'who haue seene

Daie's King deposed by night's Queene.

Come lift we up our lofty song,

To wake the sun that sleeps too long.'

" 5 to 7,

'Hee (in this our generall joy)

Slept ...

... the faire-ey'd boy.'

" 24, 'Winter chid the world ...'

" 32, 'Bright dawne ...'

" 58 to 63,

'I saw the officious angells bring

The downe that their soft breasts did strow:

For well they now can spare their wings,

When heauen itselfe lies here below.

Faire youth (said I) be not too rough,

Thy downe (though soft)'s not soft enough.'

'Officious' = ready to do good offices: 'obsequious' = obedient, eager

to serve.

Lines 65 to 68,

'The Babe noe sooner 'gan to seeke

Where to lay His louely head;

But streight His eyes advis'd His cheeke

'Twixt's mother's breasts to goe to bed.'

" 79, 'Welcome to our wond'ring sight.'

" 83, 'glorious birth.'

" 85, 'not to gold' for 'nor to gold:' adopted.

" 96, 'points' = pupils (?).

Lines 101 to 103,

'But to poore shepheards' simple things,

That vse not varnish; noe oyl'd arts,

But lift cleane hands full of cleare hearts.'

" 108, '... while they feed the sheepe.'

" 114, 'Wee'l burne ...'

These variations agree with the text of 1646. See our Essay for critical

remarks. G.

NEW YEAR'S DAY.[37]

Rise, thou best and brightest morning!

Rosy with a double red;

With thine own blush thy cheeks adorning,

And the dear drops this day were shed.

All the purple pride, that laces

The crimson curtains of thy bed,

Guilds thee not with so sweet graces,

Nor setts thee in so rich a red.

Of all the fair-cheek't flowrs that fill thee,

None so fair thy bosom strowes,

As this modest maiden lilly

Our sins haue sham'd into a rose.

Bid thy golden god, the sun,

Burnisht in his best beames rise,

Put all his red-ey'd rubies on;

These rubies shall putt out their eyes.

Let him make poor the purple East,

Search what the world's close cabinets keep,

Rob the rich births of each bright nest

That flaming in their fair beds sleep.

Let him embraue his own bright tresses

With a new morning made of gemmes;

And wear, in those his wealthy dresses,

Another day of diadems.

When he hath done all he may

To make himselfe rich in his rise,

All will be darknes to the day

That breakes from one of these bright eyes.

And soon this sweet truth shall appear,

Dear Babe, ere many dayes be done;

The Morn shall come to meet Thee here,

And leaue her own neglected sun.

Here are beautyes shall bereaue him

Of all his eastern paramours.

His Persian louers all shall leaue him,

And swear faith to Thy sweeter powres;

Nor while they leave him shall they lose the sun,

But in Thy fairest eyes find two for one.

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

St. ii. line 1,

'All the purple pride that laces;'

the reference is to the empurpled lighter and lace- (or gauze-) like

clouds of the morning. The heavier clouds are the 'crimson curtains,'

the 'purple laces' the fleecy, lace-like, and empurpled streakings of

the lighter and dissolving clouds, which the Poet likens to the lace

that edged the coverlet, and possibly other parts of the bed and

bedstead. SHAKESPEARE describes a similar appearance with the same word,

but uses it in the sense of inter or cross lacing, when he makes Juliet

say (iii. 5),

'look, love, what envious streaks

Do _lace_ the severing clouds in yonder East.'

So too in stanza v. 'each sparkling nest,' the flame-coloured clouds are

intended. 'Nest,' like 'bud,' is a favourite word with CRASHAW, and he

uses it freely. In 1648 edition, st. iii. line 2 reads 'showes;' stanza

v. line 2, 'cabinets;' stanza viii. line 5, 'and meet;' stanza ix.

'paramours' = lovers, wooers, _not_ as now signifying loose love. G.

IN THE GLORIOVS EPIPHANIE OF OVR LORD GOD:

A HYMN SVNG AS BY THE THREE KINGS.[38]

_1 Kinge._ Bright Babe! Whose awfull beautyes make 1

The morn incurr a sweet mistake;

_2 Kinge._ For Whom the officious Heauns deuise

To disinheritt the sun's rise:

_3 Kinge._ Delicately to displace 5

The day, and plant it fairer in Thy face.

