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 SIR JOHN DAVIES.
 
 I'RINTED BY ROBERT ROBERTS, 
 BOSTON.
 
 THE 
 
 COMPLETE POEMS 
 
 OF 
 
 SIR JOHN DAVIES. 
 
 EDITED, 
 
 WITH 
 
 iffllemoriaI=3[ntroliuction anti ^otcs, 
 
 BY THE 
 
 REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART. 
 
 4 5 U Z i 
 
 IN TIVO VOLUMES.— yOL. II. 
 
 E-ontion; 
 CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY. 
 
 1876. 

 
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 Cojitents. 
 
 Those marked with [*] are either printed for the first time, or 
 the first time published among DavJes' Poems. 
 
 Epigram MES : 
 Note . 
 
 Ad Musam 
 
 Of a Gull 
 
 [n Ruffum 
 
 [n Quintum 
 
 [n Plurimcs 
 
 [n Titam 
 
 [n Faustum 
 
 [n Katum 
 
 In Librum 
 
 [n Medontem 
 
 [n Gellam 
 
 [n Quintum 
 
 [n Severum 
 
 [n Leucam 
 
 [n Macrum 
 
 [n Fastum 
 
 [n Cosmum 
 
 [n Flaccum 
 
 In Cineam 
 
 [n Gerontem 
 
 [n Marcum 
 
 [n Ciprum 
 
 [n Cineam 
 
 [n Galium 
 
 [n Decium 
 
 for 
 
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 17 
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 VOL. II.
 
 vi. CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Epigrammes (continued) 
 
 In Gellam 26 
 
 In Syllam ........ 27 
 
 In Sillam ........ 27 
 
 In Haywodum ....... 29 
 
 In Dacum ........ 30 
 
 In Priscum ........ 31 
 
 In Brunum ........ 31 
 
 In Francum ........ 31 
 
 In Castorem ........ 32 
 
 In Septimium ....... 32 
 
 Of Tobacco ........ 32 
 
 In Crassum 35 
 
 In Philonem 36 
 
 In Fuscum ........ 37 
 
 In Afram 38 
 
 In Paulum ........ 39 
 
 In Licum . . . . , . . .40 
 
 In Publium .40 
 
 In Sillam 41 
 
 In Dacum ........ 42 
 
 In Marcum ........ 43 
 
 Meditations of a Gull ...... 43 
 
 Ad Musam ........ 44 
 
 ♦Appendix to Epigrams 47 
 
 *In Superbiam .47 
 
 *Epi. 5 48 
 
 *Epi. 6 48 
 
 *In Amorosum 48 
 
 *Epi. 9 49 
 
 *Epi. 10 49 
 
 * Epitaph and Epigram 50 
 
 *GuLLiNGE Sonnets 
 
 Note 53 
 
 ♦Dedicatory Sonnet — To His Good Freinde Sr 
 
 Anth. Cooke 55
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 vn. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 *GuLLiNGE Sonnets . . ... . . -57 
 
 Minor Poems : 
 
 *i. Yet Other Twelve Wonders of the 
 
 World — 
 
 *The Courtier. 
 
 *The Divine . 
 
 *The Souldier. 
 
 *The Lawyer . 
 
 *The Physitian 
 
 *The Merchant. 
 
 *The Country Gentleman 
 
 *The Bacheler 
 
 *The Married Man 
 
 *The Wife . 
 
 *The Widdow 
 
 *The Maid . 
 *ii. A Contention betwixt a Wife, a Widdow, 
 
 AND A Maide. ...... 
 
 *iii. A Lottery. Presented before the late 
 
 Queenes Maiesty at the Lord Chancel- 
 
 ORs House, i6oi 87 
 
 *The Lots 89 
 
 *iv. Canzonet. A Hymne in Praise ofMusicke 96 
 *v. Ten Sonets to Philomel : 
 
 *Vpon Loues entring by the Ears . . -99 
 
 *Of his owne, and his Mistresse sicknesse at 
 
 one time . . . . . . .100 
 
 * Another of her sicknesse and recovery . loi 
 
 *Allusion to Theseus voyage to Crete, against 
 
 the Minotaure . ..... 102 
 
 *Vpon her looking secretly out at a window 
 
 as he passed by . . . . .102- 
 
 *To theSunneof his Mistresse beauty eclipsed 
 
 with frowncs ...... 104 
 
 *Vpon sending her a gold ring with this Posie 104 
 
 *The hearts captivitie 105 
 
 65 
 66 
 67 
 67 
 68 
 68 
 69 
 69 
 69 
 70 
 70 
 71 
 
 72
 
 viii. CONTENTS. 
 
 107 
 108 
 
 112 
 114 
 
 "5 
 116 
 
 119 
 127 
 
 211 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Yet Othrr Twelve Wonders of the World 
 
 (continued) 
 *vi. To George Chapman on his Ovid . 
 *vii. Reason's Moane .... 
 *viii. On the Death of Lord Chancellor 
 Ellesmere's Second Wife in 1599 . 
 
 *IX. TiTYRUS TO his FAIRE PhILLIS . 
 
 *Upon a Coffin by S. J. D. . 
 
 *x. Epitaph and Epigram .... 
 
 *HiTHERTo Unpublished Poems : 
 
 Note ........ 
 
 *Metaphrase of some op the Psalms . 
 
 Miscellaneous Poems. Hitherto Unpublished 
 *Of Faith the first Theolosricall Vertue . 
 *A Songe of Contention betweene Fowre Maids 
 concerninge that which addeth most perfection 
 to that sexe . . . . . . .212 
 
 *A Maid's Hymne in Praise of Virginity . . 213 
 *Part of an Elegie in Praise of Marriage . . 215 
 *A Fragment of a Love Elegie .... 217 
 
 *To the Q : [Queene] 222 
 
 *To Faire Ladyes 223 
 
 *Upon a Paire of Garters 224 
 
 *To his Lady-love ...... 225 
 
 *Tobacco. ........ 226 
 
 * Elegies of Loue ....... 227 
 
 *The Kinges Welcome ...... 229 
 
 *To the Kinge upon his Ma'ties first comming 
 
 into England ....... 233 
 
 *To the Queene at the same time. . . . 236 
 
 *Mira loquor sol occubuit nox nulla secuta est . 237 
 *Charles his Waine ...... 237 
 
 *Of the name of Charolus, being the diminutive of 
 
 Charus 238 
 
 * Verses sent to the Kinge with Figges : by Sr John 
 
 Davis ........ 234
 
 CONTENTS. ix. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Miscellaneous Poems. Hitherto Unpublished 
 (continued) 
 
 *Love Lines ....... 
 
 *Love Flight 
 
 *An Elegiecall Epistle on Sir John Davis death 
 ^Entertainment of Oueen Elizabeth at Hare 
 field by the Countesse of Derby . 
 Note ....... 
 
 *The Complaint of the V Satyres against 
 THE Ny'mphs ...... 
 
 Errata 
 
 239 
 240 
 241 
 
 243 
 244 
 
 250 
 259
 
 IV. EPIGRAMS. WITH ADDITIONS. 
 
 VOL. 11.
 
 NOTE. 
 
 I am indebted to the Bodleian copy — among Malone's books 
 — for my text of these ' Epigrams.' I have preferred this 
 edition to the two others that preceded, inasmuch as, while 
 it, like them, bears the imprint of ' Middlebourgh,' there 
 seems no reason to doubt that it was printed in London : 
 therefore most probably under the author's eye. The vol- 
 ume is a small i2mo. and the following is the title-page: — 
 
 All 
 
 OVIDS ELEGIES 
 
 3 Bookes 
 
 By C. M. 
 
 EPIGRAMS BY J. D. 
 
 At Middlebourgh. 
 
 Malone has filled in in MS. ' Christopher Marlowe and 
 
 John Davis.' Cf. Collier's Bibliographical Account of 
 
 Early English Literature : Vol I. s.n. 
 
