"O mihi jucundum Grantæ super omnia nomen! O penitus toto corde receptus amor! O pulchræ sine luxu ædes, vitæque beatæ, Splendida paupertas, ingenuusque decor! O chara ante alias, magnorum nomine Regum Digna domus! Trini nomine digna Dei O nimium Cereris cumulati munere campi, Posthabitis Ennæ quos colit illa jugis! O sacri fontes! et sacræ vatibus umbræ Quas recreant avium Pieridumque chori! O Camus! Phoebo multus quo gratior amnis Amnibus auriferis invidiosus inops! Ah mihi si vestræ reddat bona gaudia sedis, Detque Deus doctâ posse quiete frui! Qualis eram cum me tranquilla mente sedentem Vidisti in ripâ, Came serene, tuâ; Mulcentem audisti puerili flumina cantu; Ille quidem immerito, sed tibi gratus erat. Nam, memini ripa cum tu dignatus utrâque Dignatum est totum verba referre nemus. Tunc liquidis tacitisque simul mea vita diebus, Et similis vestræ candida fluxit aquæ. At nunc coenosæ luces, atque obice multo Rumpitur ætatis turbidus ordo meæ. Quid mihi Sequanâ opus, Tamesisve aut Thybridis undâ? Tu potis es nostram tollere, Came, sitim."
_Elegia dedicatoria, ad illustrissimam Academiam Cantabrigiensem_, prefixed to Cowley's Works, Lond. 1669, folio.
[Greek: _Hypôpiazô_]--I "keep under my body," &c. 1 Cor. ix. 27. One can scarcely allude to this passage without remembering the sarcastic observations of Dr. South upon a too literal interpretation of it. (_Sermons_, vol. i. p. 12. Dublin, 1720.) And yet deeper and more spiritual writers by no means pass the literal interpretation by with indifference. Bishop Andrewes distinctly mentions [Greek: hypôpiasmos], or _suggillatio_, amongst the "circumstantiæ orationis;" as also [Greek: ekdikêsis], _vindicta_, or _revenge_, 2 Cor. vii. II. (_Preces Privatæ_, pag. 14. Londini, 1828.) Bishop J. Taylor is equally explicit in a well-known and remarkable passage:
"If the lust be upon us, and sharply tempting, by inflicting any smart to overthrow the strongest passion by the most violent pain, we shall find great ease for the present, and the resolution and apt sufferance against the future danger; and this was St. Paul's remedy: 'I bring my body under;' he used some rudeness towards it."--_Holy Living_, sect. iii. _Of Chastity. Remedies against Uncleanness_, 4.