Wittes Pilgrimage (by Poeticall Essaies): Through a VVorld of amorous Sonnets, Soule-passions, and other Passages, Diuine, Philosophicall, Morall, Poeticall, and Politicall. By Iohn Davies |
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Blessed is the Man that doth meditate honest things by Wisedome.
Ecclus. 14. 21.
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Blessed is the Man that doth meditate honest things by Wisedome. Ecclus. 14. 21.
Did Wisedome write, or speake the world to pleaseShee were not wisedom in a pleasing Sence:
Then who doth please with any one of these
Doth please vnwisely, but the World, or Sence.
Then are they worldly wise, or sensual
That doe soe write or speake; but none of those
Can be in them whose words can sweeten Gall
Which Sweets do rest where sweetest Soules repose.
And they repose but in the Sweet of Sweets
[God only wise] or Bodies of the Blest:
In whom true Wisedome, Grace and Nature meets,
If VVords inchaunt the Sense, and not the Soule
That Charme of VVords coniures no holy Spright:
For, Such, such VVords (not Such, such VVords) controule:
Soule-pleasing VVords must, then, bee rare, and right.
Yet though a Sonnet bee as right, as rare
For Number, Measure, VVaight, or Noueltie,
Yet, if it sounds so, but to Senses Eare,
The Soule, as harshe, doth hold that Hermonie.
Then all our Straines that relishe double Loue,
(Sweet double-Relishe, worthie treble praise)
To Soule, and Bodie) Soule and Body moue.
(VVith ioy) to listen, as to Angells Laies!
These bee the Aires that gett the Aire of Fame,
[Of Fame whose Aire, diuinely is refinde]
That feeds, with purest praise immortall Name;
Fitting the nature, of each mightie Minde.
And, they are only mightie that disdaine,
All that, that disagrees with Mightinesse:
As is light Loue, fraile Fancies, Shadowes vaine,
VVeake VVitt, base Blisse, VVorlds weale, or VVretchednes.
Then [as to Nature curst, but kind to Grace]
I here haue made a Rodd my selfe to beate,
VVhose highest reach in Straines of Loue, is base,
Sith Lightnesse measures them with heauie Feete.
Yet if this Lightnesse heauy make the Light
In Summing vp my Numbers totall Summe,
I hope the weight thereof, will bee of weight
Their Lightnesse [if it rise] to ouercome:
For, they are too Light that in Those but waigh
VVhat Lusters, not what Louers ought to say.
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