 The Rev. Alexander Dyce in his collective edition of the 
 Works of Marlowe, has given Davies' " Epigrams" in ex- 
 tenso, with a painstaking collation of the various readings 
 from the other two editions (both undated) together with 
 similar various readings from a Manuscript discovered by 
 him in the Harleian Collection ( 1836.) Mr. Dyce with 
 reference to his reprint of the' Epigrams,' and the foregoing 
 MS. says, " I have given them with the text considerably 
 improved by means of one of the Harleian MSS" ('Some 
 VOL. II. B 2
 
 NOTE. 
 
 Account of Marlowe and his Writings : p. xl : edition 1862.) 
 I must demur to this alleged ' improvement.' The MS. 
 has no authority whatever, the Scribe being an extremely 
 ignorant and blundering one. These nine examples out of 
 many, taken at random, will suffice to prove this : 
 [i] Epigram i, line first. 
 
 ' Fly, merry Muse unto that merry towne &c. 
 he actually reads, spite of its heading * Ad Musam ' 
 
 ' Fly, merry Newes. . . , 
 [2] Epigram 2, line 14 
 
 'And stands, in Presence, stroaking up his haire ' 
 he gives, to neglect of the rhyme with 'yeare ' 
 
 ' stroaking up his heade ' 
 
 [3] Epigram 3, line 5, for ' fry ' he stupidly reads 'cry.' 
 [4] Epigram 13, line 9, for ' sectaries ' he gives nonsen- 
 sically * scituaries.' 
 
 [5] Epigram 15, line 3. 
 
 ' Thou with harsh noise the ayre doth rudely breake,' 
 he transmogrifies into 
 
 ' horse nor sea the ayre doth.' 
 
 [6] Epigram 26, line 1 1, he substitutes ' sweete ' for ' hot ' 
 oblivious of the rhyme with ' petticoat.' 
 
 [7] Epigram 36, line 19, for 'rarifie' he reads 'ratiffie' [!] 
 [8] Epigram 41, line 2, 
 
 'Paulus, in spite of enuy, fortunate ' 
 he gives thus 
 
 Paulus, in fight of envy '
 
 NOTE. 
 
 [9] Epigram 43, line 3, for ' Paris-garden ' he has ' Parish- 
 garden ;' and so on ludicrously, with numerous proper 
 names. 
 
 Any one capable of perpetrating such stupidities as these, 
 ought not in my opinion, to be allowed to displace a text 
 printed for the Author, more especially his cannot for a mo- 
 ment be allowed to over-bear the third edition, our text. 
 
 From a confused inscription on the first page of the MS. its 
 probable writer is ascertained. It is as follows " Ex spoliis 
 
 Richardi Wharfe, ex It is much trouble and 
 
 much .... Ex spoliis R. W." Underneath is the 
 book-plate of John, Duke of Newcastle. The gene- 
 ral title runs " Epigramma in Musam, like Buckmin- 
 ster's Allmanacks servinge generallie for all England : 
 but especiallie for the meridian of this famous Cittie of 
 London." I regret that besides these ( mis-called ) ' im- 
 provements,' so admirable an Editor should have modern- 
 ized throughout, the orthography equally of Marlowe 
 and of Davies : and all the more, that in his ' Notes ' he 
 adheres to the original orthography whenever he quotes 
 from his wealth of illustrative extracts. The annotation 
 condemns the text. Without any hesitation therefore, I 
 have set aside Mr. Dyce's reprints, and returned (as supra) 
 to Davies' own text and orthography, saving a slight re- 
 duction of capitals and italics. None the less do I owe 
 thanks to Mr. Dyce for his kind permission kindly given, 
 to use any * Notes ' that might be deemed interesting.
 
 NOTE. 
 
 Those that I have taken are marked with his initial, D. I 
 have to add another important correction of Mr. Dyce. 
 After describing the Harleian MS. he observes " Though 
 it is of a date considerably posterior to the first appearance 
 in print of Epigrams by I. D., perhaps all the pieces 
 
 WHICH IT EXHIBITS ARE FROM THE PEN OF DaVIES. (page 
 
 353.) Homer nods here : for on reading these additional 
 ' Epigrams ' thus assigned to Davies, I at once discovered 
 that they consisted merely of a like blundering transcript 
 of the " Satyricall Epigrams " of Henry Hutton, Dunel- 
 mensis, that were appended to his " Follie's Anatomie or 
 Satyres " (161 9.) The oversight is the more noticeable in 
 that all these were reprinted in 1842, (edited by Rimbault), 
 for the Percy Society, whereof Mr. Dyce was one of the 
 most effective members of Council. 
 
 I confess that it was far from a disappointment to find that 
 the ' Epigrams ' of Davies were not to be increased to the 
 extent they would have been had I accepted Mr. Dyce's 
 opinion, and failed to discover the Hutton-authorship of 
 nearly all those in the Manuscript, additional to his 
 acknowledged ones. Nevertheless in the Appendix to our 
 reprint of the ' Epigrams ' I give certain additions from 
 this Manuscript, that are found neither in Davies's nor 
 Hutton's publications, but which seem to me to have the 
 ring of Davies in them. The remainder — prefixed and 
 affixed — may well be left in Manuscript. See the Memo- 
 rial-Introduction for more on these Epigrams. G.
 
 Epigrammes. 
 
 Ad Musam. I. 
 Fly, merry Muse unto that merry towne, 
 Where thou maist playes, revels, and triumphs see ; 
 The house of Fame, and theater of renowne, 
 Where all good wits and spirits loue to be. 
 Fall in betweene their hands that loue and praise thee,^ 
 And be to them a laughter and a jest : 
 But as for them which scorning shall reproue thee, 
 Disdaine their wits, and thinke thine one 2 the best : 
 But if thou finde any so grose '^ and dull, 
 That thinke I do to priuate taxing * leane, 
 Bid him go hang, for he is but a gull, 
 And knows not what an Epigramme does meane ; 
 
 1 MS. " seeme to loue thee." D. - Own. G. » Gross. G. 
 
 ■» Blaming, censure. G. [i.e. censuring of individuals. MS. 
 
 " priuate talkinge." Compare the Induction to The Knight of the 
 
 Burning Pestle : 
 
 " Fly from hence 
 
 All private taxes ! " &c. 
 
 Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, ii., 136, ed. Dyce. D.]
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 Which taxeth,^ under a pecuHar name,*' 
 
 A generall vice, which merits publick blame. 
 
 Of a Gull. 2. 
 Oft in my laughing rimes, I name a Gull : 
 But this -new terme will many questions breed ; 
 Therefore at first I will expresse '^ at full, 
 Who is a true and perfect Gull indeed : 
 A Gull is he who feares a veluet gowne, 
 And, when a wench is braue,^ dares not speak to her ; 
 A Gull is he which trauerseth the towne. 
 And is for marriage known a common woer ; 
 A Gull is he which while he proudly weares, 
 A siluer-hilted rapier by his side ; 
 Indures the lyes and knocks about the eares, 
 Whilst in his sheath his sleeping sword doth bide : 
 A Gull is he which weares good handsome cloaths, 
 And stands, in Presence, stroaking up his haire. 
 And fills up his unperfect speech with oaths. 
 But speaks not one wise word throughout the yeare : 
 
 •'' MS. "carrieth.'' G. '' Other editions "particular " : and so 
 MS. G. 
 
 7 MS. " Wherefore .... disclose." D. « ' Fine, richly dressed.' D.
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 But to define a Gull in termes precise, — 
 A Gull is he which seemes, and is not wise.^ 
 
 * In our Introductory-Note it is stated that the original edition of 
 the ' Epigrams ' is undated. From contemporary allusions the 
 date is determined to have been prior to 1598. Among these al- 
 lusions is an ' Epigram ' by E. Guilpin in his ' Skialetheia ' [1598] 
 on the same subject with this by Davies. It follows here : 
 
 TO CANDIDUS [Epigram.] 20. 
 
