of this...

Samson Agonistes

...hampion, strong above compare,
Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.

 Sam. But what avail'd this temperance, not compleat
Against another object more enticing?
What boots it at one gate to make defence, 
And at another to let in the foe
Effeminatly vanquish't? by which means,
Now blind, disheartn'd, sham'd, dishonour'd, quell'd,
To what can I be useful, wherein serve
My Nation, and the work from Heav'n impos'd,
But to sit idle on the houshold hearth,
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The World

...m bad then from the good.
The sting is better drest and longer lasts,
As surfeits are more dangerous than fasts.
And to compleat the misery to us,
We see extreames are still contiguous.
And as we run so fast from what we hate,
Like Squibs on ropes, to know no middle state;
So (outward storms strengthen'd by us) we find
Our fortune as disordred as our mind.
But that's excus'd by this, it doth its part;
A treacherous world befits a treacherous heart.
All ill's our own; the outw...Read more of this...

To Mrs. M. A. at Parting

...well.

All Honour sure I must pretend,
All that is Good or Great ;
She that would be Rosania's Friend,
Must be at least compleat.
If I have any bravery,
'Tis cause I have so much of thee.

Thy Leiger Soul in me shall lie,
And all thy thoughts reveal ;
Then back again with mine shall flie,
And thence to me shall steal.
Thus still to one another tend ;
Such is the sacred name of Friend.

Thus our twin-Souls in one shall grow,
And teach the World new Love,
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