Facetiae : Musarum deliciae, or, The Muses recreation, conteining ...

478 Fancies and Fantasticks.Here will I sit and sigh my hot youths folly ;And learn to affect an holy Melancholy:And if contentment be a stranger, thenHe ne'r look for it but in Heaven agen.AN INVITATION TO THE READER.HAVING now fed thy youthfull frencies, with theseJuvenilian Fancies; let me invite thee (with myself)to sing Altiora feto. And then to meet with this thynoble resolution, I would commend to thy sharpestview and serious consideration, the Sweet CrelestialSacred Poems by Mr. He?iry Vaughan, intituled SilexScintillans :\\ti narfi ttciri ed. jThere plumes from Angels wings, he'l lend thee,Which every day to Heaven will send thee.(Hear him thus invite thee home.}If thou wouldst thither, linger not,Catch at the pla.ce.Tell youth, and beauty, they must rot,They'r but a Case :Loose, parcell'd hearts will freeze ;With scatter'd locksthe SunScarce warms, but bycontractionCan he.g,t the Rocks ;