The Scourge of Folly Consisting of satyricall Epigrams, And others in honour of many noble Persons and worthy friends, together, with a pleasant (though discordant) Descant upon most English Proverbs and others [by John Davies] |
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To the Lady Wroth.
In the deserued praise of heauenly Musick: resembling it to God himselfe.
The Motion which the nine-fold sacred QuireOf Angells make; the Blisse of all the blest;
Which (next the Highst) most fils the high'st Desire;
And moues but Soules, that moue in Pleasures rest.
The heauenly charme that lullabies our woes;
And recollects the Minde that cares distract:
The liuely death of ioyfull Thoughts or'ethrowes:
And brings rare ioyes, but thought on, into act
Which (like the Soule of all the world) doth moue.
The vniuersall Nature of this All:
The life of Life; and Soul of ioy, and loue:
High Raptures heauen; the THAT I cannot call
(Like God) by reall Name: And, what is thy?
But Musick (next the Highst) the highest Blisse.
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