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First Line: My megre soule, when wilt thou fleshed bee
Last Line: Of praises whistling in angelick tunes.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


My megre Soule, when wilt thou fleshed bee,
With Spirituall plumpness? Serpents flesh dost eat
Which maketh leane? Thy bones stick out in thee.
Art thou Consumptive? And Concoctst not meat?
Art not a Chick of th'Sun of Righteousness?
Do not its healing Wings thy ailes redress?

Hast not Chang'd place with Mercury? And made
Thy robes of Broadcloath of the Golden Fleece
Of Wooly Sun beams? (O! Warm Shining trade!)
Souls freshen sure in Cloaths of such a piece
And gloriously dance on these golden Cords.
Yet till a Cure is got, Griefe o're them Lords.

And if thou bruddled liest, (though Qualms arise)
Under the healing wings of this bright Sun
Of Righteousness, as Chicken Chearping wise
Under its Dam, the Cure is surely Done.
Some healing Beam a Certain med'cine brings
To all Distemper'd Souls under these wings.

This is the Heavenly Alkahest that brings
Lean Souls t'ore thrive all Pharao's fattest Ware.
Grow like the Stalled Oxe, or Fattlings
Plump, Fleshy, Fat, Slick, brisk, and rightly fair.
A spirituall fat of Collops, gracious greate
Shall Cloath the Whole and make it grace-Compleat.

Though th'Wicker bird Cage is of rusty Wyer:
This Sunshine will imbellish it and bright.
Though th'bird in't of immortall breed, much tire
These healing wings will make it fully ripe.
My little Pipkin Soule of heavenly Clay
Shall fatted to the brim with grace grow gay.

My Heade, O Sun, hide in thy healing Wing.
Thy Warmth will to my megre Soule flesh give.
My growth shall Beauty to thine Eyesight bring.
Thy Sight shall make me plump and pleasant live,
And all my Growth to thee shall bud with blooms
Of Praises Whistling in Angelick Tunes.





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