No More Learning

His falling temples you have reared,
The withered garlands ta'en away;
His altars kept from the decay
That envy wished, and nature feared;

And on them burns so chaste a flame,
With so much loyalty's expense,
As Love, t' acquit such excellence,
Is gone himself into your name.

And you are he: the deity
To whom all lovers are designed,
That would their better objects find;
Among which faithful troop am I;

Who, as an offering at your shrine,
Have sung this hymn, and here entreat
One spark of your diviner heat
To light upon a love of mine;

Which, if it kindle not, but scant
Appear, and that to shortest view,
Yet give me leave t' adore in you
What I, in her, am grieved to want.




FOOTNOTES


{11} "So live with yourself that you do not know how ill yow mind is
furnished. "

{12} ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
{14} "A Puritan is a Heretical Hypocrite, in whom the conceit of his own
perspicacity, by which he seems to himself to have observed certain
errors in a few Church dogmas, has disturbed the balance of his mind, so
that, excited vehemently by a sacred fury, he fights frenzied against
civil authority, in the belief that he so pays obedience to God. "

{17a} Night gives counsel.

{17b} Plutarch in Life of Alexander. "Let it not be, O King, that you
know these things better than I. "

{19a} "They were not our lords, but our leaders. "

{19b} "Much of it is left also for those who shall be hereafter. "

{19c} "No art is discovered at once and absolutely. "

{22} With a great belly. Comes de Schortenhien.

{23} "In all things I have a better wit and courage than good fortune. "

{24a} "The rich soil exhausts; but labour itself is an aid. "

{24b} "And the gesticulation is vile. "

{25a} "An end is to be looked for in every man, an animal most prompt to
change. "

{25b} Arts are not shared among heirs.

{31a} "More loquacious than eloquent; words enough, but little
wisdom. "--_Sallust_.