Old-times, upon the Moone, three names bestow'd;

Because, three diverse wayes, her selfe she show'd:

And, in the sacred-bookes, it may be showne,

That holy-Church, was figur'd by the Moone.

Then, these three Moones in one, may intimate

The holy-Churches threefold blest estate.

The Moone, still, biding in our Hemisphære,

May typifie the Church, consisting, here,

Of men, yet living: when she shewes her light

Among us here, in portions of the night;