Amanda, a sacrifice to an unknown goddesse, or, A free-will offering of a loving heart to a sweet-heart by N.H. of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge
Hookes, Nicholas, 1628-1712., Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631. England's heroical epistles. Latin & English. Selections.
A melancholly Fit.
SAd newes was sent me that a friend was dead,
It dash't my braines, and my dull heavy head,
Drowsie with thoughts of death, could hardly be
Supported in its doleful agonie;
Nature was lost, grief stop't, my circling blood,
All things alike were ill, and nothing good;
Awak't I dream't, then round about I saw
Death sable Curtains of confusion draw;
All things were black where e're I cast my eye,
The wainscot walls mourn'd in dark Ebonie,
My giddy fancie into th' earth did sink,
I wept, and saw the clouds weep teares of ink;
Ruine and death me thoughts were penitent,
And did in sheers and vailes their sinnes lament:
Then ghosts and shades in mourning did I see,
All threw deaths-heads, and dead mens bones at me;
But when the pale Idaea of my friend
Past by, I wish't my life were at an end;
And courting-night to shut my sullen eyes,
In came Amanda, and did me surprise;
Page 23Taught me to live in death, kist me, and then
Out of a Chaos made me man agen.
