In what torne ship soever I embarke, That ship shall be my embleme of thy Arke; What sea soever swallow mee, that flood Shall be to mee an embleme of thy blood; Though thou with clouds of anger do disguise 5 Thy race; yet through that maske I know those eyes, Which, though they turne away sometimes, They never will despise. I sacrifice this Iland unto thee, And all whom I lov'd there, and who lov'd mee; 10 When I have put our seas twixt them and mee, Put thou thy sea betwixt my sinnes and thee. As the trees sap doth seeke the root below In winter, in my winter now I goe, Where none but thee, th'Eternall root 15 Of true Love I may know. Nor thou nor thy religion dost controule, The amorousnesse of an harmonious Soule, But thou would'st have that love thy selfe: As thou Art jealous, Lord, so I am jealous now, 20 Thou lov'st not, till from loving more, thou free My soule: Who ever gives, takes libertie: O, if thou car'st not whom I love Alas, thou lov'st not mee. Seale then this bill of my Divorce to All, 25 On whom those fainter beames of love did fall; Marry those loves, which in youth scattered bee On Fame, Wit, Hopes (false mistresses) to thee. Churches are best for Prayer, that have least light: To see God only, I goe out of sight: 30 And to scape stormy dayes, I chuse An Everlasting night. [A Hymne _&c._ _1633-69:_ A Hymne to Christ. _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ At his going with my Lord of Doncaster 1619. _B_, _and similarly_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96:_ _in MSS. last two lines of each stanza given as one_] [2 my ... thy] an ... the _P_] [3 soever swallow mee, that] soe'er swallows me up, that _O'F_] [10 I lov'd there, _1633_, _A18_, _N_, _TCC:_ I love here, _1635-69:_ I love there _P_ who lov'd mee; _1633_, _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ who love mee; _1635-69_, _B_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_] [11 our seas _1633_, _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ this flood _1635-69:_ these (_or_ those) seas _B_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_] [12 sea _A18_, _B_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TC:_ seas _1633_, _P:_ blood _1635-69_] [15 thee, th'Eternall root] thy eternall work _B_, _O'F_ (_where it is altered to reading of text_), _P_ (externall workes), _S96_] [28 Fame, _1633_, _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ Face, _1635-69_, _B_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_] _The Lamentations of Ieremy, for the most part according to Tremelius._ CHAP. I. 1 How sits this citie, late most populous, Thus solitary, and like a widdow thus! Amplest of Nations, Queene of Provinces She was, who now thus tributary is! 2 Still in the night shee weepes, and her teares fall 5 Downe by her cheekes along, and none of all Her lovers comfort her; Perfidiously Her friends have dealt, and now are enemie.