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ow。 The blust'ring winds invisible rough stroak More often shakes the stubborn'st; prop'rest oak; And in proud turrets we behold withal; 'Tis the imperial top declines to fall: Nor does Heav'n's lightning strike the humble vales; But high…aspiring mounts batters and scales。

  A breast of proof defies all shocks of Fate; Fears in the best; hopes in worser state; Heaven forbid that; as of old; time ever Flourish'd in spring so contrary; now never。 That mighty breath; which blew foul Winter hither; Can eas'ly puffe it to a fairer weather。 Why dost despair then; Frank?  Aeolus has A Zephyrus as well as Boreas。

  'Tis a false sequel; soloecisme 'gainst those Precepts by fortune giv'n us; to suppose That; 'cause it is now ill; 't will ere be so; Apollo doth not always bend his bow; But oft; uncrowned of his beams divine; With his soft harp awakes the sleeping Nine。

  In strictest things magnanimous appear; Greater in hope; howere thy fate; then fear: Draw all your sails in quickly; though no storm Threaten your ruine with a sad alarm; For tell me how they differ; tell me; pray; A cloudy tempest and a too fair day?

 One of the younger brothers of the poet。  In the year of the Restoration he filled the office of Recorder of Canterbury; and in that capacity delivered the address of the city to Charles II。 on his passage through the place。  This speech was printed in 1660; 4to; three leaves。  The following extracts from the CALENDARS OF STATE PAPERS (Domestic Series; 1660…1; page 139); throw a little additional light on the history of this person:

〃1660; July 1。Petition of Fras。 Lovelace; Recorder of Canterbury; to the King; for the stewardship of the liberties of St。 Augustine; near Canterbury; for himself and his son Goldwell。  Has suffered sequestration; imprisonment; and loss of office; for his loyalty。 WITH A NOTE OF THE REQUESTED GRANT FOR FRAS。 LOVELACE。

〃Grant to Fras。 Lovelace; of the office of chief steward of the Liberties of the late monastery of St。 Augustine; near Canterbury。〃

 Unless the poet is advising his brother; before the latter ventures on a long sea voyage; to look in the crystal; or beryl; so popular at that time; in order to read his fortune; I must confess my ignorance of the meaning of 〃glassy…epithete。〃 See; for an account of the beryl; Aubrey's MISCELLANIES; edit。 1857; p。 154。

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          PARIS'S SECOND JUDGEMENT;

     UPON THE THREE DAUGHTERS OF MY DEAR         BROTHER MR。 R。 CAESAR。

Behold! three sister…wonders; in whom met; Distinct and chast; the splendrous counterfeit Of Juno; Venus and the warlike Maid; Each in their three divinities array'd; The majesty and state of Heav'ns great Queen; And when she treats the gods; her noble meen; The sweet victorious beauties and desires O' th' sea…born princess; empresse too of fires; The sacred arts and glorious lawrels torn From the fair brow o' th' goddesse father…born; All these were quarter'd in each snowy coat; With canton'd honours of their own; to boot。 Paris; by fate new…wak'd from his dead cell; Is charg'd to give his doom impossible。 He views in each the brav'ry of all Ide; Whilst one; as once three; doth his soul divide。 Then sighs so equally they're glorious all: WHAT PITY THE WHOLE WORLD IS BUT ONE BALL!

 Second son of Sir John Caesar; Knt。; who was the second surviving son of Sir Julius Caesar; Knt。; Master of the Rolls。 Mr。 Robert Caesar married the poet's sister Johanna; by whom he had three daughters; co…heirsAnne; Juliana; and Johanna。 These are the ladies commemorated in the text。  See Lodge's LIFE OF SIR JULIUS CAESAR; 1827; p。 54。

 Original reads SPLENDORS。

 This word is here used to signify simply RESEMBLANCE or COPY。

 i。e。 quartered。  CANTON; in heraldry; is a square space at one of the corners of a shield of arms。

 Bravery here means; as it often does in writers of and before the time of Lovelace; A BEAUTIFUL OR FINE SPECTACLE; or simply BEAUTY。  BRAVE in the sense of FINE (gaudy or gallant) is still in use。



                  PEINTURE。

A PANEGYRICK TO THE BEST PICTURE OF FRIENDSHIP;                 MR。 PET。 LILLY。

  If Pliny; Lord High Treasurer of all Natures exchequer shuffled in this our ball; Peinture her richer rival did admire; And cry'd she wrought with more almighty fire; That judg'd the unnumber'd issue of her scrowl; Infinite and various as her mother soul; That contemplation into matter brought; Body'd Ideas; and could form a thought。 Why do I pause to couch the cataract; And the grosse pearls from our dull eyes abstract; That; pow'rful Lilly; now awaken'd we This new creation may behold by thee?

