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Comedies, Tragi-comedies, With other Poems

by Mr William Cartwright ... The Ayres and Songs set by Mr Henry Lawes

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On the Circumcision.
 
 

On the Circumcision.

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For the Kings Musick.

1.
Gently, O Gently, Father, do not bruise
That Tender Vine that hath no Branch to lose;

2.
Be not too Cruel, see the Child doth Smile,
His Bloud was but his Mothers Milk erewhile,

1 Lev.
Fear not the pruning of your Vine,
Hee'l turn your Water into Wine;

2 Lev.
The Mothers Milk that's now his Bloud,
Hereafter will become her Food.

Chor.
'Tis done; so doth the Balsam Tree endure
The Cruell Wounds of those whom it must Cure.

1 Lev.
'Tis but the Passions Essay: This young loss
Only preludes unto his Riper Cross.

1.
Avert, good Heav'n, avert that Fate
To so much Beauty so much Hate.

2 Lev.
Where so great Good is meant
The Bloud's not lost, but spent.

Chor.
Thus Princes feel what People do amise;
The swelling's Ours, although the Lancing his.

2.
When ye fair Heavens White Food bled,
The Rose, say they, from thence grew Red,

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O then what more Miraculous good,
Must spring from this diviner Floud?

2 Lev.
When that the Rose it self doth bleed,
That Bloud will be the Churches Seed.

Cho.
When that the Rose, &c.