 " Friend Candidus, thou often doost demaund 
 What humours men by gulling understand : 
 Our English Martiall hath full pleasantly, 
 In his close nips describde a gull to thee : 
 I'le follow him, and set downe my conceit 
 What a gull is : oh word of much receit 1 
 He is a gull, whose indiscretion 
 Cracks his purse strings to be in fashion ; 
 He is a gull, who is long in taking roote 
 In baraine soyle, where can be but small fruite : 
 He is a gull, who runnes himselfe in debt, 
 For twelue dayes wonder, hoping so to get ; 
 He is a gull, whose conscience is a block, 
 Not to take interest, but wastes his stock : 
 He is a gull, who cannot haue a whore, 
 But brags how much he spends upon her score : 
 He is a gull, that for commoditie 
 Payes tenne times ten, and sells the same for three : 
 He is a gull, who passing finicall, 
 Peiseth each word to be rhetoricall : 
 And to conclude, who selfe conceitedly, 
 Thinkes al men guls : ther's none more gull then he." G.
 
 lo EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 In Ruffum. 3. 
 Rufus the Courtier at the theater, 
 Leaving the best and most conspicuous place, 
 Doth either to the stage ^ himselfe transferre. 
 Or through a grate ^ doth shew his double^ face : 
 For that the clamorous fry of Innes of Court, 
 Fills up the priuate roomes of greater price : 
 And such a place where all may haue resort, 
 He in his singularity doth dispise. 
 Yet doth not his particular humour shun 
 The common stews and brothells of the towne, 
 Though all the world in troops doe hither ■* run, 
 Cleane and uncleane, the gentle and the clowne : 
 Then why should Rufus in his pride abhorre, 
 A common seate, that loues a common whore. 
 
 In Quintum. 4. 
 Quintus the dancer useth euermore. 
 His feet in measure and in rule to moue : 
 
 ' See Note on Epigram 28. G. 
 
 2 Malone has cited this passage (Shakespeare by Boswell iii. 81) 
 and, if he explains it rightly, the allusion is to one of the two boxes 
 (sometimes called private hoxesj which were situated on each side of 
 the balcony or upper stage. D. 
 
 3 Other editions (as the Isham) ' doubtfulL' G . 
 * Other editions (as the Isham) ' thither.' G.
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 1 1 
 
 Yet on a time he call'd his Mistresse, ' whore ' 
 And thought^ with that sweet word to ^vin her loue : 
 Oh had his tongue Hke to his feet beene taught 
 It neuer would haue uttered such a thought. 
 
 In Plurimos.^ 5. 
 Faustinus, Sextus, Cinnse, Ponticus, 
 With Gella, Lesbia, Thais, Rhodope, 
 Rode all to Stanes'^ for no cause serious, 
 But for their mirth, and for their leachery : 
 Scarce were they setled in their lodging, when 
 Wenches with wenches, men with men fell out : 
 Men with their wenches, wenches with their men ; 
 Which straight dissolues ^ their ill-assembled rout.^ 
 But since the Deuill brought them thus together, 
 To my discovrsing ^ thoughts it is a wonder, 
 Why presently as soone as they came thither, 
 The selfe same deuill did them part asunder. 
 Doubtlesse it seemes it was a foolish deuill. 
 That thus did^ part them e're they did some euill 
 
 5 MS. " Thinkingc." D. " MS. " In meritriculas {_sic] 
 Londinensis." D. 
 
 1 MS. " Ware." D. « MS. " dissolv'd." D. 
 
 9 " Rabble, set." D. • MS. " discerninge." D. 
 
 ^ MS. " straight would." D. Isham ' thus would.' G.
 
 12 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 In Titam.^ 6. 
 Titas, the braue and valorous* young gallant, 
 Three yeares together in this towne hath beene ; 
 Yet my Lord Chancellor's tombe^ he hath not scene 
 Nor the new water-worke,*^ nor the ElephantJ 
 I cannot tell the cause without a smile, — 
 He hath beene in the Counter^ all this while. 
 
 In Faustum. 7, 
 Faustus, nor lord, nor knight, nor wise, nor old, 
 To euery place about the towne doth ride ; 
 He rides into the fields, Playes to behold. 
 He rides to take boat at the water side : 
 
 ' Mr. Dyce corrects (as Isham) to' Titum 'and line ist 'Titus.' G. 
 
 ■* MS. " Valient." G. 
 
 * Viz., of Sir Christopher Hatton, whose huge and splendid mon- 
 umental-tomb was long one of the London sights for country- 
 cousins. Col. Cunningham fin loco) adds " It was erected in St. 
 Paul's Cathedral, and Bishop Corbet says was " higher than the 
 host and altar." G. 
 
 " Recently described by Smiles in his Lives of the Engineers. 
 
 s. V. G. 
 
 ' It is curious to find the article * the ' Elephant. Coriat later 
 gave his own portrait showing himself on the back of an elephant, 
 as a great wonder, in one of his travel title-pages. But query — Is 
 it the famous inn named by Shakespeare : " I could not find him at
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 13 
 
 He rides to Pauls',^ he rides to th' Ordinary- 
 He rides unto the house of bawdery too, — 
 Thither his horse doth him so often carry, 
 That shortly he will quite forget to goe. 
 
 In Katum.i 8. 
 Kate being pleas'd wisht that her pleasure could 
 Indure as long as a buffe-jerkin would : 
 Content thee, Kate ; although thy pleasure wasteth. 
 Thy pleasure's place like a buffe-jerkin lasteth. 
 
 the Elephant " (Twelfth Night, iv. 3) ? Col. Cunningham (as be- 
 fore) assuming it is the animal that is meant, annotates thus : " The 
 Elephant was an object of great wonder and long remembered. A 
 curious illustration of this is found in The Metamorphosis of the Wal- 
 nut Tree, written about 1645, where the poet [William Basse] brings 
 trees of all descriptions to the funeral, particularly a gigantic oak — 
 The youth of these our tymes that did behold 
 
 This motion strange of this unwieldy plant, 
 Now boldly brag with us that are more old, 
 That of our age they no advantage want, 
 Though in our youth we saiv an elephant. G. 
 *" Debtors' prison. G. 
 
 ' Other editions " Powles,'' and Isham ' Poules.' G. MS. 
 " Powels." D. 
 
 ' Mr. Dyce reads ' Katam ' : being feminine the poet is here put 
 right. G.
 
 14 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 For no buffe-jerkin hath beene oftner worne, 
 Nor hath more scrapings or more dressings borne. 
 
 In Librum. 9. 
 Liber doth vaunt how chastly he hath Hu'd, 
 Since he hath bin seuen yeares in towne, and more,^ 
 For that he sweares he hath four onely swiude ;^ 
 A maid, a wife, a widdow, and a whore : 
 
 Then, Liber, thou hast swiude all women-kinde, 
 For a fifth sort, I know thou canst not finde. 
 
 In Medontem. 10. 
 Great captaine Maedon weares a chaine of gold. 
 Which at fine hundred crownes is valued ; 
 For that it was his grand sire's chaine of old, 
 When great King Henry, Bulloigne conquered. 
 And weare it Maedon, for it may ensue, 
 That thou, by vertue of this * massie chaine, 
 A stronger towne than Bulloigne maist subdue, 
 If wise men's sawes be not reputed vaine ; 
 
 ^ MS. " Knowne this towne 7 years." Isham " he hath beene in 
 towne 7 yeeres." G. 
 
 ^ ' Swiude ' from Isham : other editions • G. 
 
 •» MS. " wearing of that." D.
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 15 
 
 For what said Philip king of Macedon ? 
 
 There is no castle so well fortified, 
 
 But if an asse laden with gold comes on, 
 
 The guard will stoope, and gates flye open wide. 
 
 In Gellam. II. 
 Gella, if thou dost loue thy selfe, take heed, 
 Lest thou my rimes ^ unto thy louer read ; 
 
 For straight thou grin'st, and then thy louer seeth 
 Thy canker-eaten gums and rotten teeth. 
 
 In Quintum. 12, 
 Quintus his wit "^ infused into his braine, 
 Mislikes " the place, and fled into his feet ; 
 And there it wandered ^ up and downe the street, 
 Dabled in the dirt, and soaked in the raine : 
 Doubtlesse his wit intends not to aspire, 
 Which leaues his head, to travell in the mire. 
 
