'6o The Hif!ory of SA.:~~PS 0 N. And trulled to his faithful charge~ he fpread His air dividing r.inions: and fled: But now, th' affrighred woman apprehends The firangenefs of the nieffage; recommends , -Both it, and him that did it, to her fears; The news was welcom to her grateful ears, But what the news-man was. did fo encreafe Her doubts, that her firange hopes could find no peace) For when her hopes would build a Tower ofjoy, 0,then her fears would fhake it, and defiroy The mainfoundation; What her hopes in vain Did raife., her fears would ruinate again : One while fhe thought, it was an Angel fent; And then her fears would teach her to repem . That frightful thought; ·but when fhe deeply weigh'd The joyful meffage,rhen her thoughts obey'd Her firfi conceit: Difiralted with confufion, Somtimes fhe fear'd it was a falfe delufion, Suggefl:ed in her too believing ears; Somtimes fhe doubts it was adream that bears. No weight, but in a flumber, till at lafi, Her feet, adv ifed by her thoughts, made hafl:e Unto he~ hufband ; in whofe ear fhe brake · ' This mind perplexing fe:crer, thds, and fpake: S . ) rr , · / )'As my difc urfive thou.ghts did lately mufe · 'On rhofe gro thieflings, \.vherewith heaven doth ufe '"" ' To crown his children here ; among the refi, ·' Methoughrs no one couJd,make a wife more bJefi, 'And crown her youth, her age with greaterm~afure ' Of true content, than the· unprized rreafure. ' ofher chaHe womb : but as my thoughts w,ere bene , 'Upon this fttbje8:, being in our Ter:t, · / · 'And none but 1, appear'd before mme ;;yes 'A man ofGod, his habit, and hisgui)e 'Was fuch as holy Prophets u(e to wear, - 'But inhis dreadful look~ there did app'ear, ' SQt:n~ ( \
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