The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘Man’ (1633)
When boys go first to bed,
They step into their voluntary graves.
‘Mortification’ (1633)
Exalted manna, gladness of the best,
Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,
The Milky Way, the bird of Paradise,
Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul’s blood,
The land of spices; something understood.
‘Prayer: Prayer the Church’s banquet’ (1633)
When God at first made man,
Having a glass of blessings standing by;
Let us (said he) pour on him all we can:
Let the world’s riches, which dispersed lie,
Contract into a span.
‘The Pulley’ (1633)
He would adore my gifts instead of Me,
And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature:
So both should losers be.
‘The Pulley’ (1633)
Yet let him keep the rest,
But keep them with repining restlessness:
Let him be rich and weary, that at least,
If goodness lead him not, yet weariness
May toss him to My breast.
‘The Pulley’ (1633)
But who does hawk at eagles with a dove?
‘The Sacrifice’ (1633) l. 91
Man stole the fruit, but I must climb the tree.
‘The Sacrifice’ (1633) l. 202
Lord, with what care Thou hast begirt us round!
Parents first season us: then schoolmasters
Deliver us to laws; they send us bound
To rules of reason, holy messengers,
Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin,
Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes,
Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in,
Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.
‘Sin: Lord, with what care Thou hast begirt us round!’ (1633)
Yet all these fences and their whole array