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Heere first loues Queene put on mortalitie, And with her beautie all the world inflamed. Heatfns chambers harboring firie cherubines, Are not with thee in glorie to compare, Lightning it is not light which in thee shines, None enter thee but straight entranced are. O if Elizium be aboue the ground, Then here it is where nought but ioy is found.
In the MS. of the Saint preserved in the Escurial, the word is "cherubines;" but all the editors before Don Vicente de la Fuente have adopted the suggestion, in the margin, of Banes, who preferred "seraphim." F. Bouix, in his translation, corrected the mistake; but, with his usual modesty, did not call the reader's attention to it. See Relation, viii. section 16.
"On cherubs and on cherubines full royally he road And on the winges of all the windes came flying all abroad." They gave up these lines of simple grandeur, to which they were accustomed, for such wretched verses as these of the New England version: Likewise the heavens he downe-bow'd and he descended, & there was under his feet a gloomy cloud 10.
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