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Me to mee; shee, my halfe, my all, my more. |
So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, |
And their white, whitenesse of the Galaxy, |
So may thy mighty amazing beauty move |
Envy'in all women, and in all men, love, |
And so be change, and sicknesse, farre from thee, |
As thou by comming neere, keep'st them from me. |
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The Annuntiation and Passion. |
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Tamely fraile body'abstaine to day; to day |
My soule eates twice, Christ hither and away. |
She sees him man, so like God made in this, |
That of them both a circle embleme is, |
Whose first and last concurre; this doubtfull day |
Of feast or fast, Christ came, and went away; |
Shee sees him nothing twice at once, who'is all; |
Shee sees a Cedar plant it selfe, and fall, |
Her Maker put to making, and the head |
Of life, at once, not yet alive, yet dead; |
She sees at once the virgin mother stay |
Reclus'd at home, Publique at Golgotha. |
Sad and rejoyc'd shee's seen at once, and seen |
At almost fiftie, and at scarce fifteene. |
At once a Sonne is promis'd her, and gone, |
Gabriell gives Christ to her, He her to John; |
Not fully a mother, Shee's in Orbitie, |
At once receiver and the legacie; |
All this, and all betweene, this day hath showne, |
Th'Abridgement of Christs story, which makes one
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