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 POEMS 
 
 TRANSLATIONS IN VERSE: 
 
 (INCLUDING 
 
 FTFTY-NINE HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED EPIGEAMS) 
 
 OF 
 
 THOMAS FULLER D.D. // . fLLl 
 
 AND 
 
 HIS MUCH-WISHED FORM OF PRAYEE; 
 
 FOR THE FIRST TIME 
 
 COLLECTED AND EDITED 
 
 EntrDtiuction 
 
 EEV. ALEXANDEE B. GEOSAET, 
 
 LIVERPOOL. 
 
 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. 
 
 18G8.
 
 CEAWFOUD AND M'CABE. PRINTERS. GEORGE STREET. EDINBUEGH.
 
 TO 
 
 HIS GRACE 
 
 ^!je ^rcpisfjojj ot ©ublitt. 
 
 Mat it please tour Grace, 
 
 Having done me the honour to 
 suggest that I should edit and re-print the 
 ' Pisgah-Sight of Palestine:' and which only the 
 pressure of other engagements compelled me 
 to deny myself of, — I cannot hesitate in regarding 
 you as a lover of Thomas Fuller. I ask your 
 kind acceptance, therefore, of the dedication of 
 this little volume of his Poems and Verse- 
 Translations. 
 
 With much regard and gratitude for theo- 
 logical and spuitual benefit received from your 
 Works, 
 
 I am, 
 Very Faitlifully your Grace's 
 Obliged, 
 ALEXANDER B. GROSART.
 
 INTEODUCTION, 
 
 SUSPECT that the first impression 
 of those who hear of the present 
 little volume or who take it up, 
 will be that it is some such literary quiz as 
 Sir Walter Scott half- thought of perj)etrating 
 in relation to David Hume. A short quotation 
 from his genial letter will explain: — 'We visited 
 Corby Castle on our return to Scotland,' he 
 writes to Morritt, ' which remains in point of 
 situation as beautiful as when its walks were 
 celebrated by David Hume, in the only rhymes 
 he Avas ever know to be guilty of. Here they 
 are, from a pane of glass in an inn at Carlisle — 
 
 Here chickens in eggs for bi-eakfast sprawl, 
 Here godless boys God's glories squall, 
 Here Scotchmen's heads do guard the wall, 
 But Corby's walks atone for all.' 
 
 Then playfully, ' Would it not be a good quiz to 
 advertise the Poetical Works of David Hume, 
 with notes, critical, historical, and so forth — with 
 an historical inquiry into the use of eggs for 
 breakfast, a physical discussion on the causes of
 
 b INTRODUCTION. 
 
 their being addled, a history of the English 
 Church music and of the choir of Carlisle in 
 particular; a full account of the affair of 1745, 
 with the trials, last speeches and so forth, of the 
 poor plaids who were strapped up at Carlisle ; 
 and lastly, a full and particular description of 
 Corhy, with tlie genealogy of every family who 
 ever possessed it "? I think even without more 
 than the usual loaste of margin, the Poems of 
 David would make a decent twelve shilling 
 touch. I shall think about it when I have 
 exhausted mine own century of inventions.'^ 
 Even stu.dents of Fuller I find have never so 
 much as seen his longest ' Divine Poem,' are 
 unfamiliar with his ' Panegyrick,' and have over- 
 looked his lesser things. So that unless I much 
 mistake this volume of 'Poems and Translations' 
 bearing his sunny name will come as a surprise 
 — a pleasant surprise surely — to not a few of his 
 lovers. But they will not be ' bamboozled ' (if 
 the slang word be allowable) with any such 
 'Notes' and ' Inquiries' as loveable Sir Walter 
 jocosely designed for Hume's quatrain. 
 
 I had resolved to edit and print a Hmited 
 private edition of 'David's Hainous Sinne, Heartie 
 Repentance, Heavie Punishment,' and the 'Pane- 
 
 1 Life by Lockliart c. xxxv.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 7 
 
 gyrick,' as on talking with fello-w-reverers of 
 Fuller, I discovered that not one in a score had 
 once met with them, while all were wishful to 
 have them if only they might he purchased under 
 Bibliomania-price. My own copy of the former 
 had cost me £5, 5s., and the latter £2, 2s. ;'^ 
 and inquiry soon satisfied that in the hook- 
 market they were deemed cheap at these (com- 
 paratively) high prices, e.g. in the British 
 Museum copy which is bound in saffron morocco, 
 but cropped mended and soiled, there is a memo- 
 randimi that it had sold for £17 at Brand's Sale 
 (whose book-plate is on it) ; and for the 'Pane- 
 gyrick' — which is in virgin state, uncut edges — I 
 was soon offered £3, 3s. So that — independent 
 of intrinsic worth and interest — if these could be 
 faithfully and worthily reproduced for fewer pence 
 than the pounds they readdy fetch in the original 
 editions, I thought a little literary service should 
 be rendered thereby. But on proceeding to carry 
 this out it soon appeared that more was demanded. 
 
 > A copy of David's Hainous Sinne, etc., was recently 
 on sale by Mr Joseph Lilly (a bookseller of the fine old 
 stamp), Govent Garden, Loudon, thus described, ' a Poem, 
 small octavo, calf extra, gilt edges, the last leaf containing 
 the concluding (only) verses reprinted, j£5, 5s.' I believe 
 it was siiapjx'd up instiuitly. Biudley's copy brought 
 jE5, 15a. 6d. Uibbort's, which was the same copy, j£6, 6s.
 
 8 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 For on turning to my marked copies of the 
 'Worthies,' 'Church-History,' ' Pisgah-Sight:' in 
 short to Fuller's complete Works, I came on 
 many ' Verses '- — mainly translations from the 
 Latin — having, occasionally at least, the salt of 
 wit, the dainty fancies, the inimitable word-play 
 and alliteration, the brilliant conceits — as of 
 ancient tores of gold — the kindly humour, the 
 soft delicate pitifulness, of this most loveable of 
 England's Worthies. [T don't^ — as usual — call 
 him ' dear old Fuller : ' for alas ! he died aged 
 only 53]. All tliis being so, I concluded to give 
 the wliole of his Poems and Verse-Translations. 
 Still further : My attention having been oblig- 
 ingly called by Mr W. C. Hazlitt to his com- 
 munication to Notes and Queries (3d Series vii. 
 pp. 352, 353), concerning a volume formerly 
 belonging to him, wherein were written in a 
 (jontemporary hand a large number of Epigrams 
 by ' Mr Tho. Fuller,' inquiries were set on foot 
 to discover its present possessor. By the kind 
 zeal of Mr F. S. Ellis, Bookseller, 33 King 
 Street, Covent Garden, London, I speedily re- 
 covered the precious little book, and obtained 
 unreserved permission to use whatever I might 
 wish in it. The Epigrams authenticate them- 
 selves : many being truly Fullerian. I congratu- 
 late myself on my rare good fortune in having it
 
 INTRODUCTION. V 
 
 in my power to add this treasure- trove to my 
 collection. I beg to return right hearty thanks 
 to its owner (H. H. Gibhs Esq., London), for his 
 ready liberality that enables me to do this. 
 
 Thus the present volume — as its title-page 
 bears — not only furnishes Fuller's larger Poems, 
 but 'for the first time' brings together the minor 
 ' Verses ' scattered up and down his numerous 
 prose writings, and no fewer than fifty-nine 
 hitherto unpublished Epigrams by him. 
 
 Eegarding ' the Poems and Translations ' in- 
 trinsically, I prefix — in its place — the Critcism of 
 his longest poem by Oldys. But he has missed 
 its biographic interest and its most characteristic 
 turns and touches. Biographically it is to be 
 remembered that as 'David's Hainous Sinne,' etc. 
 was published in 1631 it was probably composed 
 when he was little out of his ' teens.' — So that 
 his first known production confirms Charles 
 Lamb's penetrative insight in his winsome words 
 on his genius : ' The writings of Fuller are usually 
 designated by the title of quaint and Avith suffi- 
 cient reason : for such loas his natural bias to 
 conceits, that I doubt not, upon most occasions, 
 it would have been goinr/ out of his way to have 
 expressed himself out of them.' In his earliest as 
 in his last book is the same ' Poman hand,' the 
 same inevitableness, naturalness and spontaneity
 
 10 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 of ' quaint ' thought and wording. I cull a few- 
 examples of word-play from 'David's Hainous 
 Sinne : ' and sure I am that no one familiar with 
 Fuller will fail to detect in them the very 
 essentia of his after-style. Thus he puts poor 
 Uriah's eager obedience in carrying the king's 
 false and fatal ' Letter,' — 
 
 On his journey past 
 With speed, who needed not to make such hast 
 "Whose death had he gone slow did come too fast. 
 
 [I. St. 33.] 
 
 Again, wisely as well as wittily : 
 
 Where 
 Kings hid and God forbids, we must forbeare 
 
 \_Ibid. St. 44.] 
 
 And of Uriah finely — 
 
 Thus of his friends betray'd by subtill traine: 
 Assaulted of his foes with might and maine 
 He lost his life, not conquered but slain 
 
 [Ibid. St. 46.] 
 
 So of the ' infant newly borne, now neare to dye ' 
 very tenderly — 
 
 See with what silent signes and sighes full faine 
 Poore heart it would expresse where lies the paine 
 Complaining that it knowes not to complaine 
 
 [III. St. 3.] 
 
 Again — 
 
 His tongue did never lye that cannot speke. 
 
 [lUd. St. 5.]
 
 INTRODUCTION. 11 
 
 Then follows this dainty metaphor — 
 
 As when a tender rose begins to blow- 
 Yet scarce unswadled is, some wanton maide 
 Pleas'd with the smell, allured with the show 
 Will not reprive it till it hath display'd 
 
 The folded leaves : but to her brest applies 
 
 Th' abortive budd, where coffined it lyes 
 
 Losing the blushing dye before it dies. [Ibid. st. 7.] 
 
 Here is a genuinely Fullerian and later 
 
 George CRABSE-ian alliteration — on ' the poor 
 
 larke imprison'd in the cage of a kite's claws' 
 
 vainly pleading for escape 
 
 On her that pray'd so long, doth prey at last. 
 
 [/6u7. St. 14.]i 
 
 Again : of Absalom's mock-condescension — 
 
 o 
 
 He steales their hearts by taking of their hands. 
 
 [Ibid. St. 25.] 
 
 Incisively too 
 
 A saint dissembled is a double devile. [Ibid. st. 28.] 
 Asse, that for wit his rider did exceed. [Ibid. st. 34.] 
 
 Then, more fully and with still more characteris- 
 tic touches : 
 
 » We have many like lines e.g. of the ' asse ' whereon 
 Absalom rode, set free 
 
 Now rid of him that rid on her before. [III. st. 45.] 
 
 So— 
 A fruitfull wildemosse of fruitlcsse weeds. [Ibid. st. 48.] 
 Seldome things done speedily doe speed. [Ibid. st. 53.] 
 Losing their gottings, gaining what they lost. 
 
 [Ibid. St. 68.]
 
 12 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 A cliayne of liempe he to his necko made fast 
 By tying of wliich knot he did iintyo 
 The knot of soule and body, and at last 
 Stopping the passage of his breath, thereby 
 A passage for his soule wide opened hee : 
 Thus traytors rather than they should goe free 
 Themselves the hangman of themselves will bee. 
 
 \_Ihid. St. 37.] 
 
 Again : 
 
 My Sonne ! whose body had of grace the fill 
 My Sonne ! whose soule was so devoid of grace. 
 
 II bid. St. 50.] 
 
 Furtlier : Tliis ' Divine poem ' is of biograpliic 
 interest and value in that it reveals Fuller's 
 Calvinism at the time (at least) — on two leading 
 ' doctrines ' e.g. Predestination or Election. 
 
 . . Soone with a word the Lord api;)eas'd this strife 
 Injoyning silence till he did vnfold 
 That precious volume cald the Booke of Life 
 Which He the Printer priviledg'd of old 
 Containing those He freely did imbrace : 
 Nor ever would I wish an higher grace 
 Than in this Booke to hae the lowest place. 
 
 Within this Booke he sought for David's name 
 Which having found He proffered to blot 
 (And David surely well deserv'd the same 
 That did his nature so with sinne bespot) 
 Though none are blotted out but such as never 
 Were written in ; nothing God's love can sever ; 
 Once written there are written there for ever. 
 
 [II. St. 5, 6.]
 
 INTRODUCTION. 13 
 
 Similarly on Original Sin : — 
 
 But all I this infant's guilt from him proceeds 
 That knew the least when most he sought to know : 
 Who most was nak't when cloathed in his weeds 
 Best cloathed then when naked he did goe : 
 In vayne the wit of wisest men doth strive 
 To cut off this intayle, that doth derive 
 Death imto all when first they are alive. 
 
 [III. St. 6.] 
 
 It is only due to our "Worthy to add his ' charit- 
 able ' stanza on the absence of the rite of baptism : 
 
 So this babe's life, newly begim, did end 
 
 Which sure receiv'd the substance though not sign'd 
 
 With grace's seale : God freely doth attend 
 
 His ordinance, but will not be confin'd 
 
 Thereto when 'tis not neglected nor despis'd 
 They that want water are by fire baptiz'd 
 Those sanctify'd that ne'ro were circumcis'd. 
 
 [III. St. 8.] 
 
 Besides these theological opinions we have in this 
 Poem — and elsewhere — unmistakeable utterances 
 on kindred matters. I select these four — prefix- 
 ing headings — 
 
 1. Drunkenness: 
 
 My prayers for friends prosperity and wealth 
 Shall nc're bo wanting : but if I refuse 
 To hurt myself by drinking others' health 
 Oh let ingenious natures nice excuse : 
 
 If men bad manners this esteeme, then I 
 
 Desire to be esteem'd unmannerly 
 
 That to live well will suffer wine to dye. 
 
 [I. St. 27.]
 
 1 4 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 2. Preaching : 
 
 Goe fond affectors of a flanting straine 
 
 Whose sermons strike at sinnes with slenting blowes ! 
 
 Give me the man that's powerful! and plaiue 
 
 The monster Vice mmasked to expose : 
 Such preachers doe the soule and marrow part 
 And cause the guilty conscience to smart 
 Such please no itching eares but peirce the heart. 
 
 [II. St. 22.J 
 
 3. Female-humility : 
 
 Ah ! happy age when ladies learn't to bake 
 And when kings daughters knew to knead a cake. 
 Eebecka was esteem'd of comely hew 
 Yet not so nice her comelinesse to keepe 
 But that shee water for the cammells drew : 
 Rachell was faire, yet fedd her father's sheepe 
 But now for to supply Eebecka's place 
 Or doe as Eachell did is counted base : 
 Our dainty dames would take it in disgrace.' 
 
 [III. St. 11, 12.] 
 
 ' This reminds me of an anecdote of a quaint old Scotch 
 ' minister ' of the last century (Mr Comrie of Pennicuik). 
 His Congregation had been engaged in making a pecuniary 
 effort to pay off debt on the Church by a kind of anticipa- 
 tion of wliat are now called Bazaars. It did not prove a 
 success ; and mainly through the lack of zeal of the ladies. 
 Chagrined, Mr Comrie in a speech afterwards, looking the 
 gay-dressed fair ones full in the face remarked dryly, ' The 
 leddies noo-a-days pit me in mind o' the Lilies [All atten- 
 tion expecting a compUment] — they toil not neither do they 
 spin.''
 
 INTRODUCTION. 15 
 
 4. False-friendship: 
 
 Before such, kisses come vpon my face 
 
 Oh ! let the deadly scorpion me sting 
 
 Yea rather than such armes should me imbrace 
 
 Let curling snakes about my body cling : 
 Than such faire words I'de rather the fowle 
 Vntuned schreeching of the dolefull owle 
 Or heare the direfull mountaine-wolfe to howle. 
 
 [Ihid. St. 26.] 
 
 I must leave tlie reader to dig for like nuggets. 
 Preceded by George Peele in Ms ' Love of 
 King David and Fair Bet'sabe with the Tra- 
 gedie of Absalom' (1599) and coming into com- 
 parison with the ' Davideis ; a heroical poem 
 on the troubles of David/ of Abraham Cowley 
 — his contemporaiy and fellow-student at Cam- 
 bridge — Fuller's first Poem loses nothing beside 
 them. 
 
 The 'Panegyrick' has happy lines : and was the 
 genuine utterance of our large-hearted Worthy's 
 loyalty to his ideal of monarchy. Hence the 
 transfigniration of Charles the Second. Histori- 
 cally it is valuable as an evidence of the glowing 
 hopes that centred in the ' merry monarch.' The 
 actual ' Life ' Fuller did not Aptness. He was 
 * gone ' before the brightness of the exile-years 
 paled into foulest Night. High-pitched as is his 
 praise it is low compared witli innumerable con-
 
 1 6 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 temporary ' "Welcomes ' still preserved in the 
 British Museum and elsewhere.^ 
 
 The Translation-verses I have already char- 
 acterized : though truth to tell many of them 
 only two faithfully answer his own apologetic 
 description, ' Yet hecause some love poetry, either 
 very good or very bad, that if they cannot learn 
 from it, they may laugh at it, they are here in- 
 serted.'^ Others are in daintiness of wording 
 and quaintness of their turns as the Songs of 
 Shakespere and Jonson to their Plays. The 
 ' Flowers ' must lose in their transplantation (or 
 cutting) even with the words as so much living 
 
 1 One of the most astounding of these productions is the 
 following KAPO'AOY rpt(7/t£yi(7rou "E-rrKpavia : The Most 
 Gloriovs Star or Celestial Constellation of the Pleiades or 
 Charles Waine. Appearing and shining most brightly in 
 a Miraculous manner in the Face of the Sun at Noon day at 
 the Nativity of our Sacred Soveraign King Charles 2. Pre- 
 saging his Majesties Exaltation to future Honour and Great- 
 ness, Transcending not only the most potent Christian 
 Prince, in Europe, but by Divine Designment ordained to 
 be the most Mighty Monarch in the Vniverse. Never any 
 Starre having appeared before at the birth of any (the 
 Highest humane Herd) except our Saviour. Behold a King 
 shall reign in righteousness. Psal. 32. 1. By Edw. Mathew 
 of the Middle Temple Esq. London, Printed for the use and 
 benefit of William Byi-on, Gent. 1662 [12°]— Title-page— 
 Ep: Dedy pp. 12— Treatise pp. 156 — Two engravings 
 adorn (!) the volume. 
 
 2 ' Worthies ' [London].
 
 INTRODUCTION. 17 
 
 eartli — Fidler^s earth, Fiiller himself would have 
 said — attached : ay, were they put into ' Pots ' 
 such as Keats' 'basil' grew in. Still I have 
 given as much of the context in which the 
 ' Verses ' occur as to impart interest. 
 
 I do not at all claim poetic genius for ' rare ' 
 Thomas Fuller, or for independent poetic fame. 
 But everything that serves to furnish insight 
 into the whole nature of a great man has its own 
 use and worth. It is noticeable that while he 
 did not follow up his ' David's Hainous Sinne,' 
 etc., with other poems of like -length and kin, 
 he yet kept singing unto the end. There must 
 have been a string that vibrated to the subtle 
 ' breath' when the music — and words to it — was 
 so inevitable and irrepressible. Biographers and 
 critics have failed as it seems to us, to recognise 
 this element in the large, rich, most winsome 
 nature of our Worthy. 
 
 I scrupulously adhere to the original text 
 throughout, retaining Fuller's own orthography:^ 
 
 ' I must ask the student, however, to keep in mind that 
 with very few exceptions the present apostrophe of the 
 possessive case was unemployed by Fuller and his contem- 
 poraries— e.(/., wo road not Truth's but Truths, Eomes not 
 Home's. I have also somewhat modified the use of capitals 
 and italics, which are used very arbitrarily. 
 
 B
 
 18 , INTRODUCTION. 
 
 agreeing herein with the venerated Keble that 
 X ' in one respect especially, i.e. as a specimen and 
 
 monument of language, ancient books lose very 
 much of their value by the neglect of ancient 
 y^ orthography.'^ Tor popular, practical use, mo- 
 
 dernization of spelling is not only permissible, 
 but absolutely necessary. On the other hand, 
 to the circle to whom this reprint addresses itself, 
 faithfulness to the author is a sine qua non. I 
 have iised all the care that I could command : 
 and I venture to hope not in vain.^ A feAV 
 Notes explanatory of names and references, bear 
 my initial G. Those of Fuller himself, F. Of 
 course in the Translation-Verses and originals 
 from his prose Works the reader must turn to 
 the several places for further information as to 
 names and things introduced. It were mis- 
 placed annotation to enlarge on these in such a 
 small venture as the present. 
 
 Besides the Poems and Verse-Translations 
 
 ' Keble's Hooker, Vol. I. : Preface page viii (edn. 1841, 
 3 vols. 8°). I have mai-ked the noticeable words in foot- 
 notes. 
 
 2 I cannot expect to bo found faultless, for even so 
 scholarly and able an editor as Dr Nuttall in his edition of 
 the ' Worthies ' very often errs — e.g., in No. LIV. of our 
 extracts from the ' Worthies ' he misreads 'paths for parts," 
 and reduces the sweet couplet to nonsense : in No. LXIV. 
 for 'townsmen' reads 'townmen.'
 
 INTRODUCTrON. 1 9 
 
 and Epigrams as enumerated, I give as an 
 Appendix the ' Form of Prayer ' used by Dr 
 Fuller. The book in which it is contained is 
 of the very rarest : and hence in Notes and 
 Queries and elsewhere tliis ' Form ' has been 
 repeatedly inquired for — in vain. To the eru- 
 dite Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge (W. 
 Aldis Wright, Esq., M.A.) I am indebted for 
 this addition to the Fulleriana of our volume. 
 
 I close this Introduction with some pat lines 
 from that finely-touched old Translator — ^Arthur 
 GoLDiNG, which I have chanced on unreferenced 
 in my Common Place Book : — 
 
 Whoso doth attempt this Author's works to read 
 Must bring with him a stayed head and judgment to 
 
 proceed ; 
 For as there be most wholesome bests and precepts to 
 
 be found 
 So are there rocks and shallow shelves to run the ship 
 
 a-gi-oimd. 
 
 ALEXANDER B. GROSART. 
 
 308 Upper Parliament Street, 
 •^ Lia'erpool. 
 
 P.S. — As I send my Manuscript to the 
 Printers there reaches me a reprint of ' David's 
 Hainous Sinne, etc., tacked on to Fidler's Party- 
 coloured-Coat, a Comment on 1 Corinthians xi.,' 
 etc. The volume is edited by Mr William Nichols,
 
 20 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 and forms one of a number of Fuller-reprints 
 from the house of Tegg — most welcome ! But 
 the rtwdernisation of the orthography of the Poem 
 is inexcusable. In no respect can it come into 
 competition with our volume apart from its 
 giving only one of the poetic productions of the 
 Author. G.
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Page 
 
 Introduction, 5 
 
 Oldys on ' David's Hainous Sinne,' etc., with Notes, . . 27 
 
 I. David's Hainous Sinne, 33 
 
 „ Heartle Kepentance, 54 
 
 „ Heavie Punishment, 64 
 
 II. A Panegyrick on His Majestie's Happie Ketum, . . 91 
 
 ni. Verses prefixed to SpaAes' ' Scintilla Altaris,' . . . 106 
 rV. Ad Serenissimum Eegem, 110 
 
 V. From ' Kex Kedux,' 
 
 111 
 
 VL Echo-Song, 112 
 
 Vn. From the 'Church History," 112 
 
 1. Alban: Martyr, 
 
 2. St German, 
 
 3. On a woman who would 
 
 enter a Church from 
 wliich women were 
 excluded, 
 Easter in Britain, . 
 Lines from Taliesen (?), 
 Foundation of Univer- 
 sity of Cambridge, 
 
 7. Victorj' of Oswald, 
 
 8. Oswald, . . . . 
 
 9. Wilfride's deprivation 
 
 of the Bishopric of 
 
 York, 
 Adelme, B'p of Sherbom, 
 Alba, since Borne, 
 
 12. Martyrdom of King Ed- 
 
 mond, . . . . 
 
 13. Alfred and Edward, 
 
 14. Duiistan, 
 1.0. The Rood daughter of a 
 
 bad father, 
 16. Francis I. captive in 
 Spain, . 
 
 Pa:re 
 . 114 
 . 114 
 
 4. 
 
 5. 
 6. 
 
 10, 
 11, 
 
 114 
 114 
 11.5 
 
 116 
 116 
 117 
 
 117 
 IbS 
 118 
 
 lis 
 
 119 
 119 
 
 120 
 
 . 121 
 
 Scrip- 
 
 Translations of 
 ture, 
 
 Cuthbert receiving the 
 Cormnunion in the 
 Cup 
 
 Against Marriage, . 
 
 A'Beckett's Martyrdom, 
 
 Henry II., 
 
 Hugh Nevil, . 
 
 Kichard the Lion- 
 hearted, 
 
 Learned Writers, 'Bale 
 and Pitts,' . 
 
 Baconthorpe, . 
 
 William Occam, 
 
 Edward and ' native sub- 
 jects,' 
 
 Wat Tyler and Jack 
 Straw, 
 
 Simon Sudbury, 
 
 Chaucer ' Our Homer,' . 
 
 Chaucer, . . . . 
 
 Eton, . . . . 
 
 Retribution, 
 
 Jesuits, . . . . 
 
 . 121 
 
 122 
 122 
 123 
 124 
 124 
 
 125 
 
 125 
 1'26 
 126 
 
 . 127 
 
 127 
 128 
 129 
 129 
 129 
 130 
 131
 
 22 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Page 
 
 35. Feasts of Ely Abbey, .131 
 
 36. Bells, .... 132 
 
 37. Marshes of Mantua, . 132 
 
 38. John Leland to Henry 
 
 VIII., . . . .133 
 
 39. Against the Masse, . 133 
 
 40. Dr Hugh Price, . . 135 
 
 41. Cox, Bishop of Ely, . 136 
 
 42. Verses by Mary Queen 
 
 of Scots, . . .136 
 
 Page 
 
 43. Epitaph on Luke Cha- 
 
 loner, . . . .137 
 
 44. Humphrey Eli, . . 137 
 
 45. Gunpowder Plot, . . 137 
 
 46. The Brothers Kainolds, 137 
 
 47. Intended Colledge, . 138 
 
 48. Prince Henry, . . 138 
 
 49. The Conference, . . 139 
 
 Vin. From ' History of University of Cambridge ' — 
 1. Cambridge, . . . 139 | 3. Henry aiid Charles Bran- 
 
 2. Humphery Necton, 
 
 140 
 
 don, Dukes of Suffolk, 140 
 
 IX. From ' Pisgah-Sight of Palestine '- 
 
 (a) From letter-press. 
 
 1. Wine of Palestine, . . 141 
 
 2. Libanus' Yews, . . 142 
 
 3. Dagon, .... 142 
 
 4. Semiramis and the doves, 142 
 
 5. Levite's Concubine, . 143 
 
 6. Sepulchres, . . .143 
 
 7. Tabernacle and Temple, 143 
 
 8. Giants, . . . .144 
 
 9. Horses in Sacrifice to 
 
 the Sun, . . .144 
 
 X. From ' The Holy Warre '— 
 
 10. Dew, 
 
 . 144 
 
 11. Egypt, . . 
 
 . 145 
 
 12. Mock-tears, . 
 
 . 145 
 
 13. Idols, 
 
 . 146 
 
 14. Idol-calf, 
 
 . 146 
 
 (6) From the Maps. 
 
 
 1. Engraved title-page 
 
 . 146 
 
 2. Palestine, 
 
 . 146 
 
 3. Jerusalem, 
 
 . 147 
 
 4. Fragmenta Sacra, 
 
 . 147 
 
 1. Issues, 
 
 148 
 
 2. Baldwine, 
 
 149 
 
 3. t Alexius, . 
 
 . 150 
 
 4. Kmg Fulk, 
 
 150 
 
 5. Frederick, 
 
 . 151 
 
 6. tConrade, 
 
 151 
 
 XI. From ' The Holy State '— 
 
 1. The Elder Brother, 
 
 . 153 
 
 2. The Younger Brother, 
 
 . 154 
 
 3. Julius Scaliger, 
 
 . 154 
 
 4. The Faithful Minister, 
 
 . 155 
 
 5. William Perkins, . 
 
 . 155 
 
 6. Simony, . 
 
 . 15G 
 
 7. The Good Patron, . 
 
 . 156 
 
 8. Hope Disappointed, 
 
 . 157 
 
 9. Tombes, . 
 
 158 
 
 10. The same, 
 
 . 159 
 
 11. tFinis. . 
 
 . 159 
 
 12. Moderation, . 
 
 159 
 
 XTT. From 'The Profane State 
 
 1. The Harlot, . 
 
 164 
 
 2. Joan of Arc, . 
 
 164 
 
 3. Atheist, . 
 
 165 
 
 7. King Guy, . . .152 
 
 8. King Bichard 'prisoner,' 152 
 
 9. French Khyme: Cru- 
 
 sades, .... 153 
 10. The Pastorells killed in 
 
 France, . . . 153 
 
 13. Gravitie, . . . . 
 
 14. Grand Churches, . 
 
 15. The Good Bishop, . 
 
 16. Augustine, 
 
 17. Ridley and Hooper, 
 
 18. Lady Jane Grey, . 
 
 19. Queen Elizabeth and 
 
 the Spanish 'Embas- 
 sadour,' 
 
 20. Gustavus Adolphus, 
 
 21. Heir-apparent, 
 
 160 
 160 
 160 
 161 
 161 
 162 
 
 162 
 163 
 164 
 
 4. Jehu 165 
 
 5. tAbolition of Universities, 166 
 
 6. The Liar, . . . .166
 
 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 26 
 
 u 
 
 n. From ' Abel Bedevivus ' — 
 
 
 1. 
 
 2. 
 3. 
 4. 
 
 Berengarius, . 
 John Huss, 
 Jerome of Prague, . 
 Cranmer, 
 
 Page 
 . 166 
 . 168 
 . 169 
 . 169 
 
 5. John Fox,. 
 
 6. Fr: Junius, 
 
 7. William Perkins, . 
 
 Page 
 . 170 
 . 171 
 . 172 
 
 XIV. From ' Mixt Contemplations ' and ' Personal Meditations ' — 
 
 1. All for the Present, 172 
 
 2. Niniveh, 173 
 
 3. Good Augury, 173 
 
 4. Ovid's Line, 174 
 
 XV. From ' The "Worthies '— 
 
 1. 
 
 Scarlet Habit of Cardinals, 1 74 
 
 40. 
 
 Higre and Adria, . 
 
 . 191 
 
 2. 
 
 Lord Chancellors, . 
 
 174 
 
 41. 
 
 Thomas de la More, 
 
 191 
 
 3. 
 
 Needless Books, 
 
 175 
 
 42. 
 
 Charles Butler, 
 
 . 191 
 
 4. 
 
 Modem Pamphleteers, . 
 
 17.5 
 
 43. 
 
 William, 2d son of Ed- 
 
 5. 
 
 tHenry Keble, 
 
 176 
 
 
 ward III., . 
 
 . 192 
 
 6. 
 
 Charity, .... 
 
 177 
 
 44. 
 
 Alexander Nequam 
 
 . 192 
 
 7. 
 
 Surnames, 
 
 178 
 
 45. 
 
 tWilliam of Ware, . 
 
 . 193 
 
 8. 
 
 Associates, 
 
 178 
 
 46. 
 
 Wye-salmon, . 
 
 . 193 
 
 9. 
 
 Descents, 
 
 179 
 
 47. 
 
 Adam de Easton, 
 
 . 193 
 
 10. 
 
 ' Haste makes Waste,' . 
 
 179 
 
 48. 
 
 William Sempster, 
 
 . 194 
 
 11. 
 
 Episcopacy and Presbj'- 
 
 
 49. 
 
 Himiphrey Ely, 
 
 . 194 
 
 
 tery, .... 
 
 180 
 
 50. 
 
 Eosamund, 
 
 . 194 
 
 12. 
 
 Living Persons, 
 
 ISO 
 
 51. 
 
 Sir Eohert Cotton, 
 
 . 194 
 
 13. 
 
 Numerousness of Writers, 181 
 
 52. 
 
 Interpretation of a 
 
 Pro- 
 
 14. 
 
 Birth-place, 
 
 181 
 
 
 verb, . 
 
 . 195 
 
 1.5. 
 
 English ape the French, . 
 
 181 
 
 5.3. 
 
 Gei-mans, 
 
 . 195 
 
 IG. 
 
 tRoyal Children, 
 
 LSI 
 
 54. 
 
 tEdmund, vounges 
 
 t son 
 
 17. 
 
 Sir John Mason, 
 
 182 
 
 
 of Henry VII., 
 
 . 195 
 
 18. 
 
 Ancient Gentry, 
 
 182 
 
 55. 
 
 Sir James Hales, 
 
 . 195 
 
 19. 
 
 tEichard Cox and Prince 
 
 
 56. 
 
 Eichard Fletcher, 
 
 . 195 
 
 
 Edward, 
 
 182 
 
 57. 
 
 Sir Thomas Wyat, 
 
 . 196 
 
 20. 
 
 Dame Hester Temple, . 
 
 182 
 
 .58. 
 
 New Kings, 
 
 . 196 
 
 21. 
 
 Baskets 
 
 183 
 
 59. 
 
 Wills, 
 
 . 196 
 
 22. 
 
 Matthew Paris, 
 
 183 
 
 60. 
 
 Worth, . 
 
 . 196 
 
 23. 
 
 Simon Steward, 
 
 183 
 
 61. 
 
 Fleet-hounds, . 
 
 . 196 
 
 24. 
 
 Beestone Castle, 
 
 183 
 
 62. 
 
 Grey-hounds, . 
 
 . 197 
 
 2.5. 
 
 tDaniel King, . 
 
 184 
 
 63. 
 
 Mastiffs, . 
 
 . 197 
 
 2G. 
 
 Dreams, . 
 
 184 
 
 64. 
 
 Lost ' Common.s,' 
 
 . 197 
 
 27. 
 
 Tongilian, 
 
 185 
 
 65. 
 
 Ayscough, Bp. of Sarum, 197 
 
 28. 
 
 Cornish, .... 
 
 18.5 
 
 66. 
 
 Thomas Goodrich, 
 
 . 197 
 
 29. 
 
 Michael Blaimpayn, 
 
 185 
 
 67. 
 
 Hampton-Court, 
 
 . 193 
 
 30. 
 
 Eichard Carew and Sir 
 
 
 68. 
 
 Fulke de Brent and his 
 
 
 Philip Sidney, . 
 
 187 
 
 
 Wife, . 
 
 . 198 
 
 31. 
 
 Sympathy, 
 
 
 187 
 
 69. 
 
 tlvallierine, 3d dau 
 
 ;;hter 
 
 32. 
 
 John Salkeld, . 
 
 
 1.S7 
 
 
 of Henry VIII., 
 
 . 198 
 
 33. 
 