_1 Kinge._ O Thou born King of loues!

_2 Kinge._ Of lights!

_3 Kinge._ Of ioyes!

_Chorus._ Look vp, sweet Babe, look vp and see 10

For loue of Thee,

Thus farr from home

The East is come

To seek her self in Thy sweet eyes.

_1 Kinge._ We, who strangely went astray, 15

Lost in a bright

Meridian night.

_2 Kinge._ A darknes made of too much day.

_3 Kinge._ Becken'd from farr

By Thy fair starr, 20

Lo, at last haue found our way.

_Chorus._ To Thee, Thou Day of Night! Thou East of West!

Lo, we at last haue found the way

To Thee, the World's great vniuersal East,

The generall and indifferent Day. 25

_1 Kinge._ All-circling point! all-centring sphear!

The World's one, round, aeternall year:

_2 Kinge._ Whose full and all-vnwrinkled face

Nor sinks nor swells with time or place;

_3 Kinge._ But euery where and euery while 30

Is one consistent, solid smile:

_1 Kinge._ Not vext and tost

_2 Kinge._ 'Twixt Spring and frost;

_3 Kinge._ Nor by alternate shredds of light,

Sordidly shifting hands with shades and Night. 35

_Chorus._ O little all! in Thy embrace

The World lyes warm, and likes his place;

Nor does his full globe fail to be

Kist on both his cheeks by Thee.

Time is too narrow for Thy year, 40

Nor makes the whole World Thy half-sphear.

_1 Kinge._ To Thee, to Thee

From him we flee.

_2 Kinge._ From him, whom by a more illustrious ly,

The blindnes of the World did call the eye. 45

_3 Kinge._ To Him, Who by these mortall clouds hast made

Thyself our sun, though Thine Own shade.

_1 Kinge._ Farewell, the World's false light!

Farewell, the white

Aegypt; a long farewell to thee 50

Bright idol, black idolatry:

The dire face of inferior darknes, kis't

And courted in the pompus mask of a more specious mist.

_2 Kinge._ Farewell, farewell

The proud and misplac't gates of Hell, 55

Pertch't in the Morning's way _perched._

And double-guilded as the doores of Day:

The deep hypocrisy of Death and Night

More desperately dark, because more bright.

_3 Kinge._ Welcome, the World's sure way! 60

Heavn's wholsom ray.

_Chorus._ Wellcome to vs; and we

(Sweet!) to our selues, in Thee.

_1 Kinge._ The deathles Heir of all Thy Father's day!

_2 Kinge._ Decently born! 65

Embosom'd in a much more rosy Morn:

The blushes of Thy all-vnblemisht mother.

_3 Kinge._ No more that other

Aurora shall sett ope

Her ruby casements, or hereafter hope 70

From mortall eyes

To meet religious welcomes at her rise.

_Chorus._ We (pretious ones!) in you haue won

A gentler Morn, a iuster sun.

_1 Kinge._ His superficiall beames sun-burn't our skin; 75

_2 Kinge._ But left within

_3 Kinge._ The Night and Winter still of Death and Sin.

_Chorus._ Thy softer yet more certaine darts

Spare our eyes, but peirce our harts:

_1 Kinge._ Therfore with his proud Persian spoiles 80

_2 Kinge._ We court Thy more concerning smiles.

_3 Kinge._ Therfore with his disgrace

We guild the humble cheek of this chast place;

_Chorus._ And at Thy feet powr forth his face.

_1 Kinge._ The doating Nations now no more 85

Shall any day but Thine adore.

_2 Kinge._ Nor--much lesse--shall they leaue these eyes

For cheap Aegyptian deityes.

_3 Kinge._ In whatsoe're more sacred shape

Of ram, he-goat, or reuerend ape; 90

Those beauteous rauishers opprest so sore

The too-hard-tempted nations.

_1 Kinge._ Neuer more

By wanton heyfer shall be worn

_2 Kinge._ A garland, or a guilded horn: 95

The altar-stall'd ox, fatt Osyris now

With his fair sister cow

_3 Kinge._ Shall kick the clouds no more; but lean and tame,

_Chorus._ See His horn'd face, and dy for shame:

And Mithra now shall be no name. 100

_1 Kinge._ No longer shall the immodest lust

Of adulterous godles dust

_2 Kinge._ Fly in the face of Heau'n; as if it were

The poor World's fault that He is fair. 105

_3 Kinge._ Nor with peruerse loues and religious rapes

Reuenge Thy bountyes in their beauteous shapes;

And punish best things worst; because they stood

Guilty of being much for them too good.

