ANNVNCIATION.

2. _Salvation to all that will is nigh_;

That All, which alwayes is All every where,

Which cannot sinne, and yet all sinnes must beare,

Which cannot die, yet cannot chuse but die,

Loe, faithfull Virgin, yeelds himselfe to lye 5

In prison, in thy wombe; and though he there

Can take no sinne, nor thou give, yet he'will weare

Taken from thence, flesh, which deaths force may trie.

Ere by the spheares time was created, thou

Wast in his minde, who is thy Sonne, and Brother; 10

Whom thou conceiv'st, conceiv'd; yea thou art now

Thy Makers maker, and thy Fathers mother;

Thou'hast light in darke; and shutst in little roome,

_Immensity cloysterd in thy deare wombe_.

[Annunciation.]

[1 _nigh;_ _1669:_ _nigh_, _1633-54_]

[9 created,] begotten, _B_, _S_, _S96_, _W:_ _O'F corrects_]

[10 Brother; _Ed:_ Brother, _1633-69_]

[11 conceiv'st, _1633:_ conceiv'st _1635-69:_ conceiv'dst,

_O'F_, _S_, _W_, _and Grolier_ conceiv'd;] conceived;

_1635-69_]

[12 mother; _Ed:_ mother, _1633-69_]

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