 Chataworth, . 
 
 
 187 
 
 70. 
 
 tWivcs of Henry VIII., . 199 
 
 34 
 
 Buxton Well, . 
 
 
 18« 
 
 71. 
 
 William Cotton, D.D., . 199 
 
 35. 
 
 Battle of Alcaser, 
 
 
 188 
 
 72. 
 
 Edmund Spenser, 
 
 . 199 
 
 3G. 
 
 Sir Francis Drake, 
 
 
 l.s.S 
 
 73. 
 
 London, . 
 
 . 199 
 
 37. 
 
 Samuel Ward, 
 
 
 m.t 
 
 74. 
 
 C'harlos IL, 
 
 . 200 
 
 38 
 
 Sir Henry Killigrew, 
 
 190 
 
 75. 
 
 Bishop Aylmer, 
 
 . 200 
 
 39. 
 
 tXhomaa Barington and 
 
 
 76. 
 
 ' An end,' 
 
 . 200 
 
 
 ' Bpouse,' 
 
 
 190 
 
 77. 
 
 William Lilly, 
 
 200
 
 24 CONTENTS. 
 
 
 PaRel 
 
 Page 
 
 78. Sir Bobert Dallington, . 
 
 201 
 
 102. William Ockham, 
 
 210 
 
 79. John Fletcher, the 
 
 
 103. Epigram, 
 
 210 
 
 ' Dramatist,' 
 
 201 
 
 104. Dr Barlow, . 
 
 210 
 
 80. Peter Pateshull, . 
 
 202 
 
 105. Sir Thomas Shirley, . 
 
 210 
 
 81. Laxton, .... 
 
 202 
 
 106. Heraldry-rhyme, . 
 
 210 
 
 82. Friars, .... 
 
 202 
 
 107. Baucis and Philemon: 
 
 
 83. Thomas Magnus, . 
 
 203 
 
 applied to Mr and Mrs 
 
 
 84. Venison, 
 
 203 
 
 Underbill, . 
 
 210 
 
 85. Quarrels, 
 
 204 
 
 108. Patrons, .... 
 
 211 
 
 86. tWife of Peter Martyr, 
 
 204 
 
 109. Customs, 
 
 211 
 
 87. War 
 
 205 
 
 110. Queen Jane Seymour, . 
 
 211 
 
 88. Sword 
 
 205 
 
 111. Bonner, .... 
 
 212 
 
 89. Kalph of Shrewsbury, . 
 
 205 
 
 112. Geat, .... 
 
 212 
 
 90. tWilliam Adams, . 
 
 205 
 
 113. Daphne, . 
 
 212 
 
 91. William Grocine, . 
 
 206 
 
 114. Eustathius de Faucon- 
 
 
 92. Staffordshire, 
 
 206 
 
 bridge. 
 
 212 
 
 93. From Virgil, . 
 
 207 
 
 115. tThomas Johnson, 
 
 213 
 
 94. tCathedral Churches, . 
 
 207 
 
 116. Robert the Scribe, 
 
 213 
 
 95. Bury, .... 
 
 207 
 
 117. Ehyme, .... 
 
 213 
 
 96. St Edmund, . 
 
 207 
 
 118. Cathedral of York, 
 
 213 
 
 97. Stephen Gardiner, 
 
 208 
 
 119. Albane Hill, . 
 
 213 
 
 98. Lydgate's Epitaph, 
 
 208 
 
 120. Rhymes, 
 
 214 
 
 99. Samuel Ward, 
 
 208 
 
 121. William Breton, . 
 
 214 
 
 100. Sir William Cordal, 
 
 20!» 
 
 122. Wonders, 
 
 214 
 
 101. Parkhm-st to Jewel, 
 
 209 
 
 123. Richard Vaughan, 
 
 214 
 
 XVI. Epitaph on Denys Kolle, 
 
 Esq., 
 
 . 215 
 
 XVn. From ' Andronious,' 
 
 
 
 . 216 
 
 XVni. Hitherto Unpublished Ep 
 
 igrams — 
 
 
 1. Adam, 
 
 221 
 
 24. Paul's Jomey to Damas 
 
 
 2. Noah, 
 
 221 
 
 cus. 
 
 . 226 
 
 3. Leah, 
 
 221 
 
 25. Philistines, 
 
 . 226 
 
 4. Joseph and his Mistress 
 
 222 
 
 26. Michal's Mockinge, 
 
 . 227 
 
 5. Ziporah, . 
 
 . 222 
 
 27. On Peter's words. 'shal 
 
 6. Moses smiteinge ye Koct 
 
 , 222 
 
 I smite?' 
 
 . 227 
 
 7. Batle with Amalecke, 
 
 222 
 
 28. Bugbears, 
 
 . 227 
 
 8. Joshauah, 
 
 . 223 
 
 29. Sampson, 
 
 . 227 
 
 9. Alter Ed., 
 
 . 223 
 
 30. Manasse, . 
 
 . 227 
 
 10. Sampson's Jawe-bone, 
 
 . 223 
 
 31. Jacob, 
 
 . 227 
 
 11. Ephraimites, . 
 
 . 223 
 
 32. Noah's dove, . 
 
 . 228 
 
 12. Elijah, . 
 
 . 223 
 
 33. A prayer, 
 
 . 228 
 
 13. Zacheus, . 
 
 . 224 
 
 34. Peter's Sinkinge, . 
 
 . 228 
 
 14. Powder-plot, . 
 
 . 224 
 
 35. On his Successors, . 
 
 . 228 
 
 15. Vaine Excuses, 
 
 . 224 
 
 36. On pride in cloaths. 
 
 228 
 
 16. Gallants Cloakes, . 
 
 . 224 
 
 37. Zacheus, . 
 
 . 228 
 
 17. Popish Interpretation of 
 
 38. Musculus, 
 
 . 228 
 
 Scripture, . 
 
 . 224 
 
 39. One more knave than 
 
 18. Sin, .... 
 
 . 224 
 
 foole, . 
 
 . 229 
 
 19. Whether Scripture or 
 
 40. David's three Worthys, 
 
 . 229 
 
 tradition ye mother of 
 
 41. Sampson, 
 
 . 229 
 
 faith, . 
 
 . 225 
 
 42. A prayer. 
 
 . 229 
 
 20. Pope Innocent, 
 
 . 225 
 
 43. On ye men of Sodom, 
 
 . 229 
 
 21. Corn-hoarders, 
 
 . 226 
 
 44. Naboth accused. 
 
 . 230 
 
 22. On Joseph's Mistress, 
 
 . 226 
 
 45. Jacob, 
 
 . 230 
 
 23. Jacob, 
 
 . 226 
 
 46. Ehud, 
 
 . 230
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 25 
 
 
 
 Page 
 
 47. 
 
 Israelites in ye 
 
 "Wilder- 
 
 
 ness, . 
 
 . 230 
 
 48. 
 
 Perseverance, . 
 
 . 230 
 
 49. 
 
 James and John wish- 
 
 
 inge fire on ye 
 
 Samari- 
 
 
 tans, . 
 
 . 230 
 
 50. 
 
 Paul's danger, 
 
 . 231 
 
 51. 
 
 Jael, 
 
 . 231 
 
 52. 
 
 Hezeklah, 
 
 . 231 
 
 53. 
 
 Jeboshaphat, . 
 
 . 231 
 
 Page 
 
 54. Isaac, .... 232 
 
 55. Sampson's weapons, . 232 
 
 56. Jepthas's daughter, . 232 
 
 57. Ely ye priest, . . .232 
 
 58. Sampson and John Bap- 
 
 tist 232 
 
 59. Christ Lookinge on Peter, 233 
 Notes on Epigrams, . . 233 
 
 Appendix — Form of Prayer, 237 
 
 *ji5* Owing to an oversight, the verses from the ' Profane 
 State ' in oiir book are numbered XI. instead of XII., and 
 those that follow ought to have continued XIII., XIV., 
 XV., XVI., XVIL, XVIII. Notice that f opposite verses 
 indicate that they are original, not translated. G.
 
 LDYS on ' David's Hainous Sinne,' 
 etc., from Biographia Britannica [Vol. 
 iii. page 2050, folio.] ' The first per- 
 formance of our author that has appeared to us in 
 print, being a divine poem, very rare to he met 
 with, and having had no description of it, the fol- 
 lowing account may not he unacceptable to the 
 curious. It is entitled . . A critical reader of 
 poetry might find matters of remark in it ; either to 
 commend in some agreeable descriptions, natural 
 sunilies, and instructive reflections ; or to censure 
 in some few parts of the style, which were fashion- 
 able elegancies in those times : but in the whole 
 promising that had he persevered in the study and 
 culture of poetry, his genius might have advanced 
 him to some considerable rank among those con- 
 temporaries who were then favorites of the Muses. 
 His good sense and ingenuity at that age is dis- 
 tinguishable enough ; his versification is more 
 compact or lunited, and usually flows with 
 smoother cadence than that of some riper wits
 
 28 OLDTS ON 
 
 of great name in those days. Among other 
 observahle parts, the very proposition and in- 
 vocation are very comprehensive, solemn, and 
 regular : the persuasions of David hy the Spirit 
 and the Flesh ; with the description of Uriah's 
 drunkenness, are very natural : the ohsequious 
 offer of the Elements to destroy David upon his 
 transgression, and after his restitution to relieve 
 and cherish him, are somewhat picturesque, and 
 touching upon Spencer's imag[e]ry in miniature : 
 his comparison of those variahle elements upon this 
 occasion, to temporising courtiers, who will fawn 
 upon a minister when he is restored to favour, as 
 fast as they flouted him in disgrace, looks to have 
 something in it perfectly alive ; and so does that 
 figure wherein we may imagine that we see 
 Ahsalom cringing with supple neck and knees 
 about the court, to gather up what alms and 
 fragments he could of popular favour and interest, 
 by seizing upon one man's hand to steal away 
 his heart, and sucking out the soul of another 
 with deceitful kisses ; inquiring the name of this, 
 the business of that, and the country of t'other, 
 to serve them all ! prostituting his promises and 
 enslaving himself to errant slaves : in whom also 
 we have a further glimpse of pride itself, grovel- 
 ling to be exalted to grandeur, and exercising all 
 the abject spirit of the most beggarly poor, to
 
 David's hainous sinne. 29 
 
 worm itself into riches : or as one author reads 
 
 ' Proud men are base to compass their desires ; 
 They lowest crouch that highest do aspire.' ' 
 
 But tliis is a picture not near so agreable as that 
 of plain-dealing ISTathan, in his state of modera- 
 tion ; the knowing and commimicative, the kind 
 and compassionate E"athan, who being skilled in 
 lancing a fester'd soul, in searching and tenting 
 the sore, and stanching a bleeding-hearted sinner, 
 woidd heal his wounds with the sovereign balsam 
 of counsel, or bind up the disjointed members of 
 his troubled mind. He was neither oppressed 
 with that plenty wliich made liim envied nor 
 distressed %vith that penury which made him 
 despised : his pursuits were circumscribed to his 
 possessions ; and as he was in no needful want, 
 he thought wanton need most despicable ; or 
 that want in sufficiency was the true mother of 
 contempt : so, as his desires were planted witliin 
 the most temperate situations of command, they 
 
 ' A similar turn of thought occurs iu his Andronicus wlien 
 the usurper ceremoniously kissed the feet of the young 
 monarch. ' The spectators variously commented ou his 
 prodigious humility therein ; some conceiving he meant to 
 build hi(jli btaimt lie began so low.'' G.
 
 30 OLDTS ON 
 
 produced the sweetest fniits of content ; for, as 
 our poet says : 
 
 "Kt*Ai ' High hills are parch'd with heat or hid with snow, 
 And humble dales, soon drown'd, that lie too low. 
 Whilst happy grain on hanging hills doth grow.' * 
 
 Descriptions more flowery niiglit be liither trans- 
 planted; such, as are so gently strewed over 
 David's child in death, and others ; but as his 
 gravity in this poem prevails over the natural 
 gaiety of his genius, we have chosen in this histori- 
 cal work to instance those few particulars which 
 are rather in the edifying and profitable than to 
 hunt after such as may run into a more pleasing 
 and poetical vein. At the close of this per- 
 formance our author having subsided into the 
 characters of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and 
 King Charles I., and lamented the loss of the 
 
 ^ Campbell uses a somewhat similar figure where he 
 speaks of the stations of life best fitted for Tragedy : 
 
 ' Even situations far depressed beneath the familiar 
 mediocrity of life are more picturesque and poetical than 
 its ordinary level. It is, certainly, on the virtues of the 
 middling ranks of life that the strength and comforts of 
 society chiefly depend, in the same manner as we look for 
 the harvest, not in cliffs and precipices, but on the easy 
 slope and uniform plain.' — Specimens. 
 
 This sentiment well comports with F.'s moderate life. 
 But he was no neuter ' of that lukewarm temper which 
 heaven and hell doth hate.' — (Andeonicus). G.
 
 DAVID S HAINOUS SINNE. 
 
 31 
 
 Duke of Brunswick, with, the discords then in 
 Europe thro' the wars in the ^Netherlands, Den- 
 mark, etc., he very properly and piously con- 
 cludes that those grievances may be bewailed 
 by mankind but till they are reversed by Pro- 
 vidence, they are more befitting his -prayers than 
 his pen!
 
 I. DAVID'S HAINOUS SINNE.
 
 NOTE. 
 
 The original title-page of this ' Divine Poem ' ■\vill be 
 found below.* The collation is as follows : Title-page 
 — Dedication 1 page — Poem pp. 73 — [12o] — G. 
 
 * I' Hainovs SI^^^^E. 
 David's -l Heartie Pepentance. 
 ( Heavie Punishment. 
 
 Exodus 35. 23. 
 
 And every man, luith. ivJiom ivas found Goates 
 
 haire, arid red skins of Rarnrnes, and Badgers skins, 
 brought them [to the building of the Tabernacle]. 
 
 Ad Zoilum. 
 
 Thy Laies thou vtt'rest not, j^et carpest mine 
 Carpe mine no longer, or else utter thine. 
 
 By Thomas Fvller, Master of Arts of Sidnye 
 Colledge in Cambridge. 
 
 London, 
 
 Printed by Tho. Cotes, for lohn Bellamie, dwelling at the 
 
 three Golden Lyons in Cornehill, 1G31.' 
 
 * It may be noted that ' Thomas Cotes' was tlie printer 
 and piiblislicT of Shakespere's folio of 1632 (Second edi- 
 tiou). G.
 
 To tlie 1101101(11)16 ]\Ir Edward, Mr William, 
 and Mr Cliristoplier Montagu, sonnes to the 
 Eight honourable Edward Lm-d Montagu of 
 Boualiton.^ 
 
 "'O 
 
 ATEE branches of a stock as faire 
 Each a sonne and each an heire : 
 Two Joseph-like from sire so sage, 
 
 Sprung in autumne of his age ; 
 
 But a Benjamin the other 
 
 Gain'd Avith losing of his mother. 
 
 This fruit of some spare hours I spent 
 
 To 3'our Honours I present. 
 
 A king I for my subject have 
 
 And noble patrons well may crave ; 
 
 Tilings tripartite are fit for three. 
 
 With youths, things youthfid best agree ; 
 
 Take them therefore in good part 
 
 Of him that ever prayeth in heart 
 
 That as in height ye waxe apace, 
 
 Your souls may higher grow in grace. 
 
 ' Full information conceniiiifc tins historic family, 
 and these 'youths' in particular, will be found in 'Court 
 and Society from Elizabeth to Anne. Edited from the 
 Papers of Kimbolton by the Duke of Manchester,' 2 vols. 
 8vo. 18G4. Of: I. 2GC seqq 273 scqq, et alibi. One of the 
 uiai)S in ' I'isgah-hjight ' is dedicatfd to the Montagus. Ci.
 
 36 DKDICATION. 
 
 Wliilst your father (like the greene 
 Eagle ill his scutcheon seene : 
 Wliich with hill his age doth cast) 
 May longer still and longer last : 
 To see your vertues o're increase 
 Your yeares, ere he departs in peace. 
 Thus I my hooke to make an end 
 To you : and you to God commend. 
 
 Your Honours in all service 
 Tho. Fuller.
 
 DAVID'S HAINOUS SINNE. 
 
 1. 
 
 OW Zion's Psabnist grievously 
 offended 
 How Israel's Harper did most 
 foiilely slide, 
 Yet how that Psalmist penitent, amended 
 And how that Harper patient did abide 
 Deserved chastisement (so fitly stil'd 
 Which ^vrath inflicted not but love most mild 
 Not for to hurt but heale a wanton cliild.) 
 
 How one by her owne brother was defiled 
 
 And how that brother by a brother slaine ; 
 
 And how a father by his sonne exiled : 
 
 And by a subject, had a soveraigne : 
 How peace procured after battels fierce 
 As Sol at length doth sullen cloudes dispierce: 
 My Muse intends the subject of her verse. 
 
 3. 
 
 Great God of might whose power most soveraigne 
 Depends of none yet all of Thco depend,
 
 38 David's hainous sinne. 
 
 Time cannot measure, neither place containe 
 Nor wit of man Thy being comprehend : 
 |\^ For Avhil'st I thiM on Three, I am contin'd 
 
 To One, and when I One conceive in minde 
 I am recal'd to Three in One comhin'd 
 
 Thy helpe I crave. Thy furtherance I aske 
 My head, my heart, my hand direct and guide. 
 That whil'st I vndertake this weighty taske 
 I from Thy written lore start not aside : 
 
 Alas ! 'tis nothing Lord with Thee to breake 
 The strong : 'tis nothing to support the weake 
 To make men dumbe, to make an infant 
 speake. 
 
 5. 
 
 Each one begotten by immortall seed 
 Becomes the pitcht feild of two deadly foes ; 
 Spirit and flesh, these never are agreed 
 With trucelesse warre each other doth oppose ; 
 And though the spirit oft the flesh doth quell 
 It may subdue but can it not expell 
 So stoutly doth the Jebusite rebell. 
 
 6. 
 
 Now David when on Bathsheba loose eyes 
 He fixt, his heavenly halfe did him disswade ;
 
 David's hainous sinne. 39 
 
 Turne, turne away thy sight from vanities 
 Exchange thy object, else thou wilt be made 
 Vnmindfull of thy soule, her corps^ to minde 
 Made for to lose the truth, such toyes to finde, 
 By looking long, made at the last, starke 
 blinde. 
 
 7. 
 
 What though her face and body be most faire, 
 Behold, the sun her beauty doth siirpass ; 
 His golden beames surmount ^ her yellow hayre 
 As far as purest cristall djTtie glasse : 
 
 Her skinne as is the skie not halfe so cleare 
 Her curious veines for colour come not neare 
 Those azure streaks that in the heavens 
 appeare. 
 
 8. 
 
 There let thy hungry sight her famine feede, 
 Whereon it cannot surfet with excesse : 
 WTiil'st tongue, heart, harp are tuned vp witli 
 
 speed, 
 The grand-contrivers .glory to expresse : 
 
 Framing with words to rayse his mighty name 
 That with a mighty word did rayse this frame. 
 And by his providence preserves the same. 
 
 > Tlio Idtin ' corxiiis ' body, not necessarily life-less. G. 
 « Surpass e.g. 8Lakesporo 1 Henry VI. v. 3, nntl liOvc's 
 Labour Lost v. 2. G.
 
 40 David's hainous sinne. 
 
 9. 
 
 ^ But let no lustfull tlioughts lodge in thy minde, 
 Before that they be borne, they must be kill'd, 
 Or else the man is cruell that is kinde 
 To spare the foes wherewith his soule is spill'd : 
 And if a wanton motion may request, 
 Leave for to lodge a limbe th' incroacliing 
 
 guest 
 
 ^ill S( 
 
 rest. 
 
 Will soone command roome to receive the 
 
 10. 
 
 Locke towards the mid-day sun, and thou shalt 
 see 
 
 A little tower ^ o're topps of liills to peepe ; 
 
 That is the birth place of thy pedygree : 
 
 Full oft there hast thou fed thy father's sheejDe, 
 And kept his ilockes vpon the flowry plaine : 
 But now the sheepe-hook of a country swaine 
 Is turn'd the scepter of a soveraigne. 
 
 11. 
 
 I God made thee great, oh doe not Him disgrace 
 And by His weighty statutes lightly set : 
 
 ' The tower of Eder nigh Bethlehem 7 miles from Jeru- 
 salem. F.
 
 7". 
 
 David's hainous sinne. 41 
 
 Hee honour'd thee, oli doe not Him debase ; 
 
 Hee thee remerabred, doe not Him forget : ' 
 'V\^iy should fat' Jeshiirun so wanton grow 
 As at his maister's head his heeles to throw'? 
 Maister : that all his feeding did bestow. 
 
 Behold high cedars in the valley set 
 They in thy eyes like little shrubbs doe show, 
 Whil'st little shrubbs vpon mount Oliuet 
 Seeme lofty cedars : men Avhose states are low 
 Their sinnes are not so obvious to sense : 
 In princes, persons of great eminence 
 A smaller fault doth seeme a great offence. 
 
 13. 
 
 But grant, no man thy wickednes espies 
 Surely the Searcher of the reines doth marke 
 Even infant \ust1 can figg-Ieaves bleare his 
 
 eyes? 
 Or can thy shame bee shrowded in the darke 1 
 Darknes shall then be turned into light 
 Yea darknes is no darknes, in His sight 
 But seeme the same to Him both day and 
 nicrht. 
 
 » Dent, xxxii. 15. F.
 
 42 David's hainous sinne. 
 
 14. 
 The Spirit had resolved more to speake 
 But her halfe-spoken words the Flesh confouiids : 
 Nor Avonder is it, she so vs'd to breake 
 God's lawes, not j)assing for to passe their bounds 
 Against man's rules of manners should offend 
 Which was impatient longer to attend 
 Began before her rivall made an end. 
 
 15. 
 
 If euer nature lavishly did throw 
 Her gifts on one which might haue served more 
 Yet make them comely : if shee e're did show 
 The j)rime, and pride, and plenty of her store. 
 Loe, there's the forme wherein she hath 
 
 exprest 
 Her utmost power, and done the very best 
 Her niaister-peece surpassing all the rest. 
 
 16. 
 
 What if those carelesse tresses were attired 1 
 Sure then her face for comelines transcends : 
 What now seemes lovely then would be admired, 
 If art might but begin where nature ends. 
 Alas ! ten thousand pitties 'tis indeed 
 That princes on so common fare should feed 
 Whilst common men on princely meat exceed.
 
 David's hainous sinne. 43 
 
 17. 
 
 Alwayes tlie same doth glut the appetite 
 
 But pleased is our palate with exchange ; 
 
 Variety of dishes doth delight : 
 
 Then give thy loose affections leave to range. 
 Forhidden tilings are hest, and when we eate 
 What we have slily gotten by deceit : 
 Those morsels onely make the daynty meate. 
 
 18. 
 
 But oh reserve thy selfe, my maiden muse 
 For a more modest subject, and forheare 
 To tune such wanton toyes as may abuse 
 And give distaste vnto a virgin's eare : 
 
 Such rotten reasons first from heU did floAv 
 And tliither, let the same in silence goe, 
 Best knowne of them that did them never know. 
 
 19. 
 
 Thus hee that conquer'd mcu and beast most 
 
 cruell 
 (Whose greedy pawes with fellon goods were 
 
 found) 
 Answer'd Goliath's challenge in a duell 
 And lay'd the giant groveling on the ground : 
 He that of Philistines two hundred slue 
 No Avhit appalled at their grisly hue 
 Him one frayle woman's beauty did subdue.
 
 44 David's hainous sinne. 
 
 20. 
 
 Man is a shippe, affections the sayle 
 
 The world the sea, our sinnes the rocks and 
 shelves, 
 
 God is the pylot, if He please to fayle 
 
 And leave the stealing of us to ourselves 
 Against the rugged rocks wee run amaine 
 Or else the Avinding shelves doe us detaine 
 Till God the Paliniu'e returns againe. 
 
 21. 
 
 Yet David bold to sinne, did fear the shame : 
 He shunn'd the sheath that ran upon the knife : 
 With a fine fetch ^ providing for his fame 
 He fetcheth home Yriah to his wife : 
 
 So under his chaste love to cloake his owne 
 Vnlawful lust to fault most carelesse growne, 
 Most careftill that his fault should not be 
 kno'wne. 
 
 22. 
 
 But in their plots God doth befoole the wise 
 By wayes that none can trace, all must admire : 
 Short of his house that nigh/Yriah lyes, 
 And David so came short of his desire : 
 The man a nearer lodging place did use 
 
 ' Expedient. G.
 
 DAVm's HAINOUS SINNE. 45 
 
 (Wliich made the king on further plots to 
 
 muse) 
 And sent home, home to goe, did thus refuse. 
 
 23. 
 
 The pilgrime arke doth sojourne in a tent : 
 In open fields Joab my lord doth lye, 
 And all the souldiers of his regiment 
 Have earth their heds, the heaven their canopy : 
 Where hitter blasts of stormy -winds are rife. 
 Shall I goe feast, drink, dally with my wife 1 
 Not, as I live, and by your lordship's life. 
 
 24. 
 
 Then by his servants David did conspire 
 Uriah's lust so dull, with wine to edge : 
 (Venus doth freeze where Bacchus yeelds no lire) 
 By their constraint, he condescends to pledge 
 One common cup that was begun to all 
 Captaines incamped nigh to Eabba wall ; 
 One specially vnto the genorall. 
 
 25. 
 
 Abishay next is drunke to Joab's brother 
 i\jid this cupp to a second paves the way ; 
 That orderly doth vsher in another : 
 Thus ^\ine once walking knowes not Avhere to 
 stay :
 
 46 David's hainous sinxe. 
 
 Yea such a course metliodicall they take 
 In ordering of cupps the same did make 
 Vriah quite all order to forsake. 
 
 26. 
 
 His false supporters soone began to slipp 
 And if his faltring tongixe doth chance to light 
 On some long word hee speetlily doth clip 
 The traine thereof : yea his deceitfuU sight 
 All ohiects paired doth present to him : 
 As double faces ; both obscure and dim 
 Seeme in a lying looking-giasse to swim. 
 
 27. 
 
 My prayers for friends prosperity, and wealtli 
 Shall ne're be wanting, but if I refuse 
 To hurt myself by drinking others health 
 Oh let ingenious natures mee excuse : 
 If men bad manners this esteeme, then I 
 Desire to be esteem'd unmannerly 
 That to live well will suffer wine to dye. 
 
 28. 
 
 Well did blind Homer see, for to expresse 
 The vice that spawnes all other, when he faines 
 Dame Circe an inchanting sorceresse 
 Whose cupps made many men foregoe their 
 braines
 
 David's hainous sinne. 47 
 
 W^iilst ^Yith the witlesse asse one purely^ doats 
 
 Others inishaped are, like lustfidl goates, 
 
 Or s^\il-ingrossing swine, with greedy throats. 
 
 29. 
 
 Though bad yet better was Vriah left : 
 iN"ot quite a beast though scarse a man ; disturb'd 
 In minde, but not distracted nor bereft 
 Of witt ; though drunk yet soberly hee curb'd 
 His lust; being wise though ignorant, to crosse 
 The kings designes Avho now new thoughts 
 
 doth tosse 
 Finding his former project at a losse. 
 
 30. 
 
 The night with mourning-Aveeds the world becladd 
 When restlesse David for to mend his matter 
 Did make it worse : his naked sinne was bad 
 More monstrous being maskt ; they oft doe scatter 
 The chajTie that of God's lawes vnloose a linke : 
 Hee swam before in sinne nigli to the brinke 
 But now he meanes in midst thereof to sinke. 
 
 31. 
 
 Then for a liglit liee speedily did call 
 (Thou Darkncs with Ids project bst agree'd !) 
 
 ' Prettily. 0.
 
 48 David's hainous sinne. 
 
 For paper, pen and inke, to write withall 
 Though, sure a poinard. might have don the deed 
 Better if hee in blood had dipped it 
 And on a sheet of paper what he writ 
 A winding sheet far better did befit. 
 
 32. 
 
 This certs I know as sepian juice did sinke 
 Into his spongy paper, sabling o're 
 The same with various-formed specks of inke 
 Which was so pure and lilly- white before : 
 So spots of sinne the writers soule did staine 
 Whose soyhe tincture did therein remaine 
 Till brinish tears had washt it out againe. 
 
 33. 
 
 Next day when Day was scarce an infant growne 
 Vriah (that no mischiefe did mistrust 
 As none hee did decerve, but by his owne 
 Did measure all men's dealings to bee just) 
 Bearing this letter, on his journey past 
 With speed, who needed not to make such hast 
 Whose death had he gone slow did come too 
 
 fast. 
 
 34. 
 
 Thus crafty maisters when they minde to beate 
 A carelesse boy to gather birch they send him ;
 
 David's hainous sinne. 49 
 
 The little lad doth make the rod compleat 
 Thinking his maister therefore will commend 
 him : 
 But busily imploy'd, he little thought 
 Hee made the net wherein himselfe was caught 
 And must be beaten with the birch hee brought. 
 
 35. 
 
 His journey came well to the welcome end 
 Safe to the^ towne of waters hee attaines 
 To\^Tie which to force Joab his force did bend 
 (Nought is so hard but vincible by paines) 
 
 Some Avith their heads did plot, some with 
 
 their hands 
 Did practise yea as ready was the band 
 To serve as was the captaine to command. 
 
 36. 
 
 So busie bees, some fly abroad at large 
 Of flowry nectar for to fetch their fill : 
 Some stay at home for to receive their charge 
 And trustily the liquor doe distill : 
 
 Or bottle it in waxe, whilst others strive 
 
 Like sturdy martialls, far away to drive 
 
 The drowsy droanes that harbour in the hive. 
 
 > liabba. 2 Sam. xii. 27. F.
 
 I) 
 
 60 . David's hainous sinne. 
 
 37. 
 
 The strong-arm' d archer from his crooked bow 
 Made a strait shaft with dismall newes to speed 
 Into the towne, wliich ne're return'd to show 
 The sender how his message did succeed : 
 Yea heavie bodies mounted were on high, 
 Dull stones to which dame Nature did deny 
 Peete for to goe, Art made them wings to fly. 
 
 38. 
 
 "Whilst in the towne one with his friend did talk 
 A sudden stroake did take his tongue away ; 
 Some had their leggs arrested as they walke 
 By martiall law commanding them to stay : 
 Here falls a massy beame, a mighty wall 
 Comes tumbling there, and many men doth 
 
 maule 
 Who were both slaine and buried by the fall. 
 
 39. 
 
 Were there not vsed in the days of yore 
 Enough men-murdering engines *? but our age 
 Witty in wickednes must make them more, 
 Ey new found plotts mens malice to inrage : 
 ^ So that fire-spitting canons to the cost 
 Of Christian blood all valour have ingrost, 
 Whose finding makes that many a life is 
 lost.
 
 David's hainous sinne. 51 
 
 40. 
 
 Whilst thus the well-appointed army fought 
 "Winding in worm-like trenches neare the wall 
 To humble the proud towers, Vriah brought 
 The speaking paper to the generall 
 
 Who when such language hee therein did 
 
 finde 
 He thought himselfe or els the King vs blinde, 
 Him self e in body or the King in minde. 
 
 41. 
 
 Then hee the letter did peruse againe 
 The words, the words of David could not bee 
 And yet the hand, for David's hand was plaine, 
 Hee thought it was and thought it was not hee : 
 Each little line he thorowly did view 
 Till at the length more credulous he grew 
 And what he thought was false he found too 
 true. 
 
 42. 
 
 N"ow Joabihy valour be display'd / ^<,i: ^ 
 
 Act not a midwife to a deed vnjust ; 
 
 By feare or favour be not oversway'd 
 
 To prove a pander to a prince's lust : 
 Returne a humble answer back agane 
 Let each word breath submission, to obtaine 
 By prayers a conquest of thy soueraigne.
 
 52 David's hainous sinne. 
 
 43. 
 
 Shew how when God and countries good requires 
 Thou substance, soule and body to ingage 
 Is the ambition of thy best desires : 
 Foes forraine to resist, to quell their rage 
 
 How willingly would'st thou thy selfe despise, 
 Count loosing of thy goods a gainfull prize 
 Lavish thy blood, and thy life sacrifice. 
 
 44. 
 
 But when God's love directly doth withstand 
 And where his lawes the contrary convince^ 
 "Wee must not breake the heavenly king's command 
 Whilst we do seeke to please an earthly prince : 
 The burdens they impose on us to beare 
 Our dutie is to suffer them : but where 
 Kings bid and God forbids we must forbeare. 
 
 45. 
 
 Behold the man whose valour once surmounted 
 In sacking Zion's mount (mount not so high 
 As men therein were haughty !) and accounted 
 Of worthies chiefe doth most unworthily : 
 Hee that to summe the people of the land 
 Withstood, the King now with the King doth 
 
 stand 
 Too buxome^ for to finish his command. 
 
 ' Cf. Wright's invaluable ' Bible Word-Book ' s. v. G. 
 2 Obedient. G.
 
 David's hainous sinne. 53 
 
 46. 
 
 Next morne wlien early Phoebus first arose 
 (Which then arose la^ in Yriah's sight) 
 Him Joab in the forfront did dispose 
 From whom the rest recoyled in the fight : 
 Thus of his friends betray'd by subtill traine 
 Assaulted of his foes with might and maine 
 He lost liis life, not conquered but slaine. 
 
 47. 
 
 His mangled body they expose to scorne* 
 And now each cravin coward dare defie him, 
 Outstaring his pale visage, which beforne ^ 
 Were palsy-strook, with trembling to come nigh 
 him : 
 Thus heartlesse hares with purblind eyes do 
 
 peers 
 In the dead lyon's pawcs, yea dastard deere 
 Over his heartlesse corps dare domineers. 
 
 ' Sometimea spelled ' beforen '^before : Thus Spencer 
 
 The time was once and may again retorn 
 For ought may happen that hatli been boforn. 
 
 [Shepherds K. 103.] G.
 
 DAVID'S HEAETIE EEPENTANCE. 
 
 HE tongue of guiltlesse blood is never 
 ti'd 
 In the earth's mouth, and though the 
 greedy ground 
 Her gaping crannies quickly did provide 
 To drinke the liquor of Vriah's wound 
 Yet it with moanes bescattered the skies 
 And the revoicing eccho, with replies 
 Did descant on the playn-song of the cries. 
 
 Hereat the Lord perceiving how the field 
 Hee sow'd with grace, and compast with an 
 
 heape 
 Of many measures, store of sinnes did yeild 
 Where he expected store of thankes to reape, 
 With flames of anger, furnace-like he burn'd : 
 For patience long despis'd and lewdly spurn'd 
 Is at the length to raging fury turn'd.
 
 David's heartie repentance. 55 
 
 3. 
 
 Then all the creatures mustered their traine 
 From angells vnto worms, the blinde did see 
 Their Lord disgrac't, whose honour to maintaine 
 Things wanting life most lively seeme to he ; 
 Eefusing all to serve man that refus'd 
 To serve his God, all striving to he us'd 
 To punish him, his Maker that ahus'd. 
 
