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The poems and verse-translations of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor

For the first time collected and edited after the author's own text: With introduction. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart [in Miscellanies of The Fuller Worthies' Library]
Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667)

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II. Festival Hymns.
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HYMNS CELEBRATING THE MYSTERIES AND CHIEF FESTIVALS OF THE YEAR, ACCORDING TO THE MANNER OF THE ANCIENT CHURCH: FITTED TO THE FANCY AND DEVOTION OF THE YOUNGER AND PIOUS PERSONS, Apt for memory, and to be joyned to their other PRAYERS.
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Hymns for Advent, or the weeks immediately before the Birth of our blessed Saviour.
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Hymns for Christmas-day.
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The Second Hymn; being a Dialogue between Three Shepherds.
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The Third Hymn: of Christ's Birth in an June.
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[The Fourth] Hymn for Christmas Day.
  
A Hymn upon St John's day.
  
Upon the Day of the Holy Innocents.
  
Upon the Epiphany, and the Three Wise Men of the East coming to Worship Jesus.
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A Meditation of the Four last things Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell For the time of Lent especially.
  
On the Conversion of St. Paul.
  
On the Purification of the blessed Virgin.
  
On Good-Friday.
  
On the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin.
  
Easter Day.
  
On the day of Ascension.
  
On the Feast of Pentecost, or Whitsunday.
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Penitentiall Hymns.
  
A prayer for Charity.
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III. Job's Curse.
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IV. Verse-portraits of the Four Evangelists;
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V. Aurea Grana.

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I. From “Deus Justificatus or a Vindication of the Glory of the Divine Attributes in the Question of Original Sin: in a Letter to a Person of Quality.” 1656 (12o) and 1657 (folio).

1. THE FALL.

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Man was the worke of God, fram'd by His hands;
Him did the Serpent cheat, that to death's bands
He was subjected for his sin: for this was all:
He tasted good and evill by his Fall.
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[Sic apud Lactant. ii. 13: fol. Cæsenæ, 1646. Aliter in edd-recent.]


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2. GUILT AND DESTINY.

No guilt upon Mankinde can lie
For what's the fault of Destiny.
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[Seneca Œdip, line 1019.]


3. ORIGINAL SIN.

Nor did it please our God, when that our state
Was chang'd, to adde a crime unto our fate.
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[‘Hoc placet’, &c.—Lucan vii., 58.]


4. NO MASTERS: ONE MASTER.

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If Aristotle be deceiv'd, and say that's true
What nor himself nor others ever knew,
I leave his text, and let his schollers talke
Till they be hoarse or weary in their walke:
When wise men erre, though their fame ring like bells,
I scape a danger when I leave their spells.
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[In Poemate cui nomen ‘Zodiacus vitæ’, lib. viii. sive ‘scorpio’, p. 187.—Basil 1563. 8vo.—]


5. THE SOFT ANSWER.

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Some weaknesse to each man by birth descends,
To me too great a kindnesse Nature lends.
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[Propertius: lib. ii. el. 22.17.]


6. HINDRANCES.

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He that will sow his field with hopefull seed,
Must every bramble, every thistle weed;
And when each hindrance to the graine is gone,
A fruitfull crop shall rise of corn alone.
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[al. ‘liberat,’ ‘resecat.’ Boethius, lib. iii. metr. 1.]


7. CONSCIENCE.

He that is guilty of a sin
Shal rue the crime that he lies in.
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[Lege ‘Exemplo. . . . . . malo’ Juvenal, Sat. xiii. I.]


8. TRUE IF NEW.

Fear not to own what's said because 'tis new;
Weigh well and wisely if the thing be true.
Truth and not conquest is the best reward;
'Gainst falsehood onely stand upon thy guard.
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[Lib. ii. lines 1039 et seqq.]


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