Temple.

4. With his kinde mother who partakes thy woe,

Ioseph turne backe; see where your child doth sit,

Blowing, yea blowing out those sparks of wit,

Which himselfe on the Doctors did bestow;

5The Word but lately could not speake, and loe,

It sodenly speakes wonders, whence comes it,

That all which was, and all which should be writ,

A shallow seeming child, should deeply know?

His Godhead was not soule to his manhood,

10Nor had time mellowed him to this ripenesse,

But as for one which hath a long taske, 'tis good,

With the Sunne to beginne his businesse,

He in his ages morning thus began

By miracles exceeding power of man.

Temple.

5 loe, Ed: loe 1633-69

6 wonders, 1633-39: wonders: 1650-69

11 for] to W

a long taske, 1633-69, D, H49: long taskes B, N, O'F, S, S96, TCD, W: longe taske A18, TCC

'tis] 'Tis 1633: thinks W

5. By miracles exceeding power of man,

Hee faith in some, envie in some begat,

For, what weake spirits admire, ambitious, hate;

In both affections many to him ran,

5But Oh! the worst are most, they will and can,

Alas, and do, unto the immaculate,

Whose creature Fate is, now prescribe a Fate,

Measuring selfe-lifes infinity to'a span,

Nay to an inch. Loe, where condemned hee

10Beares his owne crosse, with paine, yet by and by

When it beares him, he must beare more and die.

Now thou art lifted up, draw mee to thee,

And at thy death giving such liberall dole,

Moyst, with one drop of thy blood, my dry soule.

Crucifying.

3 weake] meeke B, O'F, S, S96, W

8 to'a span, B, N, O'F, S, S96, TC, W: to span, 1633-69, A18, D, H49

9 inch. Loe, 1635-69: inch, loe, 1633

11 die. 1635-69: die; 1633