 4. 
 
 Please it your Highnes for to give me leave 
 I'le scorch the wretch to cinders said the Fire : 
 Send me said Aire, him Il'e of breath bereave ; 
 No quoth the earnest Water I desire 
 
 His soj^e sinnes with deluges to secure ; 
 Nay let my Lord quoth Earth imploy my 
 
 power 
 With yawning chapps I will him quick 
 devour. 
 
 Soone with a word the Lord appeas'd tliis strife 
 Injoyning silence till He did vnfold 
 That precious volume cald the Booke of Life 
 Which He the Printer priuiledg'd nf old 
 Containing those He freely did iin1)race : 
 Nor ever would I wish an higher grace 
 Tlian in this Booke to have the lowest place.
 
 56 David's heartie repentance. 
 
 6. 
 
 Witliin this Booke hee sought for David's name 
 Which having found He proffered to Wot 
 (And David surely well deserv'd the same 
 That did his nature so with sinne bespot 
 
 Though none are blotted out but such as never 
 Were written in : nothing God's love can 
 
 sever ; 
 Once written there are written there for ever.) 
 
 7. 
 
 Strait from His throne the Prince of Peace arose 
 And with embraces did His Father binde 
 Imprisoning his armes, He did so close 
 (As loving iyve on an oake did winde 
 And with her curling flexures it betraile) 
 His Father glad to finde His force to fayle 
 Strugel'd as one not willing to prevaile. 
 
 8. 
 
 Thus then began the Spotlesse Lambe to speake 
 (One word of Whom would rend the sturdy 
 
 rocke, 
 Make hammer-scorning adamant to breake, 
 And vnto sense perswade the senseles stocke, 
 Yea God Himselfe that knowes not to repent 
 Is made by His petitions penitent 
 His Justice made with Mercy to relent.)
 
 David's heartie repentance. 57 
 
 9. 
 
 Why doth my Father's fury burne so fierce 1 
 Shall Persian lawes vnalterable stand] 
 And shall my Lord decree and then reverse, 
 Enact and then repeale, and counter-mand 1 
 Tender Thy credit, gracious God, I crave 
 And kill not him Thou didst conclude to save 
 Can these hands blot Avhat these hands did 
 ingrave ] 
 
 10. 
 
 Hath not Thy \visdom from eternity 
 Before the worlds foundation first was lay'd 
 Decree'd, the due time once expir'd, that I 
 Should flesh become and man borne of a maide 1 
 To live in poverty and dye with paine 
 That so Thy Sonne for sinners vilely slaine 
 Might make vile sinners live Thy sonnes 
 againe ? 
 
 11. 
 
 Let Me, oh let Me Thy feirce wrath asswage 
 And for this sinner begg a full discharge : 
 What though hee j ustly doth provoke Thy 
 
 rage] 
 Thy justice 1 will satisfie at large. 
 
 If that the Lord of Life must murder'd bee 
 Let mee intreat this murd'rer may goe free 
 My meritts cast on him, his sinncs on Mo.
 
 58 David's hbartie repentance. 
 
 12. 
 
 Thus speaking from His fragrant cloaths there 
 
 went 
 A pleasant breath whose odour did excell 
 Myrrhe, aloes and cassia for sent 
 And all perfum'd His Father with the smell 
 Whereat His smothed face most sweetly smil'd 
 And hugging in His arms His dearest child 
 Eeturn'd those welcome words, with voyce 
 most milde. 
 
 13. 
 
 Who can so pleasing violence withstand 1 
 Thy cra"vdng is the hauing a request 
 Such mild intreaties doe my heart command 
 The 'mends is made and pacLfi'd I rest : 
 
 As far as earth from heaven doe distant lye 
 As east is parted from the westerne skye 
 So far his sitines are sever'd from Mine eye, 
 
 14. 
 
 Hereat the heavenly quire lift vp their voyce 
 Angells and saints imparadis'd combine 
 Vpon their golden vialls to rejoyce 
 To rayse the prayse of the celestiall Trine, 
 All in their songs a sacred strife exprest 
 W^hich could sing better and surpasse the rest 
 All did surpasse themselves and sang the best.
 
 David's heartie repentance, 59 
 
 15. 
 
 Then said the Fire my fury I recant 
 
 Life-hatching warmth I will for him provide : \y^ 
 
 If David's breathlesse lungs do chance to pant | £«>- 
 Said Aire Il'e fanne them with a windy tide : > * 
 With moisture Il'e, said Water, quench his heat 
 And I his hunger quoth the Earth, with meat 
 Of marrow, fatnesse and the flower of wheat. 
 
 16. 
 
 Thus when a lord long buried in disgrace 
 A king to former favour doth restore 
 With all respect the court doth him embrace 
 Fa-vvning as fast as they did flowte before : 
 
 Where smiles or frownes are but the bare 
 reflexion 
 
 Of the king's face, and like to this direction 
 
 Where hee affects they settle their affection. 
 
 17. 
 
 Plaine-dealing I^athan presently was sent 
 Nathan, than whom was none more skill'd to 
 
 lanch 
 A festred soule, and with a searching tcnt^ 
 To sound the sore : more cunning none to stanch 
 
 ' Roll of lint used in searching or purifying a wound. 
 Cf. my Cilossary to Sibbes «r. G.
 
 60 David's heartie bepentance. 
 
 A "bleeding-hearted sinner nor more kinde 
 With, swadling cloaths of comfort for to binde 
 Vnjoynted members of a troubled minde. 
 
 18. 
 
 Hee did not flow with wealth which envye heeds 
 'Nov yet was he with penury opprest : 
 Want is the cause from which contempt proceeds : 
 His meanes were in the meane, and that's the best. 
 High hills are parcht with heate or hid with 
 
 snow 
 And humble dales sone drown' d, that lie too 
 
 low 
 Whilst happy graine on hanging hills doth 
 grow. 
 
 19. 
 
 For sundry duties he did dayes devide 
 Making exchange of worke his recreation ; 
 For prayer he set the precious morne aside, 
 The mid-day he bequeath' d to meditation : 
 Sweete sacred stories he reserv'd for night 
 To reade of Moses' meeknes, Sampson's might : 
 These were his joy, these onely his delight. 
 
 20. 
 
 Eut now dispensing with his dayly taske 
 To Court he comes and wisely did invent
 
 y 
 
 David's heartie bepentance, 61 
 
 Vnder a parable his mind to maske 
 
 Seeming to meane nought lesse than what he 
 meant, 
 And lapwing-Kke round fluttering a-while 
 With far-fetcht prseface and a witty wile, 
 Hee made the king himselfe for to beguile. 
 
 21. 
 
 Thus he that thought all mortall men to cheats 
 And with false shewes his secret sinnes to 
 
 shade, 
 Was couzned by the innocent deceite 
 Of one plaine prophet, and directly made 
 As he a judge sate on the bench, to stand 
 At barr a prisoner, holding^ up his hand 
 But first condemned by his owne command.^ 
 
 22. 
 
 Goe fond^ afi"ectors of a flanting straine 
 
 Whose sermons strike at sinnes with slenting 
 
 blowes. 
 Give me the man that's powerfull and plaine 
 The monster Vice vnmasked to expose : 
 
 ' ' 'J'liiiu art the man.' F. 
 
 2 ' The man that hath done this thing shal dye." F. 
 
 » Foolibh. G.
 
 62 David's heartie repentance. 
 
 Such preachers doe the soule and marrow part 
 And cause the guilty conscience to smart 
 Such please no itching eares hut peirce the 
 heart. 
 
 23. 
 
 This made King David's marhle minde to melt 
 And to the former temper to returne 
 Thawing his frozen breast, whenas he felt 
 The lively sparks of grace therein to burne 
 "Which vnder ashes cold were choakt before : 
 And now hee weeps and wayles and sighs full 
 
 sore 
 Though sure such sorrow did his joy restore. 
 
 24. 
 
 So have I scene one slumber'd in a swound 
 
 Wlaose sullen soule into his heart did hye 
 
 His pensive friends soone heave him from the 
 
 ground 
 And to his face life-water doe apply : 
 
 At length a long-expected sigh doth strive 
 To bring the wellcome newes, the man's alive 
 Whose soule at last doth in each part arive. 
 
 25. 
 
 Then to his harpe he did himselfe betake 
 
 CHis tongue-tide harpe, long gowne out of request)
 
 David's hbartie repentance. 63 
 
 And next to this his glory^ must awake 
 The member he of all accounted best : 
 
 Then -with those hands which he for griefe did 
 
 wring 
 Hee also lightly striks the warbling string 
 And makes one voice serve both to sob and 
 
 sing. 
 
 26. 
 
 That heavenly voyce to heare, I more desire 
 Than Syrens sweetest songs, than musicke made 
 By Philomele chiefe of the winged quire : 
 Or him whose layes so pleasing, did perswade 
 Stones for to lackey when he went before ;^ 
 Or that brave harper whom unto the shore 
 His hackny dolphin safely did restore. ^ 
 
 ' Tongue. G. ^ Orpheus. G. * Arion. G.
 
 DAVID'S HEAVIE PUNISHMENT. 
 
 OST true it is when penitents "by grace 
 Acquitted are, the pardon of their 
 sinnes 
 
 And punishments release do both imbrace 
 Like to a paire of vndivided twinns 
 
 Parted they cannot be, they cleave so fast 
 Yet when the tempest of God's wrath is past 
 Still his afflicting hony-shower doth last. 
 
 But let the Schooles these thorny points dispute 
 "Whose searching sight can naked truth discry. 
 Skulking in errors arms, and are acute 
 Fine-fingred with distinctions to untye 
 
 Knots more than Gordian, these men never 
 
 mist 
 The slender marke, like^ those in whose left fist 
 There did so much dexterity consist. 
 
 ' Judges XX. 16. F.
 
 David's heavie punishment. 65 
 
 3. 
 
 Meane time my Muse come see how prettily 
 The patient infant doth itself behave ; 
 Infant but newly borne, now neare to dye,^ 
 That from the cradle posted to the grave. 
 
 See with what silent signes and sighes full faine 
 Poore heart it would expresse where lies the 
 
 paine 
 Complaining that it knowes not to complaine. 
 
 Stay cruell Death ! thy hand for pitty hold ! 
 
 Against some aged grand-sire bend thy bow 
 
 That now hath full twice forty winters told, 
 
 Whose head is silver'd o're with ages snow : 
 
 Dash out this babe, out of thy dismall bill 
 
 And in exchange let him thy number till 
 
 So may he Ufe, his friends enjoy him still. 
 
 6. I 
 
 These hands to hurt another never sought 
 Which cannot helpe themselves they are so 
 
 weake ; 
 His heart did never hatch a wanton thought, 
 His tongue did never lyo that eannnt speake : 
 
 » The death of Kiug David's child. F. 
 
 £
 
 66 David's heavie punishment. 
 
 By wrong and violence lie ne're did wrest 
 The goods wherewith his neighhour is possest 
 "When strength scarse servs to suck the nurse's 
 brest. 
 
 6. 
 
 But ah ! this infant's guilt from him proceeds 
 That knew the least when most he sought to 
 
 know ; 
 Who most was nak't when cloathed in his 
 
 weeds 
 Best cloathed then when naked he did goe : 
 In vayne the wit of wisest men doth strive 
 To cut off this intayle, that doth derive^ 
 Death unto all when first they are ahve. 
 
 As when a tender rose begins to blow 
 Yet scarse unswadled is, some wanton maide, 
 Pleas'd with the smell, allured vith the show 
 Will not reprive it till it hath display'd 
 The folded leaves : but to her brest applies 
 Th' abortive budd, where coffined it lye's 
 Losing the blushing dye before it dies. 
 
 I Communicate, transmit. G.
 
 David's heavie punishment. 67 
 
 8. 
 So this babe's life, newly begun, did end 
 Whicli sure receiv'd the substance though not 
 
 sign'd 
 With grace's seale : God freely doth attend 
 His ordinance, but Avill not be confiu'd 
 
 Thereto when 'tis not neglected nor despis'd 
 They that want water are by fire baptiz'd 
 Those sanctify'd that ne're were circumcis'd. 
 
 9. 
 
 Sweet babe one sabbath thou on earth didst see 
 But endless sabbaths doest in heaven survive : 
 Grant, Death of joyfull bowers deprived thee 
 Thou hadst seene yeares of sorrowes if aHve : 
 True thou wast borne a prince but now art 
 
 crown'd 
 A king by death ; sleepe therefore in the ground 
 Sweetly untill the trumpet last shall sound. 
 
 10. 
 
 By this cliild's death king David did sustaine 
 One losse : but where this misery did end 
 More miseries began : as in a chayne 
 One link doth on another linke depend : 
 
 His lust with lust, his slaying with a slaughter 
 Must i)unish't be : proportion'd therafter 
 To mother sinnc is punishment tlic daughter.
 
 G8 David's heavie punishment. 
 
 11.1 
 
 Amnon advis'd by Jonadal), a fit 
 Of sicknesse fames : men wickedly inclin'd 
 Worse counsellors (that with great store of wit 
 Have dearth of grace) most easily may find : 
 And Thamar's hands his meate must onely 
 
 make : 
 Ah ! happy age when ladies learn't to hake 
 And when kings daughters knew to knead a 
 cake. 
 
 12. 
 
 Eehecka was esteem'd of comely hew 
 Yet not so nice her comelinesse to keepe 
 But that shee water for the cammells drew : 
 Eachell was faire, yet fedd her father's sheepe 
 But now for to supply Eehecka' s place 
 Or doe as Eachell did is counted base : 
 Our dainty dames would take it in disgrace. 
 
 13. 
 
 But quickly did his beastly lust declare 
 That he to eate her daynties had no neede : 
 He for the cooke not for the cates^ did care 
 Shee was the dish on whom he meant to feed : 
 
 1 The deflouring of Tliamar. F. * Provisions. G.
 
 David's heavie punishment. 69 
 
 Oh how she pray'd and strove with might and 
 
 maine 
 And then from striving fell to prayers againe : 
 But prayers and striving both alike in vaine. 
 
 14. 
 
 Thus a poore larke imprison'd in the cage 
 Of a kite claws most sweetly sings at large 
 Her owne dirge whilst she seeks to calm his rage 
 And from her jaylor suc's for a discharge : 
 AYho passing^ for no musick that surpast 
 To feede his eares whilst that his gutts doe fast 
 On her that pray'd so long, doth prey at last. 
 
 15. 
 
 Then with dust-powder'd haire she sore bewayles 
 And punisht on hcrselfe her brother's sinne : 
 Parting her maiden livery with nayles 
 That parted was Avith colours, and wherein 
 White streaks their owner's innocence did show 
 The bashful red her modesty : the row 
 Of sable sorrowed for the wearer's woe. 
 
 IG. 
 
 Comfort thyselfe more virtuous than faire 
 More faire than liai)i)y virgin, mourn with measure 
 
 ' ' llaviug regard for.' G.
 
 70 David's heavib punishment. 
 
 Sinnes unconsented to no sonles impaire 
 That must be done perchance with bodies plea- 
 sure 
 Which with the grief of soull maybe constrain' d : 
 The casket broke the Jewell still remain'd 
 Vntoucht which in the casket was contain' d 
 
 17. 
 
 In liis brest"^ Absalom records this wrong : 
 Out of our minds good turnes doe quickly passe 
 But injuries therein remaine too long 
 Those scrawl'd in dust but these ingrav'd in 
 brasse : 
 One sunset for our anger should suffice 
 Which in his wrath set oft, oft did arise 
 With yearly race surrounding twice the skies. 
 
 18. 
 
 I^ow when his fruitfull flocks which long had 
 
 worne 
 Their woolen coates for to make others hot 
 Were now to forfeit them, and to be shorne 
 (Sure from the silly sheepe his divelish plott 
 Their owner never learn'd) hee finds a way 
 To worke revenge, and called on that day 
 His brothers to a feast which prov'd a fray. 
 
 1 The murdering of Amnon. F.
 
 David's heavie punishment. 71 
 
 19. 
 
 ^Yh^dt Amnon drunke in wine in blood he spilt 
 Which did the dainties marre and meate defile 
 Cupps, carpetts, all Avith goaiy streaks were gilt 
 Seeming to blush that cruely so vile 
 
 So fowly savage should the banquet staine : 
 Thus he that being well did sicknesse faine 
 Not being sicke was on a suddenne slaine. 
 
 20. 
 
 The rest refused on the meate to feede 
 Whose bellies were so full with griefe and feare 
 To feele Avhat they had scene : away they speed 
 To ride : but Fame did fly, Fame that doth weare 
 An hundred listning eares, an hundred eyes ; 
 An hundred prating tongues, she dayly plies 
 Tongues that both tell the truth and tattle lyes. 
 
 21. 
 
 She gets by going and doth gather strength 
 As balls of snow by rolling more doe gaine 
 She whisp'rd first l)ut lowdly lilaz'd at length 
 All the kings sonnes, all the kings sonnes are 
 slaine : 
 The pensive Convt in ddlcfull ilmniis did rue 
 This dismall case till they the matter knew : 
 Wfnild all bad iicws like this might prove 
 untrue.
 
 72 David's heavib punishment. 
 
 22. 
 
 Goe silly soules that doe so much admire 
 Court curious intertainment and fine fare 
 May you for mee obtaine what you desire 
 I for your fowles of Phasis^ do not care 
 If that such riots at your feasts be rife 
 And all your meate so sowrely sauc'd with strife 
 That guests to pay the shot must lose their life. 
 
 23. 
 
 Happy those swaines that in some shady bower 
 Making the grasse their cloath, the ground tlieir 
 
 board 
 Doe feede on mellow fruite or milk's fine flower 
 Ysing no wine but what their wells afford: 
 At these did malice never bend her bow 
 Their state is shot free, it is set so low 
 They overlooke that would them overthrow 
 
 24. 
 
 Fast unto Geshure flies the fratricide 
 
 To shelter there himselfe ; the sentence sore 
 
 Of angry justice fearing to abide : 
 
 Oh happy turne had he return'd no more 
 
 • That is 'pheasants: ' the bird having been introduced into 
 Europe from Phasis on the coast of theEuxine: hence phasianx 
 aves : Aristophanes, Acharn 726: Pliny N.H. &c. &c. G.
 
 David's heavie punishment. 73 
 
 Who wonted guise kept in a country strange: 
 Those that abroad to forraine parts do range 
 Their climate not conditions doe exchange. 
 
 25. 
 
 Eeturn'd: at entrance of the Court^ he stands 
 If any sutors there he chanc't to finde 
 Hee steales their hearts by taking of their hands 
 And sucked out their soule with kisses kinde : 
 He of their name, cause, citty doth inquire : 
 Proud men prove base to com passe their desire 
 They lowest crouch that highest doe aspire. 
 
 26. 
 
 Before such kisses come vpon my face 
 Oh let the deadly scorpion me sting 
 Yea rather than such armes should me imbrace 
 Let curling snakes about my body cling : 
 Than such faire words I'de rather the fowle 
 Vntuned schreeching of the doleful! owle 
 Or heare the direfuU mountaine-wolfo to howle. 
 
 27. 
 
 Some men affirme that Absalom doth sound 
 
 In the worlds oldest tongue [' of peace a father '] 
 
 • Absalom's aspiriug to the kingdom. F.
 
 74 David's heavie punishment. 
 
 But certs I know that sucli mistake tlieir ground : 
 [' Rebellious sonne '] sure it importeth rather : 
 And yet why sol sith^ since I call to minde 
 Than the dementes none were more unkind 
 Than innocent more nocent none I finde.^ 
 
 28. 
 
 Then horrowing the plausible disguise 
 Of holinesse he mask't his plot so evill 
 Ynder the good pretence of sacrifice 
 (A saint dissembled is a double devill) 
 
 But sure were those the vowes he went to pay 
 His sire, that harmelesse sheepe he vow'd to slay 
 Who o're mount Olivet weeping fled away 
 
 29. 
 
 This makes mee call my Saviour's griefe to minde 
 Who on^ this mount because the Jewes were 
 
 growne 
 So wicked : those that said they saw so blind — 
 Mourn' d for their sins that mourn' d not for their 
 own : 
 Much did He weepe for others that forbad 
 Others to weepe for Him, whose being sad 
 Hath made his saints for ever since full glad. 
 
 • Cf. Wright, as before s. v. G. 
 
 2 The Popes so (mis)-named. G. ^ Luke xix. 42. F.
 
 David's heavie punishment. 75 
 
 30. 
 Downe comes tlie king to Jordan : on the sand 
 If that the saylors chance to ground the boat 
 A flood of teares they straitwayes did command 
 Whose large accession made the vessell floate : 
 And if a hlaste of winde did chance to faile 
 So greivously the people did bewayle 
 Their very sighs might serve to stufFe the sayle. 
 
 31. 
 
 Thus was the king on his own land exil'd 
 His subjects were his hoast and he their guest 
 Whose place \fas ill supplied by his child 
 (Vnhappy bird defiling his owne nest) 
 
 That tooke his fathers wives, in open sight: 
 Those that do want of grace the sunshine 
 
 bright 
 Extinguish't oft dim nature's candle light. 
 
 32. 
 
 The blusliing sun no sooner did behold 
 So beastly lust but sought liis face to shrowd 
 And shrinking in his beames of burnish't gold 
 Was glad to skulke within a sullen cloud : 
 The shamefac't birds with one wing faine 
 
 to fly 
 Did linld their olliiT laiiin' before their eye 
 For feare they should sucli filtliinesse espie.
 
 76 David's heavie punishment. 
 
 33. 
 
 What needed lie to keepe alive his name 
 Erect a pillar ^ Sure this damned deed 
 Makes us remember and detect the fame 
 That in the world's last doating age succeed : 
 Yea when that brasse that seemeth Time to 
 
 scorne 
 Shall be by all-devouring Time out-worne 
 His name they'le beare in minde that are not 
 borne. 
 
 34. 
 
 But^ he that gave this counsell did not speed 
 Who s peedi ng home on witlesse asse amaine 
 (Asse that for wit his rider did exceed) 
 Cause he his will at Court could not obtaine 
 Did make his w_ill_ at home : the peevish elfe 
 Amongst his houshold, parts his cursed pelfe 
 Carefull of that but carelesse of liimselfe. 
 
 35 
 
 Oh ! suddaine thought of thy mortality ! 
 Thou art not yet so thorough worne with age, 
 Nor in thy face such symptoms can espy 
 Which should so neare approaching death pre- 
 sage : 
 
 ^ Aliithophel hanging himselfe. F.
 
 David's heavie punishment. 77 
 
 Thy state is not distempered with heate 
 Thy working pulse doth moderately beate 
 All outward things seeme whole, seeme all 
 compleate. 
 
 36. 
 
 But ghostly is thy griefe : Thou that by treason 
 Against thy leige so lately wast combin'd 
 Thy passions now rebell against thy reason 
 Reason that is the soveraigne of thy minde 
 And seeke for to disturbe it from the throne : 
 Strive, strive to set these civill broyles at one 
 Order thyselfe and let thy house alone. 
 
 37. 
 
 A chayne of hcmpe he to his necke made fast 
 By tying^ of which knot hee did untye 
 The knot of soule and body, and at last 
 Stopping the p assage of his breath, thereby 
 A passage for his soule, wide opened hee : 
 Thus traytors rather than they should goe free 
 Themselves the hangmen of themselves will bee. 
 
 38. 
 
 His friends to balm his body spare no cost 
 With spices seeking to perfume a sinke 
 For certs I know their labour was but lost : 
 His rotten memory will ever stinke
 
 78 David's heavie punishment. 
 
 His soule thereby was notliing "bettered 
 Because his corps were bravely buried : 
 Tombs please the living profit not the dead. 
 
 39. 
 
 How many worthy martyrs vilely slaine 
 Made meate for fowles or for the fire made fuell 
 Though ground they could not for a grave obtaine 
 Were not lesse happy but their foes more cruell : 
 Vnburied bodies made not them unblest 
 Their better halfe did find an heavenly rest 
 And doth injoy joyes not to be exprest. 
 
 40. 
 
 Leave us the traytor thus vpon whose hearsse 
 My Muse shall not a precious teare mispend 
 Proceeding to bemoane in dolefull verse 
 How^ two great bands with cruell blowes con- 
 tend : 
 "Whole clouds of arrowes made the sky to lowre 
 Dissolv'd at length into a bloody showre 
 Till Steele kill'd many, wood did more devoure. 
 
 41. 
 
 Oh let it not be publish't in the path 
 That leads unto th' incestuous seetl of Lot 
 
 1 The battell betwixt Absalom and David's men. F.
 
 David's heavie punishment. 79 
 
 Tell not these tidings in tlie towne of Gatli 
 
 In Ascalon see ye proclaime it not 
 Least these rejoyce at this calamity 
 Who count your fame their greatest infamy 
 Your wofull jarrs their welcome melody. 
 
 42. 
 
 Had Rachel now reviv'd her sonnes to see 
 
 Their bloody hands would make her heart to 
 bleed 
 
 Each a Benoni unto her would be ; 
 
 Had Leah liv'd to see herselfe agree'd 
 
 To fall out -with herselfe, with teares, most sure 
 She would have made her tender eyes past cure ; 
 Who ever wonn she must the losse endure. 
 
 43. 
 
 The conquest (which her verdict long suspended) 
 Hover'd aloft not knowing where to light ; 
 But at the last the lesser side befreinded 
 AVith best successe : the other put to flight 
 More trusted a swift foote than a strong fist 
 Most voices oft of verity have mist 
 Nor in most men doth victory consist. 
 
 44. 
 
 The gracclesse sonne was plung'd in deepe dis- 
 tress©
 
 80 David's heavie punishment. 
 
 For earth his weight no longer would endure 
 The angry heavens denied all accesse 
 Vnto a wretch so wicked, so impure 
 
 At last the heavens and earth with one con- 
 sent 
 A middle place vnto the monster lent 
 Above the earth, beneath the firmament. 
 
 45. 
 
 His skittish mule ran roving in the fields 
 
 And up high hills, downe dales, o're woods did 
 
 prance 
 Seeming with neighing noyse and wanton heeles 
 In token of great joy to sing and dance. 
 
 That now her maister she should beare no 
 
 more 
 (An heavy bulke whose sinnes did weigh so 
 
 sore) 
 Now rid of him that rid on her before. 
 
 46. 
 
 Cry, Absalom, cry, Absalom, aniaine, 
 And let thy winged prayers pierce the skye ! 
 Oh to the spring of pitty soone complaine 
 That ne're is dammed up nor drained dry ; 
 Thy fault confesse, His favour eke implore 
 Much is thy misery, His mercy more 
 Thy want is great but greater is^ His store.
 
 David's heavie punishment. 81 
 
 47. 
 Condemne thyselfe and He shall thee acqiiitt 
 Doe then hut pray He'll pitty thy estate, 
 Confesse thy deht He will the same remit 
 It never was too soone, it's ne're too late : 
 Alas : long sinners scarse at last relent 
 Hee gives not all offenders to repent 
 That granteth pardon to all penitent. 
 
 48. 
 
 Whilst thus his life suspended was on high 
 Eold-ventrous Joah opened his heart 
 (Heart where much treason lurked privily) 
 And peir'ct his body with a triple dart : 
 Then crimson hlades of grasse whereon he 
 
 bleeds 
 Did straitwayes dye, and in their room succeeds 
 A fruitfull wildernesse of fruitlesse weeds. 
 
 49. 
 
 When David heard the victory was gain'd 
 But his Sonne lost (as Jordan waxing ranke 
 O're flowes the land and scornes to be restrain'd 
 To have his ti'de in a narrow banke) 
 Surges of sorrow in his heart did rise 
 And brake the watry sluces of liis eyes 
 Who lightned thus himselfe Avith heavy crycs : 
 
 P
 
 82 David's heavie punishment. 
 
 50. 
 
 My Sonne, whose body had of grace ^ the fill ! 
 My Sonne, whose soule was so devoid of grace l^ 
 Without my knowledge and against my will 
 My Sonne, in cause so had, so strange a place : 
 My Sonne, my sonne for wliich I must com- 
 
 plaine 
 I feare in soule as in the hody slaine 
 Would I might dye that thou might' st live 
 
 agame. 
 
 51. 
 
 Now Avhen this griefe was swallow'd not digested 
 The subjects flock't king Da^dd to restore 
 'Who in an instant love what they detested 
 Detest in th' instant what they lov'd before : 
 People like weather-cocks wav'd with the wind 
 We constant in inconstancy may finde 
 As time counts minutes so they change their 
 minde. 
 
 52. 
 
 Aanongst the rest that came the king to meete 
 Lame-leg'd Mephibosheth, but loyall-hearted 
 Was one that never washt his cloaths or feete 
 (Except with teares) since David first departed ; 
 
 1 ' Beauty.' G. - That is ' goodness,' holiness. G.
 
 David's heavie punishment. 83 
 
 Feete which by fall from nurse's armes hegaii 
 To halt, -vvith him a child so fast she ran 
 That he could never goe when growne a man. 
 
 53. 
 
 Not much unlike — if it give no distaste 
 That reall truths I doe with trifles match — 
 'Whilst that my posting Muse, with headlong 
 
 haste 
 Doth strive her rurall layes for to dispatch 
 Haltuag invention, for the want of heede 
 And lame unjoynted lines from her proceede : 
 And seldome tilings done speedily doe speed. 
 
 54. 
 
 But here an vnexpected jarre arose 
 Whilst people for most part in [th'] prince con- 
 tended ; 
 Which grew from bitter words to bloody 
 
 blowes : 
 The king quoth Judah of our tribe descended 
 Hee of our flesh is flesh, bone of our bone : 
 Nay answer'd Israel in the king wee owne 
 Ten parts, a single share is yours alone. 
 
 55. 
 
 Whilst sparks of discord thus began to smoake 
 To llnde the bellowes Sheba did conspire
 
 84 David's heavie punishment. 
 
 (Sheta^ that proudly did disdaine tlie yoke) 
 And Mowing of a trumpet, blew the fire : 
 
 Then those that claimed ten disdain'd all 
 
 part 
 In David, taught by his seducing art 
 They discontented to their tents depart. 
 
 56. 
 
 This rebell Joab whilst to quell he strives, 
 A nameles woman (in the booke of life 
 Her name is kept that kept so many lives) 
 Procur'd that he who stirred up the strife 
 The body of the common-wealth to rend 
 From prince the head whereon it did depend 
 With head from body rent his life did end. 
 
 57. 
 
 By his death many citizens surviv'd ; 
 
 The losse of traytors bloud did prove their gaine ; 
 
 Soone cea'st the flood of discord, thence deriv'd 
 
 When they the factions fountaine did restraine. 
 This warre a vile man with^ a word did 
 
 rayse 
 Vnto his shame, Avhich to her endlesse prayse 
 A worthy woman "with a word^ allaies. 
 
 ' ' The Sonne of Belial.' F. 
 
 2 ' What faith have we in David.' P. 
 
 ' ' His head shall be thrown,' etc. F.
 
 David's heavie punishment. 85 
 
 58. 
 So in our Land a noMe queene arose, 
 As we liave heard, our fathers oft relate ; 
 A maide yet manly to confound her foes, 
 A maide and yet a mother to the State : 
 
 Which she weake, Hke to crumbling bricke did 
 
 finde, 
 Which strong as lasting marble she resign' d 
 Gold and God's worship both by her refin'd. 
 
 59. 
 
 She having flourishM in great renowiie 
 In spite of power and policy of Spaine, 
 Did change her eartlily for an heavenly crowne 
 And cea'st to rule o're men, Avith God to 
 raigne ; 
 Fourty and fourc N"ovcmbers fully past 
 (Aie me that winged Time should post so 
 
 fast) 
 To Christ, her love, she wedded was at last.^ 
 
 GO. 
 
 This sunne thus set there followed no night 
 In our horizon ; strait another sunne 
 Most hapi)ily continued the light 
 Which by the first was hopefully begunnc : 
 
 1 Elizabotli. G.
 
 86 David's heavib punishment. 
 
 And what might most amaze all mortall eyes 
 I^ever before out of the Northern skies 
 Did men behold bright Phoebus to arise. 
 
 61. 
 
 Arts did increase his fame, he did increase 
 The fame of arts ; and counting twice eleven 
 Twelve months upon his throne, this prince ol 
 
 peace 
 By falling to the earth did rise to heaven : 
 
 Then downe our cheeks teares hot and cold did 
 
 flow 
 Those for the sire deceast exprest our woe, 
 Those joy for his succeeding sonne did 
 show.^ 
 
 62. 
 
 Live gracious leige whose vertues doe surmount 
 All flattery, and envy them admires ; 
 Center of grace and greatnesse, live to count 
 Till that thy kingdom with the world expires : 
 Wee subjects "svish thee worst that love thee 
 
 best 
 Who here long to injoy thee, doe request 
 That late thou mayst injoy an heavenly 
 rest. 2 
 
 1 James I. G. 2 Charles I. G.
 
 David's heavie punishment. 87 
 
 G3. 
 
 And thou young prince, hope of tlie future age 
 Succeed to fathers vertues, name and croAvne ; 
 A new starre did thy Saviour's birth praesage 
 His death the sim eclipsed did renowne : 
 But hoth of these conjoyned to adorne 
 Thy Wellcome hirth, the sun with age so 
 
 worne 
 Did seeme halfe dead and a young starr was 
 borne^ 
 
 64. 
 
 But what dost thou my vent'rous Muse prfesume 
 So far above thy dwarf-like strength to strained 
 Such soaring soone will melt thy waxen plume ; 
 Let those heroike sparks whose learned braine 
 Doth merit chapletts of victorious bayes • 
 Make kings the subject of their lofty layes 
 Thy worthlesse praysing doth their worth dis- 
 praise. 
 
 65. 
 
 Strike saile, and to thy matter draw more neare 
 And draw thy matter nearer to an end : 
 Though nought prayse-worthy in thy verse 
 
 appeare 
 Yet strive that shortnesse may the same commend : 
 
 » Charles II. G.
 
 88 David's heavie punishment. 
 
 Eeturne to see where Joab homeward goes 
 To see his friends that had subdu'd his foes ; 
 His souldiers and himself there to repose. 
 
 66. 
 
 Thus when two adverse winds with stronsj com- 
 
 mand 
 Summon the sea, the waves that both do feele, 
 Dare follow neither but in doubt do stand, 
 Whilst that the shipps, with water drunke, doe 
 
 reele 
 With men, for grief of drowning drown' d i n grief e 
 
 Vntill at length a calme brings them reliefe 
 nd stilli 
 briefe. 
 
 And stills the storme that had so long been 
 
 67. 
 
 Oh ! that I might but live tho see the day 
 (Day that I more desire then hope to see) 
 When all these bloody discords done away 
 Our princes in like manner might agree. 
 
 When all the world might smile in perfect peace 
 And these long-lasting broyls at length might 
 
 cease 
 Broyles which alas doe dayly more increase. 
 