_1 Kinge._ Proud sons of Death! that durst compell 110

Heau'n it self to find them Hell:

_2 Kinge._ And by strange witt of madnes wrest

From this World's East the other's West.

_3 Kinge._ All-idolizing wormes! that thus could crowd

And vrge their sun into Thy cloud; 115

Forcing His sometimes eclips'd face to be

A long deliquium to the light of Thee.

_Chorus._ Alas! with how much heauyer shade

The shamefac't lamp hung down his head

For that one eclipse he made, 120

Then all those he suffered!

_1 Kinge._ For this he look't so bigg; and euery morn

With a red face confes't his scorn.

Or hiding his vex't cheeks in a hir'd mist

Kept them from being so vnkindly kis't. 125

_2 Kinge._ It was for this the Day did rise

So oft with blubber'd eyes:

For this the Evening wept; and we ne're knew

But call'd it deaw.

_3 Kinge._ This dayly wrong 130

Silenc't the morning-sons, and damp't their song:

_Chorus._ Nor was't our deafnes, but our sins, that thus

Long made th' harmonious orbes all mute to vs.

_1 Kinge._ Time has a day in store

When this so proudly poor 135

And self-oppressed spark, that has so long

By the loue-sick World bin made

Not so much their sun as shade:

Weary of this glorious wrong

From them and from himself shall flee 140

For shelter to the shadow of Thy tree:

_Chorus._ Proud to haue gain'd this pretious losse

And chang'd his false crown for Thy crosse.

_2 Kinge._ That dark Day's clear doom shall define

Whose is the master Fire, which sun should shine: 145

That sable judgment-seat shall by new lawes

Decide and settle the great cause

Of controuerted light:

_Chorus._ And Natur's wrongs rejoyce to doe Thee right.

_3 Kinge._ That forfeiture of Noon to Night shall pay 150

All the idolatrous thefts done by this Night of Day;

And the great Penitent presse his own pale lipps

With an elaborate loue-eclipse:

To which the low World's lawes

Shall lend no cause, 155

_Chorus._ Saue those domestick which He borrowes

From our sins and His Own sorrowes.

_1 Kinge._ Three sad hours' sackcloth then shall show to vs

His penance, as our fault, conspicuous:

_2 Kinge._ And He more needfully and nobly proue 160

The Nations' terror now then erst their loue.

_3 Kinge._ Their hated loues changd into wholsom feares:

_Chorus._ The shutting of His eye shall open their's.

_1 Kinge._ As by a fair-ey'd fallacy of Day

Miss-ledde, before, they lost their way; 165

So shall they, by the seasonable fright

Of an vnseasonable Night,

Loosing it once again, stumble on true Light:

_2 Kinge._ And as before His too-bright eye

Was their more blind idolatry; 170

So his officious blindnes now shall be

Their black, but faithfull perspectiue of Thee:

_3 Kinge._ His new prodigious Night,

Their new and admirable light,

The supernaturall dawn of Thy pure Day; 175

While wondring they

(The happy conuerts now of Him

Whom they compell'd before to be their sin)

Shall henceforth see

To kisse him only as their rod, 180

Whom they so long courted as God.

_Chorus._ And their best vse of him they worship't, be

To learn of him at last, to worship Thee.

_1 Kinge._ It was their weaknes woo'd his beauty;

But it shall be 185

Their wisdome now, as well as duty,

To injoy his blott; and as a large black letter

Vse it to spell Thy beautyes better;

And make the Night it self their torch to Thee.

_2 Kinge._ By the oblique ambush of this close night 190

Couch't in that conscious shade

The right-ey'd Areopagite

Shall with a vigorous guesse inuade

And catch Thy quick reflex; and sharply see

On this dark ground 195

To descant Thee.

