The greatest blessings God for Men design’d

Were health of Body and ane Upright Mind

These in times youth the Ancient Sages Sang

from these soft ease with Charming Beauty Sprang

Such Beauties as doth every Mortall please

for who's so dull that's not in Love with Ease

for her a Monarch oft wou’d quit his Crown

and all his Regall powerfull sway lay down

for her Even Loyall Subjects just and True

To their Right sovereign often times do bow

To ane Usurper

In View of her mankind supports their toyl

and Seeks her out through many a different Soyl

Even from these Shores where Ice like mountains Stand

To where the Sun doth Search the fleeting Sand

for her the Merchant ploughs the Briny flood

for her the Souldier wades through lakes of Blood

for her the Spaniard digs the golden Ore

and from peru brings't to the European Shore

The frugall gauls with care their Vineyards plant

To Banquet Divine ease and Banish want

The Brawny Britain to his plough doth Yoak

and feeds fat herds to make her kettles smoak

All seek to find her all her presence crave

Tho some Ne’re find her till they Reach ye grave

Some Search for her in Courts but in her Shape

They only find dull laziness her Ape

her Real Self though hy Born Rather dwells

In Humble Cotes and pious culdee's cells

They quite mistake who think ye Virgin Can

despise forsake or hate the active man

Its only he's her darling and her Care

While lumpish lazy Drones dye in Despair

Hail Noble Nymph Thy praises cannot fail

While grief and pain do on this Round prevail

Thou wast the gift of the Supremer powers

To our first parents in fair Edens bowers

There there thou Reign’d and did thy Sweets infuse

Nor Care nor fears of want durst thee Abuse

But when Black crimes appear’d thou then forsook

This globe and back to Heaven thy journey took

With thee Artrea and all ye graces left

this Cursed Wild of goodness quit bereft

Whose absence we thy Votaries do mourn

Because thou daigns so Seldom to Return