 68. 
 The Netherlands with endlesse warrs are tost
 
 David's heavie punishment. 89 
 
 Like in successe to their unconstant tide 
 Losuig their gettings, gaining what they lost. 
 Denmarke both sword and Baltick seas divide : 
 More blood than juice of grape nigh Ehine is 
 
 shed 
 And Brunswicke land "will not be comforted 
 But cryes my duke alas ! my duke is dead. 
 
 69. 
 
 The warrs in France now layd aside not ended 
 Are onely skimmed over with a scarre 
 Yea haughty Alps that to the clouds ascended 
 Are over-clitnbed with a bloody warre : 
 And Maroes birth-place Mantua is more 
 Made famous nor for Mars and battel sore 
 Than for his muse it famed was before. • 
 
 70. 
 
 Sweden to stopp th' infernall flood provides 
 (May his good cause becro'vvn'dwith like successe ; 
 And they that now please none, to please both 
 
 sides 
 May tliey tliemselves his trusty friends expresse) 
 But Turks the cobweb of their truce each howre 
 Doe breake ; they wayte a time but want no 
 
 powre 
 Nor will, warr-wearied Christians to devore.
 
 yo 
 
 DAVID S HEAVIE PUNISHMENT. 
 
 71. 
 
 But let the cunning Chymicke whose exact 
 Skill caused light from darknesse to proceed ; 
 Out of disorder order can extract 
 Make in Ms due time all these jars agree' d, 
 Whose greivances may be hemoan'd by men, 
 By God alone redressed : and till then 
 They more befitt my prayers than my pen. 
 
 TQ MONQ AOSA GEO. 
 
 FINIS.
 
 11. PAXEGYRICK ON HIS MAJESTIES 
 HAPPY PtETURN.^ 
 
 1. 
 
 T Wor'ster great God's goodness to 
 our Nation 
 It was a conquest, your bare pre- 
 servation. 
 When 'midst your fierces foes on every side 
 For your escape God did a lane provide ; 
 They saw you gone, tut whither coukl not tell 
 Star-staring, though they ask'd both heaven and 
 hell.2 
 
 1 A Panegyrick to His Majesty on his Happy Keturn. 
 By The. Fuller B.D. London, Printed for John Playford 
 at his shop in the Temple. IGGO [4°.] An earlier and very 
 much shorter version of the ' Panegyrick ' appeared in the 
 ' Worthies ' under Worcestershire with these truly Fullerian 
 words ' And here my Muse craves her own Nunc dimittis, 
 never to make versos more : and because she cannot write 
 on a better, will not write on anotlier occasion, but heartily 
 pray in prose for the happiness of her luid and master. 
 And now having taken our Vale of verses ' . . . Ct. 
 
 2 'Lane' (line 4th) is printed in largo capitals LANE — 
 Why? 'His sacred Majesty escaped, by royal oaks and
 
 92 PANEGYRICK ON 
 
 2. 
 
 Of forreign States you since "have studied store 
 And read whole libraries of princes o're. 
 To you all forts, towns, towers and sMps are 
 
 known 
 (But none like those which now become your 
 
 own) 
 And though your eyes were with all objects fill'd 
 Onely the good into your heart distill'd. 
 
 3. 
 
 Garbling men's manners, you did well divide. 
 To take the Spaniard's wisdom not their pride : 
 With French activity you stor'd your mind 
 Leaving to them their ficklenesse behind ; 
 And soon did learn, yo\ir temperance was such 
 A sober industry even from the Duch.^ 
 
 But tell us, gracious sovereign, from whence 
 Took you the pattern of your patience 1 
 
 other miraculous appliances well known to mankind : but 
 Fourteen-thousand other men, sacred too after a sort though 
 not majesties, did not escape. One could weep at such a death 
 for brave men in such a Cause.' Carlyle's Cromwell : Battle 
 of Worcester: [VoL iii. p. 200 : edn 4 vols. 8vo 1850.] G. 
 
 > "Well that winsome Puller lived not to see his ideal 
 befouled and befouling. G.
 
 n 
 
 HIS majesty's happy return. 93 
 
 Learn't in affliction's School under the rod 
 Which was hoth ns'd and sanctifi'd by God ; 
 From Him alone that lesson did proceed, 
 Best tutor with hest pupil best agreed, 
 
 6. 
 
 We your dull subjects must confess our crime 
 Who learnt so little in so long a time, 
 And the same School : thus dunces' poring looks 
 Mend not themselves but only marre their books. 
 How vast the difference 'twixt wise and fool ! 
 The Master makes the schollar, not the school. 
 
 6. 
 
 With rich conditions Eome did you invite 
 Hoping to purchase you their proselyte 
 (An empty soul's soon tempted with full coffers) 
 Whilst you with sacred scorn refus'd their proffers : 
 And for the Faith did earnestly contend^ 
 Abroad which now you do at home defend. 
 
 7. 
 Amidst all storms, calm to yourself the while, 
 Saddest afflictions you did teach to smile. 
 
 » .Jude .3 ' Contend for the faith which was onco delivered 
 unto the saints.' F
 
 94 PANEGTRICK ON 
 
 Some faces best become a mourning dress 
 And such, your patience, wliich did grace distress, 
 Whose soul, despising want of worldly pelf 
 At lowest ebbe went not beneath, itself. 
 
 8. 
 
 God's justice now no longer could dispence 
 
 "With the abusing of his Providence ; 
 
 To hear successe his approbation styl'd 
 
 And see the bastard brought against the child. 
 
 Scripture by such who in their own excuse 
 
 Their actings 'gainst God's writings did produce. 
 
 9. 
 
 The Independent doth the Paj^ist shun 
 Contrary ways their violence doth run : 
 And yet in such a round at last they met 
 That both their saints for mediators set ;^ 
 We were not ripe for mercy, God he knows 
 But ready for his justice were our foes. 
 
 10. 
 
 The pillar wliich God's people did attend 
 To them in night a constant light did lend, 
 
 1 Witness a sermon. F. [Query — Dr Thomas Goodwin 
 and Peter S terry ? The famous ' prayer ' of the former so 
 perverted in one expression therein, doubtless simply used 
 Jeremiah's sorrowful plaint : Jeremiah xx. 7. G.
 
 HIS majesty's happy return. 95 
 
 Though dark unto th' Egyptians behind ; 
 Such was brave Monck ■} in Ms reserved mind 
 A riddle to his foes he did appear 
 But to himself and you, sense plain and clear. 
 
 11. 
 
 By means unlikely God atehieves his end 
 And crooked wayes straight to his honour tend ; 
 The great and ancient gates of London town 
 (No gates no city) now are voted down 
 And down were cast, happy day ! for all 
 Do date our hopeful rising from their fall. 
 
 12. 
 
 The matter of your Eestitution's good 
 The manner better, without drop of blood : 
 By a dry conquest, without forreign hand 
 Self-hurt and now self-heali^d is our Land. 
 This sQent turn did make no noise, strange ! 
 Few saw the changing — all behold the change. 
 
 13. 
 
 So Solomon most -svisely did contrive 
 His temple should be still-born tliough alive. 
 That stately structure started from the ground 
 Unto the roof, not guilty of the sound 
 
 1 iSoo Carlyle, as abovu, sub nomlw. Li.
 
 96 PANEGYRICK ON 
 
 Of iron tool, all noise therein debarr'd. : 
 This virgin-Temple thus was seen not heard. 
 
 14. 
 
 When two Protectors were of late proclaini'd 
 Courting men's tongues, both miss't at what they 
 
 aim'd : 
 True English hearts did with just anger burn 
 And would no echo of ' God save ' return : 
 Though smiling silence doth consent imply 
 A tongue-tied sorrow flatly doth deny.-"^ 
 
 15. 
 
 But at your majestie's first proclamation 
 How loud a stentor did invoice our nation ! 
 A mouth without a tongue was sooner found 
 In all that crowd than tongue without a sound : 
 Nor was't a wonder men did silence break 
 When conduits did both French and Spanish 
 speak.^ 
 
 1 The ' two Protectors ' alluded to were Oliver Crom- 
 well and Eichard Cromwell. It need scarcely be said that 
 it is a Eoyalist delusion that in either case but specially in ' 
 that of Oliver the national ' welcome ' was less real or less 
 warm than that to Charles II. G. 
 
 2 The ^Wines' of Spain and France 'ran' from the 
 ' fountains ' of the city. G.
 
 HIS majesty's happy return. 97 
 
 16. 
 The bells aloud did ring for joy : they felt 
 Hereafter sacriledge shall not them melt. 
 The bonfires round about the streets did blaze 
 And these new lights fanatiques did amaze : 
 Thebrandisht swords thisboon begg'd before death 
 Once to be shew'd then buried in the sheath. 
 
 17. 
 
 The Spaniard looking with a serious eye 
 
 Was forc'd to trespass on his gravity 
 
 Close to conceal his wond'ring he desir'd 
 
 But all in vain who openly admir'd. 
 
 The French who thought the English mad in mind 
 
 Ifow fear too soon they may them sober find. 
 
 18. 
 
 The Germans seeing this your sudden power 
 Freely confess another emperour. 
 The joyfid Dane to heav'ns cast up his eyes 
 Presuming suffering kings will sympathize. 
 The Hollanders — first in a sad suspence — 
 Hop'd that good mercy was their innocence. 
 
 19. 
 
 As aged Jacob Avith good news intranc'd 
 That Joseph was both living and advanc'd : 
 
 a
 
 98 PANEGYRICK ON 
 
 Tlie great surprize so deeply did prevail 
 On the good patriarch that his heart did fail : 
 Too httle for to lodge so large a joy — 
 For sudden happiness may much annoy. 
 
 20. 
 
 But when he saw — with serious intent 
 
 To fetch him home — the waggons his son sent 
 
 That cordial soon Ids fainting heart did cure 
 
 'Twas j)ast suspicion, all things then were sure : 
 
 The father his old spirits did renew 
 
 And found his fears were false, his joyes were true. 
 
 21. 
 
 Such our condition : At the first express 
 
 We coidd not credit our own happiness ; 
 
 Told of the coming of your majesty 
 
 Our fainting hearts did give their tongues the lye 
 
 A boon too big for us — so ill we live — 
 
 For to receive though not for God to give. 
 
 22. 
 
 But when we saw the royal Fleet at Dover 
 Voted to wait and waft your highness over 
 And valient Montague — all vertue's friend^ — 
 Appointed on your person to attend : 
 
 I See note to dedication of 'David's Haioous Sinne,' 
 p. 35. G.
 
 HIS majesty's happy return. 99 
 
 Joy from that moment did expell our grief 
 Converted into slow but sure belief. 
 
 23. 
 
 Th' impatient land did for your presence long : 
 England in swarms did into Holland throng 
 To bring your highness home, by th' Parliament 
 Lords, Commons, Citizens, Di-vdnes were sent : 
 Such honour subjects never had before 
 And hope that never any shall have more. 
 
 24. 
 
 With all degrees your carriage accords 
 
 Most lord-like your reception of the lords : 
 
 Your answer -with the Commons so coniply'd 
 
 They were to admiration satisfi'd ; 
 
 Civil the citizens you entertain' d — 
 
 As if, in London born, y'ad there remain' d. 
 
 2.5. 
 
 But oh ! your short, but thick expressive lines 
 Wliich did both please and profit the Divines : 
 Those pastors when returned to their charge 
 For their next sermon had your words at large 
 With some notes for your practice, v.'ho can 
 
 teach 
 Our miters by your living what to preach.
 
 100 
 
 PANEGYRICK ON 
 
 26. 
 The States of Holland (or Low Countries now) 
 Unto your sacred majesty did bow : 
 What air, what earth, what water could afford 
 Best in the kind, was crowded on their hoard : 
 And yet when all was done, the royal guest 
 And not the chear ; he, he did make the feast. 
 
 ^tJ^ 
 
 l:'^- 
 
 
 
 27. 
 
 Th' officious wind to serve you did not fail 
 But scour'd from west to east to fill your sail 
 And fearing that his breath might be too rough 
 Prov'd over-civil and was scarce enough ; 
 Almost you were becalm'd amidst the main 
 Prognostick of your perfect, peaceful reign. 
 
 28. 
 
 Your narrow seas forreigners do wrong 
 To claim them — surely doth the ditch belong 
 Kot to the common continent but isle 
 Inclosed — did on you their owner smile : 
 Not the least loss, onely the ISTaseby mar'ls 
 To see herself now drowned in the Charles. 
 
 29. 
 
 You land at Dover, shoals of people come 
 And Kent alone now seems all Christendom.
 
 HIS majesty's happy return. 101 
 
 The Cornish rebels, eight score siunmers since 
 At Black-heath fought against their lawful prince 
 Henry the Seventh, which place with treason 
 
 stain' d, 
 Its credit now, by loyalty regain'd. 
 
 30. 
 
 Great London the last station you did make 
 You took not it but London you did take : 
 "Where some who sav'd themselves amongst the 
 
 croud 
 Did lose their hearing, shoutings were so loud, 
 l^ow at Whitehall the guard which you attends 
 Keeps out yo\ir foes : God keep you from your 
 
 friends. 
 
 31. 
 
 Thus far fair weather on your work attended 
 Let showres begin now where the sunshine ended. 
 Next day we smil'd at th' weeping of the skies 
 With all concerns how Providence complies ! 
 The city serv'd, next followeth the village 
 And trading quickned, God provides for tillage. 
 
 32. 
 
 One face, one forme in all the Land appears 
 All, former foot now hors'd to cavaliers. 
 As for your enemies their cursed creA\'
 
 102 PANEGYRICK ON 
 
 Are now more hard to find out than suhdiie. 
 'Tis very death to them they cannot dye 
 Who do knoAV whence not wliither for to flic. 
 
 33. 
 
 France flouts, Spain scorns and Italy denies 
 
 them 
 Any access : the Dane with Dutch defies them ; 
 Unto J^ew England they were known of old 
 And now no footing for them on that mold. 
 Eich Amsterdam — the staple of all sects 
 These bankrupt rebels with contempt rejects. 
 
 34. 
 
 Thus cruell Cain who pious blood first spilt 
 
 Was pursevanted^ after by his guilt, 
 
 With murderer imbranded on his face 
 
 Kept his condition though he chang'd his place : 
 
 Wand'ring from land to land, from shore to 
 
 shelf 
 His guilty soul nere wandered from itself. 
 
 35. 
 
 Let them themselves in unknown lands disperse 
 Or if they please with canibals converse, 
 Like unto like, that all the world may see 
 
 ' Followed as by ' pursuivant.' G.
 
 HIS majesty's happy return. 103 
 
 King-killers and men-eaters do agree : 
 
 In no land they'l increase, 'tis nature's love 
 
 Unto mankind : all monsters barren prove. 
 
 36. 
 
 Long live our gracious Charles second to none 
 In honour, who ere sate upon the throne : 
 Be you above your ancestors renown'd, 
 Whose goodness wisely doth your greatness 
 
 bound ; 
 And knoAA'ing that you may be Avhat you 
 
 Avould 
 Are pleased to be onely what you should. 
 
 37. 
 
 Euvop's great arbitrator, in your choice . j-y^ v 
 
 Is plac'd of Christendom the casting voice ; ' ^ , .,9*'' 
 Hold you the scales in your judicious hand 
 And when the equal beam sliaU doubtful 
 
 stand. 
 As you are pleased to dispose one grain, 
 So falls or riseth either France or Spain. 
 
 38. 
 
 As Sheba's queen defective fame accus'd 
 Whose nigardly relations had abus'd 
 Th' abundant Avorth of Solomon, and told 
 Not half of what she after did behold : 

 
 104 PANEGYEICK ON 
 
 The same your case, fame hatli not done you 
 
 riglit 
 Our ears are far out-acted by our sight. 
 
 39. 
 
 Your self's the ship return'd from forreign 
 
 trading 
 England's your port, experience the lading, 
 God is the pilot ; and now richly fraught 
 Unto the port the ship is safely hrought : 
 What's dear to you is to your subjects cheap 
 You sav'd with pain, what we with pleasure reap. 
 
 40. 
 
 The most renowned Edward the Confessor 
 Was both your parallel and predecessor, 
 Exil'd he many years did live in Erance 
 — From low foimdations highest roofs advance — 
 The yoak in youth with patience he bore 
 But in his age the cro-vvn with honour wore. 
 
 41. 
 
 The common law, to him, the English owe 
 On whom a better gift you will bestow : 
 That which he made by you shall be made good 
 That prince and people's rights both understood 
 Both may be bankt in their respective station ; 
 Which dare no fear of future inundation.
 
 HIS majesty's happy return. 105 
 
 42. 
 
 Oppression, the king's evU, long indur'd 
 By others caus'd, by you alone thus ciir'd : 
 God onely have the glory, you the praise 
 And we the profit by our peaceful dayes, 
 All forreigners the pattern for their State 
 To anoy rather than to imitate. 
 
 FINIS.
 
 III. ' Verses ' prefixed to the Scintilla Altaris of 
 Edward Sparke D.D.i 
 
 (n) ON THE WORTHY WORK OF MY 
 RESPECTED FRIEND ED. SPARKE D.D. 
 
 IIEN pious Asa with, his fathers slept 
 How solemnly his funerals they 
 kept ! 
 A curious "bed's contriv'd hy art's devices 
 
 ' The following is the full title-page of the book in the 
 edition of 1678 : — 
 
 1^" GYSIASTH'PION vel Scintilla Altaris. Primitive 
 Devotion in the Feasts and Fasts of the Church of Eng- 
 land. By Edward Sparke D.D., Chaplain in Ordinary to His 
 Majesty. The sixth edition, Eevised by the Author. With 
 Additions upon the Three Grand Solemnities last annexed to 
 the Liturgy: consisting of prose, poems, prayers and sculp- 
 tures. London, Printed by T. Hodgkin for T. Basset and H. 
 Brome at the George near St Dunstans in Feet-street and 
 at the Gun at the West-end of St Pauls, 1678,' cr. 8vo. 
 
 Fuller's step-mother was daughter to Rob. Sparke: 'Coll. 
 ItegaL 1557. Eob. Sparke electus scholaris, postea Theol, 
 Bac. Eector de Burbago in comitatu Ley-cestr novercse 
 meee (quae tamen amore verissima mater fuit) charissimus 
 pater' Fuller's MS. in Jesus College, cited by Baker, M.S. 
 vi. 275. G.
 
 spakke's scintilla altaris. 107 
 
 Fill'd all mth Indian gmns, Arabian spices. 
 This bed the case, -wherein his corps, the jewel 
 Is^ for the burning^ made the precious fuel 
 As if that Asa's body did aspire 
 To meet Ms soul and mount up in that fire. 
 Dead saints dead days now put into their urn : 
 See here a sweeter, brighter flame doth burn 
 Kindled from Holy sparks when^ doth arise 
 No smoak to hurt, save only envious eyes : 
 Whilst my admiring Muse at distance stands 
 Desiring at his flame to warm her hands ; 
 Wherewith emboldened nearer she presumes 
 To steal a s[c]cnt of these thy sweet perfumes. 
 But I recant my words and pardon crave 
 That I compar'd thy book unto the grave 
 Or urn of saints : for by thy pen's perfection 
 Saints are not buried but have resurrection. 
 The cozening witch in counterfeit disguise 
 !Made but a seeming Samuel to rise ; 
 (Whom cunningly she did with mantle hide 
 To cloak her cheat, which else might be espide :) 
 But who Avill iKtt thy worthy Work applaud ] 
 No falshood here, no forgery or fraud ; 
 Thou really dost from the dust retrive 
 And make not one but all saints to revive. 
 
 1 Misprinted 'tti-c' G. 2 2 Clironiclcs xvi. 11. F 
 ' Query 'whence'? G.
 
 108 VERSES PREFIXED TO 
 
 Yea "by the pains which, thou on them expends 
 
 Easter doth rise, Ascension-day ascends ; 
 
 Thy poetry is pleasant, pictures fine 
 
 Thy prose profound, but oh the prayers divine ! 
 
 Thus hast thou pleased us in every part 
 
 Our fancies, judgments, with our eyes and heart. 
 
 (/3) ON MY WORTHY FRIEND 
 DR SPARKE, HIS LEARNED BOOK. 
 
 BROOD of legendary saints of old 
 Were^ hatched in heads both bald 
 and bold : 
 
 Some saints in nature ne'r had face or features 
 But only were their wild inventors creatui'cs ; 
 As mountain-like St Christopher thy glory 
 No mole-hill yet of truth in all the story. 
 Sure hard his face who told such lies so oft ! 
 But who believes them sure his head is soft : 
 Fiction of saints ne'er coyn'd so great a store 
 But faction in our age hath minted more : 
 Commend themselves, and there is half their 
 
 trade ; 
 Condemn all others, then the saint is made. 
 
 But here my friend presents a noble breed 
 Of ancient saints, such as were saints indeed : 
 
 1 Misprinted ' where.' G.
 
 spabke's scintilla altaris. 109 
 
 And yet these saints in these our iron times 
 When piety and learning hoth were crimes 
 Have had their Feasts and Fasts put down out- 
 right 
 And all their days extinct in envious night : 
 Only the faitliful fairs^ did them retain : 
 Exil'd the Church i' th' town they do remain. 
 But how much doth this thy labour merit 
 In these dead days thou put'st a quick'ning 
 
 spirit : 
 For us thou writ'st, for us thou tak'st tliis toy'l, 
 To make us see this spabke^ doth spend his 
 
 oyl, 
 
 1 := ' fair ' ladies. G. 
 
 2 With reference to Fuller's characteristic and inevitable 
 playing on tho nanio of ' Sparko ' it may be allowed me to 
 record here an amusing coincidence that chanced in Scotland 
 and the authenticity of which is beyond doubt — A clergy- 
 man (in Scotland) was called upon to administer the 
 ordinance of baptism to tho child of a brothor-clergjTnan 
 whose name was ' Sparke,' who had already a very large 
 family, with very short intervals between each. — After the 
 rite it is usual in Scotland— among Presbyterians — to sing 
 one of the versified Psalms or Paraphrases — and on the 
 occasion in qut^stion tho officiating clergj-man selected with 
 unconscious patnoss and to the excitement of the risibilities 
 of his audience and tho consternation of his clerical friend, 
 the 5th Paraphrase, reading out ore rotunda^ the second 
 verse — 
 
 ' As 8PAKKS in dosv succession rise, etc. G.
 
 110 AD SERISSIMUM BEGEM. 
 
 Live learned pen, converse with men below 
 Some forty A^dnters until ages' snow 
 Candy thy reverend locks, and make them look 
 White as thy soul and paper of thy hook. 
 But when that bankrupt nature shall deny 
 To pay more moisture and when thou must dye. 
 Mount gallant soul with saints in bliss survive 
 Whose rites thy pen did in sad times retrive. 
 
 IV. From ' Genethliacum illustrissimorum Prin- 
 cipum Caroli et ]\Iarite a Musis Cantabrigiensi- 
 bus celebratum. 1631. [4°]. 
 
 AD SEEEI^ISSIMUM EEGEM. 
 
 Eilia nata tibi sub quarta luce Novembris, 
 Quintaque famosa est proditione dies. 
 
 Septima post decimam sceptris sacratur Eliste, 
 Nona ortu Eex est inclyte clara tuo. 
 
 A Jano incipiet noster non ampliiis annus ; 
 
 Tu manda, & primus jure November erit. 
 
 Tho. Fuller, Coll. Sid. Suff.i 
 
 1 In this volume there are 'Verses' by Milton's ' Edm. 
 King: Coll. Christi, Socius' (p. 39)— Barnabas Oley (pp. 
 57-62) ~ Jo. Randall (page 87). G.
 
 AD REGEM. Ill 
 
 V. From 'Rex Redux' (Cantab 1633), p. 55. 
 
 SCOTIA & ANGLIC MUTUA 
 DISCEPTATIO. 
 
 Nunquid ut exires venisti, Carole 't nunquid 
 
 — Scotia. 
 Major natali non mora danda solo 1 
 Nunqiiid in sternum discedis Carole 1 nunquid 
 
 — Anr/l. 
 
 Immemor Arctoo Phoebus in orbe manet 1 
 Parens adcji,"' mensi<»que dies vix ima videtur, 
 
 —Scot. 
 Visa dies lajtoe vix brevis bora milii. 
 Longus abes, brevis bora dies, lux singula mensis, 
 
 — Angl. 
 Hie visus miserse secula multa mibi. 
 
 REGINA AD REGEM. 
 
 JEqna fero viduis thalamis qu6d sola jacebam : 
 
 Causa fuit vestrse digna corona morai. 
 Quot menses absis, nova tot diademata sume : 
 Villus baud Regem terra emet ulla meum. 
 
 Thorn. Fuller, Coll. Sid.
 
 112 CHURCH HISTORY. 
 
 VI. From ' Ayres and Dialogues for One, Two 
 and Tliree Voyces. By Henry Lawes, Servant to 
 his late Matie in his publick and private Musick. 
 London, Printed by T. H. for John Playford and 
 are to be sold at his shop in the inner Temple 
 near the Church door 1653' folio — [page 36]. 
 
 AN ECCHO. 
 
 Imbre lachrymarum largo genas spargo, quavis 
 
 au-rora, 
 Deus cito tu venito, nunc nunc sine mora, ora : 
 Hoc non valet, semper oro, semper ploro cor de- 
 ficit dolendo ; 
 Te te amo ad te clamo, dato finem flendo endo. 
 Peccatorum primus ego, hoc non nego, fateor vero : 
 Sed tu Deus esto meus, in te solum spero, ero : 
 Vox pergrata satis, satis, jam cedam fatis ; mor- 
 
 tuus : vivam tamen : 
 Hie cum morior, cado orior, magnum magnum hoc 
 solamen. Amen. 
 
 VII. In the Church-History^ and ' "Worthies* 
 and indeed into all his books Fuller delights to 
 introduce those hits of biographic fact and cha- 
 
 ' The Church History of Britaio : from the Birth of 
 Jesus Christ until the yocar m.dc.xlviii. Endeavoured by 
 Thomas Fuller. London 1655 folio.
 
 CHURCH HISTORY. 113 
 
 racter that are found in inscriptions on old 
 brasses and other monuments in old cathedrals 
 and in old, gray Churches and old books. He 
 usually translates them as well as the snatches of 
 Latin verse from ' Collections ' of the Universities 
 and the like. Sometimes he does it under protest 
 and sometimes refuses quaintly e.g. on King 
 Lucius's epitaph he says it had nothing in it 
 ' worthy of translation ' and then -with irrepres- 
 sible wit goes on ' It seems the puddle-poet did 
 hope that the jingling of his rh;yTne would drown 
 the sound of his false quantity. Except any will 
 say that he affected to make the middle syllable 
 in idola short, because in the days of King Lucius, 
 idolatry was curb'd and contracted, whilst Chris- 
 tianity did dilate and extend itself.' [C. H. Book 
 I. Cent, III. page 15]. These Verse-Translations 
 make up the remainder of our Collection from 
 FuUer's published Works. Such as are original 
 not translated have a t after the nimiber. With 
 two slight exceptions all the others are from the 
 Latin. The reader is referred to the several places 
 for the Original. In a few cases I give the Latin 
 along \vith the translation. G. 
 
 H
 
 114 CHURCH HISTORY. 
 
 1. Allan : martyr 
 
 Here Alban, Eome ! thy citizen renown'd 
 With rosy grace of martyrdom was crown' d. 
 [Book I. Cent. iv. page 17]. 
 
 2. St German : 
 
 thou that twice pierc'd Britain, cut asunder 
 From the whole world, twice didst survey the 
 
 wonder 
 Of monstrous seas : — 
 
 [Book I. Cent. v. page 31.] 
 
 3. On a woman lolio would enter a Church 
 from lohich women were excluded : 
 
 They build a Church where women may not enter 
 One try'd but lost her life for her adventure. 
 [Book II. Cent. vi. page 53]. 
 
 4. Easter in Britain : 
 
 1S.0 writings fond^ we follow, but do hold 
 Our country course, which Polycarp of old, 
 Scholar to blessed John, to us hath given. 
 For he, when th' moon had finish'd days twice 
 
 seven. 
 Bad us to keep the holy Paschal time 
 And count dissenting for an hainous crime. 
 [Book II. Cent. vii. page 69]. 
 
 ' Foolish. G.
 
 CHURCH HISTORY. 115 
 
 5. Lines from the Welsh of Taliesen {?)} 
 
 Wo be to tliat Priest y-torn 
 
 That will not cleanly weed Ms corn. 
 
 And preach his charge among : 
 Wo be to that Shepheard (I say) 
 That will not watch his fold alway 
 
 As to his office doth belong. 
 Wo be to him that doth not keep 
 From Romish wolves his sheep 
 
 With staffe and weapon strong. 
 [Book II. Cent. vii. page 69]. 
 
 1 For above, read more accurately Taliesin: aud of. 
 Abp. Ussher's 'Eeligion anciently professed by the Irish 
 and British (18C1) c. X. : Elrington's Ussher Vol. iv. 353. 
 On this Dr S. P. Tregelles writes me as follows : — " Ussher 
 calls the writer Taliessyn, and he uses the linos to 'shew 
 that he wrote after the coming of Austin into England, and 
 not fifty or sixty years before, as others have imagined.' I 
 however should use the contents of the lines, as shewing 
 that Taliesin cannot be the author; and indeed an old 
 "Welsh copy ascribes thorn to 'Jonas the teacher of St 
 Davids' (? 10th century). The later that they are, the more 
 remarkable is the testimony against Rome in the ancient 
 British Church, the origin of which belongs to a time when 
 Ireland and Scotland were still in idolatry." After pointing 
 out mistakes in the "Welsh as given by Ussher and Fuller 
 he adds, ' The poem from which the lines incorrectly as- 
 cribed to Taliesin are taken, is given in p. 78 col. 2 of the 
 new edition of the "Welsh Archaiology, now in course of 
 publication at Denbigh.' G.
 
 116 CHURCH HISTORY. 
 
 6. On the Foundation of University of 
 Cambridge. 
 
 Grant ^ long ago a city of great fame 
 From neighbouring river doth receive her name. 
 When storms of Saxon-warres her overthrew 
 Near to the old sprang up another new. 
 Monk Felix, whils't he Sigebert obeys 
 Light'ned tliis place with Schools and Learning's 
 
 rayes. 
 Searcliing the monuments of British nation 
 This I assert in Grant's due commendation. 
 
 [Leland : Book II. Cent. vii. page 75]. 
 
 7. Victory of Oswald. ' Amongst the many 
 victories atchieved by tliis Oswald, one most re- 
 markable was gained by him near Hex[h]am in 
 Northumberland, against the Pagans, against 
 whom he erected the standard of the Crosse, in a 
 place which time out of mind was called Heafen- 
 field (Haledon at this day^ ) : by a prolepsis, not 
 answering the name thereof until tliis time. 
 Hence a Poet writing the life of Oswald [says] : — 
 
 Then he began the reason first to know 
 Of Heafen-feld, why it was called so ; 
 
 » Granta. G. « Scott's Halidon-hill. G.
 
 CHURCH HISTORY. 117 
 
 Nam'd by the natives long since by foresight 
 That in that field would hap an heavenly fight. 
 [Anony : Book II. Cent. vii. page 78]. 
 
 8. On Osioald. — ' Whereupon Aidan laying 
 hold on Oswald's right hand (and that alone we 
 know ought to be the almoner [Matthew vi. 3] 
 ' May this hand ' (said he) ' never be consumed : ' 
 which is said accordingly to come to passe.' 
 
 ^Xo worm, no rottennesse taints his right hand : 
 Corruption-free, in vain the cold doth strive 
 To freeze, or heat to melt it, which doth stand 
 Still at one stay : and though dead, is alive. 
 
 Fuller slyly adds, ' But it is not enough for us 
 that we have the poet's pen for it : if we also 
 had Oswald's hand to shew for the same, much 
 might be wrought on our behalf herein.' 
 [Book II. Cent. vii. page 82]. 
 
 9. On ' Wilfride^s deprivation of the ' Bishoj)- 
 rick of York ' to Avhich he had been appointed. 
 
 Boldly in the liusljaud's life 
 Away from him they took liis wife. 
 
 ' But by the poet's leave, York was but espoused 
 not married to Wilfride, wliilst he was in Eng- 
 land : and after his going over beyond Sea, ho
 
 118 CHURCH HISTORY. 
 
 stayed so long that his Church presumed him 
 dead and herself a maid-widow, which lawfully 
 might receive another husband.' 
 
 [Book II. Cent. vii. page 86]. 
 
 10. Adelme, Bisliop of Slierhorn. [He] 'was 
 the first of our English nation who wrote in 
 Latine : and the first that taught Englishmen to 
 make Latine verse, according to his promise. 
 
 If life me last, that I do see that native soile of 
 
 mine 
 From Aon top I'll first with me bring down tlie 
 
 Muses nine. 
 
 [Book II. Cent. viii. page 95]. 
 
 11. On 'Alba, since Rome,^ from Aeneid 
 (lib. 3). 
 
 Where under oakes on shore there shall be found 
 A mighty sow, all wliite, cast on the ground. 
 With tliirty sucking piggs : that place is 'sign'd 
 To build your town and ease your wearied mind. 
 [Book II. Cent. viii. page 96]. 
 
 1 2. Martyrdom of King Edmond : ' After 
 many indignities offered unto him they bound 
 him to a tree, and because he would not re- 
 nounce his Christianity, shot him with arrow
 
 CHURCH HISTORY. 119 
 
 after arrow : their cruelty taking deliberation 
 that he might the better digest one pain before 
 another succeeded, so distinctly to protract his 
 torture (though confusion be better than method 
 in matters of cruelty) till not mercie but want of 
 a mark made them desist: according to the 
 poet's expression 
 Eoom wants for wounds but arrows do not fail 
 From foes, which thicker fly than winter hail. 
 
 The Latin is vivid 
 
 Jam loca vulneribus desunt, nee dum furiosis 
 
 Tela, sed hyberna grandine plura volant. 
 
 [Book II. Cent. ix. page 115]. 
 
 13. Of Alfred and Edward. 
 
 If that it happ't that conquered was he 
 
 « 
 
 Next day to figlit he quickly did prepare ; 
 But if he chanc't the conquerour to be, 
 Next day to fight he wisely did beware. 
 [Book II. Cent. ix. page 122]. 
 
 14. DuNSTAN : ' Eminency occasions envy, 
 which made Dunstan's enemies endeavour to 
 depresse him. He is accused to the king for a 
 magician and upon that account banished the 
 Court. It was brought as evidence against him
 
 120 CHURCH HISTORY. 
 
 that he made his harp not onely to have motion 
 hut made musick of itself, which no white-art 
 could perform 
 
 St Dunstan's harp fast by the wall 
 
 Vpon a pin did hang-a : 
 The harp itself, with ly and all 
 
 Vntouch't hy hand did twang-a. 
 
