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071:05,000['  ]| <A Dialogue between the Resolved Soul, and Created Pleasure.>
071:05,001@b   | Courage my Soul, now learn to$9$ wield
071:05,002@b   | The weight of thine immortal shield.
071:05,003@b   | Close on$4$ thy head thy helmet bright.
071:05,004@b   | Balance thy sword against the fight.
071:05,005@b   | See where an army, strong as fair,
071:05,006@b   | With silken banners spreads the air.
071:05,007@b   | Now, if thou beest that$6#2$ thing divine,
071:05,008@b   | In$4$ this day's combat let it shine:
071:05,009@b   | And show that$3$ Nature wants an art
071:05,010@b   | To$9$ conquer one resolved heart. <10>
071:05,000['  ]| <Pleasure.>
071:05,011@c   | Welcome the creation's guest,
071:05,012@c   | Lord of earth, and heaven's heir.
071:05,013@c   | Lay aside that$6#2$ warlike crest,
071:05,014@c   | And of Nature's banquet share:
071:05,015@c   | Where the souls of fruits and flowers
071:05,016@c   | Stand prepared to$9$ heighten yours.
071:05,000['  ]| <Soul.>
071:05,017@b   | I sup above, and can not stay
071:05,018@b   | To$9$ bait so$5#1$ long upon$4$ the way.
071:05,000['  ]| <Pleasure.>
071:05,019@c   | On$4$ these downy pillows lie,
071:05,020@c   | Whose soft plumes will$1$ thither fly: <20>
071:05,021@c   | On$4$ these roses strewed so$5#1$ plain
071:05,022@c   | Lest one leaf thy side should strain.
071:05,000['  ]| <Soul.>
071:05,023@b   | My gentler rest is on$4$ a thought,
071:05,024@b   | Conscious of doing what I ought.
071:05,000['  ]| <Pleasure.>
071:05,025@c   | If thou beest with perfumes pleased,
071:05,026@c   | Such as oft the gods appeased,
071:05,027@c   | Thou in$4$ fragrant clouds shalt show
071:05,028@c   | Like$4$ another god below.
071:05,000['  ]| <Soul.>
071:05,029@b   | A Soul that$6#1$ knows not to$9$ presume
071:05,030@b   | Is heaven's and its own perfume. <30>
071:05,000[A  ]| <Pleasure.>
071:05,031@c   | Everything does seem to$9$ vie
071:05,032@c   | Which$6#1$ should first attract thine eye:
071:05,033@c   | But since none deserves that$6#2$ grace,
071:05,034@c   | In$4$ this crystal view thy face.
071:05,000['  ]| <Soul.>
071:05,035@b   | When the Creator's skill is prized,
071:05,036@b   | The rest is all but earth disguised.
071:05,000['  ]| <Pleasure.>
071:05,037@c   | Hark how music then prepares
071:05,038@c   | For$4$ thy stay these charming airs;
071:05,039@c   | Which$6#1$ the posting winds recall,
071:05,040@c   | And suspend the river's fall. <40>
071:05,000['  ]| <Soul.>
071:05,041@b   | Had I but any time to$9$ lose,
071:05,042@b   | On$4$ this I would it all dispose.
071:05,043@b   | Cease, tempter. None can chain a mind
071:05,044@b   | Whom this sweet chordage can not bind.
071:05,000['  ]| <Chorus.>
071:05,045@d   | Earth can not show so$5#1$ brave a sight
071:05,046@d   | As when a single soul does fence
071:05,047@d   | The batteries of alluring sense,
071:05,048@d   | And heaven views it with delight.
071:05,049@d   | Then persevere: for$3$ still new charges sound:
071:05,050@d   | And if thou overcomest, thou shalt be crowned. <50>
071:05,000['  ]| <Pleasure.>
071:05,051@c   | All this fair, and soft, and sweet,
071:05,052@c   | Which$6#1$ scatteringly doth shine,
071:05,053@c   | Shall within one beauty meet,
071:05,054@c   | And she be only thine.
071:05,000['  ]| <Soul.>
071:05,055@b   | If things of sight such heavens be,
071:05,056@b   | What heavens are those we can not see?
071:05,000['  ]| <Pleasure.>
071:05,057@c   | Wheresoever thy foot shall go
071:05,058@c   | The minted gold shall lie;
071:05,059@c   | Till thou purchase all below,
071:05,060@c   | And want new worlds to$9$ buy. <60>
071:05,000['  ]| <Soul.>
071:05,061@b   | Were it not a price who$6#2$ would value gold?
071:05,062@b   | And that$6#2$ is worth naught that$6#1$ can be sold.
071:05,000['  ]| <Pleasure.>
071:05,063@c   | Wilt thou all the glory have
071:05,064@c   | That$6#1$ war or peace commend?
071:05,065@c   | Half the world shall be thy slave
071:05,066@c   | The other half thy friend.