 In Severum. 13. 
 The Puritan Severus oft doth read 
 This text, that doth pronounce vain speech a sin, — 
 
 * MS. " lynes." D. •"' = Quintus's wit. G. 
 
 "> Mislikt ? G. * Isham ' wanders.' G.
 
 i6 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 " That thing defiles a man, that doth proceed, 
 From out the mouth, not that which enters in." 
 Hence it is,^ that we seldome heare him sweare : 
 And thereof as a Pharisie he vaunts ; 
 But he devours more capons in one ^ yeare, 
 Then would suffice an hundred ^ Protestants. 
 And sooth, those sectaries are gluttons all. 
 As well the thred-bare cobler, as the knight ; 
 For those poore slaues which haue not wherewithall, 
 Feed on the rich, till they devour them quite ; 
 And so, as ^ Pharoe's kine, they eate up clean, 
 Those that be fat, yet still themselues be lean. 
 
 In Leucam. 14. 
 Leuca, in Presence once, a fart did let ; 
 Some laught a little ; she refus'd * the place ; 
 And mad with shame, did then ^ her gloue forget, 
 Which she retum'd to fetch with bashfuU grace ; 
 
 '•' Isham ' Hence is it.' G. » Isham ' a.' G. 
 
 - Isham ' a hundreth.' G. ^ Isham ' like.' G. 
 
 * Isham ' forsook.' G. 
 
 ^ Isham ' eke.' G.
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 17 
 
 And when she would haue said, " I've lost my gloue," ^ 
 My fart (qd. she :) which did more laughter moue. 
 
 In Macrum. 15. 
 
 Thou canst not speake yet, Macer, for to speake, 
 
 Is to distinguish sounds significant : 
 
 Thou with harsh noise the ayre dost rudely breake ; 
 
 But what thou utterest common sence doth want, — 
 Halfe English words, with fustian termes among 
 Much like the burthen of a Northeme song. 
 
 In FastumJ 16. 
 " That youth," saith Faustus, "hath a lyon seene, 
 Who from a dicing-house comes money-lesse " : 
 
 ^ Mr. Dyce says here " something has dropt out," the line being 
 a foot short, I have supplied ' I've lost.' G. 
 
 ' Sic, but should be Faustum (ist line) and is so given by Mr. 
 Dyce and Isham. G. 
 
 VOL. II.
 
 1 8 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 But when he lost his haire, where had he beene ? 
 I doubt me he had seene a Lyonesse ? 
 
 In Cosmum. 17. 
 Cosmus hath more discoursing in his head 
 Then loue, when Pallas issued from his braine ; 
 And still he strives to be delivered 
 Of all his thoughts at once, but all in vaine ; 
 For, as we see at all the play-house doores, 
 "When ended is the play, the dance, and song, 
 A thousand townesmen, gentlemen, and whores, 
 Porters and serving-men, together throng, — 
 So thoughts of drinking, thriuing, wenching, warre, 
 And borrowing money, raging,^ in his mind ; 
 To issue all at once so forward are. 
 As none at all can perfect passage find. 
 
 In Flaccum. 18. 
 The false knave Flaccus once a bribe I gaue : 
 The more foole I to bribe so false a knaue : 
 But he gaue back my bribe ; the more foole he, 
 That for my folly did not cousen me. 
 
 » MS. "ranging." G.
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 19 
 
 In Cineam. 19. 
 Thou dogged Cineas, hated hke a dogge, 
 For still thou grumblest like a masty ^ dogge, 
 Compar'st thyself to nothing but a dogge ; 
 Thou saith ^ thou art as weary as a dogge, 
 As angry, sicke, and hungr}^ as a dogge, 
 As dull and melanchoUy as a dogge, 
 As lazy, sleepy,- idle as a dogge : 
 But why dost thou compare thee to a dogge 
 In that, for which all men despise a dogge ? 
 I will compare thee better to a dogge : 
 Thou art as faire and comely as a dogge. 
 Thou art as true and honest as a dogge. 
 Thou art as kind and liberall as a dogge, 
 Thou art as wise and valiant as a dogge. 
 But Cineas, I have [often] ^ heard thee tell. 
 Thou art as like thy father as may be ; 
 
 'Tis like enough ; and faith I like it well ; 
 
 But I am glad tliou art not like to me. 
 
 ' Mastiff. D. [This is an error. A ' mastiff' is not a grumbling 
 dog, and ' masty ' is — fatted, and here answers apparently to the 
 over-fed vicious pet. See Maste, Prompt. Parv. & p. 151 (Way's 
 cd.) G. 1 Isham ' saist.' G. 
 
 * ' And as * not in Isham. and being superfluous left out. G. 
 
 * Supplied from MS. by Mr. Dyce. Isham ' oft.' G.
 
 20 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 In Gerontem. 20. 
 Geron's'* mouldy memory corrects 
 Old Holinshed, our famous Chronicler, 
 With morall rules ; and policy collects 
 Out of all actions done these fourscore yeare ;^ 
 Accounts the times of euery old ^ event, 
 Not from Christ's birth, nor from the Prince's raigne, 
 But from some other famous accident. 
 Which in mens generall notice doth remaine, — 
 The siege of Bulloigne and the Plaguy Sweat, 
 The going to St. Quintin's and New-haven, 
 The rising in the North, the Frost so great 
 That cart-wheeles' prints on Thamis face were graven,'' 
 The fall of money, and burning of Paul's steeple ; 
 The blazing starre, and Spaniard's ouerthrow : 
 By these events, notorious to the people. 
 He measures times, and things forepast doth show : 
 
 < MS. ' Geron, his.' D. Isham ' Geron whose.* G. 
 
 ■' Isham corrects the misprint ' yeares,' and of ' time ' in next 
 line. G. " Isham ' odde.' G. 
 
 7 The reading in our text, and in all the editions, including 
 isham, is ' seene ' : but above from MS, as rhyming with New- 
 haven seems preferable. Newhaven was formerly called Havre 
 Grace. All the date-events are commonplaces of History. G.
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 21 
 
 But most of all, he chiefly reckons by 
 A priuate chance, — the death of his curst ^ wife ; 
 This is to him the dearest memory. 
 And the happiest accident of all his life. 
 
 In Marcum. 21. 
 When Marcus comes from Minnes,^ hee still doth 
 
 sweare, 
 By " come on^ seauen," that all is lost and gone ; 
 But that's not true ; for he hath lost his haire, — 
 Onely for that he came too much at one. 
 
 In Ciprum.2 22. 
 The fine youth Ciprius is more tierse and neate, 
 Then the new garden of the Old Temple is ; 
 
 8 Ill-natured. D. [This is a good-natured explanation. I fear 
 that in this place it means more and worse, though in the Taming 
 of the Shrew we have Kate the curst, without the slightest imputa- 
 tion on her moral character, or any allusion to anything but her 
 vixen temper. G.] 
 
 'J MS. " for newes." — The first edition [and Isham] reads * from 
 Mins ' : the other two as above. Mins' (which perhaps should be 
 written Min's) is, I presume, the name of some person who kept an 
 Ordinary where gaming was practised. D. ^ Isham ' a.' G. 
 
 - Sic : but should be, as Isham, Ciprium : Mr. Dyce reads 
 Cyprium. G.
 
 22 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 And still the newest fashion he doth get, 
 And with the time doth change from that to this ; 
 He weares a hat of the flat-crowne block, 
 The treble ruffes, long cloake, and doublet French ; 
 He takes tobacco, and doth weare a lock. 
 And wastes more time in dressing then a wench : 
 Yet this new fangled youth, made for these times. 
 Doth aboue all praise old George Gascoine's^ rimes ? 
 
 In Cineam. 23. 
 When Cineas comes amongst his friends in morning, 
 He slyly spies * who first his cap doth nioue ; 
 Him he salutes, the rest so grimly scorning. 
 As if for euer they had lost his loue. 
 I seeing ^ how it doth the humour fit 
 Of this fond ^ gull to be saluted first. 
 Catch at my cap, but moue it not a whit : 
 Which to '' perceiuing, he seemes for spite to burst : 
 
 •' Died October 7th, 1577. His Works have been worthily col- 
 lected by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt in his Roxburghe Library. G. 
 
