And to the ground his eyes very lowly bent, And often knockt his breaft, as one that did repent. JEALOUSIE. O hateful hellish Snake, what Fury first (Spen. To joyless dread, and mak'ft the loving heart With heatful thoughts to languish and to pine, And feed it felf with felf-confuming smart ? Of all the paffions of the mind thou wileft art. Spen. The greater Care, the higher Paflion shews: We hold that deareft we most fear to lofe : Diftruft in Lovers is too warm a Sun, But yet 'tis Night in Love when that is gone : And in thofe Climes which moft his Scorching know, He makes the nobleft Fruits and Metals grow. (Dryd. Cong, of Gran. What Arts can blind a jealous Woman's Eyes? Love the first Motions of the Lover hears, Quick to prefage, and ev'n in Safety fears.Dryd. Virg. Jealoufie is a noble Crime; 'Tis the high Pulfe of Paffion in a Feaver; A fickly Draught, but fhews a burning Thirst. (Dryd. Amphit Ah! Why are not the Hearts of Women known? Falfe Women to new Joys unseen can move, There are no Prints left in the Paths of Love: All Goods befides by publick Marks are known, But that we most defire to keep has none. (Dryd. Conq. of Gran. p. z. Think'st thou I'll make a Life of Jealoufie, To follow ftill the Changes of the Moon Is to be refolv'd. But yet, Iago, I'll fee before I doubt: when I doubt, prove; Shak, Othel. O plague me, Heav'n, plague me with all the Woes That Man can fuffer: Root up my Poffeffions, Ship-wreck my far-fought Ballaft in the Haven, Fire all my Cities, burn my Dukedoms down, Let midnight Wolves howl in my defart Chambers, May the Earth yawn! shatter the Frame of Nature! Let the wreck'd Orbs in Whirl-winds round me move! But fave me from the Rage of jealous Love! IDLENES S. (Lee's Caf. Borg. Of which the first that all the reft did guide, And in his hand a Porteffe ftill he bare, That much was worne, but therein little red; For of Devotion he had little care, Still drownd in fleep, and most of his days dead; To looken whether it were night or day. May feem the waine was very evil led, When fuch an one had guiding the way, From worldly cares himself he did efloine, By which he grew to grievious maladie ; A A fhaking feaver raign'd continually : Such one was Idleness, first of this company. Spen. IGNORANCE. At last, with creeping crooked pace, forth came And on his arme a bunch of keys he bore, But he could not them ufe, but kept them ftill in But wery uncouth fight was to behold So backward ftill was turn'd his wrinkled face; (ftore. Spen. His name Ignaro did his nature right aread. A Crowd of howling Hell-hounds near her ftay'd, And Strife, that wretched Men in Arms engage; That rend a Kingdom, and diffolve a State. Blac. INCONSTANCY. For those fame Iflands, feeing now and then, Are not firme land, or any certein wonne, But ftraggling plots; which to and fro do ronne In the wide waters: therefore are they hight The wandring Islands: Therefore do them shonne; For they have oft drawn many a wandring wight Into most deadly danger and distressed plight. Yet well they feem to him, that farre doth veiw, Both faire and fruitful, and the ground difpred With graffie green of delectable hew, And the tall Trees with leaves unparelled, But whofoever once hath fastened His foot thereon, may never it recure, INCONTINENCE. The wanton Lady with her Lover lofe, Upon a bed of rofes fhe was laid, As faint through heat, or dight to pleasant fin, All in a veil of filk and filver thin, That had no whit her alabafter skin, But rather fliew'd more white if more might be : More fubtile web Arachne cannot spin, Nor the fine nets, which oft we woven fee Of fcorched dew, doe not in th' aire more lightly (Hee. Her fnowy breaft was bare to ready spoile Of hungry eyes, which more therewith be fill'd : And yet through languour of her late sweet toyle, Few drops, more clear than Nectar, forth dutill'd, The like pure orient Pearles adowne it trill'a : And And her faire eyes fweet fmyling in delight, Moyftened their firie with which the thril'd Fraile hearts, yet quenched not: like starry night, Which fparkling on the filent waves, does feem more (bright. Spen. INDIAN S. Thus in the Western World fo lately found, Tho' circling Years have paft their conftant Round; No length of Time could this great Truth unfold: Thoughtless they live, nor heed an After-state, INFIRMARY. Immediately a Place (Black. Creat. Before his Eyes appear'd, fick, noifom, dark, INSECT S. Thus when the Nile from Pharian Fields is fed, And feeks with ebbing Tides his antient Bed ; The fat Manure with Heav'nly Fire is warm'd, And crufted Creatures, as in Wombs, are form'd : Thefe, when they turn the Glebe, the Peafants find, Some rude, and yet unfinish'd in their Kind: Short |