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« Therefore, to foitii thinc Earthly Empereur, Thou tookest Earth, and by thy sacred power So tempored'st it, that of the very same Dead shapeless lump didsl Adams body frame : Yet, not his Face down to the Earth-ward bending (Like Beasts that but reyard their belly, ending For ever ail) buttoward th'Azure Skyes, Bright golden Lamps lifting his lovely Eyes ; That through their nerves, his better part might look, Still to that place from whence her birth she took.

Also thou plantedst th' Intellectuall Pow'r In th' highest stage of ail this stately Bowr, That thence it might (as from a Cittadell) Command the members that too-oft rebell Against his Rule : and that our Reason, there Might Avarice, Envie, and Pride subdue, Lust, Gluttony, Wrath, Sloath, and ail their Crew Of factions Gommons, that still strive to gaine The golden Scepter from their Soverain » (1).

Voici un passage admiré par MM. Haag^ (2) et tiré de la Seconde Semaine. La citation faite. par ces critiques s'arrèle aux vers : « Et daise transportez sentrehaignent de larmes » mais le passag-e étant un peu court nous y avons ajouté les dix vers suivants ;

« Samcte fille du Ciel, déesse qui ramenés L'antique siècle d'or : qui belle, r'asserenes L'air trouble des François : qui fait rire nos champs : Vnique espoir des bons, iuste efîroy des meschans : ' Vierge depuis vingt ans aux Gaulois inconue, 0 Paix, heureux Paix, tu sois la bien-venue.