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But, as oft Alchimists doe coyners prove,
So may a selfe-dispising, get selfe-love,
And then as worst surfets, of best meates bee,
Soe is pride, issued from humility, 40
For, 'tis no child, but monster; therefore Crosse
Your joy in crosses, else, 'tis double losse.
And crosse thy senses, else, both they, and thou
Must perish soone, and to destruction bowe.
For if the'eye seeke good objects, and will take 45
No crosse from bad, wee cannot scape a snake.
So with harsh, hard, sowre, stinking, crosse the rest,
Make them indifferent all; call nothing best.
But most the eye needs crossing, that can rome,
And move; To th'other th'objects must come home. 50
And crosse thy heart: for that in man alone
Points downewards, and hath palpitation.
Crosse those dejections, when it downeward tends,
And when it to forbidden heights pretends.
And as the braine through bony walls doth vent 55
By sutures, which a Crosses forme present,
So when thy braine workes, ere thou utter it,
Crosse and correct concupiscence of witt.
Be covetous of Crosses, let none fall.
Crosse no man else, but crosse thy selfe in all. 60
Then doth the Crosse of Christ worke fruitfully
Within our hearts, when wee love harmlesly
That Crosses pictures much, and with more care
That Crosses children, which our Crosses are.


[The Crosse. _1633-69_ (_following_, _1635-69_, In that, o
Queene _&c. _ _p. _ 427): _similarly_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_,
_D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _TCC_, _TCD_]

[8 paines] pangs _JC_]

[12 Crosse; _1635-69:_ Crosse.
_1633_]

[13 affliction, _Ed:_ affliction _1633-69_]

[14 none. _Ed:_ none; _1633-54:_ none: _1669_]

[19 Crosse; _Ed:_ Crosse, _1633:_ Crosse, _1635-69_]

[20 make] makes _B_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _S_

where] when _O'F_

tosse; _1635-69:_ tosse. _1633_]

[21 out] our _1669_]

[23 is] are _A25_, _B_]

[26 But yet] And yet _A18_, _D_, _JC_, _N_, _TC_]

[27 medicine] medicines _A25_, _B_, _JC_]

[33 make, _1635-69:_ make: _1633_]

[34 take; _Ed:_ take. _1633:_ take: _1635-69_]

[37 oft _Ed:_ oft, _1633-69_]

[38 selfe-love, _D:_ selfe-love. _1633-69_]

[42 losse. _Ed:_ losse, _1633-69_]

[44 destruction] corruption _O'F_]

[45 seeke] see _1650-69_]

[48 all; call nothing best. _Ed:_ indifferent; call nothing
best. _1633 and MSS:_ indifferent; all, nothing best.
_1635-69_]

[50 To th'other th'objects _1633:_ To th'others objects
_1635-69_]

[52 Points _A18_, _A25_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _TC:_ Pants _1633-69_,
_B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _O'F_]

[53 dejections _1633:_ detorsions _1635-69_, _O'F_]

[55 the] thy _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_,
_TC_]

[61 fruitfully _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_,
_N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _TC:_ faithfully _1633-69_]

[63 That _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_,
_O'F_, _P_, _S_, _TC:_ The _1633-69_]




_Resurrection, imperfect. _

Sleep sleep old Sun, thou canst not have repast
As yet, the wound thou took'st on friday last;
Sleepe then, and rest; The world may beare thy stay,
A better Sun rose before thee to day,
Who, not content to'enlighten all that dwell 5
On the earths face, as thou, enlightned hell,
And made the darke fires languish in that vale,
As, at thy presence here, our fires grow pale.
Whose body having walk'd on earth, and now
Hasting to Heaven, would, that he might allow 10
Himselfe unto all stations, and fill all,
For these three daies become a minerall;
Hee was all gold when he lay downe, but rose
All tincture, and doth not alone dispose
Leaden and iron wills to good, but is 15
Of power to make even sinfull flesh like his.
Had one of those, whose credulous pietie
Thought, that a Soule one might discerne and see
Goe from a body,'at this sepulcher been,
And, issuing from the sheet, this body seen, 20
He would have justly thought this body a soule,
If not of any man, yet of the whole.
_Desunt caetera. _


[Resurrection, imperfect. _1633-69_ (_following_ By
Euphrates _&c. _ _p.