071:05,000['  ]| <Soul.>
071:05,067@b   | What friends, if to$4$ myself untrue?
071:05,068@b   | What slaves, unless I captive you?
071:05,000['  ]| <Pleasure.>
071:05,069@c   | Thou shalt know each hidden cause;
071:05,070@c   | And see the future time: <70>
071:05,071@c   | Try what depth the centre draws;
071:05,072@c   | And then to$4$ heaven climb.
071:05,000['  ]| <Soul.>
071:05,073@b   | None thither mounts by$4$ the degree
071:05,074@b   | Of knowledge, but humility.
071:05,000['  ]| <Chorus.>
071:05,075@d   | Triumph, triumph, victorious Soul;
071:05,076@d   | The world has not one pleasure more:
071:05,077@d   | The rest does lie beyond the Pole,
071:05,078@d   | And is thine everlasting store.
071:05,000['  ]| <1681 folio (C.59.i.8). It also appears in Bod. Eng. poet.d.49.>
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071:11,000['  ]| <A Dialogue between the Soul and Body.>
071:11,000['  ]| <Soul.>
071:11,001[S  ]| O who$6#2$ shall, from this dungeon, raise
071:11,002[S  ]| A soul enslaved so$5#1$ many ways?
071:11,003[S  ]| With bolts of bones, that$6#1$ fettered stands
071:11,004[S  ]| In$4$ feet; and manacled in$4$ hands.
071:11,005[S  ]| Here blinded with an eye; and there
071:11,006[S  ]| Deaf with the drumming of an ear.
071:11,007[S  ]| A soul hung up$5$, as it were, in$4$ chains
071:11,008[S  ]| Of nerves, and arteries, and veins.
071:11,009[S  ]| Tortured, besides each other part,
071:11,010[S  ]| In$4$ a vain head, and double heart.  <10>
071:11,000['  ]| <Body.>
071:11,011[B  ]| O who$6#2$ shall me deliver whole,
071:11,012[B  ]| From bonds of this tyrannic soul?
071:11,013[B  ]| Which$6#1$, stretched upright, impales me so$5#2$,
071:11,014[B  ]| That$3$ mine own precipice I go;
071:11,015[B  ]| And warms and moves this needless frame:
071:11,016[B  ]| (A fever could but do the same.)
071:11,017[B  ]| And, wanting where its spite to$9$ try,
071:11,018[B  ]| Has made me live to$9$ let me die.
071:11,019[B  ]| A body that$6#1$ could never rest,
071:11,020[B  ]| Since this ill spirit it possessed.  <20>
071:11,000['  ]| <Soul.>
071:11,021[S  ]| What magic could me thus confine
071:11,022[S  ]| Within another's grief to$9$ pine?
071:11,023[S  ]| Where whatsoever it complain,
071:11,024[S  ]| I feel, that$6#1$ can not feel, the pain.
071:11,025[S  ]| And all my care itself employs,
071:11,026[S  ]| That$6#2$ to$9$ preserve, which$6#1$ me destroys:
071:11,027[S  ]| Constrained not only to$9$ endure
071:11,028[S  ]| Diseases, but, what is worse, the cure:
071:11,029[S  ]| And ready oft the port to$9$ gain,
071:11,030[S  ]| Am shipwrecked into health again.  <30>
071:11,000['  ]| <Body.>
071:11,031[B  ]| But physic yet could never reach
071:11,032[B  ]| The maladies thou me dost teach;
071:11,033[B  ]| Whom first the cramp of hope does tear:
071:11,034[B  ]| And then the palsy shakes of fear.
071:11,035[B  ]| The pestilence of love does heat:
071:11,036[B  ]| Or hatred's hidden ulcer eat.
071:11,037[B  ]| Joy's cheerful madness does perplex:
071:11,038[B  ]| Or sorrow's other madness vex.
071:11,039[B  ]| Which$6#1$ knowledge forces me to$9$ know;
071:11,040[B  ]| And memory will$1$ not forgo.  <40>
071:11,041[B  ]| What but a soul could have the wit
071:11,042[B  ]| To$9$ build me up$5$ for$4$ sin so$5#1$ fit?
071:11,043[B  ]| So$3$ architects do square and hew,
071:11,044[B  ]| Green trees that$6#1$ in$4$ the forest grew.
071:11,000['  ]| <1681 folio (C.59.i.8). It also appears in Bod. Eng. poet.d.49.>
071:11,000['  ]| <The last 4 lines of the text in Eng. poet.d.49 have been>
071:11,000['  ]| < scored through by the unidentified editor and a notation "Desunt multa">
071:11,000['  ]| < has been added to indicate his view that the poem is incomplete. >
071:11,000['  ]| < Certainly, the irregular line scheme of the poem suggests that this is>
071:11,000['  ]| < the case.) >