 For our part let Dunstan's harp hang there still, 
 on a douhle suspicion tmsted together: first, 
 whether this story thereof were true or false : 
 secondly, if true, whether done by magick or 
 miracle. Sure I am, as good a harper and a 
 better saint than Dunstan was, hath no such 
 miracle reported of him, even David himself, 
 who with his harp praised God, pleased men, 
 frighted devils ; yet took pains with his own 
 right hand [Psalm 137. 5] to play, not lazily 
 commanding musick by miracle to be made on 
 his instrument.' 
 
 [Book II. Cent. x. page 128]. 
 
 [Strange, quick-witted Fuller did not think 
 of the iEolian harp, wind-played — which doubt- 
 less the poor accused saint's instrument was 
 transformed into, accidentally. G.] 
 
 15. The good daughter of a had father: 
 ' Grant queen Edith a chast woman as she is
 
 CHURCH HISTORY. 121 
 
 generally believed : daughter she was to a wicked 
 father, Earle Godwin by name, whence the 
 proverb 
 
 From, prickly stock as springs a rose 
 So Edith from Earle Godwin grows. 
 
 nttle ill being written of the daughter and no 
 good of the father.' 
 
 [Book 11. Cent. xi. page 142]. 
 
 16. On Francis I. ' captive in Sj)ain.'' 
 
 The captive King the Evil cures in Spain ; 
 Dear, as before, he doth to God remain. 
 
 ' So it seemeth his medicinaU quality i» affixed 
 not to his prosperity but person.' 
 
 [Book II. Cent. xi. page 147]. 
 
 1 7. On translations of Scripture ' Tlie Origi- 
 nall preferred ,■' ' Ricemarch a Britan, a right 
 learned and godly clerk, son to Sulgen, bishop 
 of St David's, flourishing in this age, made 
 this epigram on those who translated the Psalter 
 out of the Greek : so talcing it at the second- 
 hand and not drawing it immediately out of the 
 first vessel ' — 
 
 This harp the holy Hebrew text doth tender 
 Whicli, to tlieir power, whils't every one doth 
 render
 
 1 22 CHURCH HISTORY, 
 
 In Latine tongue with many variations 
 He clouds the Hebrew rayes with liis translations. 
 Thus liquors when twice shifted out, and pour'd 
 In a third vessel, are both cool'd and sour'd. 
 But holy Jerome truth to light doth bring 
 Briefer and fuller, fetch' t from the Hebrew 
 spring. 
 
 [Book II. Cent xi. page 149]. 
 
 18. Guthhert receiving tlie ' Communion^ re- 
 ceived ' the cup' [on his death-bed]. 
 
 His voyage^ steep the easier to climbe up 
 Christ's bloud he drank out of Life's healthiull 
 cup. 
 
 ' Lest any should fondly hope to decline so fre- 
 quent an instance by the novel conceit of con- 
 comitancy (a distinction that could not speak 
 because it was not horn in that age) it is pimc- 
 tually stated that he distinctly received the 
 
 cup.' 
 
 [Book II. Cent. xi. page 150]. 
 
 19. Ayainst Marriage: 'Amongst all the 
 foul mouthes belibelling marriage, one rayling 
 rythmer of Anselme's age, bore away the bell 
 
 ' = ' Journey ' whether by land or sea : G. Glossary to 
 my Sibbes, s.v. — G.
 
 CHURCH HISTORY. 123 
 
 (drinking surely of Styx instead of Helicon) and 
 I am confident my translation is good enongli 
 for his bald verses — 
 
 ye that ill live, attention give, unto my fol- 
 lowing rhythmes ; 
 Your wives, those dear mates, whom the liiglier 
 
 power hates, see that ye leave them betimes. 
 Leave them for His sake, who a conquest did 
 
 make, and a crown and a cross did acquire, 
 If any say no, I give them to know, they must 
 
 all ;mto hell for their hire. 
 The Spouse of Clirist forbids that priest his 
 
 ministerial function 
 Because he did part Avith Christ in his heart, at 
 
 his marriage-conjunction. 
 We count them all mad (if any so bad) as daring 
 
 herein to contest; 
 Nor is it of spight, that this I indite, but out of 
 
 pure love, I protest. 
 
 [Book III. Cent. xii. page 22]. 
 
 21. On a-Becketfs '■martyrdom! 
 
 For Christ his Spouse, in Christ's Church, at the 
 tide 
 <')f Christ his birth, Christ his true lover dy'd.
 
 12-i CnUECH HISTORY. 
 
 Who dies 1 a priest. Whjl Tor's flock. How? 
 
 By til' sword. 
 When 1 At Christ's birth. Wliere ? Altar of the 
 
 Lord. 
 
 ' Here I understand not, how properly it can be 
 said that Becket died j9?"o grege, for his flock. 
 Hee did not die for feeding his flock, for any 
 fundamental point of religion, or for defending 
 his flock against the wolfe of any dangerous 
 doctrine : but meerly he died for his flock : 
 namely, that the sheep thereof (though ever so 
 scabb'd) might not be dress'd with tarr, and other 
 proper (but sharpe and smarting) medicines. I 
 mean that the clergie might not be punished by 
 the secular j)ower, for their criminal enormities.' 
 
 [Book III. Cent. xii. page 35J. 
 
 21. On Henry II. 
 
 He whom alive the world would scarce suffice 
 When dead, in eight foot earth contented lies. 
 
 [Book III. Cent. xii. page 40]. 
 
 22. Hugh Nevil : ' Being one of the king's 
 special familiars, slew a lion in the Holy Land, 
 first driving an arrow into his breast and then
 
 CHURCH HISTORY. 125 
 
 running him through Avith his sword, on whom 
 this verse was made ' 
 
 Viribus Hugonis vires periere | The strength of Hugh 
 Leonis. ) A lion slew. 
 
 [Book III. Cent. xii. page 41]. 
 
 23. On Richard ' the Lion-hearted : ' I finde 
 two epitaphs made upon liim, the first (better 
 for the conceit then the poetry thereof) thus 
 concludeth 
 
 Three places thus are sharers of his fall 
 Too little, one, for such a funeral. 
 
 The second may pass for a good piece of poetry 
 in that age. 
 
 Richard thou liest here, hut were Death afraid 
 Of any armes, thy armes had Death dismaid. 
 
 The Latin merits Fuller's praise. 
 
 Hie, Eichardej aces,- sed Mors si cederet, annis 
 Victa timore tui, cederet ipsa tuis. 
 [Book III. Cent. xii. page 46]. 
 
 24. ' Learned Writers, Bale and Piitti' 
 ' The column of learned writers I have endea- 
 uoured to extract out of Bale and Pitts. Whereof 
 the later being a member of this University was 
 no less diligent then able to advance the honour
 
 126 CHURCH HISTORY. 
 
 thereof. Let none suspect that I will enrich my 
 Mother by rohbing my Aunt. For besides that 
 Cambridge is so conscientious, she -will not be 
 accessary to my felony by receiving stolen goods : ' 
 
 Tros, Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine habetur: 
 
 A Trojan whether he 
 
 Or a Tyrian be 
 
 All is the same to me. 
 
 [Book III. Cent. xiii. page 68]. 
 
 25. Baconthorpe : ' I [Fuller] had al- 
 most over-seen John Baconthorpe being so low 
 in stature as but one remove from a dwarfe, of 
 whom one saith 
 
 His wit was tall, in body small 
 
 Insomuch that corpus non tulisset quod ingenium 
 protulit, his body could not bear the books which 
 his brain had brought forth.' 
 
 [Book III. Cent. xiv. page 97]. 
 
 26. William Occam : [He] ' sided with 
 Lewis of Bavaria against the Poj^e, maintaining 
 the temporal power above the spiritual ; he was 
 fain to file to the emperor for his safety, saying 
 unto him
 
 CHURCH HISTORY. 127 
 
 Defende me gladio et ego te defendam verbo 
 Defend me with thy sword and I will defend 
 thee vnth my word. 
 
 [Book III. Cent. xiv. page 98]. 
 
 27. Edward for ^ jprotection of Ms native 
 subjects' 
 
 He made a statute for Lombards in this Land, 
 That they should in no wise take on hand 
 Here to inhabit, here to charge and discharge, 
 But forty dayes no more time had they large : 
 Tliis good king by wit of such appreife 
 Kept his merchants and the sea from mischiefe. 
 
 [Book III. Cent. xiv. page 113] . 
 
 28. Rehellion of Wat Tyler and Jack 
 Straw: 'As the Philistines [1 Samuel xiii. 17] 
 * came out in three companies ' to destroy all the 
 swords and smiths in Israel : so tliis rabble of 
 rebells, making itself tripartite, endeavoured the 
 rooting out of all pen-knives and all ajjpearance 
 of learning. Onc3 in Kent, under the aforesaid 
 Wat and John : the second in Suffolk ; the tliird 
 under John Littstarre a dier in Norfolke. The 
 former of these is described in the Latin verses 
 of John Gower, prince of poets in his time : of 
 whom we will bestow the follomng translation.'
 
 128 CHURCH HISTORY. 
 
 Tom comes, thereat, when call'd by Wat, and 
 
 Simni as forward we finde. 
 Bet calls as quick to Gibb and to Hykk, that 
 
 neither would tarry behinde. 
 Gibb, a good whelp of that litter, doth help mad 
 
 Coll more mischief to do, 
 And Will he doth vow, the time is come now, 
 
 he'l joyn with their company too. 
 Davie complains, whiles Grigg gets the gaines, 
 
 and Hobb with them doth partake, 
 Lorkin aloud, in the midst of the croud, con- 
 
 ceiveth as deep is his stake. 
 Hudde doth spoil, whom Judde doth foile, and 
 
 Tebb lends his helping hand, 
 But Jack, the mad patch, men and houses^ doth 
 
 snatch, and kills all at his command. 
 [Book IV. Cent. xiv. page 139]. 
 
 29. Simon Sudbury: 'John Gower telleth 
 us in his paralel of the martyrmg of Simon 
 Sudbury, arch-bishop of Canterbury with Thomas 
 Becket, his predecessor ' 
 
 But four conspir'd, Thomas, his blood to spill 
 While hundred thousands Simon help to kill. 
 
 [Book IV. Cent. xiv. page 140]. 
 
 • Qu : ' horses ? ' tlie Latin however is ' donios.' G.
 
 CHURCH HISTORY. 129 
 
 30. Chaucer : ' Our Homer : onely herein he 
 differed 
 
 Maeonides nullas ipse reliquit opes. 
 Homer himself did leave no pelf, 
 
 whereas our Chaucer left behinde him a rich 
 and Avorshipful estate.' 
 
 [Book IV. Cent. xiv. page 151]. 
 
 31. Cliaucer : 
 
 Of Alger Dants, Florence doth justly boast 
 Of Petrarch brags all the Italian coast. 
 England doth poet Chaucer reverence 
 To whom our language owes its eloquence. 
 
 ' He was a great refiner and illuminer of our 
 English tongue (and if he left it so bad, how 
 much worse did he finde it X) ' 
 
 [Book IV. Cent. xiv. page 152]. 
 
 [' Alger Dants' [= Dante] renders Leland's. 
 Pra'dicat Algerum uiorito Florentia Dantcm. G.] 
 
 32. ' lltou and Grammcr Learning.' — ' In- 
 deed it was high time some School should be 
 founded, considering liow low grammer-learning 
 ran then in the Land, as may appear by the fol- 
 lowing verses made for King Henry the Founder : 
 
 I
 
 130 CHURCH HISTORY. 
 
 as good no doubt as the generality of that age 
 did afford, though (scarce deserving translation) 
 so, that the worst scholar in Eaton Colledg that 
 can make a verse can make a better ' — 
 
 Devout King Henry, of that name the sixt 
 Born (Mc'las) on thy day, this building fixt. 
 In Eaton having plac'd a stone anointed 
 In sign, it for the clergy was appointed. 
 His prelates then were present, so the more 
 To honour the King's acts, and holy chore. 
 Eroni Eastern midst/ whereof just fourteen feet 
 If any measure, they this stone shall meet ; 
 Our holy James, his day, the sacred hand 
 Of royal Henry caus'd this stone to stand. 
 
 M. four C.'s, fourty six, since Christ was born 
 When H. the crown twenty-five years had 
 worn. 
 [Book IV. Cent. xv. page 183]. 
 
 33. Retribution : 
 
 Most just it is that they bad laws who make 
 Should themselves first of their own laws 
 partake. 
 
 ' Thus those who break down the banks and let 
 in the stream of arbitrary power (be it into the
 
 CHURCH HISTORY. 131 
 
 hands of prince or people) are commonly the 
 first themselves which mthoiit pity are drowned 
 in the deluge thereof.' 
 
 [Book V. Cent. xvi. page 234]. 
 
 34. The Jesuits : ' They had two most 
 antient and flourishing convents beyond the 
 seas ; Nola in Italy as I take it, where their 
 home it seems gives a how for their armes, and 
 La-Fletcha in France, where they have an arrow 
 for their device : whereupon a satjTical wit thus 
 guirded at them : and I hope I shall not be con- 
 demned as accessary to his virulency, if onely 
 plainly translating the same.' 
 
 Nola to them did give a Bow 
 La-Fletch an Arrow bring : 
 
 But who upon them mil bestow 
 (What they deserve) — a string % 
 [Book VI. page 279]. 
 
 35. Feasts of Ely Alley. 
 
 When other Feasts before have been 
 If those of Elie last be seen, 
 'Tis like to one who hath seen night 
 And then beholds the day so bi'ight. 
 [Book VI. page 299].
 
 132 CHURCH HISTORY. 
 
 26. Bells : * Such frequent firing of Abbey- 
 Chiirclies by lightning, confuteth the proud 
 motto commonly written on the bells in their 
 steeples, wherein each bell intituled itself to a 
 sixfold efficacie :' 
 
 Kelt's katbs I itli 
 Jg boltfn! h\t\\. 
 
 1. Funera plango •) 
 
 2. Fulgura ) C ITigbtitmg uxxia t^unbrr 
 Fulmina) ° (. | bwah asnnbw. 
 
 3. babbata fcango ; ■{ ^ ^, ,1, „ 
 
 I 
 
 4. Excito lentos 
 
 ®Ijc slcEpg Ijeab 
 I raise from kb. 
 
 ^ ^. . , ( S^b fermirs so fiera 
 
 5. Dissipo ventos. i cw t ^ . 
 
 ( I DOi: mspersc. 
 
 ( Pen's truell rage 
 <- I boe assuage. 
 
 6. Paco cruentos. 
 
 [Book VI. page 301]. [Might have been a first 
 (faint) sketch of Poe's memorable ' Bells.' G.] 
 
 37. Marslies of Mantua [Virgil]. 
 
 There is no trusting to the found'ring bank 
 The ramme still dries his fleece so lately dank. 
 [Book VI. page 323].
 
 CHUECH HISTORY. 133 
 
 38. John Leland to Henry VIII. 
 
 The sun shall sooner cease his shine to show 
 And moon deny her lamp to men below ; 
 The rapid seas shall sooner fishless slide, 
 And bushes quite forget their birds to hide ; 
 Great okes shall sooner cease to spread their 
 
 bowers 
 And Flora for to paint the meads with 
 
 flowers, 
 Than thou great King shall slip out of my 
 
 breast 
 My studies' gentle gale and quiet rest. 
 [Book VI. page 339]. 
 
 39. Against ' the Masse.' — Of all his 
 [Jewell's] pupils, Edward Year (so I conceive 
 his name whom Lawrence Humphery in Jewel's 
 life pp. 77 calls Edvardum Annum) in tliis one 
 respect Avas most remarkable, who by his tutor 
 being seasoned with tlie love of the truth, made 
 a double copie of verses against the superstition 
 of the ^Masse, which so enraged Mr Welsh, the 
 Censor as I take it, of Corpus Cliristi Colledge, 
 against him, that lie iniblikely and cruelly wliipt 
 him, laying on one lash, for every verse he had 
 made, which I conceive was about eighty in all. 
 Part of them I have here thought fit to insert ;
 
 131 CHURCH HISTORY. 
 
 and blessed he God I may translate, and the 
 reader peruse them, -without any pain and perill, 
 and not at the dear rate, whereat the Author 
 composed them, I have the rather printed them 
 because they proved as well prophetical as poeti- 
 cal, completely foretelling what afterwards came 
 to pass.' 
 
 Accept heavenly Father I request 
 
 These few devotions from my humble breast : 
 See their's accesse, Heaven's gate open lyes, 
 
 Then with my prayers I'll penetrate the skyes ; 
 Great God, Avho all things seest, doth all things 
 sway. 
 
 And all things giv'st, and all things tak'st 
 away. 
 Let not the present Masse long-lived be, 
 
 I^or let it those beguile belong to Thee : 
 Thy people's eyes, keep it from blinding quite. 
 
 Since to Thy word it is so opposite, 
 But send it to the Stygian Lakes below : 
 
 From whence it's rise and source doth spring 
 and flow. 
 The Lord, beholding from His Throne reply'd. 
 
 Doubt not, young youth, firmly in Me 
 confide. 
 I dy'd long since, now sit at the right hand 
 
 Of my bless'd Father, and the world command :
 
 CHURCH HISTORY, 135 
 
 My body wlioly dwels in heavenly liglit 
 
 Of whom no earthly eye can gain a sight : 
 The shamelesse priests, of Me forge truthelesse 
 lies 
 And he that worships Masse, my Word 
 denyes : 
 A stiffeneck'd people for their sins did make 
 
 Me send them Masse, my Word away to take ; 
 But trust me, Scripture shall regain her sway 
 And wicked ^lasse in due time fade away.' 
 [Book VIII. Cent. xvi. page 9]. 
 
 40. Dr Hugh Price: 'The said doctor in 
 scribed these following verses over the gate, 
 when the building of the Colledge [Jesus, Ox- 
 ford] was but begun : 
 
 Hugh Price tliis palace did to Jesus biuld 
 That a Law's doctor learned men might yield. 
 
 But an Oxford author telleth us that a satyrical 
 pen did under-Avrite -with wit and wagary enough, 
 these following verses : 
 
 Hugh hath not Iniilt it yet ; may it be said 
 He built it wlio hath scarce the ground-work laid] 
 [Book IX. Cent. xvi. page 97].
 
 136 CHURCH HISTORY. 
 
 41. Cox, bishojp of Ely: 'He was an excel- 
 lent poet, thougli the verses written on Hs own 
 tomb, are none of the best, and scarce worth our 
 translating.' 
 
 Frail life farewell, welcome life without end, 
 Earth hides my corps, my soull doth heaven 
 
 ascend ; 
 Christ's cock on earth, I chanted Christ his 
 
 name. 
 Grant without end in heaven I sound the 
 
 same. 
 
 [The 'galkis' = cock, it is presumed was intended 
 as a play on his own name of Cox. C] 
 [Book IX. Cent. xvi. page 111]. 
 
 42. Verses by Mary Queen of Scots ' on a 
 pane of glass at Buxton well.' 
 
 Buxton who dost with waters warme excell 
 By me, perchance, never more seen, farewell. 
 
 ' and at Fotheringhay Castle I have read ^vritten 
 by her on a window, "with a pointed diamond ' 
 
 From the top of all my trust 
 Mishap hath laid me in the dust 
 [Book IX, Cent. xvi. page 181].
 
 CHURCH HISTORY. 137 
 
 43. Ejntaph on ' Mr Lulce Chaloner .•' iv 
 
 ' Dublin Colledge Chappel.' 
 
 This 1011113 -v^dtliiii it, here contains 
 Of Chaloner the sad remains. 
 By whose prayer and helping hand 
 This house erected here doth stand. 
 [Book IX. Cent. xvi. page 212]. 
 
 44. Humphrey Ell : 
 
 Wonder not, England's dark with errours night 
 For loe here huried lies her sun so bright. 
 [Book X. Cent. xvii. page 34]. 
 
 45. Gxmpowder Plot : 
 
 Oh let that day be quite dash'd out of time 
 And not believ'd by the next generation : 
 In night of sdence we'll conceal the crime, 
 Thereby to save the credit of our nation. 
 [Book X. Cent. x\ii. page 38]. 
 
 [Fuller has fine-spirited words on this 'hyper- 
 bolical rapture' in the context. G.] 
 
 4G. TliG Brotliers Rainolds : 
 
 Wliat war is this ! when conquered both are glad 
 And either to have conquered other, sad. 
 [Book X. Cent. xvii. page 48].
 
 138 CHURCH HISTORY. 
 
 [I may be allowed to refer to my Memoir of Dr 
 John Eainolds prefixed to reprint of his Com- 
 mentaries on OLadiah and Haggai. G.]. 
 
 47. ' Intended Colledge.'' — ' The untimely 
 death of Prince Henry, onr jiriucipal hope and 
 the author of this designe' frustrated it :' 
 
 The modest Colledge blushed to be stronger 
 Than was its lord : he died, it liv'd no longer. 
 
 [A rendering of 
 
 Erubuit Domino firmius esse suo. G.] 
 [Book X. Cent, xvii, page 53]. 
 
 48. Prince Henry : ' He was generally la- 
 mented of the whole Land, both Universities 
 publishing their verses in j'i'int : and give me 
 leave to remember four made by Giles Fletcher 
 of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, on this Prince's 
 plain grave, because wanting an inscription : and 
 it will be honour enough to me if I can make 
 thereof a translation : 
 
 K wise, amaz'd depart tliis holy grave : 
 Nor these new ashes ask, what names they have ? 
 The graver, in conceahng them was wise : 
 For who-so knows, strait melts in tears and dies. 
 [Book X. Cent. xvii. page 67].
 
 CHURCH HISTORY. 139 
 
 49. Tlie famous, ' Conference.^ ' Some are of 
 opinion that the moderation and mutuall compli- 
 ance of these Divines might have produced much 
 good, if not interrupted, conceiving such lopping 
 might have saved the felling of Episcopacy. Yea 
 they are confident had this expedient been pur- 
 sued and perfected,' 
 
 Troy still had stood in power : 
 And king Priam's lofty tower 
 Had remained at this hower. 
 
 It might under God have been a means not only 
 to have checkt but chockt our CivO. War in the 
 infancy thereof.' 
 
 [Book XI. Cent. xvii. page 175]. 
 
 VIII. From History of University of 
 Cambridge. 1 
 
 1 . Cambridge : 
 
 Cambridge devoted to the ]\Iuses nine 
 By learned Henries piety doth shine 
 With learned men, Avhich languages refine. 
 
 [Page 2]. 
 
 ^ See 'History of tho University of Cambridge since the 
 Conquest. 1G55' folio.
 
 140 CHURCH HISTORY. 
 
 2. Humphrey Nedon : 
 
 Above the skies let's Humphrey I^ecton praise : 
 For on him, first, Cambridge, confer' cl the bayes : 
 ' that is, made him Doctor in Divinity' [Page 20]. 
 
 3. Henry and CliarJes Brandon, Dukes of 
 Suffolk ; ' They were much bemoaned, the Uni- 
 versity printing a book on their funeralls, amongst 
 which these following of Dr Parkhurst's, after- 
 wards Bishop of N^orwich, I shall endeavour to 
 translate.' 
 
 Castor and Pollux, brothers pair 
 Ereathing first Amide's air, 
 Did with Death so bargaine make 
 By exchange their turns to take. 
 If that Death surprized one brother, 
 Still alive should be the other. 
 So the bargain was contriv'd 
 Both dy'd, both by turns surviv'd. 
 Why is fate more cruel grown 
 Than she formerly was known 1 
 Wee of brothers had a brace 
 Like to which did never grace 
 This our English earth before. 
 Nor the like shall grace it more. 
 Both bright stars, and both did stand 
 Hopefull bulwarks of the Land.
 
 PISGAH-SIGHT. 141 
 
 Both, alas ! together slain 
 
 Death at once did murther twaine. 
 
 Nothing could their vertues move 
 
 Nor King Edward's hearty love. 
 
 Nor that best of mother's mones 
 
 Nor all Britaine's heavy grones. 
 
 Nothing could stern Death abate ; 
 
 Oh cruel, over-cruel fate ! [Page 128]. 
 [Charles died Avithin ' twelve hours, of the same 
 disease' with Henry. G]. 
 
 IX. From Pisgah-Sight of Palestine.^ 
 
 (a) From the letter-press. 
 1. Wine of Palestine : ' Nor were their grapes 
 less good than great, as a poet [Sidonius] — the 
 most competent judge of the matter in hand — 
 doth hear witness,' 
 
 I have no Gaza, Chios, Falern wine 
 Nor any flowing from Sarepta's vine. 
 
 • ' A Pisgah-Sight of PaU'stine and the Confines tliereof : 
 witli tlie History of the Old and New Testament acted 
 thereon. By Thomas Fuller B.D. London 1GG2' folio. 
 
 *,* It 1ms escaped all his Biographers, that Fuller — like 
 Samuel Ward — was also a designer and engraver (or etcher) 
 as ' T. Fuller, fent,^ shews, in some of the illustrations of 
 this volume. See specially, the spirited series. Book 4. c. 
 vi. page 97. O.
 
 142 PISGAH-SIGHT. 
 
 Tims making a quadripartite division of good 
 wine, two members thereof, that of Gaza and 
 Sarepta, the one fals in the tribe of Simeon, the 
 other of Asher, both in the country of Palestine.' 
 [Page 10]. 
 
 2. Lihanus^ Yews: 'The poet [Virgil] takes 
 notice of the plenty of yew in this province 
 
 Yew which in Ituria grows 
 Is neatly bended into bows. 
 
 Hence their inhabitants became excellent 
 archers : and pity it was that their arrows were 
 so often shot at a wrong mark — to kill and rob 
 passengers in their journey.' [Page 104]. 
 
 3. Dag on : 
 
 Upwards man-like he ascended 
 Downwards like a fish he ended. 
 
 [Page 220]. 
 
 4. Semiramis and the doves: ' Xear to tliis 
 city [Askelon] there was a lake, by which Semi- 
 ramis is said to be born, there fed and reheved 
 by doves. Hence the poet Tibullus 'Alba 
 Palestino sancta columba Syro.' 
 
 The milk-white dove esteemed divine 
 Ey Syrians of Palestine. [Page 235].
 
 PISGAH-SIGHT. 143 
 
 5. Levite^s concubine: [Judges xix.] ' Oh ! the 
 justice of Divine proceedings ! She had formerly 
 been false to her husband ' Culpa libido fuit, 
 poena libido fuit.' 
 
 By lust she sinned and 'twas just 
 
 She should be punsMd by lust. [Page 257]. 
 
 6. Sejmlchres: The 'heathen used iu like 
 manner to interr their dead in liigh-ways : yea 
 their sepulchres served to measure the distances 
 of places' [Virgil Eel : 9]. 
 
 Hence ev'n mid-way it is for us : for near, 
 Jjianor's tomb beginneth to appear. [Page 298]. 
 
 7. Tabernacle and Tcm_i)le : 
 
 Their faces neither diverse nor the same 
 But such as sisters very well became. 
 
 ' The latter being none other than the imita- 
 tion of the former with proportionable addition : 
 as indeed what is the Tabernacle of Grace but 
 the Temple of Glory contracted or the Temple of 
 Glory but the Tabernacle of Grace dUuted ' 
 [Page 358].
 
 1 44 PISGAH SIGHT. 
 
 8. Giants : Diomedes and Aeneas : Aeneas 
 and Turnus : 
 
 A stone lie snatch'd and tltrew, a stone indeed 
 So huge, so heavy, two men now had need 
 To heave it up, such dwarfs our days do hreed. — 
 [Page 363]. 
 
 9. Horses in sacrifice to the sun: 'The Per- 
 sians offered horses unto the Sun and Ovid ren- 
 ders some reason thereof 
 
 Horses to the beamed sun's the Persian's gift : 
 Slow sacrifice ill fits a God so swift. [Page 386]. 
 
 \0. Dew [Genesis xxvii. 39.] 'Behold thy 
 dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of 
 the dew of heaven from above.' Earth is by 
 Isaac first mentioned because by Esau most 
 minded. But oh the difference betwixt the dew 
 of heaven in Jacob's and Esau's blessing ! [Genesis 
 xxvii. 28]. In the former it signified God's favour 
 with an undoubted right unto and sanctified use 
 of. Divine promises, service and Sacraments : 
 whereas in this blessing of Esau, heavenly dew, 
 was in effect but earthly dew, temporall, terres- 
 trial fertility, allowed to this mountainous land 
 of Edom, Avhose lean hills were larded with
 
 PISGAH-SIGHT. 145 
 
 many fruitful vallies interposed. Heathen 
 authors confess [Statins] 
 
 Whatever noble worth destils 
 On Pontus nut-trees, or Avhat fils 
 The fruitful Idumean hils. 
 
 [Page 30 : Book IV. c. 2.] 
 
 11. Egypt. 
 
 A Land content with home-bred ware 
 For foreign wealth she doth not care. 
 Or whether heavens do frown or smile, 
 Her confidence is all in Nile. 
 [Lucan I. 8]. [Page 81 : Book 4. c. 5.] 
 
 12. Modi-tears: [Jeremiah ix. 17, 18]. 
 
 Thy tears were trusted : do they falshood know] 
 Yea they have tricks, at will they come and go. 
 
 [Ovid.] 
 
 ' But as parents when their children cry for 
 notJiing, use to beat them that they might cry for 
 something: so God tlireatned that the miseries of 
 Jerusalem should afterwards turn their faignedand 
 strained wailings into sound and sincere sorroAv : 
 when those tears — formerly but the adopted 
 children — should become the natural issue of 
 their heavy hearts.' [Page 118. Book 4. c. H.]
 
 146 PISGAH-SIGHT. 
 
 13. Idols: 'In all ages some were found 
 wlio flouted at such, superstitions : amongst these 
 the poet brings in an idol thus speaking,' 
 Time out of minde a fig-tree stock I grew, 
 An useless block, before the workmen knew 
 Benches or gods to make me — smal the ods — 
 Eesolv'd at last of me to make his gods. 
 [Page 126. Book 4 c. 7.] 
 
 14. Idol-calf: [Virgil]. 
 
 My calfe I lay — lest you misKke't, both tides 
 She comes to th' pale [pail] and suckles twain 
 besides. [Page 129 : Book 4 c. 7.] 
 
 (&) From the Maps. 
 
 (1) Engraved title-page 1650: 
 
 Votum Authoris 
 
 Terrestres Solymas mihi qui scripsisse dedisti, 
 
 Coelestes tandem des habitare, Devs. 
 
 Dicat. T. F. 
 
 (2) From General Map of Palestine— 1650. 
 
 Virio amplissimo 
 
 Duo Guilielmo Paston, Equiti aureato 
 
 disjunctissimoerum regionum AvVoTrAy 
 
 Omnia perlustra quae profert chartula lapsus 
 
 Condona erranti recta tuere precor 
 
 Nam tibi Judaea est, tibi tam sunt ostia nUi 
 
 Quam tua mendicis hosj)ita nota domus.
 
 PISGAH-SIGHT. 147 
 
 (3) Map of Jerasalem— 1650 pp. 308. 
 
 Eduardo Montagu 
 Armigero, inter Juvenes 
 doctos noblissimo nol)iles 
 doctissimo (qnasi posthaLi 
 ta natalium claritate se 
 totuni litteris destinasset) 
 
 filio 
 Honoratissinii Eduardi 
 Baronis Montagu, qui 
 me languiduin, exulem, nullum 
 primus fouit, hospitio exce- 
 pit, munificentia recreauit 
 
 quin et 
 quod omnium caj)ut 
 est, filiolum meum 
 (senectutis mese spem 
 vnicam) libere insti- 
 tuendum curauit, 
 Hierosolymarum 
 Typumdedico. T. F.^ 
 
 (4) Fragmenta Sacra :—lG50 B. v. p. 202. 
 Nobilissiiuis viris Jolianni et Eduardo 
 Ilussello, Francisi nupcr Comitis Bedfordinp 
 filiis natu minoribus. 
 
 ' Tbi.s is not given as vorse, but as illustrating ' Uaiuous 
 Siunc,' etc. dedication. 0.
 
 148 HOLY WAREE. 
 
 Fragmenta haec vestri ne dedignentiir Honores 
 
 Sint Fragmenta licet, sunt ea Sacra tamen. 
 Mensurse Ebroese, priscse numismata Formse. 
 
 Yestis Aaronis JVf ysticay quanta tegens ! 
 Destructi (ah. miserum) Templi captiva supellex 
 
 Eoma triunipliatrix, Caesareumque Decus. 
 Sic lacera in nimios Tabula est divisa locellos, 
 
 Integer atvester Totus et Author erit. 
 
 X. From ' the Holy Warre' ^ 
 
 1. Issues: 
 
 May he never speed 
 Who from the issue censures of the deed. 
 
 * ' The Historie of the Holy Warre : By Thomas Fuller, 
 B.D. . . . Cambridge 1651' folio. By the kindness of 
 its possessor — Mr Winters, Church-yard, Waltham Abbey, — 
 the foUowiug MS. lines wi'itten in a copy of the 'Holy 
 Warre ' by some contemporary and admirer of our Worthy, 
 are herewith subjoined : more accurately than as given in 
 Notes and Queries [3d Series : 2d half 1867 p. 226]. Who 
 was R. H. ? G. 
 
 ON THE TITLE AND AUTHOE; 
 
 Shall warr, the ofspring of rebellious pryde 
 
 disturber of heuens peace, be glorifyed 
 
 with a sacred epithite .'' tis a iarr, 
 
 that it should haue the tearme of Holy warr ; 
 
 It is not surely meant the very thing 
 
 is holy, but the holy cause doth bring
 
 HOLY WARRE. 149 
 
 * Though an argument fetch't from the suc- 
 cesse is but a cyphre in itself yet it increaseth 
 a number when joyned with others.' 
 [Page 16 :B. i. c. 10.] 
 
 2. Baldwine : ' For the rest we referre the 
 reader to the dull epitaph written on liis tombe, 
 which (like the verses of that age) runneth in a 
 kind of rhytlime, though it can scarce stand on 
 true feet : ' 
 
 Baldwine another Maccabee for might 
 Hope, help of State, of Church, and both's 
 
 delight : 
 Cedar, with Egypt's Dan of him afraid, 
 Bloudy Damascus to him tribute paid : 
 Alas ! here in this tombe is laid. 
 
 [Page 62: B. II. c. 13.] 
 
 a holy stile to a destructiue game ; 
 A Turk may hauo an honorable name : 
 Yet warr is uot unlawfull, tliough it kill ; 
 the Circumstance doth make it good or ill J 
 But howso'er the cause or niattor bee, 
 thy pithio lynes, and witt doe rondiM- thee 
 let prydo and cnvio struglo what they can, 
 Fuller, the holy, wise, and learned man. 
 
 \\: II:
 
 150 HOLT WAREB. 
 
 3.t Alexius the Grecian emperour : '"We liad 
 almost forgotten what happened in this yeare — 
 the death of Alexius, the Grecian emperour, that 
 arch-hypocrite and grand enemie of this warre. 
 On whom we may hestow this epitaph : 
 
 If he of men the best doth know to live 
 Who hest knows to dissemble, justly then 
 To thee, Alexius, we this praise must give, 
 That thou to live didst know the best of men. 
 And this was it at last did stop thy breath 
 Thou knew'st not how to counterfeit with 
 Death. [Page 64 : B. II. c. 14.] 
 
