To _Musicke_, and the Muses, many beare Much hatred; and, to whatsoever ends Their _Soule-delighting-Raptures_ tuned are, Such peevish dispositions, it offends. Some others, in a _Morall way_, affect Their pleasing _Straines_ (or, for a sensuall use) But, in _Gods Worship_, they the same suspect; (Or, taxe it rather) as a great abuse. The _First_ of these, are full of _Melancholy_; And, Pitty need, or Comfort, more then blame; And, soone, may fall into some dangerous _folly_, Vnlesse they labour, to prevent the same. The _Last_, are _giddie-things_, that have befool’d Their Iudgements, with _beguiling-Fantasies_, Which (if they be not, by discretion, school’d) Will plunge them into greater _Vanities_. For, _Musicke_, is the _Handmaid_ of the LORD, And, for his _Worship_, was at first ordayned: Yea, therewithall she fitly doth accord; And, where _Devotion_ thriveth, is reteyned. _Shee_, by a nat’rall power, doth helpe to raise, The _mind_ to God, when joyfull Notes are sounded: And, _Passions_ fierce Distemperatures, alaies; When, by grave _Tones_, the _Mellody_ is bounded. It, also may in _Mysticke-sense_, imply What _Musicke_, in _our-selves_, ought still to be; And, that our _jarring-lives_ to certifie, Wee should in _Voice_, in _Hand_, and _Heart_, agree: And, sing out, _Faith’s_ new-songs, with full concent, Vnto the _Lawes_, ten-stringed _Instrument_. _Marke, what =Rewards=, to =Sinne=, are due, And, learne, =uprightnesse= to pursue._ [Illustration: DISCITE IVSTICIAM. ILLVSTR. IIII. _Book. 2_]