TEMPLE.

4. _With his kinde mother who partakes thy woe_,

_Ioseph_ turne backe; see where your child doth sit,

Blowing, yea blowing out those sparks of wit,

Which himselfe on the Doctors did bestow;

The Word but lately could not speake, and loe, 5

It sodenly speakes wonders, whence comes it,

That all which was, and all which should be writ,

A shallow seeming child, should deeply know?

His Godhead was not soule to his manhood,

Nor had time mellowed him to this ripenesse, 10

But as for one which hath a long taske, 'tis good,

With the Sunne to beginne his businesse,

He in his ages morning thus began

_By miracles exceeding power of man_.

[Temple.]

[5 loe, _Ed:_ loe _1633-69_]

[6 wonders, _1633-39:_ wonders: _1650-69_]

[11 for] to _W_

a long taske, _1633-69_, _D_, _H49:_ long taskes _B_, _N_,

_O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_, _W:_ longe taske _A18_, _TCC_

'tis] 'Tis _1633:_ thinks _W_]

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