 4. Lamentahle death of King Fullt : /He was 
 slain in earnest as following his sport in hunting, 
 to the great grief of his subjects. And we may 
 heare him thus speaking his epitaph : 
 
 A hare I hunted, and Death hunted me ; 
 The more my speed was, was the worse my 
 
 speed : 
 For as well-mounted I away did flee, 
 Death caught and kill'd me, falling from my 
 
 steed. 
 Yet this mishap an happie misse I count 
 • That fell from horse that I to heaven might 
 
 mount. [Page 74 : B. ii. c. 23.]
 
 HOLT WARRE. 151 
 
 5. Frederick, the worthy emperour : ' "We may 
 heare liis sorrowful army speaking tlius his 
 epitaph iiiito him ' 
 
 Earth scarce did yeeld ground enough for thy 
 
 sword 
 To conquer : how then could a hrook afford 
 Water to drown thee ] brook, which some doth 
 
 fear 
 (0 guilty conscience !) in a map t' appear. 
 Yet blame we not the brook, but rather tliink 
 The weight of our own sinnes did make thee 
 
 sink. 
 Now sith 'tis so, wee'l fetch a brackish main 
 Out of om* eyes, and drown thee once again. 
 [Page 116: B. III. c. 4.] 
 
 G.t Conrade : ' This may serve for his epitaph 
 
 The crown I never did enjoy alone ; 
 
 Of half a kingdome I was half a kiug. 
 
 Scarce was I on when I was off the throne ; 
 
 Slain by two slaves, me basely murdering. 
 And thus the best man's life at mercie lies 
 Of vilest varlets that tlieir own despise. 
 [Page 125 : B. III. c. 10.]
 
 152 HOLY WARRE. 
 
 7. King Guy : ' We then dismisse King Guy, 
 hearing him thns taking his farewell ' 
 
 I steer'd a State wane-tost against my will : 
 Blame then the storm, not th' pilot's want of 
 
 skill, 
 That I the kingdome lost, whose empty 
 
 style 
 I sold to England's king for Cyprus isle. 
 I pass'd away the Land I could not hold ; 
 Good ground I bought, hut only aire I sold. 
 Then as a happy merchant may I sing 
 Though I must sigh as an unhappy king. 
 [Page 126 : B. III. c. 10.] 
 
 8. ' Ki7ig Richard taken prisoner in Austria : 
 sold and sent to the emperour : dearly ransomed, 
 returneth home ' — ' After tliis money, Peter of 
 Bloys (who had drunk as deep of HeUcon as any 
 of that age) sendeth this good prayer : making an 
 apostrophe to the emperour or to the Duke of 
 Austria or to both together' 
 
 ^o^ 
 
 And now, thou basest avarice 
 
 Drink till thy belly burst, 
 Whil'st England poures large silver 
 showres 
 
 To satiate thy thirst.
 
 THE HOLY STATE. 153 
 
 And this we pray, Thy money may 
 And thou be like accurst. 
 [Page 131 : B. III. c. 13.] 
 
 9. French-rlujme : Crusades. 
 
 Jesus Lord ! repair our losse ; 
 Eestore to us thy holy crosse. 
 [Page 152 : B. III. c. 24.] 
 
 10. 'Tlie pastorells killed in France:'' 'A 
 rhymer of that age (or in courtesie call him a 
 poet,) made this epitaph on them : 
 
 Learn to put together Avell 
 What M. C. C. L. I. do spell ; 
 When some devilish fiend in France 
 Did teach the Shepherds how to dance. 
 [Page 206 : B. IV. c. 21.] 
 
 XI. From ' the Holy State 
 
 '1 
 
 1. TJie Elder Brother: 'He rather desires his 
 father's life than his living. This was one of the 
 principal reasons (but God knows how tnu') why 
 
 > ' The Holy State. By Thomas Fuller B.D. aud Tre- 
 bcndary of Sariun. 4° edu. Loudon, 1663' folio.
 
 154 THE HOLY STATE. 
 
 Philip the second, king of Spain, caused in the 
 year 1568, Charles, his eldest son to be executed 
 for plotting his father's death, as was pretended. 
 And a wit [Opmerus (*?)] in such difficult toyes 
 accommodated the nunaeral letters in Ovid's verse 
 to the year wherein the Prince sufiered. 
 
 FiLivs ante DIeM patrios Inqvirit In annos 
 
 1568. 
 
 Before the tIMe the oVer-hasty sonne 
 
 Seeks forth hoYV near the father's Life Is Done. 
 
 [B. I. c. U. page 41.] 
 
 1568. 
 
 2. Tlie younger brother : ' To use the herald's 
 language, he may say' 
 
 This to my elder brother I must yield 
 I have the charge but he hath all the field. 
 [B. I. c. 15. p. 42.] 
 
 3. Julius Scaliger : * His skill in physick was 
 as great as his practice therein was happy : in so 
 much that he did many strange and admirable 
 cures. Hear how a noble and learned pen 
 [Stej)hanus Boetius] doth commend him' 
 
 On snowy Caucasus there grew no root 
 Of secret power, but he was privy to't ;
 
 THE HOLT STATE. 155 
 
 On cold Eiphean liiUs no simple grew, 
 But he the force thereof and virtue knew : 
 Where^dth — apply'd by his successful art — 
 Such sullen souls as would this world depart, 
 He forc't still in their bodies to remain 
 And from death's door fetch'd others back again. 
 [B. II. c. 8 page 71.] 
 
 4. 77^6 faithful minister: 'He counts the 
 success of his ministry the greatest, preferment. 
 Yet herein God hath humbled many painful 
 pastours, in making them to be clouds, to rain 
 not over Arabia the happy but over the stony 
 or desert : so that they may complain with the 
 herdsman in the poet 
 
 My starveling bull 
 Ah ! woe is me ! 
 In pasture full 
 How lean is he ! 
 [B. II. c. 9 page 77.] 
 
 5. William PerJcins : ' He was of a ruddy 
 complexion, very fat and corpulent, lame of liis 
 riglit hand : and yet tliis Ehud with a left-handed 
 pen did sliake the Eomisli cause and as one 
 [Holland] saith
 
 156 THE HOLY STATE. 
 
 Thougli nature thee of thy right hand bereft 
 Eight well thou writest with the hand that's 
 left. 
 
 [The Latin may interest : 
 
 Dextera quantumvis fuerat tibi manca, docendi 
 PoUebas mira dexteritate tamen. G.] 
 [B. II. c. 11. page 84.] 
 
 6. Simony : ' We confess it a personal vice 
 amongst us, but not to be charged as a Church- 
 sin : which by penal laws it doth both prohibit 
 and punish. Did Eome herein look upon the 
 dust behind her own doors, she would have but 
 little cause to call her neighbour slut. What 
 saith the epigram ] 
 
 That Peter was at Rome, there's strife about it 
 That Simon was there, none ever did doubt it. 
 
 [The Latia is as follows : 
 
 An Petrus fuerat Eomge, sub judice lis est 
 Simonem Eomse nemo fuisse negat. G.] 
 [B. 11. c. 12. page 88.] 
 
 7. The good patron : ' Afterwards, to invite 
 lay -men to build and endow Churches, the Bishops
 
 THE HOLY STATE. 157 
 
 departed with their right, to the lay-patrons, 
 according to the verse 
 
 A patron's he that did endow with lands 
 Or biiilt the Church or on whose ground it 
 stands. 
 
 it being conceited reasonable that he who paid 
 the Churche's portion shoidd have the main 
 stroke in providing her an husband.' [B. II. c. 12. 
 page 87.] 
 
 8. Hojye disappointed: 'Daily experience 
 tenders too many examples. A gentleman who 
 gave a hasilisk for his arms or crest, promised to 
 make a young kinsman of Ms, his heir, Avhich 
 kinsman to ingratiate himself painted a basilisk 
 in his study and beneath it these verses' 
 
 Falleris aspectu basiliscum occidere, Plini 
 Nam vitse nostras spem basiliscus alit 
 
 The basilisk's the onely stay 
 
 My life preserving still • 
 
 Pliny, thou li'dst when thou didst say 
 
 The basilisk doth kill. 
 
 But tliis ricli gentleman dyini,', fiustrated his ex-
 
 168 THE HOLY STATE. 
 
 pectation and bequeatlied all his estate to another, 
 whereupon the epigram was thus altered, 
 
 Certe aluit, sed spe vana, spes vana venenuni : 
 
 Ignoscas, Plini, verus es historicvs. 
 
 Indeed vain hopes to me he gave, 
 
 Whence I my poison drew : 
 
 Phny, thy pardon now I crave 
 
 Thy writings are too true, 
 
 [B. III. c, 9, page 161.] 
 
 9, Tomhes : ' 'Tis a provident way to make 
 one's tombe in one's lifetime, both hereby to pre- 
 vent the negligence of heirs and to miad him of 
 his mortality. Virgil tells us that when bees 
 swarm in the abe and two armies meeting to- 
 gether, fight as it were a set battel with great 
 violence, cast but a little dust upon them and they 
 will be quiet,' 
 
 These stirrings of their minds, and strivings vast 
 
 If but a little dust on them be cast 
 
 Are straitwayes stinted and quite over-past. 
 
 Thus the most ambitious motions and thoughts 
 of man's mind are quickly quell'd when dust is 
 thrown on him, whereof his fore-prepared sepul- 
 chre is an excellent remembrancer. 
 [B, III. c, U, page 175,]
 
 THE HOLT STATE. 159 
 
 10. The same : ' Thus love if not to tlie dead, 
 to the living, will make him if not a grave, a hole : 
 and it was the hegger's epitaph Nudus eram viviis, 
 mortuus ecce tegor. 
 
 Naked I liv'd, but being dead 
 Now behold I'am covered. 
 
 [B. III. c. 14. page 177.] 
 
 1 l.t Finis : ' When one had set out a witless 
 pamphlet, writing Finis at the end thereof, an- 
 other wittily wrote beneath it 
 
 • Nay there thou li'st my friend 
 
 In writing foolish books there is no end, 
 [B. III. c. 18. page 187.] 
 
 [The ' another' was doubtless Fuller himself. G.]. 
 
 12. Moderation: 
 
 Both ends o' th' table furnish'd arc with meat 
 Whilst they in middle nothing had to eat. 
 They were none of the wisest well I wist 
 "VVlio made bliss in the middle to consist. 
 [B. III. c. 20. page 202.]
 
 160 THE HOLY STATE. 
 
 13. Gravitie: 'That may be done privately 
 without breach of gravity, which may not be done 
 publickly. As when a father makes himself his 
 child's rattle, sporting with liim till the father 
 hath devoured the wise man in him, Equitans in 
 arundine longa. 
 
 Instead of stately steed 
 Riding upon a reed. 
 [B. III. c. 21 page 205.] 
 
 14. '■ Grand^ Churches: 
 
 The Church did blush more glory for to have 
 Then had her Lord. He begg'd : should she be 
 brave. [B. III. c. 24. page 217.] 
 
 15. The good Bishop : ' In liis grave writings 
 he aims at God's glory and the Church's peace, 
 ynth that worthy prelate, the second Jewel of 
 Salisbury, whose comments and controversies wiU. 
 transmit his memory to all posterity : 
 
 Whose dying pen did write of Christian 
 
 Union 
 How Church with Church might safely keep 
 
 Communion. 
 Commend his care, although the cure do misse : 
 The woe is ours, the happinesse is his :
 
 THE HOLT STATE. 161 
 
 "Who finding discords daily to encrease 
 Because he could not live would dy, in peace. 
 [B. IV. c. 9. page 270.] 
 
 [Davenant is referred to : his mother was sister of 
 Fuller's. G.]. 
 
 16. Augustine: 'His diet was very cleanly 
 and sparing, yet hospitable in the entertaining of 
 others : and had tliis distich wrote on his table' 
 
 He that doth love an absent friend to jeer 
 May hence depart, no room is for him here. 
 [B. IV. c. 10. page 275.] 
 
 1 7. Ridley and Hooper : ' In like manner, 
 not much before, his [Bidley] dear friend, Master 
 Hooper suffered -with great torment : the wind 
 (which too often is the bellows of great fires) 
 blowing it away from him once or twice. Of all 
 the martyrs in those days, these two endured most 
 pain, it being true that each of them querebat in 
 ignibus ignes :'' 
 
 And still he did desire 
 For fire in midd'st of fire
 
 162 THE HOLY STATE. 
 
 both desiring to burn and yet both their upper 
 parts were but confessours when their lower parts 
 were martyrs and burnt to ashes.' 
 
 [B. IV. c. 11. page 283.] 
 
 18. Lady Jane Gr('D : 
 
 What eyes thou readst with Eeader, know I not: 
 Mine were not dry when I this story wrote. 
 [B. IV. c. 14. page 298.] 
 
 19. dueen Elizaheth and the Spanish Ern- 
 bassadour : ' Nor was her poetick vein less happy 
 in Latine. When a little before the Spanish inva- 
 sion in '88, the Spanish embassadour (after a 
 larger representation in his master's demands) had 
 summed up the effect thereof in a tetrastitch, who 
 instantly in one verse rejoyned her answer. We 
 wiU presume to English both, though confessing 
 the Latine loseth lustre by the translation.' 
 
 These to you are our commands. 
 Send no help to th' Netherlands : 
 Of the treasure took by Drake 
 Eestitntion you must make : 
 And those abbies built anew 
 Which your father overthrew : 
 If for any peace you hope 
 In aU points restore the Pope. 
 
 •
 
 THE HOLT STATE. 163 
 
 The Queen's extempore return : 
 Ad Grecas, bone rex, fiant mandata calendas 
 Worthy king, know this your will 
 At latter Lammas twee'l fulfil. 
 [B. IV. c. 15. page 303.] 
 
 20. Gustavus AdoJphns : 'I find a most 
 learned pen [Hakewill] apply these Latin verses 
 to this noble prince : and it is honour enough 
 for us to translate them' 
 
 More then a Priest he in the Church might 
 
 pass. 
 More then a Prince in Commonwealth he was. 
 More then a Counseller in points of State. 
 More then a LaAvj'^er matters to bebate. 
 More then a General to command outright. 
 More then a Souldier to perform a fight. 
 More then a man to bear affliction strong. 
 More then a man good to forgive a wrong. 
 More then a Patriot countrey to defend. 
 True fricndsliip to maintain, more tlicn a 
 
 Friend. 
 More then fiimiliar sweetly to converse. 
 And though in sports more then a lion fierce; 
 To hunt and kill the game ; yet be exprest 
 More then Phil()soj)her in all the rest. 
 [15. IV. (^ 18. page 321.]
 
 164 THE HOLY STATE. 
 
 21. Heir-apj)arent : 
 
 His worth. a"bove his wealth appears 
 And vertues go beyond his years. 
 [E. IV. c. 19. page 322.] 
 
 XI. From the Profane State. ^ 
 
 1. Tlte harlot: 'Besides by many wicked 
 devices she seeks on purpose to make herself 
 barren' . . . 
 
 Which wicked projects first froau hell did flow, 
 And thitlier let the same in silence go, 
 Best known of them who did them never know. 
 [B. y. c. 1. page 345.] 
 
 ' , 2. Joan of Arc : 
 
 Cruelty to a woman 
 
 Brings honour unto no man. 
 
 ^s"- 
 
 ' We will close the different opinions which 
 several Authours had of her, Avitli this epitaph : ' 
 
 Here lies Joan of Arc, the which 
 
 Some count saint and some count witch ; 
 
 1 ' The Trofano State. By Thomas Fuller B.D. and Tre- 
 bendary of Sarum. London IGGii' folio.
 
 THE HOLY STATE. 165 
 
 Some count man and something more ; 
 Some count maid and some a whore ; 
 Her life's in question, wrong or right : 
 Her death's in doubt, by laws or might 
 Oh innocence take heed of it 
 How thou too near to guilt dost sit. 
 (Meantime France a wonder said 
 A woman rule 'gainst Salique law) 
 But, reader, be content to stay 
 Thy censure till the Judgment-day : 
 Then shalt thou know and not before 
 Whether saint, witch, man, maid or whore. 
 [B. V. c. 5. pp. 363, 364.] 
 
 3. Atheist : 
 
 On earth were atheists many 
 In hell there is not any. 
 [L. V. c. 7. page 368.] 
 
 4. Jehu : 
 
 Three weaklings we, a wife for war too mild 
 Laertes old, Telemachus a child. 
 
 So thrice a year sliould Jcliu onely ])c king 
 over such an impotent company of old men, 
 women and children.' [B. V c. 9. page 377.]
 
 166 ABEL RBDBVIVUS. 
 
 5. + Abolition of Universities : 
 
 Which Ave believe and wish may then be done 
 When all blear eyes have quite put out the sun. 
 [B. V. c. 11. page 387.] ^ 
 
 6, Tlie Liar: 
 
 When Jesuits unto us answer, Nay 
 They do not English speak, 'tis Greek they say. 
 [B. V. c. 12. page 390.] 
 
 XII, From 'Abel Eedevivus.' ^ 
 1. Berengabius : [of Tours: Born (probably 
 
 ' JTuller's authority for his preposterous accusation in the 
 context, of Greenwood and Barrow is ' Dr Soame's writing 
 against them: hb. 2. page 4. But as against Soames see 
 ' A True Eolation of Two Merchants of London, who were 
 taken Prisoners by the Cavaliers, and of the barbarous 
 cruelty inflicted on them : together with the great familiarity 
 of Dr Soames, Vicar of Staynes with the Cavaliers and 
 of their familiarities with his daughters 1642. [4°]. G. 
 
 - ' Abel Eedevivus \_sic'] • or the Dead yet Speaking. The 
 Lives and Deaths of the modern Divines ; written by several 
 
 able and learned men 1651' [4°J Fuller names Beren- 
 
 garius, Huss, Jerome, Cranmer, Fox, Junius and Perkins as 
 by himself, and adds ' etc' The 'most part of the poetry' he 
 assigns to Master Quarles, father and son : but I understand 
 this to exclude the ' Lines ' in his own LivBS. 'Abel Eede- 
 vivus ' has been re-printed under the supervision of ' William 
 Nichols' for Tegg: modernized hut very fairly if rather pe- 
 dantically edited. 2 vols. cr. 8° 1867. G.
 
 ABEL REDBVIVUS. 1G7 
 
 in 1020) Died January 6tli 1088. G.] ' We leave 
 Mm to stand or fall to his owne Master, according, 
 to that concluding disticke, -which we find in an 
 author :' 
 
 Ciim nihil ipse vides propria quin lahe laboret 
 Tu tua fac cures, csetera mitte D eo. 
 
 ' Seeing nought thou seest but faults are in the best 
 Looke thou unto thyselfe, leave God the rest.' 
 [Pp. 7, 8.] 
 
 ^Most worthily may this Divine 
 
 Old Berengarius, fairely shine 
 
 Within this skie of lustrious starres 
 
 Who 'gainst Rome'serroroursfoughtTruth'sAvarres: 
 
 Confuting, witli high approbation 
 
 Rome's figment, Transubstantiation ; 
 
 Which did that hierarchic so vex 
 
 And with such passion so perplex 
 
 That they Avoidd never give him rest 
 
 But did his soule so much molest, 
 
 That at the last, by fraud and force 
 
 They made liiin — witli most sad remorse — 
 
 Two several times his cause recant ; 
 
 Him of his crown thus to supplant. 
 
 Thus, 0, thus, oft, Sol's rayes most rare 
 
 With duskie clouds ccchpscd are.
 
 168 ABEL REDEVIVUS. 
 
 2. John Huss : [Eeformer and Martyr : 
 Born 1376 (1) : Died July 7th 1415. G.] 
 
 This most ilhistrious lamp of Gospel light 
 Which in Bohemia first shon forth most bright 
 By this renowned martyres industry, — 
 Heavenly, heroick Huss, yet furiously 
 AflBronted was by Papall enemies. 
 But in the midst of this their rage, did rise 
 Among themselves, a mighty schisme and rent 
 Three anti-i:)opes at once : by which event 
 Renowned Huss did great advantage gain. 
 The Gospel's light to propagate, maintain. 
 But, at the last, that schism being sew'd-up 
 Againe they fill their wrath's and rage's cup ; 
 And gave it Huss to drink, who valiantly 
 Drank-up the same, to death's extremity : 
 And though they painted-devils placed on his 
 
 head ^ 
 Yet he their scorn and rage did nothing dread. 
 Thus, faithlesse Eome, breaking her promise given. 
 In fiery-chariot sent his soul to heaven, 
 [Page 20.] 
 
 ' ' A paper, whereon devils were anticly [^ grotesquely] 
 painted, was put upon him ; he wearing those shadows 
 on his head, whose substance his enemies felt in their 
 heart.' F. '
 
 ABEL REDEVIVUS. 169 
 
 3. Jerome of Prague : [Reformer and Mar- 
 tyr : Born 1378 (1) : Died May 30tli 1416. G.] 
 
 This brave Bohemian worthy may, indeed 
 His brother Huss most worthily succeed ; 
 And, as two twins, for their heroic spirit, 
 The one the other's honour may inherit. 
 For by John Huss, Jerome was blestly ayded, 
 Where by the Eomish-rout he was invaded : 
 And Jerome, hearing Huss was wrong'd by Eome 
 To vindicate his quarrell did presume ; 
 But, in the tryal, found his heeles tript up 
 Fearfull (by Eomish rage) to taste his cup. 
 Yet, at the last, that tempting blast ore blown 
 His doubled and redoubled zeal was shown ; 
 Stoutly recanting his forced recantation. 
 To th' death he hated Rome's abomination. 
 "Which did their Eomish furie so inflame. 
 That, torturing him, they tygers fierce became : 
 His head (like Huss) Avith painted divels array'd 
 His soule to heaven outrageous flames convay'd. 
 [Page 30.] 
 
 4. Cranmer [Reformer and Martyr : Bom 
 1489 : Died March 21, 1556. C] 
 
 'Twas not iuticing honour cduld remove 
 Tlie constant heart of Cranmer from the love 
 Of sound divinity ; he alwayes stood
 
 170 ABEL REDEVIVUS. 
 
 Firme to God's cause, and dy'd it with his blood. 
 A true seraj^hicke and tyrannicke fire 
 Proved — as it were — ambitious to aspire : 
 And both prevail' d, being willing to controule ; 
 Th' one burnt his body, th' other cured his soule. 
 Image-adoring Papists, boast your fils ; 
 Ye sent a soul to heaven against your wils. 
 What can ye say, but this, — -your rage was spent ; 
 Ye did him good, though with an ill intent 1 
 Pricke up your eares and heare this fatall tone, 
 Those fires which made Mm screek, will make 
 you gron. [Page 228.] 
 
 5. John Fox or Foxe [' Martyrologist : ' Born 
 1517 : Died April 18, 1587. G.] 
 
 Pare Fox (well furr'd with patience) liv'd a life 
 In's youthfuU age devoted unto strife ; 
 For the blind Papists of those frantick times 
 Esteem'd his virtues as liis greatest crimes. 
 The hot persuit of their ful crying hounds 
 Forced him to flye beyond the lawlesse bounds : 
 Of their hot-sented malice : thouoh their skill 
 Was great in hunting, yet our Fox was still 
 Too crafty for them : though they ranged about 
 From place to place, they could not finde him out : 
 And when they saw their plots could not prevaile 
 To bless their noses with his whisking taile, 
 They howl'd out curses, but could not obtain ;
 
 ABEL REDEVIVUS. 171 
 
 Their prey being fled, their curses proved in vaine : 
 
 From whence I think this proverb came at first, — 
 
 ' Most thrives the Fox that most of all is curst.' 
 
 [Page 383.] 
 
 6. Fr. Junius [French Protestant : Born 
 1545: Died Oct. 13, 1602. G.] 
 
 Reader, observe, and thou shalt finde 
 A rare and well-reformed minde : 
 He that in his youthfull dayes 
 Scorch'd his conscience by the blaze 
 Of wanton fires, refused at last 
 The heat of an atheisticke blast ; 
 He started from the deep abyss 
 Of vilenesse to the height of bliss ; 
 And then that hght wliich fil'd his breast 
 Gave himselfe and others rest ; 
 That they which did before contemne 
 His deeds, imbraced him as a jem ; 
 And thouglit him fitting to be set 
 Within the Church's cabonet. 
 His vertue pay'd what vice had scoareci 
 And age abhor'd what youth adored. 
 [Page 450.]
 
 172 MIXT CONTEMPLATIONS AND 
 
 7. William Perkins [Divine: Born 1558: 
 Died 1602. G.] 
 
 Of all tlie wortliies in this learned role, 
 Our English Perkins may, without controle, 
 Challenge a crowne of bayes to deck his head 
 And second unto none be numbered, 
 For's learning, wit and worthy parts divine, 
 Wherein his fame resplendently did shine 
 Abroad and eke at home, for's preaching rare 
 And learned writings almost past compare ; 
 Wliich were so high esteem'd, that some of them 
 Translated were (as a most precious jem) 
 Into the Latine, French, Dutch, Spanish tongue, 
 And rarely valued both of old and young. 
 And (which was very rare) them all did write 
 With his left hand, his right being useless quite : 
 Bornj3 in the first, dying in the last, year 
 Of Queen Eliza, a princesse without peer. 
 [Page 440.] 
 
 XIV. From ' Mixt Contemplations on These 
 Times' and 'Personal Meditations:' in all the 
 collected editions of ' Good Thoughts,' etc. 
 
 1. All for the present : 'Oh! give me that 
 good man's gracious temper who earnestly desired 
 the prosperity of the Church, whatsoever became
 
 PERSONAL MEDITATIONS. 173 
 
 of himself, whose verses I will offer to trans- 
 late.' 
 
 Buried in earth or drown'd in th' main 
 
 Eat up by worms or fishes : 
 I pray the pious may obtain 
 
 For happy times, their wishes. 
 [M. C. XXII.] 
 
 2. Niniveh : ' But wliat is now become of 
 Xiniveh 1 It is even buried in its own ruins and 
 may have tlais epitaph upon it :' 
 
 Hie jacet finis infiniti 
 Here lieth the end of what was endless. 
 [Ibid. XXIX.] 
 
 3. Good augury : ' I^was much affected with 
 reading that distick in Ovid, as having somewhat 
 extraordinary therein :' 
 
 Tarpeia quondam predixit ab ilice comix 
 Est, bene non potiut dicere, dixit, erit. 
 The crow sometimes did sit and spell ^ 
 
 On top of Tarpie-hall ; 
 She could not say alFs icell, alVs well 
 But said // sliall, it shall 
 
 ' To fore-tell ; hence spelman. F.
 
 174 THE "WORTHIES. 
 
 ' But what do I listen to the language of the 
 
 crow, whose black colours hath a cast of hell 
 
 therein, in superstitious soothsaying. Let us 
 
 hearken to what the dove of the Holy Spirit saith.' 
 
 [M. C. XXXV.] 
 
 4. Ovid's line : 
 Father an me pity take 
 Verses I no more will make. (P. M. XI.) 
 
 XIV. From the ' Worthies.' ^ 
 
 1. Scarlet-hahlt of Cardinals : 'whereof Theo- 
 dore Beza tartly enough thus expresseth himself:' 
 
 My clothes in purple liquor ne'er were stew'd. 
 Nor garments (trust me) richly dy'd in grain. 
 
 Those robes you see so red, I have imbrew'd 
 In gore of guiltless saints, whom I have slain. 
 
 Or, mindful of the faults they hide, with shame 
 The bashful clothes do blush their wearer's 
 blame. [C. IV. page 15.] 
 
 2. Lord Chancellors : ' I find another nota- 
 tion of this office, some deducing his name a 
 cancellando from cancelling tilings amisse, and 
 
 ' ' The History of tlio Worthies of England. Endeavoured 
 by Thomas Fuller, D.D. London, 1662,' foHo.
 
 THE WORTHIES. 175 
 
 rectifying them by the rules of equity and a good 
 conscience : and this relateth to no meaner author 
 then Johannes Sarisburiensis.' 
 
 'Tis he, who cancelleth all cruel lawes, 
 And in kings' mandates equity doth cause. 
 
 If aught to Land or laws, doth hurtful j)rove, 
 The care that hurt doth speedily remove. 
 [C. VI. page 16 mispaged.] 
 
 3. Needless hooTcs : ' Solomon was sensible of 
 tliis vanity, even in his time, when pronouncing 
 " of books there is no end." The heathen poet 
 took notice thereof, Scribimus indocti doctlque 
 Pcemata passim : ' 
 
 Poems write a main we do 
 Learned and unlearned too. 
 [C. X. page 29.] 
 
 4. Modern pamjyJdeteers : ' Here I expect that 
 the judicious reader will excuse me, if I take no 
 notice of many modern pamphleteers : seeing 
 unlearned scribblers are not ranked with learned 
 writers ; yea it was, though tartly, truly .said, to 
 the autlior of such a book :' 
 
 Wliilst others How Avitli faults, but one is past 
 In all thy book : 'tis fault from first to last.
 
 17G THE WORTHIES. 
 
 ' Indeed the Press, at first a virgin, then a chaste 
 wife, is since turned common, as to prostitute 
 herself to all scurrilous pamphlets.' 
 [C. X. pages 29, 30.] 
 
 5.t Henrii KeUe, Lord Mayor of London, 
 1511 : ' who besides other benefactions in his life- 
 time, re-builded Alder-Mary-Church run to very 
 mines, and bequeathed at his death a thousand 
 pounds for the finishing thereof Yet within 
 sixty years after, his bones were unkindly yea 
 inhumanely, cast out of the vaulte wherein they 
 were buried, his monument plucked down for 
 some wealthy person of the present times, to be 
 buried therein. I could not but on tlus occasion 
 rub up my old poetry : ' 
 
 Facit Indignatio Versus. 
 The Author to Alder-Mary Church. 
 
 ' Ungrateful Church, orerun with rust 
 Lately buried in the dust ; 
 Utterly thou hadst been lost, 
 If not preserv'd by Keble's cost : 
 A thousand pounds, might it not buy 
 Six foot in length for him to lie 1 
 But, ousted of his quiet tombe, 
 For later corps he must make roome :
 
 THE WORTHIES. 177 
 
 Tell me where his dust is cast 
 Though't be late, yet now at last ; 
 All his bones with scorne ejected, 
 I will see them re-collected : 
 Who faine myself would kinsman prove 
 To all that did God's temples love. 
 
 Alder-Mary Churche's Answer. 
 
 ' Alas 1 my innocence excuse : 
 My Wardens they did me abuse. 
 Whose avarice his ashes sold 
 That goodness might give place to gold ; 
 As for his reliques, all the town 
 They are scattered up and down ; 
 Seest a Church repaired well ] 
 There a sprinkling of them feU : 
 
 . See'st a new Church lately built ] 
 Thicker there his ashes spilt : 
 that all the Land throughout 
 Keble's dust were throune about ; 
 Places scatterM with that seed 
 Would a crop of Churches breed.' 
 [C. XI. page 33.] 
 
 G. Exhortation to deeds of charitij : ' Tlie 
 best- disposed to bounty may need a remembran- 
 cer : and I am sure that nightingale which woidd 
 wake, will not be angry with the thorn wluch 
 
 M
 
 178 THE WORTHIES. 
 
 pricketh. her breast when she noddeth. Besides 
 it is a truth what the poet saith,' 
 
 Who, what thou dost, thee for to do doth move 
 
 Doth praise thy practice and thy deeds approve. 
 
 [C. XL page 39.] 
 
 7. Altering of surnames : ' Hence it is that 
 the same name hath been so often disguised unto 
 the staggering of many, w^ho have mistook them 
 for different : Idem non idem, querimtque in 
 
 nomiiie nomen.^ 
 
 The same they thought was not the same ; 
 And in their name they sought their name. 
 
 ' Thus I am informed that the honourable name 
 of Villiers is written in fourteen several .ways, 
 in theb own evidence.' [C. XVII. page 51.] 
 [Shakespeare, Ealeigh, Sibbes, Airay, afford like 
 examples. G.] 
 
 8. Associates of a man^s life : 
 
 We by their company do own 
 Men by themselves to us imknqwn. 
 
 The Latin is 
 
 Noscitur e socio qui non noscetur ab ipso. 
 [C. XX. page 55.]
 
 THE WORTHIES. 179 
 
 9. Descents : ' If enquiry be made into all 
 men's descents, it would be found true what the 
 poet doth, shewe :' 
 
 The first of all tliine ancestors of yore 
 
 "Was but a shepheard, or 1 say no more. 
 
 [C. XXV. page 74.] 
 
 10. 'Haste makes waste.^ — Object mi to the 
 Worthies ' prevented ' [ =r ' anticipated.' G.] 
 'You have hudled your book too soon to the presse, 
 for a subject of such a nature. You should have 
 sent to the gentry of several counties, to have 
 furnished you with memorables out of their own 
 pedegi-ees and should have taken a longer time 
 to compose them.' 
 
 ' Eight years digest what you have rudely hinted, 
 And in the ninth year let the same be printed!' 
 
 Ansnver. ' Tliat nmth year might happen eight 
 years after my death, being sensible of the im- 
 pression of age upon me ; and a stranger to my 
 method would hardly rally my scattered post- 
 humed notes.' [C. XXV. page 74.] [The 
 * Worthies ' did prove to be ' posthumi; ' and the 
 son brought it out with little of the skill or care 
 of the father as the many blundering folio, 
 shews. G.]
 
 180 THE WORTHIES. 
 
 11. Episcopacy cmd Preshyterij : Ohjection : 
 ' In your Protestant writers you promiscuously 
 iningle some very zealous for Episcopacy, others 
 as active for Presbytery.' . . A7iswer : ' I had 
 rather privately bemoan than publickly proclaim 
 the difference betAvixt them when alive : charit- 
 ably believing that being dead 
 
 jSTow they are agreM well 
 And in bliss together dwell.' 
 [C. XXV. page 74.] 
 
 12. Living persons : Objection: 'You have 
 omitted many memorable persons still surviving, 
 as meriting as any you have inserted. Ansroer : 
 The return of Martial in a case not much unlike 
 may much befriend me herein :' 
 
 DeceasM authors thou admir'st alone 
 And only praisest poets dead and gone. 
 Vacerra, pardon me : I will not buy 
 Thy praise so dear as for the same to dye. 
 
 All men being like-minded with Martial here- 
 
 to 
 
 in, none surviving will distaste their omission in 
 
 a work, for reasons afore alledged {save in some 
 
 cases) confined to the memories of the departed.' 
 
 [C. XXV. page 76.]
 
 THE WORTHIES. 181 
 
 13. Numerousness of- writers :' Omissions are 
 apologized for ' for their niimerousnesse and there- 
 fore I may make use of the Latine distick where- 
 with John Pitseus closeth his book of English 
 writers.' 
 
