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Husbandry spiritualized, or, The heavenly use of earthly things consisting of many pleasant observations,…
Husbandry spiritualized, or, The heavenly use of earthly things consisting of many pleasant observations, pertinent applications, and serious reflections and each chapter concluded with a divine and suitable poem : directing husband-men to the most excellent improvements of their common employments : whereunto is added ... several choice occasional meditations / by John Flavell.Husbandry spiritualized, or, The heavenly use of earthly things consisting of many pleasant observations, pertinent applications, and serious reflections and each chapter concluded with a divine and suitable poem : directing husband-men to the most excellent improvements of their common imployments : whereunto is added ... several choice occasional meditations / by John Flavell.
London : Printed and are to be sold by Robert Boulter, l674
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
MEDIT. I.
Upon the singing of a Nightingale.
Vpon the singing of a Nightingale.
WHO that hears such various, ravishing, and exquisite melody, would imagine the bird that makes it, to be of so small and contemptible a body, and feather? her charming voice engaged not only mine attentive ear, but my feet also, to make a nearer approach to that shady bush, in which that excellent Musician sate veiled; and the nearer I came, the sweeter the melody still seemed to be, but when I had described the bird her self, and found her to be little bigger, and no better feathered than a sparrow, it gave my thoughts the occasion of this following application.
WHO that hears such various, ravishing, and exquisite melody, would imagine the bird that makes it, to be of so small and contemptible a body, and feather? her charming voice ingaged not only mine attentive ear, but my feet also, to make a nearer approach to that shady bush, in which that excellent Musician sate vailed; and the nearer I came, the sweeter the melody still seemed to be, but when I had described the bird her self, and found her to be little bigger, and no better feather'd than a sparrow, it gave my thoughts the occasion of this following application.