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OF_M, GEORGF,

GIES OF

THE EFFIGIES

HERBERT

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Behold an Orator, Divinely fage,
The Prophet and Apoftle of that age.
Vier hut his Porch and Temple you shall fee
The Body of Divine Philofophy.
Examine well the Lines of his dead Face,
Theren you may difcern widom and Grace.
Now if the Shell to lovely doth appear,
How Orient was the Pearl Impryfon'd here!

TEMPLE

Sacred Poems,

AND PRIVATE

EJACULATIONS.

By Mr. George Herbert,

Late ORATOR of the Univerfity
of CAMBRIDGE.

Together with His LIFE,

PSA L. xxix.

In his Temple doth every Man speak of bis Honour..

The Twelfth Edition Correded, with the
Addition of an Alphabetical Table.

LONDON,

Printed by F. Barber, for JEFFERY WALE, at
the Angel in St. Paul's Church-Yard. 1703.

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MEMORIAL

To the Honourable

GEORGE HERBERT

Author of the

Sacred POEMS, Who died about Anno 1635.

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Ead o'er these Raptures with a curious
Eye,

You must conclude this Eagle foared high:
Montgomery Caftle was the place, where he
Had his firft breathing, and Nativity.
Of that moft Noble Houfe this Hero came,
Who left the World this Legacy of Fame.
Great Saint, unto thy Memory and Shrine
I owe all Veneration, fave Divine,
For thy rare Poems, Piety and Pen
Speak thee no lefs than Miracle of Men.
The Graces all, both Moral and Divine,
In thee concenter, and with thee combine:
These Sacred Leffons, fet to thy fweet Lute,
Was Mufick that would make Apollo mute:
Nay, all thofe warbling Chanters of the Spring
Would fit half tame, to hear Arion fing.
What Province hath produc'd a greater Soul
Between the Artique and Antartique Pole,

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