 ■• MS. "notes." D. [first edition and Isham "lookes": others 
 as above. G.] 
 
 * In first edition and Isham " Knowing " and MS, G. 
 
 6 Foolish. G. 
 
 ' Dyce's text is ' he' : but ' to ' is often in Davies' time printed for 
 ' too.' Isham ' Which perceiuing.' G.
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 23 
 
 But Cineas, why expect you more of me, 
 
 Then I of you ? I am as good a man, 
 
 And better too by many a quahty. 
 
 For vault, and dance, and fence and rime I can : 
 You keep a whore at your own charge, men tell me, 
 Indeed friend (Cineas) therein you excell me. 
 
 In Gallum. 24. 
 Gallas hath beene this Summer-time in Friesland, 
 And now return'd, he speaks such warlike words, 
 As, if I could their English understand, 
 I feare me they would cut my throat like swords : 
 He talkes of counter-scarfes ^ and casemates, 
 Of parapets, of curteneys, and palizadoes ; 
 Of flankers, ravelings, gabions he prates. 
 And of false-brayes,^ and sallies ^ and scaladoes. 
 
 ^ Isham ' scarphes.' G. 
 
 ^ Isham ' false brayes.' In this place I have restored the reading 
 ' false-brayes ' of the ist edition and of the MS, rejecting ' false- 
 baits ' of 2nd and 3rd editions. There is no such word in military 
 engineering or fortification ; but there is ' fausse-braye ' or ' false- 
 braye.' There is a not very intelligible description in Bailey's 
 Dictionary. G. 
 
 1 "With this passage compare the following lines : 
 
 " See Captaine Martio he i' th' ' Renounce me ' band, 
 That in the middle region doth stand
 
 24 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 But, to requite such gulling tearmes as these, 
 With words of my profession I reply ; 
 I tell of fourching,2 vouchers, and counterpleas, 
 Of withermans,^ essoynes, and Champarty. 
 So, neither of us understanding ^ one another, 
 We part as wise as when we came together. 
 
 In Decium. 25. 
 Audacious painters have Nine Worthies made ; 
 But poet Decius,5 more audacious farre, 
 Making his mistris march with men of warre, 
 
 Wo' th' reputation Steele 1 Faith, lets remoue 
 Into his ranke (of such discourse you loue) : 
 Hee'l tell of basilisks, trenches, retires, 
 Of pallizadoes, parapets, frontires, 
 Of caluerins, and baricadoes too. 
 What to bee harquebazerd, to lie in perdue," &c. 
 Fitzgeoffrey's Notes from Black-Friars ' Sig. e 7, a portion of the 
 volume entitled Certain Elegies, &c., ed. 1620. See our Memorial- 
 Introduction for an impudent appropriation of this epigram. G. 
 - MS. " forginge." D. Isham ' foorching.' G. 
 3 Other editions and MS. " Withernams " : Isham 'whither 
 names.' G. 
 
 * Isham ' vnderstanding either.' G. 
 
 ^ Drayton is here meant. [Malone's Manuscript-note in Bodleian 
 copy. G.]
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 25 
 
 With title of " Tenth Worthy "<5 doth her lade J 
 Me thinks that gull did use his tearmes as fit, 
 Which tearm'd his loue " a gyant for her wit." 
 
 6 [Ben] Jonson told Drummond "That S[ir] J[ohn] Davies 
 played in ane Epigrame on Drayton's, who in a sonnet, concluded 
 his Mistress might [have] been the Ninth [Tenth] Worthy ; and 
 said, he used a phrase like Dametas in [Sir Philip Sidney's] Arca- 
 dia, who said For wit his Mistresse might be a gyant." ' Notes of 
 Ben Jonson's conversations with William Drummond, of Haw- 
 thornden,' p. 15 (Shakespere Society). The sonnet by Drayton, 
 which our author here ridicules, is as follows : 
 
 " TO THE CELESTIALL NUMBERS. 
 " Vnto the World, to Learning, and to Heauen, 
 Three Nines there are, to euery one a Nine, 
 One Number of the Earth, the other both Diuine; 
 One Woman now makes three odde numbers euen : 
 Nine Orders first of Angels be in Heauen, 
 Nine Muses doe with Learning still frequent. 
 These with the Gods are euer Resident ; 
 Nine Worthy Ones vnto the World were giuen : 
 My Worthy One to these Nine Worthies addeth. 
 And my faire Muse one Muse vnto the Nine, 
 And my good Angell (in my soule Diuine) 
 With one more Order these Nine Orders gladdeth : 
 My Muse, my Worthy, and my Angell, then. 
 Makes euery one of these three Nines a Ten." 
 7 Isham reads badly 'woorthly.' ' Laidc.' G. Idm : Sonnet 
 18 ed. 8vo. n. d. D.
 
 26 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 In Gellam. 26. 
 If Gella's beauty be examined, 
 She hath a dull, dead eye, a saddle nose, 
 And^ ill-shap't face, with morphew ouer-spread, 
 And rotten teeth, which she in laughing shows ; 
 Briefly, she is the filthiest wench in towne. 
 Of all that doe the art of whoring use : 
 But when she hath put on her sattin gowne, 
 Her cut ^ lawne apron, and her velvet shooes, 
 Her greene silke stockins and her petticoat 
 Of taffaty, with golden fringe a-round, 
 And is withall perfumed with civet hot,^ 
 Which doth her valiant stinking breath confound, 
 Yet she with these additions is no more 
 Than a sweet, filthy, fine, ill-favoured ^ whore. 
 
 ^ The other editions, as Isham and MS., ' an.' G. 
 
 " MS. 'cut.' D. [This is unquestionably the right word, not 
 ' out.' Whether ' cut-Iawne apron ' meant curiously shaped like "the 
 sleeves curiously cut " of Katharine's dress : or whether it was cut- 
 wove lawn, lawn embroidered by cutting out holes and sewing them 
 round, seems uncertain, — probably the latter. G. 
 
 ' MS. 'sweete.' D. ^ Isham again badly ' ilfauoted.' G.
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 27 
 
 In Syllam. 27. 
 Sylla is often challenged to the field, 
 To answer as a gentleman, his foes : 
 But then he doth this^ answer onely yeeld, — 
 That he hath livings and faire lands to lose. 
 Silla, if none but beggars valiant were. 
 The King of Spaine would put us all in feare. 
 
 In Sillam. 28. 
 Who dares affirme that Silla dares not fight ? 
 When I dare sweare he dares adventure more 
 Than the most braue and all-daring* \vight,^ 
 That euer armes with resolution bore ; 
 He that dares ^ touch the most unwholsome whore 
 That euer was retir'd into the Spittle '^ 
 And dares court wenches standing at a doore, 
 (The portion his wit being passing little) ; 
 
 3 In first edition and Isham, "then doth he this." G. [MS. 
 " he. doth all this." D.] 
 
 •^ MS. " valiant and all-daring." D. [First edition, " braue, 
 most all daring." G.] 
 
 5 MS. " Knight." D. " Isham, ' dare.' G. 
 
 7 Hospital : or query prison ? So late as Thomson's " Castle of 
 Indolence" (c i. 77) we have the word: "all the diseases which 
 the spittles know." G,
 
 28 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 He that dares give his dearest friends offences, 
 Which other vaHant fooles doe feare to doe : 
 And when a feaver doth confound his sences, 
 Dare eate raw beefe, and drink strong wine thereto : 
 He that dares take tobacco on the stage,^ 
 Dares man a whore at noone-day through the street 
 Dares dance in Paul's and in this formall age, 
 Dares say and doe whateuer is unmeet ; 
 
 Whom feare of shame could neuer yet affright, — 
 Wlio dares affirme that Sylla dares not fight ? 
 
 ® Probably most readers are aware that it was formerly the cus- 
 tom of gallants to smoke tobacco on the stage, during the perform- 
 ance, either lying on the rushes or sitting upon hired stools. D. 
 [In Hutton's 'Satyres ' and ' Epigrams' (1619) well edited by Rim- 
 BAULT for the Percy Society, there are various passages illustrative 
 of above, e.g. 
 
