Virgidemiarum - 1825 Author:Joseph Hall Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HIS DEFIANCE TO ENUIE. Nay ; let the prouder pines of Ida feare The sudden fires of heaven ; and decline Their yeelding tops, that dar'd the skies whilere ; A... more »nd shake your sturdie trunks, ye prouder pines, Whose swelling graines are like be gald alone, 5 With the deepe furrowes of the thunder-stone. Stand ye secure, ye safer shrubs below, In humble dales, whome heauns doe not despight; Nor angrie clouds conspire your ouerthrow, Enuying at your too-disdainfull hight. 10 Let high attempts dread Enuy, and ill tongues, And cowardly shrinke for feare of causles wrongs. So wont big okes feare winding yuy-weed; So soaring egles feare the neighbour sonne ; So golden mazor wont suspicion breed, 15 Of deadly hemlocks poysoned potion; So adders shroud themselues in fairest leaues; So fouler fate the fayrer thing bereaues. Nor the low bush fearcs climbing yuy-twine; Nor lowly bustard dreads the distant rayes ; 20 Nor earthen pot wont secret death to shrine; Nor suttle snake doth lurke in pathed wayes ; Nor baser deed dreads Enuy and ill tongues, Nor shrinks so soone for feare of causelesse wrongs. Needs me then hope, or doth me need mis-dread ; 25 Hope for that honor, dread that wrongfull spight; Spight of the partie, honor of the deede, Which wont alone on loftie obiects light; That Enuie should accoast my muse and me, For this so rude and recklesse poesie. 30 Would she but shade her tender browes with hay, That now lye bare in carelesse wilfull rage ; And trance herselfe in that sweete extasey, That rouzeth drouping thoughts of bashfull age; (Tho' now those bays, and that aspired thought, 35 In carelesse rage, she sets at worse then nought.) Or would we loose her plumy pineon, Manicled long with bonds of modest feare; Soone might she hau...« less