Identifier: piadesideriaor01hugo (find matches)
Title: Pia desideria: or, Divine addresses, : in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates.
Year: 1686 (1680s)
Authors: Hugo, Herman, 1588-1629 Arwaker, Edmund, d. 1730 Harold Jantz Collection. NcD
Subjects: Christian life Emblem books, English
Publisher: London: : Printed for Henry Bonwicke ...
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he pleafure, how7 divine the blifs / 4What new delights thy Love does ftil) difclofe,(She only who enjoys the bleffing knows.But, oh! to love, otbe below dof Thee, sIs the great myJFry of Felicity :^.s And, more tinhance and recommend the joy, ^Tis fuchas time does heighten, not defiroy.My Love, my Life in thee all HybUis Sweets,In Thee all Ophirs richeft Treafures meet. 1, Wtli 088) With what repeated Extaf.es poffeft, We vent our Paffions in each others breaft ! O how unfpeakables the blifs to me, To lofemy felf in thoughts of its Eternity ! This Love is fubjeft to no anxious cares, Too blefi for troubles, too fecure for fears• In vaft Elifiums of delight it feeds, WThere whiteft Lillies deck thenamelld Meads Among which Emblems of our pure defires, We in chaft dalliance quench our mutual fires. Ber (i89) Bernard, in Cant. Serm. 71. (hou who heareft, or readeft this, takecare to have the LiUies in thee, ifthou wouldfi have this dweller a-mong the LiUies vifit thee. IV. I ant (i9o)
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I am^rwy3chrvt3^7anlhiJ defirci^vTvar-d^ m& . Cant. / • zo. (I<?l) IV. am my Beloveds, and his defire is towardsme. Cant. 7. 10. r Hro the thick ftiades of a cool Cyfrefs Grove,Weeping I wanderd to bewail my Love ;I briny torrent rowld along my breaft,;nd weighty grief my finking Spirits oppreft. !(yd to my back an Ivory Lute I bore,ly borrows fure Phyfician heretofore,ird with my grief, on a foft Turf I reft,nd thus unload my over-burthend breaftj Mufl: I my days confume in lonelbm grief,nd no kind Lover timely bring relief?) let that curie attend my enemies,p they ftill Strangers to Loves envyd Blils! O fi For 090 iC For not to love, is finely not to live,Since Lifes chief bleffngs We in Love receive:<* The whole defign of living is to love, And who loves moft, does befi his life improve.Bodies of Earth down to their centre move,And Seeds of Fire afcend to theirs above.So our foft hearts to Love are ftill inclind,Urgd by a violent impulfe of mind.Evn mine too, kindled by

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