  To thy victorious pencil all; that eyes And minds call reach; do bow。  The deities Bold Poets first but feign'd; you do and make; And from your awe they our devotion take。 Your beauteous pallet first defin'd Love's Queen; And made her in her heav'nly colours seen; You strung the bow of the Bandite her son; And tipp'd his arrowes with religion。 Neptune as unknown as his fish might dwell; But that you seat him in his throne of shell。 The thunderers artillery and brand; You fancied Rome in his fantastick hand; And the pale frights; the pains; and fears of hell First from your sullen melancholy fell。 Who cleft th' infernal dog's loath'd head in three; And spun out Hydra's fifty necks? by thee As prepossess'd w' enjoy th' Elizian plain; Which but before was flatter'd in our brain。 Who ere yet view'd airs child invisible; A hollow voice; but in thy subtile skill? Faint stamm'ring Eccho you so draw; that we The very repercussion do see。   Cheat…HOCUS…POCUS…Nature an assay O' th' spring affords us: praesto; and away! You all the year do chain her and her fruits; Roots to their beds; and flowers to their roots。 Have not mine eyes feasted i' th' frozen Zone Upon a fresh new…grown collation Of apples; unknown sweets; that seem'd to me Hanging to tempt as on the fatal tree; So delicately limn'd I vow'd to try My appetite impos'd upon my eye?   You; sir; alone; fame; and all…conqu'ring rime; File the set teeth of all…devouring time。 When beauty once thy vertuous paint hath on; Age needs not call her to vermilion; Her beams nere shed or change like th' hair of day; She scatters fresh her everlasting ray。 Nay; from her ashes her fair virgin fire Ascends; that doth new massacres conspire; Whilst we wipe off the num'rous score of years; And do behold our grandsire's' as our peers; With the first father of our house compare We do the features of our new…born heir: For though each coppied a son; they all Meet in thy first and true original。   Sacred! luxurious! what princesse not But comes to you to have her self begot? As; when first man was kneaded; from his side Is born to's hand a ready…made…up bride。 He husband to his issue then doth play; And for more wives remove the obstructed way: So by your art you spring up in two noons What could not else be form'd by fifteen suns; Thy skill doth an'mate the prolifick flood; And thy red oyl assimilates to blood。   Where then; when all the world pays its respect; Lies our transalpine barbarous neglect? When the chast hands of pow'rful Titian Had drawn the scourges of our God and man; And now the top of th' altar did ascend To crown the heav'nly piece with a bright end; Whilst he; who in seven languages gave law; And always; like the Sun; his subjects saw; Did; in his robes imperial and gold; The basis of the doubtful ladder hold。 O Charls! a nobler monument than that; Which thou thine own executor wert at! When to our huffling Henry there complain'd A grieved earl; that thought his honor stain'd: Away (frown'd he); for your own safeties; hast! In one cheap hour ten coronets I'l cast; But Holbeen's noble and prodigious worth Onely the pangs of an whole age brings forth。 Henry! a word so princely saving said; It might new raise the ruines thou hast made。   O sacred Peincture! that dost fairly draw; What but in mists deep inward Poets saw; 'Twixt thee and an Intelligence no odds; That art of privy council to the gods! By thee unto our eyes they do prefer A stamp of their abstracted character; Thou; that in frames eternity dost bind; And art a written and a body'd mind; To thee is ope the Juncto o' th' abysse; And its conspiracy detected is; Whilest their cabal thou to our sense dost show; And in thy square paint'st what they threat below。   Now; my best Lilly; let's walk hand in hand; And smile at this un…understanding land; Let them their own dull counterfeits adore; Their rainbow…cloaths admire; and no more。 Within one shade of thine more substance is; Than all their varnish'd idol…mistresses: Whilst great Vasari and Vermander shall Interpret the deep mystery of all; And I unto our modern Picts shall show; What due renown to thy fair art they owe In the delineated lives of those; By whom this everlasting lawrel grows。 Then; if they will not gently apprehend; Let one great blot give to their fame an end; Whilst no poetick flower their herse doth dresse; But perish they and their effigies。

 An allusion is; of course; intended to Pliny's NATURAL HISTORY which; 

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