_3 Kinge._ O prize of the rich Spirit! with what feirce chase

Of his strong soul, shall he

Leap at thy lofty face,

And seize the swift flash, in rebound 200

From this obsequious cloud,

Once call'd a sun,

Till dearly thus vndone;

_Chorus._ Till thus triumphantly tam'd (O ye two

Twinne svnnes!) and taught now to negotiate you. 205

_1 Kinge._ Thus shall that reuerend child of Light,

_2 Kinge._ By being scholler first of that new Night,

Come forth great master of the mystick Day;

_3 Kinge._ And teach obscure mankind a more close way

By the frugall negatiue light 210

Of a most wise and well-abused Night

To read more legible Thine originall ray;

_Chorus._ And make our darknes serue Thy Day:

Maintaining 'twixt Thy World and oures

A commerce of contrary powres, 215

A mutuall trade

'Twixt sun and shade,

By confederat black and white

Borrowing Day and lending Night. 219

_1 Kinge._ Thus we, who when with all the noble powres

That (at Thy cost) are call'd, not vainly, ours:

We vow to make braue way

Vpwards, and presse on for the pure intelligentiall prey;

_2 Kinge._ At least to play

The amorous spyes 225

And peep and proffer at Thy sparkling throne;

_3 Kinge._ In stead of bringing in the blissfull prize

And fastening on Thine eyes:

Forfeit our own

And nothing gain 230

But more ambitious losse at last, of brain;

_Chorus._ Now by abased liddes shall learn to be

Eagles; and shutt our eyes that we may see.

_The Close._

[_Chorus._] Therfore to Thee and Thine auspitious ray

(Dread Sweet!) lo thus 236

At last by vs,

The delegated eye of Day

Does first his scepter, then himself, in solemne tribute pay.

Thus he vndresses 240

His sacred vnshorn tresses;

At Thy adored feet, thus he layes down

_1 Kinge._ His gorgeous tire

Of flame and fire,

_2 Kinge._ His glittering robe. _3 Kinge._ His sparkling crown; 245

_1 Kinge._ His gold: _2 Kinge._ His mirrh: _3 Kinge._ His frankincense.

_Chorus._ To which he now has no pretence:

For being show'd by this Day's light, how farr

He is from sun enough to make Thy starr,

His best ambition now is but to be 250

Somthing a brighter shadow, Sweet, of Thee.

Or on Heaun's azure forhead high to stand

Thy golden index; with a duteous hand

Pointing vs home to our own sun

The World's and his Hyperion. 255

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

The title in 1648 edition is simply 'A Hymne for the Epiphanie. Sung as

by the three Kings.' Except the usual slight changes of orthography, the

following are all the variations between the two texts necessary to

record: and I give with them certain corrective and explanatory notes:

line 25, 'indifferent' is = impartial, not as now 'unconcerned.'

Line 52, 1648 edition misprints 'his't' for 'kis't.' In the 51st line

the 'bright idol' is the sun.

Line 83, ib. reads 'thy' for 'this.'

" 95, 'a guilded horn.' Cf. Juvenal, Satire x.

" 99, ib. is given to 3d King. Throughout we have corrected

a number of slips of the Paris printer in his figures.

Line 108, ib. spells 'to' for 'too.'

" 117, '_deliquium_' = swoon, faint. In chemistry = melting.

" 122, 1648 edition reads 'his' for 'this;' and I have

adopted it.

Line 143, ib. reads 'deere:' a misprint.

" 155, ib. reads 'domesticks.'

" 180, ib. reads 'the' for 'their.'

" 186, ib. drops 'it.'

" 195, ib. reads 'what' for 'that,' and in next line 'his'

for 'this,' of 1652: both adopted.

Line 212, 'legible' is = legibly.

" 224 and onward, in 1648 is printed 'least,' in our text

(1652) 'lest.' Except in line 224 it is plainly = last, and so I

read it in 231st and 237th.

See our Essay for Miltonic parallels with lines in this remarkable

composition. Line 46, 'these mortal clouds,' _i.e._ of infant flesh. Cf.

Sosp. d' Herode, stanza xxiii.

'That He whom the sun serves should faintly peep

Through _clouds of infant flesh_.'

Line 114, 'And urge their sun into Thy cloud,' _i.e._ into becoming Thy

cloud, forcing him to become 'a long deliquium to the light of thee.'

