Who ever joyes to search the secret cause, And series of His works, their love and lawes, Let him draw near, and joyning will with strength X. FROM THE "BREIF NATURAL HISTORY" (1669.) BOETHIUS DE CONSOL. LIB. 4. MET. 6. HE concord tempers equally Contrary elements, That moist things yield unto the dry, And heat with cold consents; Here fire to highest place doth flie, And earth doth downward bend, And flowery Spring perpetually Sweet odours forth doth send. And shoures which down from heaven do poure Each Winter drown'd the fields: Whatever in the world doth breath, This temper forth hath brought And nourished: the same by Death Again it brings to nought. (p 55-6.) Note. The following is the original title-page of the Latin Poems of Thomas Vaughan or Eugenius Philalethes. EUGENII PHILALETHIS, Impensis Roberti Pawlett, M. DC. LXXVIII. [120.] Collation title-page and pp. 77-93, being continuation of "Thalia Rediviva", as before. G. Latin Poems. ORNATISSIMO VIRO DOMINO MATHEO IS SUSPICIENDO.' CCIPE primitias, dilecte Herberte, tuosque 5 ALIUD. Quæ viridi, Mathæe, fuit tibi messis in herba, 1 See Index of Names, s. n. for others. G. 10 E. P. |