 | A Spiritvall propine of a Pastour to his People |  |
TO THE READER.
Giff pleasure may perswade, or mater moue,If profit may preuaile, or mirthe allure:
Heir stay thy hart, ô heir repose thy loue,
Heir sall thou finde, quhilk may thy loue procure:
Heir pleasure, game, and mirth quhilk sall indure,
Quhen earthly pleasure, game, and myrth decayes:
Tak paines and proue, prooffe sall thy hart assure,
None gets the gaine, bot he wha prooffe essayes.
Wey, vse, apply: away with fleshly stayes.
Delite, reioyce in heauenly musicke sanges:
Sen Poesie heir warkes, and faith arrayes.
Array thy hart with all that them belanges.
Quhen griefe and sorrow hes my hart opprest:
Resorting heir, I finde both ease and rest.
M. I. C.
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