To CASTARA, A Uow.

BY those chaste lamps which yeeld a silent light,
so the cold Vrnes of Virgins; By that night,
Which guilty of no crime, doth onely heare
The Vowes of recluse Nu…s and th' Au'thrits prayer;
And by thy chaster selfe; My fervent zeale
Like mountaine y…e, which the North winds congeale,
To purest Christall, feeles no wanton fire.
But as the humble Pilgrim, (whose desire
Blest in Christs cottage view, by Angels hands,
Transported from sad Bethlem,) wondring stands
At the great miracle So I at thee,
Whose beauty is the shrine of chastity.
Thus my bright Muse in a new orbe shall move,
And even teach Religion how to love.