The purple island, or, The isle of man : an allegorical poem / By Phineas Fletcher, esteemed the Spenser of his age. To which is added Christ's victory and triumph, a poem, in four parts. By Giles Fletcher. Both written in the last century.

  • Fletcher, Phineas, 1582-1650.
Date:
1783
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Credit: The purple island, or, The isle of man : an allegorical poem / By Phineas Fletcher, esteemed the Spenser of his age. To which is added Christ's victory and triumph, a poem, in four parts. By Giles Fletcher. Both written in the last century. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As doth the fun in his tranfcendent might: (As faith may well believe, what truth once faysg) What fhall fo many funs united rays But dazzle all the eyes, that now in heav’n we praife P XXI. Here let my Losn hang up his conq’ring lance. And bloody armour with late Daughter warm; And looking down on his weak militants, Behold his faints amidfl their hot alarm Hang all their golden hopes upon his arm; And in this lower field when ftraying wide Through Satan s wiles, who wou’d their fails mi (guide, Anchor their flefhly fhips fall in his wounded fide. XXII. Here may the band, that now in triumph fhines, And who (before they were invelled thus) In earthly bodies carried heav’nly minds ; Pitch round about, in order glorious. Their funny tents, and houfes luminous : All their eternal day in fongs employing ; Joy is their end, without end of their joying : AVhile their Almighty Prince, deftruaion is deftroving. XXIII. Full h, yet without fatiety, of that Which whets, and quiets greedy appetite : Where never fun arofe, nor ever fat; But one eternal day, and endlefs light, Gives time to thofe, whofe time is infinite; Speaking with thought, obtaining without fee; Beholding i-iim, whom never eye cou’d fee, And magnifying him, who cannot greater be. * Matt, xiii, 43. * The impletioo of the appetite. L XXIV.