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OH Book! infinite sweetnesse! let my heart

Suck ev’ry letter, and a hony gain,

Precious for any grief in any part;

To cleare the breast, to mollifie all pain.

Thou art all health, health thriving, till it make

A full eternitie: thou art a masse

Of strange delights, where we may wish and take.

Ladies, look here; this is the thankful! glasse,

That mends the looker’s eyes: this is the well

That washes what it shows. Who can indeare

Thy praise too much? thou art Heav’n’s lidger here,

Working against the states of death and hell.

Thou art joyes handsell: heav’n lies flat in thee,

Subject to ev’ry mounters bended knee.

2.

Oh that I knew how all thy lights combine,

And the configurations of their glorie!

Seeing not only how each verse doth shine,

But all the constellations of the storie.

This verse marks that, and both do make a motion

Unto a third, that ten leaves off doth lie:

Then as dispersed herbs do watch a potion,

These three make up some Christian’s destinie.

Such are thy secrets, which my life makes good,

And comments on thee: for in ev’ry thing

Thy words do finde me out, and parallels bring,

And in another make me understood.

Starres are poore books, and oftentimes do misse;

This book of starres lights to eternall blisse.