 More volums to our volums must we hind ; 
 And when that's done, a bound we cannot find. 
 [C. XXVI. page 79.] 
 
 14. Birtli-jilace: > 
 
 A thankfid man will feed 
 The place Avhich did him breed. 
 [C. XXVI. page 80.] 
 
 15. Enr/Iish ' cq)e the French: 
 It is to us a pain 
 
 This should be said and not gain-said again. 
 [Berkshire : Proverbs.] 
 
 I 
 
 IG.-f- Royal Children: ' As for the other cliild- 
 
 ren of Eleanor viz. Henry, 
 
 Alphonse, Blanche, dying in their infancy imme- 
 diately after their baptism, it is enough to name 
 them and to bestow this joynt epitaph upon them.' 
 
 Cleansed at font we drew untainted breath 
 Not yet made bad by life, made good by death
 
 182 THE WORTHIES. 
 
 1 7. Sii' John Mason , 
 
 He saw five princes which the scepter bore 
 Of them was privy-councellor to four. \Ihid.'\ 
 
 1 8. Ancient gentry : 
 
 Of names which were in days of yore 
 
 Few remain here of a great store. \IhidJ\ 
 
 19.-}- Richard Cox and Prince Edwai'd: ' He 
 was sent for to he instructor to Prince Edward, 
 which, with good conscience, to his great credit, 
 he discharged. Here reader forgive me in hazard- 
 ing thy censure, in making and translating a 
 distick upon them.' 
 
 Prseceptor doctus, docilis magis an puer ille 1 
 Ille puer docihs, prseceptor tu quoque doctus. 
 Master more able, child of more docility 1 
 Docile the child, master of great ability. 
 
 [Buckinghamshire.] 
 
 20. Dame Hester Temple : ' I confess very 
 many of her descendants dyed before her death : 
 in wliich respect she was far surpassed by a Eoman 
 matron, on whom the poet thus epitajDheth it, in 
 her own person :'
 
 THE WORTHIES. 183 
 
 Twenty nine births Callicrate I told 
 And of both sexes saw none sent to grave 1 
 I was an hundred and five winters old, 
 Yet stay from staff my hand did never crave. 
 
 [Buckinghamesliire. ] 
 
 21. Baskets: 'Martial confesseth baskets to 
 have been a British invention, though Eome after- 
 wards laid claim thereunto.' 
 
 I, foreign basket, first in Brittain known 
 And now by Rome accounted for her own. 
 
 [Cambridgeshire.] 
 
 22. Mattheio Paris : 
 
 Matthew, here cease thy pen in peace, and study 
 
 on no more 
 Nor do thou rome at things to come, what next 
 
 age hath in store. \_Ibtd.'\ 
 
 23. Simon StewarrVs ' coat of arms :' 
 
 French Charls would have these Coats to be thus 
 
 Avorn ; 
 When singly good, their better jointly born. 
 
 [Ibid.] 
 
 24. Beestone Castle : ' pictures' of — 
 
 When real walls arc vani.sli'd quite 
 Painted ones doe us delight.
 
 184 THE WORTHIES. 
 
 ' Learned Leland is very confident that this 
 castle shall see better times, deriving his intelli- 
 gence from ancient predictions :' 
 
 Beestone in time its head aloft shall heave 
 If I, a prophet, prophets may believe. 
 
 [Cambridgeshire. ] 
 
 25.t Daniel King : ' on whom we will bestoAv 
 this distick' 
 
 Cheshire to King and King to Chesliire owes 
 His light : each doth receive what each bestows. 
 
 ' What is amiss in my poetry, shall be amended 
 in my prayers for a blessing on his and all 
 ingenious men's undertakings.' [The Latin is] 
 
 Kingus Cestrensi, Censtrensis Patria Kingo 
 Lucem alternatim debet uterque suam. 
 
 [Cheshire.] 
 
 26. Dreams: [Virgil: Aeneid vi. 893] 
 
 Dreames have two gates : one made [they say] 
 of horn ; 
 By this port pass, true and projDhetic dreames : 
 AVhite ivory the other doth adorne ; 
 
 By this false shades and lying fancies streames. 
 
 [Cornwall.]
 
 THE WORTHIES. 185 
 
 27. Tongilian : ' I cannot take my leave of 
 these tinners, nntill I have ohserv'd a strange prac- 
 tice of them, that once in seven or eight years 
 they burn down (and that to their great profit) 
 their own melting houses.' 
 
 ' I remember a merry epigram in Martial on 
 one Tongilian who had his house in Eome 
 causually (reputed) burnt, and gained ten times 
 as much, by his friends' contribution to his loss :' 
 
 Gaining tenfold, tell tndy, I desire 
 Tongilian, did'st not set thy house on fire. 
 
 [Cornish.] 
 
 [See the explanation in the sequel of the text. G.] 
 
 28. Cornish : ' They ever have been be-held 
 men of valoiir. It seemeth in the reign of the 
 aforesaid king Arthur they ever made up his 
 van-guard, if I can riglitly understand the bar- 
 barous verses of a Cornish poet :' 
 
 Brave Arthur, when he meant a field to fight 
 Us Cornish men did first of all invite : 
 Only to Cornish (count them Caesar's swords) 
 He the first blow in battle still affords. \Ihid.'\ 
 
 29. Michael Bhmnpaijn: ' It happened one 
 Henry of ^Normandy, chief poet to our Henry the
 
 186 THE WOBTHIBS. 
 
 Tliird, had traduced Cornwall, as an inconsider- 
 able country, cast out by nature in contempt into 
 a corner of the Land. Our Michael could not 
 endure this affront : but full of poeticall fury, 
 falls upon the libeller. Take a taste (little 
 thereof will go far) of his strains :' 
 
 We need not number up her wealthy store 
 Wherewith this helpful land relieves her poor, 
 No sea so full of fish, of tinn no shore. 
 
 ' Then as a valiant champion, he concludeth 
 all with this exhortation to his countrymen :' 
 
 What should us fright if firmly we do stand 1 
 Bar fraud, then no force can us command. 
 
 *•> 
 
 ' His pen so lusliious in praising when so 
 pleased, was as bitter in railing when disposed : 
 witness this his satirical character of his aforesaid 
 antagonist : ' 
 
 Gamb'd Hke a goat, sparow-thigh'd, sides as boar. 
 Hare-mouth' d, dog-nos'd, Uke mule thy teeth 
 and chin : 
 Brow'd as old wife, bul-headed, black as more. 
 If such without, then what are you within 1 
 By these my signs the wise will easily conster 
 How little thou didst differ from a monster. 
 
 [Cornish.]
 
 THE WORTHIES. 187 
 
 30. Richard Carew and Sir Phili}) Sidtiey in 
 Ulispute extemjjore^ at College: 
 
 Ask you the end of this contest 1 
 They neither had the better ; both the best. 
 
 [Cornish.] 
 
 31. Symjjathy : 
 
 When thy neighbour's house doth burn 
 Take heed the next be not thy turn. 
 
 [Cumberland.] 
 
 32. John SalJield ' presented to king James : 
 by whose arguments (and a benefice bestowed on 
 hiiu in Somersetshire) he became a Protestant. 
 This he used in all companies to boast of " that 
 he was a royall convert." Nobisque dedit solatia 
 victor.' 
 
 And was it not a noble thing 
 
 Thus to be conquer'd by a Idng. [Iliid.'\ 
 
 [Not to be confounded with good John Salkeld 
 'ejected' in 16G2 from AVorlington, Suffolk. 
 See Calamy s. n. G.] 
 
 33. Chatsiovrlli : [from Ilobbes' De Mirabi- 
 libus Pecci].
 
 188 THE WORTHIES. 
 
 Chatsworth, which in its bulk itself doth pride 
 And lord (both great) stands Derwens bank 
 
 beside ; 
 "Which slides still by the gate, as full of wonder 
 Through loud with stones above the house and 
 
 under. [Derbyshire.] 
 
 34. 'Buxton Well: [Ihid.] 
 
 Old men's nunib'd joynts new vigor here acquire ; 
 In frozen nerves this water kindleth fire. 
 Hither the creples halt, some help to find, 
 Eun hence, their crutches unthank'tt left beliind. 
 The barren wife here meets her husband's love 
 "With such success she strait doth mother prove. 
 
 [Ihkl] 
 
 ■\- ' The Translator durst not be so bold as the 
 author.' 
 
 35. Battle of Alcaser : 
 
 A fatal fight, where in one day was slain 
 Three kings that were and one that would be fain. 
 
 [Ihid:\ 
 
 36 Sir Francis Drake : ' This tetrastic made 
 on his corpse when cast out of the sliip, wherein 
 he died, into the sea :' 
 Though Eoxne's religion should in time return 
 
 Drake, none thy body will ungrave again :
 
 THE WORTHIES. 189 
 
 There is no fear posterity should burn 
 
 Those bones, which free from fixe in sea remain. 
 
 [Devonshire.] 
 
 37. Samuel Word : ' Now because the pen of 
 a pupil may probably be suspected of partiality, 
 of an historian I wiU turn a translator and only 
 endeavour to Enghsh that character which one 
 [Dr Thomas Goad] who knew him as well as most 
 men and could judge of him as well as any man 
 doth bestow upon him.' 
 
 Go to, go on, deck (as thou doest) the chaire 
 With subtilty not light, slight, vage as air ; 
 But such as Truth doth crown, and standing sure 
 Solidly fix'd will weighing well endure. 
 Antiquities' hid depths thou oft doest sound, 
 And School-men's Avhirl-pools which are so pro- 
 found. 
 Distinction's threads none can so finely weave ; 
 Or reason wrench, thy knowledge to deceive ; 
 None thy quick sight, grave j udgenient, can beguile 
 So skill'd in tongues, so sinewy in style : 
 Add to all these that peaceful soul of thine 
 Meek, modest, which all brawlings doth decline. 
 
 [Durham.]
 
 190 THE WORTHIES. 
 
 38. Sir Henry Killigreio : ' Now Katlierine, 
 his lady wrote these following verses to her sister 
 Mildred Cecil, to improve her power with the 
 Lord Treasurer her husband, that Sir Henry might 
 be excused from that service [of ambassador to 
 France]. We will endeavour to translate them, 
 though I am afraid falling much short of their 
 native elegance : ' 
 
 If Mildred, by thy care, he be sent back whom I 
 
 request, 
 A sister good thou art to me, yea better, yea, the 
 
 best. 
 But if with stays thou keep'st him still or send'st 
 
 where seas may part, 
 Then unto me a sister ill, yea worse, yea none 
 
 thou art. 
 If go to Cornwall he shall please, I peace to thee 
 
 foretell ; 
 
 But Cecil, if he set to seas, I war denounce. 
 
 « 
 
 Farewell, - [Essex.] 
 
 39. t Tliomas Barington and ' Sjyouse' — ' See 
 here a sympathizing wife, dying the next day 
 after her husband, of whom it may be said' 
 
 He first deceased : she for few hours try'd 
 To live without liim, lik'd it not, and dy'd. 
 
 [Ibid.]
 
 THE WORTHIES. 191 
 
 40. Higre and Adria [== Adriatic G.] — After 
 quoting Drayton's description of the Higre, Fuller 
 adds ' Had this been known to the Roman poet 
 [Horace] when he thus envied against his shee- 
 friend' 
 
 Thou art more light, more angry than 
 The cork, and uncouth Adrian. 
 
 ' I say, had it been known, he would have 
 changed Adria into Higrea, the former being a 
 very calme in comparison of the latter.' — [Glou- 
 cestershire.] [I doubt good Fuller if thou 
 speak est here from experience if I may judge 
 from what the Adriatic has proved to me in sail- 
 ing it over and over. G.] 
 
 41. Tliomas de la More: 
 
 A man whose fame extended far 
 For arts in peace and feats in war. 
 
 [Gloucestershire. ] 
 
 42. Cliarles Butler : author of a ' Luok oi 
 Lees : ' 
 
 Eutler, he'l say (wlio these thy writing sees) 
 iJees counsel thee or else thou counsel'st bees. 
 
 [Ilamiisliire.]
 
 192 THE WORTHIES. 
 
 43. William, second son of King Edioard the 
 Third : ' What I find written on the late monu- 
 ment of a noble infant may also serve for his 
 epitaph.' 
 
 Living I could not speak, now dead I tel 
 Thy duty : think of death : and so farewell. 
 
 [Hertf ordsliire. ] 
 
 44. Alexander' Nequam or Bad in English : 
 ' Many conceived themselves wondrous witty in 
 making jests (which indeed made themselves) on 
 his sirname.' .... 'Whereupon Nequam (to 
 discompose such conceits for the future) altered 
 the orthography of his name into Neckam. 
 
 Another pass of wit there was betwixt 
 
 him and Philip Eepington, bishop of Lincoln, 
 the latter sending the challenge.' 
 
 Et niger et nequani, cum sis cognomine Nequam; 
 Nigrior esse potes, nequior esse nequis. 
 Both black and had, whilst Bad tie name to thee 
 Blacker thou may'st but worse thou can'st not be. 
 
 To whom Nequam rejoyned ; 
 
 Phi nota fistoris, lippus malus omnibus horis : 
 Phi malus et lijjpus, totus malus ergo Philippus.
 
 THE WORTHIES. 193 
 
 Stinks are branded Avith. a Phi; lippus Latin for 
 
 blear-eye : 
 Phi and lippits bad 0,s either ; tlien Pliilippiis 
 
 worse together. 
 
 This [is his] epitaph : 
 
 "Wisdom's eclips'd, sky of the sun bereft 
 Yet less the loss if Hke alive were left. 
 A man discreet, in manners debonair 
 Bad name, black face, but carriage good and 
 fair. \Ihid.'\ 
 
 45.+ William of Ware : ' He was instructor 
 to John Duns Scotus.' 
 
 And if the scholar to such height did reach 
 Then what was he who did this scholar teach 1 
 
 [Ibid.] 
 
 46. Wye-salmon : 
 
 Salmon in Summer is not rare 
 In Winter I of them do share. 
 
 for the river Wye affords brumal salmon, fat 
 and sound, when they are sick and spent in other 
 places.' [Herefordshire ] 
 
 47. Ailam dr Eadon : ' Pity it is so good a 
 scholar .sliould have so barbarous an epitaph, 
 scarce worth our translation.' 
 
 N
 
 194 THE WOETHIES. 
 
 Adam a famous father in arts all 
 He was a deep divine, Cardi-snid-naU, 
 Whom England bred, St Cicelie hath given 
 His title — death at last gave heaven. 
 
 [Herefordshu'e.] 
 
 t)^ 
 
 48. William Semjyster : 
 
 "Well I know these works he wrot 
 
 But for the time I know it not. [Ibid.] 
 
 49. Humphry Ely : 
 
 Wonder not, reader, that with heresies 
 England is clouded : here her Sun he lies 
 
 [lUd.] 
 
 50. Rosamund : ' buried in a little nunnery at 
 Godstowe nigh Oxford, with this epitaph.' 
 
 This tomb doth inclose, the world's fah' rose, so 
 
 sweet and full of savoiir 
 And smell she doth now, but you may guess how, 
 
 none of the sweetest savour. [Ibid.] 
 
 [See sequel in context. G.] 
 
 51. Sir Robert Cotton : 
 
 Camden to him, to him doth Selden, owe 
 Their glory : what they got from him did grow. 
 
 [Huntingdonshire.]
 
 TQE WORTHIES. 195 
 
 52. Interpretation of a jyroverh : 
 
 If thou know'st better, it to me impart 
 
 If not, use these of mine with aU my heart. 
 
 [Kent.] 
 
 53. Germans: 
 
 'Mongst the old Teuch, lest one oretop his breed 
 To his sire's land doth every son succeed. [Ibid.'\ 
 
 54.+ Edmund, ijoungest son to Henry the 
 Seventh ' died before he was fuU five years of age.' 
 
 . . ' Little notice generally is taken of this 
 prince : and no wonder, for ' 
 
 AVlio only act short parts in infant age 
 Are soon forgot they ere came on the stage. 
 
 [Ibid.] 
 
 55. Sir James Hales : 
 
 Seeing nought thou seest but faling in the best. 
 Mind thy own matters and leave God the rest. 
 
 [Ibid.] 
 
 5G. Ridi(trd Fletcher: ' Queen Elizabeth knew 
 fuU weir 
 
 The jewel vertue is more grac'd 
 
 When in a proper person cas'd. [lljid.']
 
 196 THE WORTHIES. 
 
 57. Sir Tliomas Wyat : 
 
 Let Florence fair her Dante's justly boast 
 
 And royal Eome her Petrarch's numbered feet : 
 
 In English Wiat both of them doth coast 
 In whom all graceful eloquence doth meet. 
 
 [Kent.] 
 
 58. Neio Kings : 
 
 Subjects commonly do finde 
 New-made soveraigns most kinde. 
 
 [Lancashu'e.] 
 
 59. Wills: 'Eichard Bancroft cancelled his 
 first will.' . . 
 
 He who never repented of doing ill 
 Eepented that once he made a good "Will. 
 
 [Ibid] 
 
 60. Worth: 
 
 l^or will worth 
 Long be confin'd but make its own way forth. 
 
 [Ibid.] 
 
 61. Fleet-hoimds : ^ Qiich. a. pehwiius ov Heet 
 hound, is two hounds in effect. 
 
 To the petronian, both the praise is due 
 Quickly to find and nimbly to pursue. 
 
 [Lincolnshire.]
 
 THE WORTHIES. 197 
 
 62. Grey-hounds : ' Martial speaking of these 
 grey hounds, thus expresseth himself : ' 
 
 For's master, not himself, doth greyhound toil 
 Whose teeth to thee return the unhurt spoyl.' 
 
 [Lincolnsliire.] 
 
 63. Mastiffs: 
 
 The British whelps no blemish know 
 But that they are not whelp' d for show. 
 
 [Ihld.'\ 
 
 64. Lost ' commons:' ' Long since Virgil said 
 the same in effect of the men of Mantua, when 
 they lost their lands to the souldiers of Augus- 
 tus.' 
 
 See townsmen, what we by our jars are grown ; 
 And see for whom we have our tillage sown. 
 
 [lUd.] 
 
 65. Ayscough, Ushop of Sarum: murdered 
 by Jack Cade : — • 
 
 By people's fury mitre thus cast down 
 
 We pray henceforward, God preserve the crown. 
 
 [rhid.] 
 
 66. Tliomas Goodrich : ' It will [not] be 
 araisse to insert and translate this distick made 
 upon him : '
 
 198 THE WORTHIES. 
 
 Both good and rich, well joyned, best rank'd 
 
 indeed : 
 For grace goes first and next doth icealtli succeed. 
 
 [Lincolnshire.] 
 
 67. Hampton Court : [It] * hath happiness 
 to continue in its former estate.' 
 
 I envy not its happy lot, but rather thereat 
 
 wonder ; 
 There's such a rout, our Land throughout, of 
 
 pallaces by plunder. [Middlesex.] 
 
 68. Fulke de Brent and Ms ^loife :' 
 
 Now both of them be'ng brought into a bed 
 By law and love and concord joynM are ; 
 What law 1 what love 1 what concord did them 
 wed? 
 Law lawless, loath'd love, concord which did 
 jarr. [Ibid.] 
 
 69. -J- Katlierine, ?>d daughter of King Henry 
 the Illd, : ' She died in her very infancy, on 
 whom we will presume to bestow this epitaph :' 
 
 Wak't from the wombe, she on this world did 
 
 peep 
 Dislikt it, clos'd her eyes, fell fast asleep. 
 
 [London.]
 
 THE WORTHIES. 199 
 
 70.t Wives of Henry VIII : ' Such as desire 
 to know the names, nnmher and siiccesse of all 
 six, may conceive King Henry thus speaking on 
 his death-hed : ' 
 
 Three Kates, two Nans, and one dear Jane I 
 wedded ; 
 One Spanish, one Dutch, and four English 
 wives : 
 From two I was divorc'd, two I beheaded, 
 One died in child-bed, and one me survives. 
 
 [London.'] 
 
 71. William Cotton, D.D. : 'epitaph.' 
 
 When th' queen from Paul to Peter did 
 
 remove, 
 Him God witli Paul and Peter plac'd above. 
 
 [Ihid.] 
 
 72. Spenser : ' epitapli : ' 
 
 Whilst thou did'st live, liv'd English poetry 
 Wliich fears, now thou art dead, that she 
 shall die. [Ibid.] 
 
 73. London: 
 
 Potent in piety, in her people proud. 
 
 [Ibid.]
 
 200 THE WORTHIES. 
 
 74. Charles II. : ' a tetastric by Master 
 Booth.' 
 
 Prince Charles, forgive me, that my silent 
 quill 
 Joy'd not thy birth ; alas ! sore sick was I. 
 New hopes now come ; had I been silent still 
 I should deserve both to be sick and die. 
 
 [Westminster.] 
 
 75. Bisliop Ayhner : 
 
 Eighteen years bishop and once banish'd 
 hence 
 ' And twice a champion in the truth's defence. 
 
 [^Torfolk.] 
 
 76. 'An end'' : 'Virgil, I remember put a 
 period to his Eclogue with ' 
 
 ' We'll versifie no more 
 For do but hark, Hylax doth bark at th' 
 
 entrance of the dore.' \IMd^ 
 
 77. William Lilly : ' This I will do for 
 William Lilly (though often beaten for his sake) 
 endeavour to translate his answer [to Skelton. 
 G.]
 
 THE WORTHIES. 201 
 
 With face so bold and teeth so sharp 
 Of viper's venome, why dost carp 1 
 Why are my verses by thee weigh'd 
 In a false scale 1 May truth be said 1 
 Whilst thou, to get the more esteem 
 A learned poet fain wouldst seem : 
 Skelton, thou art, let all men know it, 
 Neitlier learned nor a poet, [Norfolk]. 
 
 78. Sir Robert Dallington : 'He was knighted 
 and preferred master of the Charter-house, where 
 the schoolmaster at his first entering, welcomed 
 him with a speech in Latine verse, spoken by a 
 schoolboy ; but sure he was more then a boy who 
 indited it.' . . . ' the last distick therein ' — 
 
 Do not the least part of your trust disdain 
 Nor grudge of boys to take the care again. 
 
 [Northamptonshire.] 
 
 79. John Fldclicr : ' It coidd [not] be laid 
 to Fletcher's charge, what Ajax doth to Ulysses' 
 [Ovid: Met. lib. 13]. 
 
 When Diomede was gone 
 He could do nought alone. 
 
 For surviving his partner [Beaumont] ho wrote 
 good comedies himself.' \Ihid?[
 
 202 THE WORTHIES. 
 
 80. Peter Patesliull : would have teen burned 
 save for Ms flight. ' This mindeth me of a pas- 
 sage of a frier who hurned a hook of Peter 
 Eamus, after the death of the author thereof; 
 and then and there used this distick in some 
 imitation of Ovid. 
 
 Small hook, thy fate I envy not, 
 (Without me) feel the flame ; 
 
 Oh had it been thy master's lot 
 
 He might have felt the same. [Ihld.'\ 
 
 81. Laxton : 
 
 At Oundle horn, Avhat he did get 
 
 In London with great pain, 
 Laxton to young and old hath set 
 
 A comfort to remain. [Ibid.] 
 
 82. Friars : 
 
 Hear, why that they so much in England 
 
 thriv'd : 
 When th' English earst in Palestine arriv'd, 
 The city Aeon on the shore of Tyre 
 As next at hand, with arms did soon acqviire 
 
 The captives, seeing so great wonders wrought. 
 There friers with them into England brought : 
 "What was denied at home, they here anew
 
 THE WORTHIES. 203 
 
 Churclies and houses built. In years but few 
 Increasing twig-like set by happy band 
 Or tree transplanted to a fruitful land. 
 
 [JSTorthumberland. ] 
 
 83. TJiomas Magnus: 'He was an exposed 
 child' — 'What the poet saith of the father of 
 Cadmus (commanding his son to find his lost 
 sister Europa or else never to return) that he was 
 
 Expressing in one act a mind 
 Which was both cruel and was kind 
 
 ' NoAv it happened that some Yorkshire 
 clothiers coming in the dark (very early or late) 
 did light on this child, and resolved to pay both 
 for his nursing and education, the charge whereof 
 would not be great, equally divided betwixt them, 
 according to the proverb MuUorum manihus 
 grande levatur omis.^ 
 
 An heavy work is light to do 
 When many hands are put thereto. 
 
 [Nottinghamshire. ] 
 
 84. Venison 
 (Jld wine did their thirst allay, fat venison 
 hunger, [Oxfordsliire.]
 
 204 THE WORTHIES. 
 
 85. Quarrels : 
 
 Mark the Chronicles aright 
 
 When Oxford scholars fall to fight, 
 
 Before many months expir'd 
 
 England will with war be fir'd. [Oxfordshhe]. 
 
 86. t ' Wife of Peter Martyr : 'It happened 
 in the first of queen Elizabeth that the scholars 
 of Oxford took up the body of the wife of Peter 
 Martyr, who formerly had been disgracefully 
 buried in a dunghill, and interred it in the tomb 
 with the dust of St Frideswide. Sanders addeth, 
 that they wrote this inscription (which he calleth 
 impium epitapMuni) : Hie requiescit*Religio cum 
 Superstitione : though the words being capable of 
 a favourable sense on his side, he need not have 
 been so angry. However we will rub up our old 
 poetry and bestow another upon them.' 
 
 In tumulo fuerat Petri quse Martyris uxor. 
 
 Hie cum Prides wida virgine jure jacet 
 Virginis intactse nihilum cum cedat honori, 
 
 Conjugis in thalamo non temerata fides. 
 Si sacer Angligeniss cultus mutetur (at absit !) 
 Ossa suum servent mutua tuta locum. 
 Intomb'd with Prideswide, deem'd a sainted maid 
 The wife of Peter Martyr here is laid :
 
 THE WORTHIES. 
 
 205 
 
 And reason good, for Avomen chaste in mind 
 The hest of virgins come no whit "behind. 
 Should Popery return (which God forefend !) 
 Their blended dust each other would defend. 
 
 [Oxfordsliire.] 
 
 87. War: 
 
 Mars, Mars, bane of men, slaughter-stain'd spoiler 
 of houses. [Eutlandshire.] 
 
 88. Sword: 
 
 Sword which god Vidcan did for Daunus fixe 
 And quenched it when firy hot in Stix. 
 
 [Shropshire.] 
 
 89. Raljjh of Shrewsbury : builder of a house 
 for the * vicars-choral' of his cathedral : which in 
 an old picture is thus presented : 
 
 The Vicars' humble petition on tlieir knees. 
 To us dispers'd i th' streets good father give 
 
 A place where we together all may live. 
 The gracious answer of the Bishop, sitting. 
 
 Your merits crave that what you crave be yielded ; 
 That so ye may remain, this place we've buildcd. 
 
 [Ihicl] 
 
 ^Q.-\WilU(Jin Adams: a gi-cat Benefactor. 'But 
 who for the present can hold from praising so 
 pious a performance ]'
 
 206 THE WORTHIES. 
 
 Come, Momus, wlio delight do'st take 
 
 Where none are found, there faults to make : 
 
 And count'st that cost and care and pain 
 
 Not spent on thee, all spent in vain. 
 
 See this bright structure, till that smart 
 
 Blind thy blear-eyes and grieve thy heart. 
 
 Some cottage-schools are built so low 
 
 The Muses there must groveling go. 
 
 Here, whilst Apollo's harp doth sound. 
 
 The sisters nine may dance around ; 
 
 And architects may take from hence 
 
 The pattern of magnificence. 
 
 Then grieve not, Adams, in thy mind, 
 
 'Cause you have left no child behind : 
 
 Unbred ! unborn, is better rather. 
 
 If so, you are a second father 
 
 To all bred in this school so fair 
 
 And eachof them thy son and heir. [Shropshu'e.] 
 
 91. William Grocine: on a ' pleasant maid . . . 
 in a love-frolic' pelting him with a snow-ball — 
 
 A snow-ball white at me did Julia throw ; 
 Who would suppose it] fire was in that snow. 
 Julia alone can quench my hot desire 
 But not with snow or ice, but equal fire 
 
 [Bristol.] 
 
 92. Staffordshire : ' This county hath much
 
 THE WORTHIES. 207 
 
 beauty in the very solitude thereof : witness Beau- 
 Desert or the Fair Wildernesse,heing the beautiful 
 barony of the Lord Paget :' 
 
 And if their deserts here so rare devises 
 Pray then, how pleasant are their paradises. 
 
 [Staifordshu-e.] 
 
 93. From Virgil: 
 
 From Troy may the isle of Tenedos be spide 
 Much fam'd when Priam's kingdom was in pride, 
 Now b\it a bay where sliips in danger ride 
 
 [Ibid.'] 
 
 94. t Cathedral-churches : 
 
 And of the servants we so much commend 
 What was the mistress whom they did attend ] 
 
 [Suffolk.] 
 
 95. Bury : 
 
 Though furious fire the old town did consume 
 Stand this till all the Avorld shall flaming fume 
 
 [Ibid] 
 
 96. St Edmund : 
 
 As Ucnis by his death adometh France : 
 Demetrius Greece : each credit to his place : 
 
 So Edmund's lustre dotli uur Land advance, 
 Wlio with liis vertues doth his country grace.
 
 208 THE WORTHIES. 
 
 Sceptre, crown, robe, his hand, head, corps I 
 
 renouns 
 More famous for his bonds, liis bloud, his 
 wounds. [Suffolk.] 
 
 97. Stephen Gardiner : ' He is reported to have 
 died more than half a Protestant .... which 
 if so, then did he veriiie the Greek and Latin 
 proverb,' 
 
 The Gardiner oft-times in due season 
 Spake what is true and solid reason. \rbid.'\ 
 
 98. Lydgate^s ' epitaph :' 
 
 Dead in this world, living above the skye 
 Intombed within this urn doth Lydgate lie 
 In former time fam'd for his poetry. 
 
 All over England. [Ibid.] 
 
 99. Samuel Ward : ' epitaph.' 
 
 Grant some of knowledge greater store 
 
 More learnM some in teaching ; 
 Yet few in Hfe did lighten more 
 
 JSTone thundred more in preaching. 
 
 One of his sons, lately dead, was beneficed in 
 Essex : and following the counsel of the poet
 
 THE WORTHIES. 209 
 
 What doth forbid but we may smile 
 And also tell the truth the while ? 
 
 hath in a jesting way in some of his books, de- 
 livered much smart truth of the present times. 
 
 [Suffolk.] 
 
 100. Sir Wm. Corded: 'epitaph.' 
 
 Here William Cordal doth in rest remain 
 Great by his birth, but greater by his brain. 
 Plying his studies hard, his youth throughout 
 Of causes he became a pleader stout. 
 His learning deep such eloquence did vent, 
 He was chose speaker of the Parliament. 
 Afterwards knight queen Mary did him make 
 And counsellor. State-work to undertake : 
 And Master of the Polls. Well worn with age 
 Dying in Christ, heaven was his utmost stage. 
 Diet and clothes to poor he gave at large 
 And a fair Almshouse founded on his charge. 
 
 [Ibid.] 
 
 101. Parlihnrst to Jewel : 
 
 Dear Jewel, schijlar once tluni wast to me 
 Now 'gainst thy will I scholar turn to thee. 
 
 [Surrey.] 
 
 o
 
 210 THE WORTHIES. 
 
 102. William Ockham a 'contradicting spirit.' 
 
 But now he's dead, as plainly doth appear 
 Yet would denie it, were he living^ here. 
 
 [Surrey.] 
 
 103. Epigram: 
 
 Neither with thee can I well 
 
 Nor without thee, can I dwell. [75zc?.] 
 
 104. Dr Barlow : 
 
 Barlow's wife, Agathe, doth here remain 
 Bishop, then exile, bishop then again. 
 So long she lived, so well his cliildren sped 
 She saw five bishops her five daughters wed. 
 
 [Sussex.] 
 
 105. Sir Tlwmas Sliirhy: 
 
 Virtue and labour, learn from me thy father 
 As for success, child, learn from others rather. 
 
 [Ibid.] 
 
 106. Heraldry-7'hyme : 
 
 The Bear he never can prevail 
 To Lion it for lack of tail. 
 
 [Warwickshire. ] 
 
 107. Baucis and Pidlemon : apiolied to Mr 
 and Mi's Underhill : 
 
 But good old Baucis with Philemon, match'd 
 In youthfull years, now struck with equal age, 
 
 1 And why not if ' living ? ' G.
 
 THE WORTHIES. 211 
 
 Made poorness pleasant in their cottage tliatcli'd 
 And weight of want wdth patience did asswage. 
 
 [Warwickshire. ] 
 
 Because we liv'd and lov'd so long together 
 Let's not behold the funerals of either ; 
 
 May one hour end us both ! may I not see 
 Tliis : my wife biirried nor wife bury me 
 
 [Ibid.] 
 
 108 Patrons: 
 
 Let not Msecenasses be scant 
 And Maroes we shall never want 
 For, Flaccus, then thy country-field 
 Shall unto thee a Virgil yield. [Ihid.] 
 
 109. Custom: 
 
 Beat Nature back, 'tis all in vain 
 With tines of fork 't^\'ill come again. 
 
 [Westmoreland. ] 
 
 110. Queen Jane Seymour: who died in child- 
 bed. 
 
 Soon as her Phoenix bud was blo"wn 
 linot-Phoenix Jane did wither: 
 
 Sad, tliat no age a brace had sho\vTi 
 
 Of Phoenixes together. [Wiltshire.]
 
 212 THE WORTHIES. 
 
 111. Bonner: 
 
 If one by shedding blood for bliss may hope 
 
 Heaven's widest gate for Bonner doth stand op'e 
 
 [Nemo] Nobody speaking to Bonner. 
 
 All call thee cruell and the spunge of blood : 
 
 But Bonner, I say, thou art mild and good. 
 
 [Worcestershire.] 
 112. Geat: 
 
 Geat, a stone and kind of gemm 
 In Lycia grows : but best of them 
 Most fruitfull Britain sends ; 'tis bright 
 And black and smooth and very light. 
 If rubb'd to heat, it easily draws 
 Unto itself both chafFe and straws. 
 Water makes it fiercely flame 
 Oyle doth quickly quench the same. 
 
 [Yorkshire.] 
 
 113. Daphne: 
 
 Into a bough her hair did sjDread 
 And from her armes two branches bred. 
 
 [IUd:\ 
 
 114. Eustathiiis de Fauao7ibridge: 
 
 All here are worthy, thou the worthiest ; 
 All fully wise, thou wiser than the rest. 
 
 [Ibid.]
 
 THE WORTHIES. 213 
 
 llS.t Tliomas Johnson: ' Let us "bestow this 
 epitaph, upon hiiu ' 
 
 Hie, Johnsone, jaces ; sed, si mors cederet herhis. 
 
 Arte fugata tua, cederet ilia tuis. 
 Here Johnson lies : could physick fence Death's 
 dart 
 Siire Death had bin declined by his art. 
 