Line 189, our text (1652) misprints 'in self.' Line 190, 'By the oblique

ambush,' &c. The Kings continuing in the spirit of prophecy, and with

words not to be understood till their fulfilment, pass on from the

dimming of the sun at the Crucifixion to a second dimming, but this time

through the splendour of a brighter light, at the conversion of him who

was taken to preach to the Gentiles in the court of the Areopagites. The

speaker, or rather CRASHAW, takes the view which at first sight may seem

to be implied in the gospel narrative, that the light brighter than

midday shone round about SAUL and his companions but not on them, they

being couched in the conscious shade of the daylight. Throughout, there

is a double allusion to this second dimming of the sun as manifesting

Christ to St. Paul and the Gentiles, and to the dimming of the eyes, and

the walking in darkness for a time of him who as a light on Earth was to

manifest the True Light to the world. Throughout, too, there is a kind

of parallelism indicated between the two lesser lights. Both rebellions

were to be dimmed and brought into subjection, and then to shine forth

'right-eyed' in renewed and purified splendour as evidences of the Sun

of Righteousness. Hence at the close, the chorus calls them 'ye

twin-suns,'--and the words, 'Till thus triumphantly tamed' refer equally

to both. The punctuation to make this clear should be '... sun, ...

undone; ...' 'To negotiate you' (both word and metaphor being rather

unhappily chosen) means, to pass you current as the true-stamped image

of the Deity. 'O price of the rich Spirit' (line 197) may be made to

refer to 'thee [O Christ], price of the rich spirit' of Paul, but 'may

be' is almost too strong to apply to such an interpretation. It is far

more consonant to the structure and tenor of the whole passage, to read

it as an epithet applied to St. Paul: 'O prize of the rich Spirit of

grace.' I have also without hesitation changed 'of this strong soul'

into 'of _his_ strong soul.' 'Oblique ambush' may refer to the oblique

rays of the sun now rays of darkness, but the primary reference is to

the indirect manner and 'vigorous guess,' by which St. Paul, mentally

glancing from one to the other light, learned through the dimming of the

sun to believe in the Deity of Him who spake from out the dimming

brightness. The same thought, though with a strained and less successful

effort of expression, appears in the song of the third King, 'with that

fierce chase,' &c.

Line 251. 'Somthing a brighter shadow (Sweet) of Thee.' Apparently a

remembrance of a passage which THOMAS HEYWOOD, in his 'Hierarchie of the

Angels,' gives from a Latin translation of PLATO, 'Lumen est umbra Dei

et Deus est Lumen Luminis.' On which see our Essay. Perhaps the same

gave rise to the thought that the sun eclipsed God, or shut Him out as a

cloud or shade, or made night, _e.g._

'And urge their sun ...

... eclipse he made:' (lines 115-120).

'Not so much their sun as shade

... by this night of day:' (lines 138-151). G.

TO THE QVEEN'S MAIESTY.[39]

MADAME, 1

'Mongst those long rowes of crownes that guild your race,

These royall sages sue for decent place:

The day-break of the Nations; their first ray,

When the dark World dawn'd into Christian Day, 5

And smil'd i' th' Babe's bright face; the purpling bud

And rosy dawn of the right royall blood;

Fair first-fruits of the Lamb! sure kings in this,

They took a kingdom while they gaue a kisse.

But the World's homage, scarse in these well blown, 10

We read in you (rare queen) ripe and full-grown.

For from this day's rich seed of diadems

Does rise a radiant croppe of royalle stemms,

A golden haruest of crown'd heads, that meet

And crowd for kisses from the Lamb's white feet: 15

In this illustrious throng, your lofty floud

Swells high, fair confluence of all high-born bloud:

With your bright head, whole groues of scepters bend

Their wealthy tops, and for these feet contend.

So swore the Lamb's dread Sire: and so we see't, 20

Crownes, and the heads they kisse, must court these feet.

Fix here, fair majesty! May your heart ne're misse

To reap new crownes and kingdoms from that kisse;

Nor may we misse the ioy to meet in you

The aged honors of this day still new. 25

May the great time, in you, still greater be,

While all the year is your epiphany;

While your each day's deuotion duly brings

Three kingdomes to supply this day's three kings.

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

In 1648 the title is 'To the Queene's Majestie upon his dedicating to

her the foregoing Hymne, viz. "A Hymne for the Epiphanie,"' which there

precedes, but in 1652 follows, the dedicatory lines to the Queen. 1648

furnishes these variations: line 7 misprints 'down' for 'dawn:' line 11

reads 'deare' for 'rare:' line 14 'royall' for 'golden:' line 18

corrects our text's misprint of 'whose' for 'whole,' which I have

accepted: line 20 reads 'great' for 'dread.'