 " Dine with Duke Humfrey in decayed Paules^ 
 Confound the streetes with chaos of old braules, 
 Dancing attendance on the Black-friers stage 
 Call for a stoole with a commanding rage, &c. 
 
 [pp. 68, 69.] Cf. 
 
 Also Ben Jonson's Devil is an Ass (16 16) who censures the conduct 
 of the gallants allowed seats on the stage. G.]
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 29 
 
 In Haywodum.^ 29. 
 Ha>^vood, that did^ in Epigrams excell, 
 Is now put downe since my light Muse arose ; 
 As buckets are put downe into a well, 
 Or as a schoole-boy putteth downe his hose. 
 
 2 
 
 3 Mr. Dyce spells Heywodum. John Heywood's Epigrammes 
 accompany his Proverbs : 1562. G. 
 
 ' ist edition, ' which in epigrams did ;' Isham ' which did.' [The 
 Epigrams of John Heywood are well known. An allusion to this 
 epigram of Davies occurs in Sir John Harington's Metamorphosis of 
 Ajax, 1596 : " This Heywood for his proverbs and epigrams is not 
 yet put down by any of our country, though one {Marginal Note, 
 M [aster] Davies] doth indeed come near him, that graces him the 
 more in saying he puts him down," p. 41, edition 1814. (In the 
 same work we find, " But, as my good M. Davies said of his epi- 
 grams, that they were made, like doublets in Birchin-lane, for every 
 one whom they will serve, &c. p. 133. D.] [I add from T. Bas- 
 tard's ' Chrestoleros ' [Lib. 11 : Epigram 15] an answer to this : 
 
 Heywood goes downe saith Dauis, sikerly. 
 And downe he goes, I can it not deny : 
 But were I happy did not fortune frowne 
 Were I in heart I would sing Dauy downe. 
 
 Cf. also lib. iii. Ep. 3. Mr. Dyce also quotes from Freeman's 
 Ruble and a great Cast, 1614. C] 
 ' Breeches. D.
 
 30 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 In Dacum.^ 30. 
 Amongst the poets Dacus numbred is, 
 Yet could he neuer make an English rime ; 
 But some prose speeches I haue heard of his, 
 "WTiich haue been spoken many an hundreth time : 
 The man that keeps the Elephant hath one, 
 Wherein he tells the wonders of the beast : 
 Another Bankes pronounced long agon,^ 
 When he his curtailes ^ qualities exprest : 
 He first taught him that that keeps the monuments 
 At Westminster, his formall tale to say ; 
 And also him which Puppets represents. 
 And also him which with the Ape doth play : 
 Though all his Poetry be like to this, 
 Amongst the poets Dacus numbred is. 
 
 ' This is not Decius of Epig. 25, who was Drayton, but (eheu !) 
 Samuel Daniel. Cf. Epig. 45, and relative note. On the ele- 
 phant (I. 5) see note on Epig. 6. G. 
 
 "* Isham badly ' a goe.' G. 
 
 '' Id est, horse's [the word means properly — a docked horse.] So 
 much may be found in various books concerning Banks and his 
 wonderful horse, that any account of them is unnecessary here. D. 
 [The ' wonderful horse ' is referred to by Shakespeare. G.]
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 31 
 
 In Priscum. 31. 
 When Priscus, rais'd from low to high estate, 
 Rode through the street in pompous jolUty ; 
 Caius, his poore famiUar friend of late, 
 Bespake him thus : " Sir, now you know not me.' 
 " 'Tis likely friend," (quoth Priscus) " to be so, 
 For at this time myselfe I do not know." 
 
 In Brunum. 32. 
 Brunus, which deems himselfe a faire sweet youth 
 Is thirty nine yeares of age at least ; 
 Yet was he neuer, to confesse the truth, 
 But a dry starveling when he was at best : 
 This gull was sicke to shew his night-cap fine, 
 And his wrought pillow over-spread with lawne ; 
 
 But hath been well since his griefe's cause hath line ^ 
 At Trollup's by Saint Clement's Church, in pawne. 
 
 In Francum. 33. v 
 
 WTien Francus comes to sollace with his whore, 
 He sends for rods, and strips himselfe stark naked ; 
 For his lust sleeps and will not rise before, 
 By whipping of the wench it be awaked. 
 
 ' Lien, lain. D.
 
 32 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 I enuie him not, but wish I had the powre 
 
 To make myselfe" his wench but one halfe houre. 
 
 In Castorem. 34. 
 
 Of speaking well why doe we learne the skill, 
 
 Hoping thereby honour and wealth to gaine ; 
 
 Sith rayling Castor doth, by speaking ill, 
 
 Opinion of much wit and gold obtaine ? 
 
 In Septimium. 35. 
 Septimus Hues, and is like garlick seene, 
 For though his head be white, his blade is greene : 
 This old mad coult deserves a Martyr's praise, 
 For he was burned in Queene Marie's daies. 
 
 Of Tobacco. 36. 
 Homer, of Moly and Nepenthe sings : 
 Moly, the gods' most soueraigne hearb diuine, 
 Nepenthe, Heauen's § drinke, most ^ gladnesse brings, 
 
 Col. Cunningham emends 'himself for 'myself; but the 
 'whipping of (1. 4) is = by: and Davies' wish is that he wielded 
 the rods on Francus. G. 
 
 » Mr. Dyce reads ' Helen's ' and confirms from Milton's Comus 
 
 (167s)-
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 33 
 
 Heart's griefe expells, and doth the wits refine. 
 
 But this our age another world hath found, 
 
 From whence an hearb of heauenly power is brought ; 
 
 Moly is not so soueraigne for a wound, 
 
 Nor hath Nepenthe so great wonders wrought ■} 
 
 It is Tobacco, whose sweet substantially fume 
 
 The hellish torment of the teeth doth ease, 
 
 By drawing downe, and drying up the rheume. 
 
 The mother and the nurse of each disease : 
 
 It is Tobacco, which doth cold expell, 
 
 Not that Nepenthes, which the wife of Thone 
 In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena, &c. 
 In first edition there is a misprint " Hekens " : in the other editions, 
 as aZ)oue " Heauens " : in MS. " helvs " : Isham ' Heuens.' Helen 
 is admissible, but ' Heavens ' what Davies himself printed. See 
 the poem on Tobacco among the hitherto unpublished poems, of 
 which the Epigram seems only a first rough draft — and relative 
 note. 
 
 9 Isham ' which.' G. * Isham badly ' brought.' G. 
 
 ' MS. ' subtle.' D. [Substantial is here = partaking of the 
 substance or essence, or, as we say, properties peculiar to tobacco — 
 a fume holding in it the virtues or substance of the tobacco. The 
 MS. ' subtle' may be regarded as an Author's variant, especially as 
 it is also found in ' Tobacco ' among the hitherto unpublished 
 poems, onward. G, 
 
 VOL. II. D
 
 34 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 And cleares the obstructions of the arteries, 
 
 And surfeits, threatning death, dijesteth well, 
 
 Decocting all the stomack's crudities : 
 
 It is Tobacco, which hath power to clarifie 
 
 The cloudy mists before dimme eyes appearing : 
 
 It is Tobacco, which hath power to rarifie 
 
 The thick grosse humour which doth stop the hearing ; 
 
 The wasting hectick, and the quartaine feuer, 
 
 Which doth of Physick make a mockery ; 
 
 The gout it cures, and helps ill breaths for euer, 
 
 Whether the cause in teeth or stomack be ; 
 
 And though ill breaths were by it but confounded. 
 
 Yet that vile medicine it doth farre excell, 
 
 Which by Sir Thomas Moore ^ hath beene propounded : 
 
 ^ Mr. Dyce quotes an ' Epigramma ' of Sir Thomas More, which, 
 is headed 
 
 " Medicince ad toUendos fatores, anhelitus, provenientes a cihis 
 quibusdam." 
 
