<p>To Musicke, and the Muses, many beare<lb/> Much hatred; and, to whatsoever ends<lb/> Their Soule-delighting-Raptures tuned are,<lb/> Such peevish dispositions, it offends.<lb/> Some others, in a Morall way, affect<lb/> Their pleasing Straines (or, for a sensuall use)<lb/> But, in Gods Worship, they the same suspect;<lb/> (Or, taxe it rather) as a great abuse.<lb/> The First of these, are full of Melancholy ;<lb/> And, Pitty need, or Comfort, more then blame;<lb/> And, soone, may fall into some dangerous folly,<lb/> Vnlesse they labour, to prevent the same.<lb/> The Last, are giddie-things, that have befool'd<lb/> Their Iudgements, with beguiling-Fantasies,<lb/> Which (if they be not, by discretion, school'd)<lb/> Will plunge them into greater Vanities.<lb/> For, Musicke, is the Handmaid of the Lord,<lb/> And, for his Worship, was at first ordayned:<lb/> Yea, therewithall she fitly doth accord;<lb/> And, where Devotion thriveth, is reteyned.<lb/> Shee, by a nat'rall power, doth helpe to raise,<lb/> The mind to God, when joyfull Notes are sounded:<lb/> And, Passions fierce Distemperatures, alaies;<lb/> When, by grave Tones, the Mellody is bounded.<lb/> It, also may in Mysticke-sense, imply<lb/> What Musicke, in our-selves, ought still to be;<lb/> And, that our jarring-lives to certifie,<lb/> Wee should in Voice, in Hand, and Heart, agree:<lb/> And, sing out, Faiths new-songs, with full concent,<lb/> Vnto the Lawes, ten-stringed Instrument.<lb/> </p>

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<p>Though Musicke be of some abhor'd,<lb/> She, is the Handmaid of the Lord.</p>

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