No More Learning

Meantime like earth-worms we will crawl below,
And wonder at those things that thou dost know.

For an account of Alabaster see Notes: the allusions here are to his
apocalyptic writings.
_Horn_, used as a symbol of prosperity.
_The trumpet which thou late hast found_, _i. e. _, Alabaster's
"Spiraculum Tubarum seu Fons Spiritualium Expositionum," published
1633.
_April day_, day of weeping, or perhaps rather of "opening" or
revelation.


764. UPON HIS KINSWOMAN, MRS. M. S.

Here lies a virgin, and as sweet
As e'er was wrapt in winding sheet.
Her name if next you would have known,
The marble speaks it, Mary Stone:
Who dying in her blooming years,
This stone for name's sake melts to tears.
If, fragrant virgins, you'll but keep
A fast, while jets and marbles weep,
And praying, strew some roses on her,
You'll do my niece abundant honour.


765.
FELICITY KNOWS NO FENCE.

Of both our fortunes good and bad we find
Prosperity more searching of the mind:
Felicity flies o'er the wall and fence,
While misery keeps in with patience.


766. DEATH ENDS ALL WOE.

Time is the bound of things; where'er we go
_Fate gives a meeting, Death's the end of woe_.


767. A CONJURATION TO ELECTRA.

By those soft tods of wool
With which the air is full;
By all those tinctures there,
That paint the hemisphere;
By dews and drizzling rain
That swell the golden grain;
By all those sweets that be
I' th' flowery nunnery;
By silent nights, and the
Three forms of Hecate;
By all aspects that bless
The sober sorceress,
While juice she strains, and pith
To make her philters with;
By time that hastens on
Things to perfection;
And by yourself, the best
Conjurement of the rest:
O my Electra! be
In love with none, but me.

_Tods of wool_, literally, tod of wool=twenty-eight pounds, here used
of the fleecy clouds.
_Tinctures_, colours.
_Three forms of Hecate_, the _Diva triformis_ of Hor. Od. iii. 22.
Luna in heaven, Diana on earth, Persephone in the world below.