 " Sectile ne tetros porrum tibi spiret odores, 
 
 Protenus a porro fac mihi cepe vores. 
 Denuo fcetorem si vis depellere cepas, 
 
 Hoc facile efficient allia mansa tibi. 
 Spiritus at si post etiam gravis allia restat, 
 
 Aut nihil, aut tantum toUere merda potest." 
 
 T. Mori Lucuhrationes, &c., p. 261, edition 1563. G.
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 35 
 
 For this is thought a gentleman-hke smell. 
 
 O, that I were one of those Mountebankes, 
 
 Which praise their oyles and powders which they sell ! 
 
 My customers would giue me coyne with thanks ; 
 
 I for this ware, for sooth ^ a tale would tell : 
 
 Yet would I use none of these tearmes before ; 
 
 I would but say, that it the Pox will cure : 
 
 This were enough, without discoursing more, 
 
 All our braue gallants in the towTie t'allure, 
 
 In Crassum. 37. 
 Crassus his lyes,^ are not pernicious lyes, 
 But pleasant fictions, hurtfuU unto none 
 But to himselfe ; for no man counts him wise 
 To tell for truth that which for false is knowne. 
 He sweares that Gaunt is three score miles about, 
 And that the bridge at Paris on the Seyn 
 Is of such thicknesse, length and breadth throughout. 
 That sixe score Arches can it scarce sustaine ; 
 He sweares he saw so great a dead man's scull 
 At Canterbury, dig'd out of the ground. 
 That would containe of wheat three bushels full ; 
 And that in Kent are twenty yeomen found, 
 
 * Isham 'so smooth.' Gr ^ That is, Crassus's lies. G.
 
 36 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 Of which the poorest euery yeare dispends, 
 Fiue thousand pounds : these and fiue thousand mo, 
 So oft he hath recited to his friends, 
 That now himselfe perswades himselfe 'tis so. 
 But why doth Crassus tell his lyes so rife, 
 Of Bridges, Townes, and things that haue no life ? 
 He is a Lawyer, and doth well espie. 
 That for such lyes an Action will not lye. 
 
 In Philonem. 38. 
 Philo the Lawyer*^ and the Fortune-teller; 
 The Schoole-master, the Midwife, and the Bawd, 
 The conjurer, the buyer, and the seller 
 Of painting, which with breathing will be thaw'd. 
 Doth practise Physicke ; and his credit growes. 
 As doth the Ballad-singer's auditory,''^ 
 Which hath at Temple-barre his standing chose. 
 And to the vulgar sings an Ale-house story : 
 First stands a Porter ; then an Oyster-wife 
 Doth stint her cry, and stay her steps to heare him ; 
 
 * Isham * Gentleman.' G. 
 
 ^ See our Memorial-Introduction with reference to Wordsworth's 
 splendid filling up of this earlier sketch. G,
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 37 
 
 Then comes a Cut-purse ready with a^ knife, 
 And then a Countrey clyent passeth neare him ; 
 There stands the Constable, there stands the whore, 
 And, listening^ to the song, heed^ not each other ; 
 There by the Serjeant stands the debitor,^ 
 And doth no more mistrust him then his brother : 
 Thus Orpheus to such hearers giueth musick, 
 And Philo to such patients giueth physick. 
 
 In Fuscum. 39. 
 Fuscus is free, and hath the world at will ; 
 Yet in the course of life that he doth lead, 
 He's like a horse which, turning round a mill, 
 Doth always in the self-same circle tread : 
 First, he doth rise at ten ; and at eleuen 
 He goes to Gyls,^ where he doth eate till one ; 
 Then sees a Play till sixe, and sups at seven ; 
 And after supper, straight to bed is gone ; 
 And there till ten next day he doth remaine, 
 And then he dines, and^ sees a Comedy ; 
 
 * Isham ' his.' G. 9 Isham ' hearkening.' G. 
 
 ' 1st edition and Isham, 'marke.' G. ' Isham 'debter poore.' G. 
 ^ No doubt some Ordinary near St. Giles, Cripplegate. Isham 
 Gilles.' G. * Isham ' then.' G. 
 
 4 5 !:* Z 7
 
 38 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 And then he suppes, and goes to bed againe : 
 
 Thus round he runs without variety, 
 
 Saue that sometimes he comes not to the Play, 
 But falls into a whore-house by the way. 
 
 In Afram. 40. 
 The smell-feast Afer, trauailes to the Burse ^ 
 Twice euery day, the newest*^ newes to heare ; 
 Which, when he hath no money in his purse, 
 To rich mens tables he doth often beare : 
 He tells how Gronigen^ is taken in,^ 
 By the braue conduct of illustrious Vere,^ 
 And how the Spanish forces Brest would win, 
 But that they doe victorious Norris feare. 
 No sooner is a ship at sea surpris'd. 
 But straight he learnes the news, and doth disclose it 
 
 * Bourse, = Exchange. G. * ist edition and Isham and MS. 
 
 ' flying.' G. "^ Groningen. G. 
 
 ^ Conquered and added to or ' taken in ' with other conquests. G. 
 
 ' To the truly ' illustrious ' Vere — one of the noblest of England's 
 earlier generals — Dr. Richard Sibbes dedicated his 'Soul's Con- 
 flict ' in very loving words to him and his Lady. See my edition of 
 Sibbes in loco. G.
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 39 
 
 No sooner hath the Turk a plot deuis'd 
 
 To conquer 1 Christendom, but straight he knows it •?■ 
 
 Faire written in a scrowle he hath the names 
 
 Of all the widdows which the Plague hath made ; 
 
 And persons, times, and places still he frames, 
 
 To euery tale, the better to perswade : 
 
 We call him Fame, for that the wide-mouth slaue 
 
 Will eate as fast as he will utter lies ; 
 
 For Fame is said an hundred mouths to haue. 
 And he eates more than would fiue score suffice. 
 
 In Paulum. 41. 
 
 By lawfull mart, and by unlawfuU stealth, 
 
 Paulus in spite of enuy, fortunate, 
 
 Deriues out of the Ocean so much wealth. 
 
 As he may well maintaine a lord's estate ; 
 But on the land a little gulfe there is, 
 Wherein he drowneth all the wealth of his. 
 
 ^ Isham once more badly ' conquerie.' G. 
 
 2 This couplet is given by Mr. Dyce from the MS. : the Isham has 
 it. G.
 
 40 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 In Licum. 42. 
 Lycus, which lately^ is to Venice gone, 
 Shall if he doe returne, gaine three for one :* 
 But ten to one, his knowledge and his wit 
 Will not be bettered or increas'd a whit. 
 
 In Publium. 43. 
 Publius [a] student at the Common-law, 
 Oft leaves his Bookes, and for his recreation, 
 To Paris-garden^ doth himselfe withdrawe ; 
 
 3 Recently : the MS. reads ' that is of late.' G. 
 
 * In our author's days, it was a common practice for persons, be- 
 fore setting out on their travels, to deposit a sum of money, on con- 
 dition of receiving large interest for it on their return : if they never 
 returned, the deposit was forfeited. Innumerable allusions to ' put- 
 ters out ' occur in the works published during the reigns of Elizabeth 
 and James. D. 
 
 * That is, to the Bear-Garden on the Bank-side, Southwark. D. 
 [Near the Globe Theatre : referred to as Palace garden by Hutton, 
 as before. Isham reads badly * parish.' The Theatre at Paris 
 Garden stood almost exactly at what is now the Surrey starting place 
 of Blackfriars Bridge. In 1632 Donald Lupton in his London and 
 the Country Carbonadoed says of it, " Here come few that either 
 regard their credit or loss of time ; the swaggering Roarer ; the 
 amusing Cheater; the swearing Drunkard ; and the bloody Butcher 
 have their rendezvous here, and are of the chiefe place and respect." 
 (Col. Cunningham's Marlowe, p. 365). G.
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 41 
 
 Where he is rauisht with such delectation, 
 As downe among*' the beares and dogges he goes ; 
 Where, whilst he skipping cries " to head to head," 
 His satten doublet and his veluet hose^ 
 Are all with spittle from aboue be-spread : 
 When he is like his father's countrey Hall,® 
 Stinking with dogges, and muted ^ all with haukes ; 
 And rightly too on him this filth doth fall. 
 Which for such filthy sports his bookes forsakes ; ^ 
 Leaving old Ployden,- Dyer, Brooke alone. 
 To see old Harry Hunkes, and Sacarson.^ 
 
 In Sillam. 44. 
 When I this proposition had defended, 
 "A coward cannot be an honest man," 
 Thou Silla, seem'st forthwith to be offended, 
 And holds the contrary, and sweares he can ; 
 
 " Isham ' amongst the dogges and beares.' G. ^ Breeches. G. 
 
