4. With his kinde mother who partakes thy woe,
Ioseph turne backe; see where your child doth sit,
Blowing, yea blowing out those sparks of wit,
Which himselfe on the Doctors did bestow;
The Word but lately could not speake, and loe,
It sodenly speakes wonders, whence comes it,
That all which was, and all which should be writ,
A shallow seeming child, should deeply know?
His Godhead was not soule to his manhood,
Nor had time mellowed him to this ripenesse,
But as for one which hath a long taske, 'tis good,
With the Sunne to beginne his businesse,
He in his ages morning thus began
By miracles exceeding power of man.
[Temple.]
[5 loe, Ed: loe 1633-69]
[6 wonders, 1633-39: wonders: 1650-69]
[11 for] to W
a long taske, 1633-69, D, H49: long taskes B, N,
O'F, S, S96, TCD, W: longe taske A18, TCC
'tis] 'Tis 1633: thinks W]