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268 Sung spousal, and bid haste the Evening-star On his hill-top, to light the bridal lamp.
 * "Thus have I told thee all my state, and brought

My story to the sum of earthly bliss Which I enjoy; and must confess to find In all things else delight indeed, but such As, used or not, works in the mind no change, Nor vehement desire; these delicacies I mean of taste, sight, smell, herbs, fruits, and flowers, Walks, and the melody of birds: but here, Far otherwise, transported I behold, Transported touch; here passion first I felt, Commotion strange, in all enjoyments else Superior and unmoved, here only weak Against the charm of beauty's powerful glance. Or Nature failed in me, and left some part Not proof enough such object to sustain, Or, from my side subducting, took perhaps More than enough; at least on her bestowed Too much of ornament, in outward shew Elaborate, of inward less exact. For well I understand, in the prime end Of Nature, her the inferior, in the mind And inward faculties, which most excel; In outward also her resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given