In line 3 we read

'Those royall sages sue for decent place.'

We know that the King on Twelfth-day presented gold, frankincense and

myrrh, and so perhaps did the Queen. But these gifts were not presented

to the magi-kings, and CRASHAW seems to sue on behalf of 'these royall

sages.' The explanation doubtless is that this was a verse-letter to the

Queen, enclosing as a gift his Epiphany Hymn 'sung as by the three

Kings.'

In line 5 'the purpling bud,' &c. requires study. Led by the (erroneous)

punctuation (face,) I supposed this clause to refer to the 'Babe.' But

would our Poet have said that the 'dawn of the world smiled on the

Babe's face,' and in the same breath have called the face a 'rosy dawn'?

Looking to this, and his rather profuse employment of 'bud,' I now

believe the clause to be another description of the kings, and punctuate

(face;). The rhythm of the passage is certainly improved thereby and

made more like that of CRASHAW, and the words 'right royall blood,'

which may be thought to become difficult, can be thus explained. The

races of the heathen kings were not 'royal,' their authority being

usurped and falsely derived from false gods, and the kingly blood first

became truly royal when the kings recognised the supreme sovereignty of

the King of kings and the derivation of their authority from Him, and

when they were in turn recognised by Him. Hence the use of the epithet

'purpling,' the Christian or Christ-accepting kings being the first who

were truly 'born in the purple,' or '_right_ royall blood.'

In lines 15-18, as punctuated in preceding editions, the Poet is made to

arrange his words after a fashion hardly to be called English, and to

jumble his metaphors like a poetaster or 4th of July orator in America.

But both sense and poetry are restored by taking the (!) after 'blood'

as at least equal to (:), and by replacing 'whose' by 'whole,' as in

1648. This seems to us restoration, not change. Even thus read, however,

the passage is somewhat cloudy; but the construction is--the groves of

sceptres of your high-born ancestors bend with you their wealthy tops,

when you bow down your head. Our Poet is fond of inversions, and they

are sometimes more obscure than they ought to be. Line 20 = Psalm i.,

and cf. Philip. ii. 11. G.

VPON EASTER DAY.[40]

Rise heire of fresh Eternity 1

From thy virgin tombe!

Rise mighty Man of wonders, and Thy World with Thee!

Thy tombe the uniuersall East,

Nature's new wombe, 5

Thy tombe, fair Immortalitie's perfumed nest.

Of all the glories make Noone gay,

This is the Morne;

This Rock buds forth the fountaine of the streames of Day;

In Joye's white annalls live this howre 10

When Life was borne;

No cloud scoule on His radiant lids, no tempest lower.

Life, by this Light's nativity

All creatures have;

Death onely by this Daye's just doome is forc't to dye, 15

Nor is Death forc't; for may he ly

Thron'd in Thy grave,

Death will on this condition be content to dye.

SOSPETTO D' HERODE.

LIBRO PRIMO.[41]

ARGOMENTO.

_Casting the times with their strong signes,

Death's master his owne death divines:

Strugling for helpe, his best hope is

Herod's suspition may heale his.

Therefore he sends a fiend to wake

The sleeping tyrant's fond mistake; _foolish_

Who feares (in vaine) that He Whose birth

Meanes Heav'n, should meddle with his Earth._

I.

Muse, now the servant of soft loves no more,

Hate is thy theame, and Herod, whose unblest

Hand (O what dares not jealous greatnesse?) tore

A thousand sweet babes from their mothers' brest:

The bloomes of martyrdome. O be a dore

Of language to my infant lips, yee best

Of confessours: whose throates answering his swords,

Gave forth your blood for breath, spoke soules for words.

II.

Great Anthony! Spain's well-beseeming pride,

Thou mighty branch of emperours and kings;

The beauties of whose dawne what eye may bide?

Which with the sun himselfe weigh's equall wings;

Mappe of heroick worth! whom farre and wide

To the beleeving world, Fame boldly sings:

Deigne thou to weare this humble wreath, that bowes

To be the sacred honour of thy browes.

III.

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