The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/His Noble Numbers

by Robert Herrick

HIS

NOBLE NUMBERS:

OR,

HIS PIOUS PIECES,

 

Wherein (amongst other things)

he sings the Birth of his Christ;
and sighes for his Saviours
suffering on the Crosse.

 

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Hesiod.

Ἴδμεν ψεύδεα πολλὰ λέγειν ἐτύμοισιν δμοῖα.
Ἴδμεν δ', εὖτ' ἐθέλωμεν, ἀληθέα μυθήσασθαι.

 

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LONDON.
Printed for John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield.
1647.

Chapters (not listed in original)

 
1. His Confession
2. His Prayer for Absolution
3. To Find God
4. What God Is
5. Upon God
6. Mercy and Love
7. God's Anger Without Affection
8. God Not to Be Comprehended
9. God's Part
10. Affliction
11. Three Fatal Sisters
12. Silence
13. Mirth
14. Loading and Unloading
15. God's Mercy
16. Prayers Must Have Poise
17. To God: An Anthem Sung in the Chapel at Whitehall Before the King
18. Upon God
19. Calling and Correcting
20. No Escaping the Scourging
21. The Rod
22. God Has a Twofold Part
23. God Is One
24. Persecutions Profitable
25. To God
26. Whips
27. God's Providence
28. Temptation
29. His Ejaculation to God
30. God's Gifts Not Soon Granted
31. Persecutions Purify
32. Pardon
33. An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour
34. Lip-labour
35. The Heart
36. Earrings
37. Sin Seen
38. Upon Time
39. His Petition
40. To God
41. His Litany to the Holy Spirit
42. Thanksgiving
43. Cock-crow
44. All Things Run Well for the Righteous
45. Pain Ends in Pleasure
46. To God
47. A Thanksgiving to God for His House
48. To God
49. Another to God
50. None Truly Happy Here
51. To His Ever-loving God
52. Another
53. To Death
54. Neutrality Loathsome
55. Welcome What Comes
56. To His Angry God
57. Patience: Or, Comforts in Crosses
58. Eternity
59. To His Saviour, a Child: A Present by a Child
60. The New-year's Gift
61. To God
62. God and the King
63. God's Mirth: Man's Mourning
64. Honours Are Hindrances
65. The Parasceve, or Preparation
66. To God
67. A Will to Be Working
68. Christ's Part
69. Riches and Poverty
70. Sobriety in Search
71. Alms
72. To His Conscience
73. To His Saviour
74. To God
75. His Dream
76. God's Bounty
77. To His Sweet Saviour
78. His Creed
79. Temptations
80. The Lamp
81. Sorrows
82. Penitency
83. The Dirge of Jephthah's Daughter: Sung by the Virgins
84. To God: On His Sickness
85. Sins Loathed, and yet Loved
86. Sin
87. Upon God
88. Faith
89. Humility
90. Tears
91. Sin and Strife
92. An Ode, or Psalm to God
93. Graces for Children
94. God to Be First Served
95. Another Grace for a Child
96. A Christmas Carol Sung to the King in the Presence at Whitehall
97. The New-year's Gift: Or, Circumcision's Song. Sung to the King in the Presence at Whitehall
98. Another New-year's Gift: Or, Song for the Circumcision
99. God's Pardon
100. Sin
101. Evil
102. The Star-song: A Carol to the King Sung at Whitehall
103. To God
104. To His Dear God
105. To God: His Good Will
106. On Heaven
107. The Sum and the Satisfaction
108. Good Men Afflicted Most
109. Good Christians
110. The Will the Cause of Woe
111. To Heaven
112. The Recompense
113. To God
114. To God
115. His Wish to God
116. Satan
117. Hell
118. The Way
119. Great Grief, Great Glory
120. Hell
121. The Bellman
122. The Goodness of His God
123. The Widows' Tears: Or, Dirge of Dorcas
124. To God in Time of Plundering
125. To His Saviour. The New-year's Gift
126. Doomsday
127. The Poor's Portion
128. The White Island: Or, Place of the Blest
129. To Christ
130. To God
131. Free Welcome
132. God's Grace
133. Coming to Christ
134. Correction
135. God's Bounty
136. Knowledge
137. Salutation
138. Lasciviousness
139. Tears
140. God's Blessing

141. God, and Lord
142. The Judgment-day
143. Angels
144. Long Life
145. Tears
146. Manna
147. Reverence
148. Mercy
149. Wages
150. Temptation
151. God's Hands
152. Labour
153. Mora Sponsi, the Stay of the Bridegroom
154. Roaring
155. The Eucharist
156. Sin Severely Punished
157. Montes Scripturarum: The Mounts of the Scriptures
158. Prayer
159. Christ's Sadness
160. God Hears Us
161. God
162. Clouds
163. Comforts in Contentions
164. Heaven
165. God
166. His Power
167. Christ's Words on the Cross: My God, My God
168. Jehovah
169. Confusion of Face
170. Another
171. Beggars
172. Good and Bad
173. Sin
174. Martha, Martha
175. Youth and Age
176. God's Power
177. Paradise
178. Observation
179. The Ass
180. Observation
181. Tapers
182. Christ's Birth
183. The Virgin Mary
184. Another
185. God
186. Another of God
187. Another
188. God's Presence
189. God's Dwelling
190. The Virgin Mary
191. To God
192. Upon Woman and Mary
193. North and South
194. Sabbaths
195. The Fast, or Lent
196. Sin
197. God
198. This, and the next World
199. Ease
200. Beginnings and Endings
201. Temporal Goods
202. Hell Fire
203. Abel's Blood
204. Another
205. A Position in the Hebrew Divinity
206. Penitence
207. God's Presence
208. The Resurrection Possible and Probable
209. Christ's Suffering
210. Sinners
211. Temptations
212. Pity and Punishment
213. God's Price and Man's Price
214. Christ's Action
215. Predestination
216. Another
217. Sin
218. Another
219. Another
220. Prescience
221. Christ
222. Christ's Incarnation
223. Heaven
224. God's Keys
225. Sin
226. Alms
227. Hell Fire
228. To Keep a True Lent
229. No Time in Eternity
230. His Meditation upon Death
231. Clothes for Continuance
232. To God
233. The Soul
234. The Judgment-day
235. Sufferings
236. Pain and Pleasure
237. God's Presence
238. Another
239. The Poor Man's Part
240. The Right Hand
241. The Staff and Rod
242. God Sparing in Scourging
243. Confession
244. God's Descent
245. No Coming to God Without Christ
246. Another to God
247. The Resurrection
248. Co-heirs
249. The Number of Two
250. Hardening of Hearts
251. The Rose
252. God's Time Must End Our Trouble
253. Baptism
254. Gold and Frankincense
255. To God
256. The Chewing the Cud
257. Christ's Twofold Coming
258. To God, His Gift
259. God's Anger
260. God's Commands
261. To God
262. To God
263. Good Friday: Rex Tragicus; Or, Christ Going to His Cross
264. His Words to Christ Going to the Cross
265. Another to His Saviour
266. His Saviour's Words Going to the Cross
267. His Anthem to Christ on the Cross
268. (Untitled)
269. To His Saviour's Sepulchre: His Devotion
270. His Offering, with the Rest, at the Sepulchre
271. His Coming to the Sepulchre

F I N I S.