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As such a Starr, thy Mages ledd to view The Manger cradeld Infant, God below By vertues beames, by fame deriud from you May apt Soules haue, and worst may vertue know If the World age, and death, bee argued well By the Suns fall; which now towards earth doth bend Then wee might feare; that vertue since itt fell So low as woman, should bee neere her end. But shees not stoopd, but raisd; exild, by men, Shee fled to heaven; thats heavenly things, thats you: Shee was in all men thinly scattered then, But now amassd, contracted in a few. Shee gilded vs; but you are gold; and shee Vs shee informd, but transubstantiates yow. Soft dispositions, which ductile bee Elixar like, shee makes not cleane but new. Though yow a wifes, and Mothers name retaine, Tis, not as Woman; for all are not so; But vertue having made you Vertue, is faine To adhere in these names, her and you to show. Els beinge alike pure, wee should nether see, As water, being into aire rarefied Neither appeare, till in one clowd they bee So for our sakes, yow doe low names abide. Tought by greate Constellations, which being framd Of the Most Starrs, take low names; Crabb, and Bull When single Plannetts by the Gods are namd You covett nott great Names of great things full. [CW: So you.] |
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