THE LOST SHEEPE IS FOUND, UNDER A NEW DISGUISEMENT OF A Yong-raw-scull'd VVitBen Agar
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THE LOST SHEEPE IS FOUND, UNDER A NEW DISGUISEMENT OF A Yong-raw-scull'd VVitBen AgarLondon1642(13)
A Swarme of Bees fitted and provided for
the Hive of Propheſies and Predictions,Theo
logicall and Morrall, concerning ſundry events
to be expected in the laſt Ages of the world; with
other ſmaller Tracts, and Diſcourſes, both in
Proſe and Verſe, profitable and delightfull to be
knowne; together with ſundry Apothegmes col-
lected from KingJames his Table-talke in his
life time, both in England and Scotland, ſince his
happy acceſſe to the Crowne of England, &c.
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For Morrallhoneſt; and for mongrellwife,For other things belonging to this life.For Wit, or Wiſdome, for ſuch ſublimer things,For man and wife (Aſſiſes ought to had)Reciprocallinvectives, as well for good as bad;Firſt, whoriſh women, and their exultations,To quit them quaintly, ſelect evacuations;For Meer-maids ſlie, and ſubtile attemptations,Their privy tiſements, and dangerousinſinuations.Their Crocodiles teares, and Syrens adulations.For table-talk, to help maintaine diſcourſe,Some for the better ſort, ſome others for the worſeFor Propheſies, and their nice explanations;So viſions,dreames, and their quick explications,By various wayes, doubtleſſe interpretations.For godly ſolace, and ſuch contemplations, Some pithy conſort, devout, ſhort ejaculations,Some ſacred vowes, and piousmeditationsFor Churches foes, ſome Chriſtianimprecations:B3The(14)The like for friends, with aolefull invocations,Some Pſalmes inverted, meete for conſotations.Quaint ſolliloquies meete for nights or dayes,Predictions calculate, for Churchesholywayes.Some Dialogues,Anagrams,Epigrams, to raiſeAplos for enterludes, deſerving Lawrellbayes.An Emblem poſtur'd with a new diſguiſe,T' inſtruct the wits, perambulate more Wiſe.A microcoſme explain'd in circular rime,For young and old to know, t'redeeme the time.Some problems clos'd in letters, pen'd in proes,And ſuch compos'd from exigents in wees,And then againe, more fancies to diſperſe,Inverted proes into ſatyrique verſe.For theſe and like, as th'author ſhall be able,(To make for good men) wives more comfortableAgaine (for badwives) men more ſuſpectable,Leaſt both in th'end decline moſt deſpicable,Diſeaſes feſtered, prove not incurable.Hence therefore dreame (for each) things profitable.Aſſizes due' mongſt all, all muſt appeare,Howſo'ere diſguis'd, or now baffled here,For Which performance all ſhould be charitable,With prayers to God, and gſtures anſwerable.For due aſſize, that all be conformable,To men within, to beaſt without in ſtable.That ſuch at leaſt (when all have courſt the round)For upright dealings may in Chriſt be found;So found in him, when God himſelfe ſhall come,Each martall may receive deſerved doome.All bleſſings flow from God alone,Thrice bleſſed three in one.Amen(15)To ſet forth all theſe tracts at once, to publike view,Cannot be brought to paſſe;But when for truthes (they all) ſhall prove as true,As cleare perſpective glaſſe.Then render choyce and change to all, quaint ſtraines of witM'obtaine a publike prayſe,As couſe appeares abroad, give all ſome taſt of it,May dolefull ſpirits raiſe.
Per me Ben. Agar.FINIS.
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