 [Yorkshire.] 
 
 116. Robert the Scribe: ' True of him.' 
 
 The tongue her task hath not yet done 
 When that the hand her race hath run. 
 
 [Ihid.] 
 
 117. Rhyme: 
 
 All lands do not bring 
 
 Nor all waters, every thing. \Ihidi\ 
 
 118. Cathedral of Yorl-: 
 
 Of flowers that grow the flower's the rose ; 
 All houses so, this house out-goes. \^Ihidl\ 
 
 119. AlhanelliU: 
 
 The shear resounded still 
 
 Nothing but Hill and IIlll. [Wales.]
 
 214 THE WORTHIES. 
 
 120. Rhymes: 
 
 Verses justly do request 
 Their writer's privacy and rest. 
 
 And 
 
 'Twas hard for any then to write 
 
 And not a satyre to indite. [Wales.] 
 
 121. William Breton: 
 
 Hard places which the Bible doth contain 
 
 I study to expound ; hut all in vain 
 
 Without God's help, who darkness doth explain 
 
 And with his help nothing doth hard remain, etc. 
 
 122. Wonde7's : 
 
 Wonders here by me are told 
 To many men well known ; 
 
 But till my eyes shall them behold 
 Their truth I'll never own. 
 
 [Anglesea.] 
 
 123. Richard Vaughan: 
 
 Prelate of London (0 immortal grace 
 
 Of tliine own Britons) first who had that place. 
 
 He's good, who what men ought to do, doth 
 
 teach ; 
 He's better, who doth do what men should preach. 
 You best of all, preaching what men should do 
 And what men ought to preach that doing too. 
 
 [Carnarvon.]
 
 EPITAPH OF DENTS KOLLB. 215 
 
 XV. Epitaph to tlie Memory of Denys EoUe 
 Esq. in Bicton Churcli, Devonshire.^ 
 
 The Eemaines of 
 
 Denys Eolle 
 
 Esqvire. 
 
 His earthly part within this tomb doth rest 
 Who kept a covxt of honovr in his breast : 
 Birth, beavtie, witt and wisedom sat as peeres 
 Till Death mistooke his virtves for his yeares. 
 Or else Heaven envy'd Earth so rich a treasvre : 
 Wherein too fine the ware, too scant the measvre : 
 His movrnfvll wife her love to shew in part 
 This tomb bvilt here : a better in her heart 
 Sweete babe, his hopefvll heyre (Heaven grant 
 
 tliis boon) 
 Live bvt so well bvt oli dye not so soone. 
 
 (Anno D'ne 1638 
 Obijt. 
 
 (vm. vnnm 
 Reliqvit fill ■) 
 
 \ tlS 't 
 
 (Aetatis 24. 
 vnnm 
 qvinqvae. 
 
 • See ' Danmonii Orientales lUustres or tlio Worthies of 
 Devon etc. etc. By John Prince, Vioar of Bcrry-Pomeroy 
 in the same Country, 1G97 folio : p. r»r>l. Of also Fuller's 
 'Worthies' (Devon) — In the former we read 'He [Dennis, 
 RoUe Esq.] was buried in the parish church of Bicktoa 
 aforesaid, about the I'ith or lltli day of June A.D. 1638. 
 In the which by the piety of his dearest lady was a noble
 
 216 ANDRONICUS. 
 
 16. ' Andronicus.' [G. 4 verso-ed 1646.] ^ 
 
 ' And now, let him alone to prevent their pro- 
 ceedings, by cutting hoth them and theirs ofi" 
 (that no mindfull heire might succeed to their 
 spite) and that with all possible speed ; for hee 
 steer'd his actions, by the compas of that char- 
 acter, which one made of him, as followeth. 
 
 / love at leasure, favours to bestoio ; 
 And tickle men by dropping kindnesse slow, 
 But my revenge, I in one instant spend, 
 Thai moment which begins ^ it, doth it end. 
 
 Half doing undoes many, His a sinne 
 
 Not to be soundly sinftdl ; to begin. 
 
 And tire; Tie do the work. Tliey strike in vain, 
 
 Who strike so, that the stricken might complain. 
 
 monument, erected to his and her memory, of white marble, 
 where are seen Ij'ing at length his and her effigies lively and 
 curiously cut in alabaster, under a rich arch, adorned with 
 several coats of arms relating to the family. On a table of 
 black marble is found this inscription in letters of gold, made 
 by Dr Fuller.' The Eolle name continued and abides il- 
 lustrious to the present generation. G. 
 
 • This I include among Fuller's, in deference to the sugges- 
 tion of Mr Wright, as before. Some others similarly intro- 
 duced, I cannot recognise as his. G. 
 
 * begings in the original. G. 
 
 \
 
 XVI. FIFTY-NINE 
 HITHEPtTO UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS.
 
 NOTE. 
 
 As stated in our Introduction, Mr W. Carew Hazlitt sent a 
 communication to Notes and Queries (3d Series, VII. pp. 
 352, 353) concerning a volume then in his possession, which 
 contained contemporary MS. insertions. The ' Note ' is as 
 follows : — ' In a copy of Crashaw's »S'<e/w to the Temjile, with 
 the Delights of the Muses, second edition 1648 8vo [it is a 
 small 12°. G.] which fell in my way about three years ago, 
 I discovered written i.ipon the blank leaves, — as a portion of 
 the copy was printed on one side only, — a large quantity 
 of curious Manuscript matter, consisting partly of excerpta 
 from printed works, but partly of original and inedited com- 
 positions. Among these, are upwards of fifty epigrams, 
 chiefly upon religious subjects, by " Mr Thomas Fuller," 
 and I forward herewith some accoiint of the collection, 
 which, as I have little or no doubt that " Mr Thomas 
 Fuller" is identical with the Church-historian, cannot fail 
 to be of interest to some of your readers.' [Here follows a 
 selection of the headings of 42 of the Epigrams, and Mr 
 Hazlitt adds, ' with about a dozen more : ' which is within 
 the mark. G.] ' In a different hand from the above are 
 other epigrams, among which are several of an amatory 
 cast. At the close of the volume occurs, with considerable 
 appearance of having been written by the same person who 
 has composed or transcribed the other pieces, the autograph 
 of Dudlej- Lovelace, who has written his name a second 
 time with an eyo to a little _/eM de mots, tlius : Dudley Love- 
 lasse, and this gentleman has apparently (for they are in 
 the same hand or a very similar one) copied out portions of 
 his brother's Lucasta upon some of the spare leaves, with 
 hero and there a variation from the printed edition. On 
 the recto of p. 90 there are four verses from Lucasta with 
 the signature of llichard Lovelace. The true history of the 
 little book before me, might bo curious and interesting, if it
 
 220 NOTE. 
 
 could be ascertained. There is surely ground for presum- 
 ing that it has once been possessed by Dudley Posthumous 
 Lovelace, the youngest brother of the ill-fated Cavalier 
 Poet, Eichard Lovelace, if not of the latter himself. I re- 
 ferred to the curiosity of the present copy of Crashaw in a 
 note at p. 42, of my edition of the Poems of Eichard Love- 
 lace, 1864. • W. Carew Hazlitt.' 
 
 In examining the volume I find on back of the engraved 
 title-page and continued through other two pages, certain 
 memoranda headed ' An Asylum for extremity,' and closed 
 thus on reverse of ' the Table ' (= Contents) 
 ' finis of ye Asylum for 
 
 Laborious > . „, ^ r, , 
 
 Y extremity T. J. S.' 
 love > ^ 
 
 This portion is partly in short-hand characters, and differs, I 
 think, from the Epigram hand- writing. Who was T. J. S. 
 — if I correctly read the initials? Lovelace himself has 
 a poem to Lady A[nne] L[ovelace] 'My asyhim in a 
 great extremity,' of which, above words seem an echo. 
 Again : on the blanks from p. 75 to p. 77, there are 18 
 numbered ' Epigrams ' which would seem to belong to 
 Crashaw, though not assigned to him. Fuller's ' Epigrams ' 
 fill the blanks from p. 78 to 84. I adhere with literal 
 fidelity to the manuscript — placing in brackets my filling 
 up of less plain contractions — and I have to acknowledge 
 the admirable help and rare insight of W. Aldis Wright, 
 Esq., M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, in deciphering 
 the somewhat intricate and difficult hand-writing and 
 meaning. The figures 1, 2, etc., point to a few slight 
 explanatory Notes appended. Under Epigrams 10, 40, 
 53 are references to ' Pisgah-Sight ' which confirm their 
 FuUerian authority. These might be multiplied. But 
 specially note Epigram 33 : and as bearing the true mint- 
 mark Nos. 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 27, 31, 
 34, 35, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 54, 55, 58, 59. G.
 
 XVI. "EPIGEAMS BY THO : FULLEE." 
 
 1. On Adam.^ 
 
 "When modest — sinful, "\v[he]n cloath'[d] — nak'd 
 in miiide, 
 W? knoweinge — ignorant : w? seeinge — 
 blinde (1). 
 
 2. On K'oali. A ridle. 
 
 No : wares he caried \v[lii]ch he m[ean]t to sel 
 Of pirats ferrelesse : for no harbor bound 
 
 All winde tho turninge served his turn as wel 
 He only -vvisht for to be run on ground. (2). 
 
 3. On Leah : 
 
 Too tender were her eeys ; if God so please 
 Would ul nicns harts were * sicke of her 
 disease. (3). 
 
 ' Cf. tlio quotation from ' ITainous Rinno ' otc. in our Intro- 
 duction page 13 [III. at. 6J, almost identical. G.
 
 222 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 
 
 4. On Joseph & his W.^ (4). 
 
 He might have been oe'rcome by makeinge stay 
 Who overcame by runninge quite away 
 
 When Josep[h] to his m':® would not yeild 
 Sure then he overcame in Loosecoat ^ field. 
 
 5. On Ziporah circum : her sons. (5). 
 
 Sheddinge her sons blood sav'd her husband's life. 
 
 But then her tongue cuts sharper then a knife : 
 With her sons fore-skine so she thought to fit him 
 
 Thrown at his feet she in y® teeth did hit him. 
 
 6. On Moses Smiteinge y® Eocke. (6). 
 
 He formerly complain'd, my tongue's too slowe 
 But surely then his tongue to[o] fast did goe. 
 
 7. On the Batle with Amelacke. (7). 
 
 The wind i' th' victory, where did it stand [?] 
 Looke on y® weathercocke on Moses' hand : 
 
 His hand's no weathercocke I cal to minde 
 Yt's turned about, but this doth turn y^ winde. 
 
 • A place near Stamford w[li]ere a Batle in Edw : 4 time 
 [The preceding note is in the Manuscript. Mr Wright as 
 before, has been good enough to send me the following 
 ' Loosecoat-Jield is mentioned by Speed as the scene of a 
 battle fought near Stamford in the reign of Edward the 
 Fourth — so called because the defeated party in the hurry 
 of their flight threw away their coats — Speed, History of 
 Great Britain p. 680 edi. 1611.' G.]
 
 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 223 
 
 8. On Joshauah. (8). 
 
 Weake faith y* one days station doth comand 
 Brave Keplar (9) make y" sun for ever stand. 
 
 9. On ye Alter Ed. (10). 
 
 This Alter they did piously Intend 
 
 Pray God none ere be hu[i]lt to worser end. 
 
 10. Sampson's Jawe bone. (11). 
 
 Water ^ from Horse-hoofe : ^ 'tis a fable thinge 
 'Tis now an Asses Jawe did yei[l]d a Springe. - 
 
 11. On Ephraimites fals pronunc : Shiboleth (12). 
 
 They wanted H in their pronnunciation 
 Sure H : was then a heavy aspiration : 
 
 Schin was their theta & much blood it spils 
 To them y® word was true, y® letter kils. 
 
 12. On Elijah taken vp into heaven (1-3). 
 
 He'es Israel's chariot : who y® like espi'de 
 To see a chariot in a chariot ride. 
 
 •Helicon. !•'. 2 Popasus. F. 
 
 » In ' risgnh-Sight' p. 220, wo read ' 'tis tnio an Asses 
 Jawe did yoi[l]d a Springe ' p. 229. ed. 1C50. G.
 
 224 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 
 
 13. On Zachens (14). 
 
 Hee climb'd A fig-tree : this I dare ad more (15) 
 No barren tig- tree then : good frute it bore 
 
 14. On y« Powder plot (16). 
 
 The plot was onely in Intention wrought 
 Y® plotters were to execution brought. 
 
 15. On Vaine Excuses. 
 
 When men do sin themselves they blame y* divel 
 Y® divel doth their sin : they do y^ evil. 
 
 16. On Gallants cloakes. 
 
 « 
 
 Without plaine cloath, within plush : but I doubt 
 Y® wearer's worst within & best without. 
 
 17. On Popish Interpretation of Scripture. 
 
 Christ : Drinke al of this at y® comunion table 
 Pope : By al, y® clergy, their are only meant 
 Paul : ]\Iariage Amongst al men 's honorable 
 Pope : All, there's y® Laity y*^ paul's intent. 
 Christ : Is't so indeed : w* X[t], saith or St Paul 
 yts nothinge : w* y® pope saith, all in all. 
 
 18. On Sin. 
 
 We paint y® divel blacke : us to requite 
 The blackamore's do paint y^ divel white :
 
 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 225 
 
 Thus jiiglers count spendinge y® only (17) 
 vice 
 
 And spenders make it to be avarice 
 And every man whereof himself e is free 
 
 Y* he conceives y^ only sin to be. 
 
 1 9. Whether Scripture or tradition [is] y'' 
 mother of faith. 
 
 Scr. Y® cliild is mine, of certaine S^ I 
 bare it 
 Trad : S"! , it's mine & I must therefore 
 share it : 
 Solomoii: Y* then this matter better be decided 
 Brin^e forth a sword & let it be 
 divided (18). 
 Trad : wel s^ S^ y® Judgm* is wel spent 
 
 Let it be hers & mine Indifferent. 
 Scrip : no not so, alive for pity save it 
 
 Let me have't al or let her wholy 
 have it. 
 Solomon : now I see this woman is y" 
 mother 
 Give her y® child and pack away y*^ 
 other. 
 
 20. On Pope Innocent. 
 Pope Innocent cheife of y^ Eoman Eout 
 
 Answers his name : but how if In : wore out.
 
 226 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 
 
 21. On Corn hoarders.^ 
 
 Why do'st y'} (19) hoard up corn for mice \v^ 
 faine 
 Y® people would it buy : oh knave in graine. 
 
 22. On Joseph's Mrs (20). 
 
 Bee : chast-minded Joseph did deny 
 
 To ly with her, she wretch on him did ly. 
 
 23. On Jacob (21). 
 
 Cheape rate he gave & always thinkes to gett 
 For birthright, pottage : fore y® bless? 
 meat. 
 
 24. On Paul's Jorney to Damascus (22). 
 
 Blest blindnes w".'^ did ope his ghostly eyes 
 And fal y*. made him into heaven rise. 
 
 25. On ye Philistins (23). 
 
 Sampson's firebranded foxes vext them sore 
 Our Fox (24) his firebrand vext y® papists 
 more. 
 
 1 Fuller would Lave agreed with like-minded Dr William 
 Smith in his memorable ' Blacksmith ' sermon, wherein he 
 paraphrases St Basil 'in one of those sermons that he 
 wrought against the covetous cormorants or corn-morants 
 of his time ' [' The Blacksmith ' 1606.] G.
 
 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 227 
 
 26. On Michal's mockeinge (25). 
 
 W[ha]t Issue came there of a deed so tad 
 Alas ! no issue : child she never had. 
 
 27. On Peter's words 'shal I smite?' (26). 
 
 He gave no eare to hear w[ha]t Clirist would 
 say 
 But presently tooke Malchus' eare away. 
 
 28. On Bughears. 
 
 Scare not thy children Av[it]h false and fooKsh 
 fears 
 But rather tel them of Elisha's beares (27). 
 
 29. On Sampson. 
 
 Porter, who Gaza's (28) gates op'd without 
 stay 
 Porter who on his backe bore gates away. 
 
 30. On Manasise (29). 
 
 W[hc]n far from home this Cap[ti]f longe ^va.s 
 sent 
 Home came he to himselfe & did repent. 
 
 31. On Jacob (30). 
 
 W[he]n to his thigh y« Lord a touch did send 
 Jacob did halt before his dearest frend.
 
 228 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 
 
 32. On Xoali's dove (31). 
 
 The newes she brought by moutli tho nothing spake 
 Whose nothinge answer did in folio make. 
 
 33. A prayer. 
 
 My soul is stained w[i]th a dusky colour 
 
 Let thy Sonne be y'' sope I'le be y^ Fuller (32). 
 
 34. On Peter's Sinkeinge (33). 
 
 Cephas : w[ha]ts y*. (1) a stone : yea so I thinke 
 A heavey stone : for it began to sinke. 
 
 35. On liis Successors. 
 
 If in y® sea y^ popes durst him succeed 
 
 A^Tiere he was duckt, they would be drown'd 
 indeed. 
 
 36. On pride in cloaths. 
 
 Eagles have none but j^eacockes have brave traine 
 Subjects goe fine in cloaths, y*' kinge goes plaine. 
 
 37. On Zacheus. 
 
 So I be good I care not to be tall 
 
 I'de rather be Zacheus then A Saul (34). 
 
 38. On Musculus (35). 
 
 This preacher turn'd A weaver forc't by need 
 How many weavers preachers do proceed.
 
 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 229 
 
 39. One more knave then foole. 
 
 Nabal's a foole : read "backeward & you have 
 His nature truly, Lahan, yts a laiave (36). 
 
 40. On David's three Worthy's (37). 
 
 Wast not stronge water w[liic]h 3 men so mighty 
 Ventiu-'d their lives for : yes, 'twas Aqua 
 vitse. ^ 
 
 . 41. On Sampson (38). 
 
 Where lay y^ strength of Sampson 1 even there 
 "WTiere Gallants pride now lys : in their longe 
 hair. 
 
 42. A prayer. 
 
 Hard is my heart, Lord, to my greife I feele 
 Be y? y® Loadstone, it shal he y^ Steele. 
 
 43. On ye Men of Sodom (39). 
 
 Most bad is in A Lottery : good but one 
 
 And y® good lot God drewe from thence alone. 
 
 > Cf. ' Pisgah-Sight' as before p. 299 on Aqua Vito. This 
 peculiar wording is also found in tlio 'Divine Poems' of 
 Thomas "Washbourno D.D. (1654), e.ff. of penitent tears. 
 
 ' Tliat Aqua vitm Thou dost prize (page 14). 
 
 And at page 41 — 
 
 ' Th' Aqua vitie which from Christ's side came.' G.
 
 230 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 
 
 44. On Naboth accused (40.) 
 
 Wpiajt ground of such false crimes in lii[m] was 
 found 
 Alas, his vineyeard y^. was All y^ ground. 
 
 45. On Jacob. 
 
 Stout souldier^ who's yet^ Aoihorn did fight (41). 
 Great conqueror who queld y« lord of might. 
 
 46. On Ehud (42). 
 
 Who so wel set himselfe to understand 
 
 May see God's finger plaine in Ehud's hand. 
 
 47. On y® Israelites in y® Wildernes. 
 
 Their sutes did hold til 40 yeares were past (43) 
 Sure in our lawe some Sutes as loneje do 
 last. 
 
 48. On Perseverance. 
 
 Joash relaps'd, Manasse did Amend 
 
 Begin with Joash, with Manasse end (44). 
 
 49. On James & John wisliinge fire on y® 
 Samaritans (45). 
 
 The sons of thunder was enough for you 
 You need not to he sons of Lightning too. 
 
 > A trisyllable. G. 2 Who as yet. G.
 
 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 231 
 
 50. On Paul's danger (46). 
 
 Shipwracke escap't, no sooner come to land 
 But straight another danger is at hand : 
 
 Him men a murderer count, a wondrous thing 
 To bite him whom y« serpent would not 
 sting. 
 
 51. On Jael (47). 
 
 When Sisera sure as A naile was dead 
 Then Jael truly hit y^* naile o'th' head : 
 He never dream't of her, she boldly say (48) 
 But yet she tooke hi[m] napking [napping] as lu; 
 lay. 
 
 52. On Hezekiah (49). 
 
 The sun In goeinge backe w[ha]t did it showe 
 Y*. Hezekiah's life should forward goe 
 A fig to hi[m] restor'd his life Againe : 
 How many popes have since by figs been slainc 
 
 53. On Jehosophat (50). 
 
 W[hc]n he Avith wicked Ahab tooke A part 
 He sd to hi[m] I'me never ^ as y" art 
 But w[it]h y® Aramites wcl match't was he 
 ^Vho timely tooke hi[m] Ahab for to me. 
 
 ' tiuorj- — a mistake for ' Fin cvor' or I'm cveu. Soo 
 1 Kiugs x.\.ii 1 ; ' Pisgah-Siglit' as before, p. 83, G.
 
 232 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 
 
 54. On Isaace (51). 
 
 Wliilst patient Isaace, at y® Alter lyes 
 Y® Lord himselfe Alter'd y^ Sacrifice : 
 A willinge minde of God is not despis'd 
 Isaacke was offer' d but not sacryfic'd. 
 
 55. On Sampson's weapons (52). 
 
 The silliest creature we do count y^ Asse 
 Y^ fox doth, always for y® wisest passe : 
 With Asse's Jawes Sampson liis foes doth quaile 
 & flaps he gave them w[it]h a foxes taile. 
 
 56. On Japthaes daughter (53). 
 
 He kil'd her not say some but only stay'd 
 Her fro[m] ill marry inge : oh y*. kills a maide. 
 
 57. On Ely y^ priest (54). 
 
 The newes of th' Ark's captivity once spoken 
 His hart was broke before his necke was broken 
 No wonder Ely was so tender harted 
 Y® priest must needs dy w[he]n y« Ark's 
 dep'[ar]ted. 
 
 58. On Sampson & John Baptist (55). 
 
 Much do I muse w[he]n I on Sampson thinke 
 So stronge, whose mother tasted no stronge driiik 
 But yet John Baptist is A wonder rather 
 A cryer's voice, begot of A dumb father.
 
 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 233 
 
 59. On Christ Lookinge on Peter (56). 
 
 Tho Peter w[it]li his tongue did Christ deny 
 Yet Christ, he owned Peter with liis eye : 
 Peter who was with night of feares ore-dra^\a\ 
 But w[he]n y^ Cocke did crowe y® day did dawn. 
 
 I^OTES. 
 
 1. Adam : Cf. Genesis c. iii. w. 7, 8. 
 
 2. Noah : Cf. Genesis c. vii. 
 
 3. Leah : Cf. Genesis c. xxix. 17. 
 
 4. Joseph : Cf. Genesis c. xxxix. 
 
 5. Zipporah : Cf. Exodus c. iv. 24-26. 
 
 6. Moses : Cf. Exodus c. iv. 10, with Numbers c. xx. 10 
 
 and Ps. cyi. 33. 
 
 7. Amelacke : Cf. Exodus c. xvii. 8-16. 
 
 8. Joshua: Spelled as ante, though I am not sure that the 
 
 first 'a' was not intended to be blotted out. In the 
 MS. it is blackened. Cf. Joshua c. x. 12. y* = that. 
 
 9. Keplar: The great astronomer 'Kepler' who so advanced 
 
 astronomical discovery. Query — mako = for makes 
 or made.' 
 
 10. Ed : Cf. Joshua xxii. 34. 
 
 11. Sampson : Cf. Jugdes c. xv. 16. 
 
 12. Sliibolcth : Cf. Judges c. xii. 6. 
 
 13. Elijah : Cf. 2 Kings c. ii. 12. 
 
 14. Zacheus : == ZacchoBUS : Luke c. xix. 1-10. 
 
 1.'). Ad moro =^ admire, with a play on tho words '■addmore. 
 10. Powdor-riot : so long celebrated in ' 5th November ' 
 anniversary Sermons and Prayers. 
 
 17. ' Greatest,' is here written above the lino. 
 
 18. 'Divided:' Cf. 1 Kings c. iii. 25 seiju. 
 
 19. ' Y? ' = tho Latin ' tu,' thou : repeated iu tho MS.
 
 234 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 
 
 20. Joseph: Cf. Note 4 supra. The 'Bee' is probably a 
 
 contraction for ' because.' 
 
 21. Jacob : Cf. Genesis c. sxv. 29-34 and c. xxvii. 19 seqq. 
 
 22. Paul : Cf. Acts c. ix. 3-9. 
 
 23. Philistines : Cf. Judges c. xv. 4. 
 
 24. Fox = John Foxe the Martyrologist. 
 
 25. Michal : Cf. 2 Samuel c. vi. 16 and 20-23. 
 
 26. Peter : Cf. St John c. xviii. 10 : and the parallel pas- 
 
 sages. 
 
 27. Elishas bears : Cf. 2 Kings ii. 24. 
 
 28. Gaza in MS. is spelled ' Gara' — Cf. Judges c. xvi. 1-3. 
 
 29. Manasse = Manasseh — Cf. 2 Chronicles c. xxxiii. 1-20. 
 
 30. Jacob : Cf Genesis c. xxxii. 25, 31, 32. 
 
 31. Noah's dove: Cf. Genesis c. viii. 8, 9. 
 
 32. A prayer : Perhaps this pun-wit even in prayer is as 
 
 self-authenticating a characteristic as is to be found 
 in these Epigrams. Our Worthy delighted to play 
 on his own name e.g. in his own epitaph ' Here lies 
 Fuller's earth.' 
 
 33. Cephas: Cf. St John c. i. 42, with St Matthew c. xiv. 30. 
 
 34. Zacheus : Cf. supra note 14. 
 
 35. Musculus: a Memoir of this Eeformer and Scholar is 
 
 given in ' Abel Kedevivus.' 
 
 36. Nabal : Cf. 1 Samuel c. xxv. 3, 25. 
 
 37. David's three Worthies : Cf. 2 Samuel c. xxiii. 9. 
 
 38. Sampson's hair : Of. Judges c. xvi. 17 seqq. 
 
 39. Sodom : Cf. Genesis xix. 15 seqq. 
 
 40. Naboth : Cf. 1 Kings c. xxi. 1 seqq. 
 
 41. Jacob: Of. Genesis c. xxv. 22. 
 
 42. Ehud : Cf. Judges iii. 15 seqq. 
 
 43. Israel in the Wilderness : Cf. .Deuteronomy c. xxix. 5. 
 
 44. Perseverance: Cf. Note 29 supra: and Judges vi. 31 
 
 et alibi. 
 
 45. James and John : Cf. St Luke ix. 24, with St Mark 
 
 c. iii. 17.
 
 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 235 
 
 46. Paul's danger : Cf. Acts c. xxviii. 3 seqq. 
 
 47. Jael: Cf. Judges iv. 21, 22. and v. 26. 
 
 48. Query— gay? 
 
 49. Hezekiah: Cf. 2 Kings xx. 7, 11: and parallels in 
 
 Isaiah. 
 
 50. Jehosophiat = Jehoshaphat. Cf. 2 Chronicles c. xviii. 
 
 and 2 Chronicles xviii. 31 and xix. 2. 
 
 51. Isaac: Cf. Genesis c. xxii. 12. 
 
 52. Sampson : Cf. supra 11 and 38. 
 
 53. Jeptha's daughter : Cf. Judges c. xi. 30 seqq. 
 
 54. Ely the priest : Cf. 1 Samuel c. iv. 18. 
 
 55. Sampson and John the Baptist: Cf. Judges xiii. 5 with 
 
 St Luke i. 20. 
 
 G.
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 FULLEE'S FOEM OF PEAYEE. 
 
 S stated in oiu' Introduction there 
 folloAvs here the ' Form' which our 
 Worthy was wont to use in liis 
 extra-Prayer-Book ' devotions.' 
 
 Concerning it, the rare anonymous 'Life' 
 (16C2) observes, 'A constant form of prayer he 
 used as in his family so in his puhlique ministry ; 
 onely varying or adding upon speciall occasions 
 or occurences intervening required, because not 
 only hesitation (which the good Doctor for all lais 
 strength of memory and invention, was afraid of 
 before so awful a presence as the majesty of 
 heaven) was in prayer more offensive than other 
 discourse ; but because such excursions in that 
 duty, in the extempore way, was become the idol 
 of the multitude' (p. 81). The 'Form' itself is 
 preserved in the exceedingly scarce volume whose 
 title-page I now give.
 
 238 fuller's form op prayer. 
 
 PULPIT SPAEKS 
 
 OR CHOICE 
 
 FOPtMS 
 
 OP 
 
 PEAYEPt, 
 
 BY SEVERAL 
 
 EEVEEEl^D and GODLY 
 
 DIVII^ES 
 
 USED by them, both before 
 
 and after SEEMON. 
 
 WITH Other PEAYEES, for 
 
 extraordinary occasions, 
 
 TOGETHER, 
 
 WITH Dr HEWYTTS, 
 last PEAYEE, , 
 
 BY, 
 
 Dr Reeve. M. Ball. 
 
 Dr Grillingliam. M. Goddard. 
 
 Dr Jer. Taylor. M. Nat. Hardy. 
 
 Dr HewyU. M. Hall. 
 
 Dr Wilde. M. Jo. Marston. 
 
 Dr GriffitJi. M. Mackerness. 
 
 Mr Tlio. Fuller. M. Sparks. 
 
 London, Printed for W. Gilbert- 
 son at the Bible in Giltspur- 
 street, 1659.
 
 fuller's form of prayer. 
 
 239 
 
 The date is 1659 though Mr Eussell [' Memo- 
 rials of FuUer'] gives it as 1658. The preface 
 ' To the judicious, and reKgious reader' is signed 
 ' Tho. Reeve' — query author of that vivid and 
 remarkable folio, ' The Plea of Niniveh' and 
 various memorable Sermons.' 
 
 The volume is a very small 12mo. and Fuller's 
 Prayer occupies pp. 156-171. G.
 
 ME T. F. HIS 
 BVB^/ V3 PEAYEE. 
 
 ET the Words of my mouth, and the 
 thoughts of all our hearts be now 
 and ever acceptable in thy sight, 
 O Lord our strength and our Eedeemer. 
 
 Eternal Lord God, infinite in thy gTeat- 
 nesse, incomprehensible in thy glory, whose pure 
 and just Eyes cannot behold either sin or sinners 
 with the least look of approbation ; be notofFended 
 ■with thy servants ; it will be Kttle comfort for 
 us in these glorious attributes ; we come to them 
 that may tender most consolation to us : Oh Lord 
 God, who in Christ Jesus art a mercifull and a 
 reconciled Father to all such sinners as sincerely 
 from their Souls desire and endeavour to repent 
 and beheve; thy providence hath brouglit us 
 unto this place to ofi'er unto thy Majesty our 
 evening sacrifice of prayer and thanksgiving, 
 and to be made partakers of a portion of thy 
 most holy Word ; truly Lord we have just cause
 
 PRAYER. 241 
 
 to fear lest our prayers, instead of that blessing 
 we now desire, draw down that curse which they 
 deserve upon us ; we have inflamed the corrup- 
 tions of OUT natures "svith the manifold rebellions 
 of o\ir lives, which have been nothing else but 
 one constant breach of thy ten commandements ; 
 true Lord, the law in our miuds, our spirit, our 
 new creature, our regenerate half, our Hght, clearly 
 knows and chearfully acknowledges all and every 
 one of thy commandements for pure, and just, 
 and holy ; but the law in our members, our 
 darknesse, our flesh, our old Creature breaks 
 them daily in thought, word, and deed ; we all 
 of us have been foul and flat Idolaters, erecting 
 the Idols of our omti profit and pleasure in the 
 Chapels and Closets of our hearts, and then and 
 there have fallen down upon the bended knees of 
 our Souls, and worshipt them, by regarding our 
 lust more than the fulfilling of thy will in thy 
 word ; that sacred name of thine whereby we 
 hope to be saved, we have taken in vain ; we have 
 done that on thy day, the Lord's day, which we 
 can justifie or avouch on no day ; we have not 
 given that reverence and respect to our Superiors 
 placed over us which thou requirest at our 
 hands ; we have broken all the commandements 
 of the second Table in our demeanour towards 
 our neighbours, and in fnir deportment to our 
 
 Q
 
 242 PRAYER, 
 
 own Souls and "bodies ; and here Lord we are 
 ashamed to confesse the manifold circumstances 
 of our sins in the presence and hearing of man, 
 who, vile, bold wretches were no whit ashamed 
 or afraid to commit them when we knew full 
 well that the high God of Heaven and Earth 
 did at that instant behold us ; now lend us of 
 thy Spirit effectually to admire at thy patience 
 and longsuffering towards us, who permits such 
 prophane and presumptuous sinners at tliis hour 
 of our lives still to remain from Hell fire ; surely 
 Lord there are many in that pit of perdition, 
 whose sins against thee were never aggravated 
 with those high circumstances ; Lord, we 
 have no variety of reasons to move thee to 
 mercy, we have no exchange of motives to per- 
 swade thee to pitty, but only the same over and 
 over again, for thy own sake, for thy names 
 sake, for thy mercies sake, for thy Son and our 
 Saviour Christ Jesus his sake forgive our sins, 
 for they are great; wash the guilt & filth of 
 our sins away in his blood; and Lord for the 
 time to come give us grace to spend the re- 
 mainder of our dayes in our several Callings to 
 thy glory; Lord grant that we may not only 
 labour to have our sins pardoned to us, but also 
 strive to have so much favour with thee, that 
 before our deaths we may have our sins forgive-
 
 PRAYER. 243 
 
 ness assured ; for our comfort, grant Lord that 
 we may betake our selves to do the one thing 
 necessary ; let us not have our oyl to buy Avhen 
 ■we should have it to burn ; teach us Lord that 
 sicknesse is a time not to do but to suffer ; and 
 gracious Lord grant that our work being done, 
 and the books crost in the times of our healths, 
 we may be comforted when we come to dye, and 
 to resign our Soids into the hands of a faithfvdl 
 Creator and gracious redeemer. Blesse us with 
 thy whole Church scattered far and wide over 
 the face of the whole Earth ; Lord, what parti- 
 ciilars to pray for, we know not, we dare not, 
 we humbly tender a blank into the hands of an 
 almighty God ; write therein Lord what thou 
 wilt, when thou wilt, where thou wilt, by whom 
 thou wilt, only in thine own time work out 
 thine own honour and glory ; in the mean time 
 give us faith to believe it, patience to expect, 
 diligence to observe, and zeal to pray fervently 
 for it ; to this end blesse all tliose whom thine 
 own self in lawfull authority hast placed over 
 us, by what name or title soever known unto 
 us ; blesse their counsels and consultations, and 
 make tJiem under thy self the hajjpy instru- 
 ments of the good of this Nation. Be present 
 with us and President amongst us, at this time 
 in the hearing and handling of thy holy Word ;
 
 244 PRAYER. 
 
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 of our lives and conversations. This, and what 
 elfe^ thy wisdome sees fitter for us than we can 
 aske or desire, we beg at thy hands in the name 
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