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The Installment.
I.
1 LOng have I Languisht in the Fire
2 Of an unquenchable Desire;
3 And will it not suffice thee Love,
4 That I thy patient Martyr am,
5 Unless thy Worship I promove,
6 And proselyte others to thy Flame?
7 If as a Laick-Lover ought I act,
8 What canst thou more from me expect,
9 Who am not gifted for a Teacher in the Sect?
II.
10 My Gifts of Nature are too small;
11 I own it, and pretend no Call!
12 Beside, I've found at last the Cheat;
13 The Flame that do's thy Priests inspire,
[Page 28]14 (Pretended for Seraphick Heat)
15 Is meer Enthusiastick Fire.
16 When Heav'n inspires the mind no Trouble knows;
17 But Love's wild Extasics (like those
18 That Rag'd in Heathen Priests) torment and discompose.
III.
19 And 'tis no more than their Desert,
20 That these Impostors thus shou'd smart;
21 By whose false Wiles we are betray'd
22 To Loves curst Tyranny and Rage;
23 For they, when once Love's Captives made,
24 Their Griefs dissembling, Sing i'th' Cage:
25 Then from afar, the Credulous Flock repairs,
26 T'attend their soft and charming Aires;
27 And whil'st they listning sit, are caught in unseen Snares.
IV.
28 But why fond Love wilt thou make choice
29 Of my untaught and grating Voice?
[Page 29]30 Fool, whil'st amidst thy Gins I sing,
31 I shall not only fright away
32 Such as already are on Wing,
33 But those that were inclin'd to stay!
34 Consult thy Reason first deluded Boy,
35 Ere my rude Verse thou dost employ;
36 Verse that will prove a Scare-Crow, rather than Ducoy.
Source edition
Tate, Nahum, c. 1652-1715. Poems by N. Tate. London: Printed by T.M. for Benj. Tooke ..., 1677, pp. 27-29. [15],133p. (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [Harding C 2953].)
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Other works by Nahum Tate
- Advice to a Friend, designing to Publish his Poems. ()
- Amor Sepulchralis. ()
- The Amorist. ()
- The Amusement. ()
- The Banquet. ()
- The Beldam's Song. ()
- The Challenge. ()
- The Choice. ()
- The Confinement. ()
- The Counter-Turn. ()
- The Cure. A Dialogue. ()
- Dialogue. Alexis and Laura. ()
- Disappointed. ()
- The Disconsolate. ()
- The Discovery. ()
- Disswasion of an Aged Friend from Leaving his Retirement. ()
- The Dream. ()
- The Escape. ()
- The Gold-hater. ()
- The Gratefull Shepheard. ()
- The Hurricane. ()
- The Ignorant. ()
- The Inconstant. A Paraphrase on the XV. Epod of Horace. ()
- The Indispos'd. ()
- The Ingrates. ()
- Laura's Walk. ()
- The Male Content. ()
- [Martial] Lib. 1. Epigr. CX. De Issa Catellâ Publij. ()
- [Martial] Lib. 1. Epigr. IX. ()
- [Martial] Lib. 1. Epigr. XIV. De Arriâ & Paeto. ()
- [Martial] Lib. 9. Epigr: VI. ()
- [Martial] Lib. XI. Epigr. XCV. Translated in Dialogue. ()
- [Martial] Lib. XI. Epigr. XLIII. ()
- The Match. ()
- Melancholy. ()
- The Mid-Night Thought. ()
- ODE. To my Ingenious Friend Mr. Flatman. ()
- Of the Ape and the Fox. A Paraphrase on one of the Centum Fabulae. ()
- Of the Few Adherers to Virtue. ()
- On a deform'd Old Baw'd designing to have her Picture drawn. ()
- On a Diseased Old Man, who Wept at thought of leaving the World. ()
- On a Grave Sir retiring to Write in Order to undeceive the World. ()
- On an Old Miser that Hoarded his Treasure in a Steel Chest, and bury'd it. ()
- On Sight of some Martyr's Sepulchres. ()
- On Snow fall'n in Autumn, and dissolv'd by the Sun. ()
- ON THE Present Corrupted State OF POETRY. ()
- The Parting. ()
- The Pennance. ()
- The Politicians. ()
- The Prospect. ()
- Recovering from a Fit of Sickness. ()
- The Request. ()
- The Requitall. ()
- The Restitution. ()
- The Round. ()
- The Search. ()
- Sliding on Skates in very hard Frost. ()
- Strephon's Complaint on quitting his Retirement. ()
- The Surprizal. ()
- The Tear. ()
- The three First Verses of the 46th Psalm Paraphras'd. ()
- To a Desponding Friend. ()
- TO Mr. THOMAS FLATMAN ON HIS Excellent POEMS. ()
- The Unconfin'd. ()
- The Usurpers. ()
- The Vision, Written in a dangerous fit of Sickness. ()
- The Vow-Breaker. ()
- The Voyagers. ()