 ^ Misprinted 'countrey shall': Qu — country-Hall, as above? 
 Isham ' country Hall.' G. * Dunged. D. 
 
 3 Isham badly ' forsake.' G. ^ piowden. D. 
 
 - Harry Hunkes and Sacarson were two bears at Paris-garden : 
 the latter was the more famous, and is mentioned by Shakespeare 
 in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I., sc. i .D. Isham ' Saker- 
 sone.' G.
 
 42 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 But when I tell thee that he will forsake 
 
 His dearest friend, in perill of his life ; 
 
 Thou then art chang'd, and sayst thou didst mistake, 
 
 And so we end our argument and strife : 
 Yet I think oft, and thinke I thinke aright, 
 Thy argument argues thou wilt not fight. 
 
 In Dacum.* 45. 
 Dacus with some good colour and pretence, 
 Tearmes his love's beauty "silent eloquence :" 
 For she doth lay more colour on her face 
 Than ever TuUy us'd his speech to grace. 
 
 "• Daniel, I believe : [Malone's Manuscript note in Bodlean copy. 
 See Epigram 30. G.] Mr. Dyce adds here, "I am sorry 
 to believe that by Dacus (who is spoken of with great contempt in 
 Epigram xxx.) our author means Samuel Daniel : but the following 
 lines in that very pleasing writer's Complaint of Rosamond (which 
 was first printed in 1592) certainly would seem to be alluded to here, 
 
 " Ah beauty syren, faire enchanting good, 
 Sweet, silent rhetorique of perswading eyes, 
 Dumb eloquence, whose power doth moue the blood 
 More then the words or wisdom of the wise, &c. 
 
 161 1, p. 39,— Daniel's Certaine Small Works, &c. 161 1.") G.
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 43 
 
 In Marcum. 46. 
 Why dost thou, Marcus, in thy misery, 
 Raile and blaspheame, and call the heauens unkind ? 
 The heauens doe owe no kindnesse unto thee, 
 Thou hast the heauens so little in thy minde ; 
 
 For in thy life thou neuer usest prayer 
 
 But at primero, to encounter faire. 
 
 Meditations of a Gull. 47. 
 See, yonder melancholy gentleman, 
 ^Vhich, hood-wink'd with his hat, alone doth sit ! 
 Thinke what he thinks, and tell me if you can. 
 What great affaires troubles his little wit. 
 He thinks not of the warre 'twixt France and Spaine, 
 Whether it be for Europe's good or ill, 
 Nor whether the Empire can itselfe maintaine 
 Against the Turkish power encroaching still ; 
 Nor what great towne in all the Netherlands, 
 The States determine to beseige this Spring ; 
 Nor how the Scottish policy now stands. 
 Nor what becomes of the Irish mutining. 
 But he doth seriously bethinke him whether 
 Of the guird people he be more esteem'd 
 For his long cloake or for his great black feather.
 
 44 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 By which each gull is now a gallant deem'd ; 
 
 Or of a journey he deliberates, 
 
 To Paris-garden,^ Cock-pit or the Play ; 
 
 Or how to steale a dog he meditates, 
 
 Or what he shall unto his mistriss say : 
 
 Yet with these thoughts he thinks himself most fit 
 To be of counsell with a king for wit. 
 
 Ad Musam. 48. 
 Peace,*" idle Muse, haue done ! for it is time, 
 Since lousie Ponticus enuies my fame. 
 And sweares the better sort are much to blame 
 To make me so well knowne for my'' ill rime : 
 Yet Bankes his horse,^ is better knowne then he. 
 So are the Cammels and the westerne hogge,^ 
 And so is Lepidus his printed Dog ■} 
 
 " See note on this under Epigram 43. G. 
 
 6 Isham ' Pease.' G. ' Isham ' so.' G. 
 
 ^ See note on this under Epigram 30. G. 
 
 ' Isham corrects ' Hay ' here with ' hogge.' G. 
 
 ^ That is ' Lepidus's printed dog.' The following epigram by Sir 
 John Harington determines that he is the Lepidus of this passage, 
 and that his favourite dog Bungey is the " printed dog.'' In a com- 
 partment of the engraved title-page to Harington's Orlando Furioso,
 
 EPIGRAMMES. 45 
 
 Why doth not Ponticus their fames enuie ? 
 Besides, this Muse of mine, and the blacke feather 
 
 1 591, is a representation of Bungey (see too the Annotations on 
 Book xli. of that poem) ; and hence he is termed by Davies the 
 " printed dog." 
 
 "AGAINST MOMUS, IN PRAISE OF HIS DOG 
 
 BUNGEY." 
 
 Because a witty writer of this time 
 
 Doth make some mention in a pleasant rime 
 
 Of Lepidus and of his famous dog, 
 
 Thou, Momus, that dost loue to scofFe and cog, 
 
 Prat'st amongst base companions, and giv'st out 
 
 That unto me herein is meant a flout. 
 
 Hate makes thee blind, Momus : I dare be sworn. 
 
 He meant to me his loue, to thee his scorn. 
 
 Put on thy envious spectacles, and see 
 
 Whom doth he scorn therein, the dog or me ? 
 
 The dog is grac'd, compared with great Banks, 
 
 Both beasts right famous for their pretty pranks ; 
 
 Although in this I grant the dog was worse, 
 
 He only fed my pleasure, not my purse : 
 
 Yet that same dog, I may say this and boast it. 
 
 He found my purse with gold when I haue [had] lost it. 
 
 Now for myself: some fooles (like thee) may judge 
 
 That at the name of Lepidus I grudge : 
 
 No sure; so far I think it from disgrace, 
 
 I wisht it cleare to me and to my race. 
 
 Lcpus, or Lepos, I in both haue part ; 
 
 That in my name I beare, this in mine heart.
 
 46 EPIGRAMMES. 
 
 Grew both together fresh ^ in estimation : 
 And both growne stale, were cast away together : 
 What fame is this that scarce lasts ^ out a fashion? 
 Onely this last in credit doth remaine, 
 That from henceforth, each bastard cast-forth rime, 
 Which doth but savour of a libell vaine, 
 Shall call me father, and be thought my crime ; 
 So dull, and with so little sence endu'd, 
 Is my grose-headed Judge, the multitude. 
 
 But Momus, I perswade myself that no man 
 Will deigne thee such a name, English or Roman. 
 He wage a but of Sack, the best in Bristo, 
 Who cals me Lepid, I will call him Tristo." 
 Epigrams, Book iii. Ep. 21. edition folio. D. 
 
 ^ In other editions as Isham, but dropped out inadvertently from 
 our text. G. ^ Isham badly ' last.' G. 
 
 ifini0. I. D.
 
 47 
 
 Appendix to Epigrams : 
 
 (FROM THE HARLEIAN MSS. 1836.) 
 
 As explained in the Note, page 6 ante, I have gleaned 
 a few additions to these Epigrams. At close of those of 
 HuTTON, — in the MS. marked 60 and in Hutton's own 
 volume 56, — on folio 15^, is the word ' finis.' Immediately 
 under this, the MS. is continued in the same handwriting 
 onto folio 19, whereon 'finis' is again placed: and on 
 folios 19 and 20 Lines ' of Tobacco ' with 'finis ' once more. 
 These Lines on ' Tobacco ' are curious : and somewhat re- 
 semble those on ' Moly ' given in the Hitherto Unpublished 
 Poems of Davies, onward. G. 
 
 I. In Superbiam. Epi. 4. \ ^ 
 
 I tooke the wall, one thrust me rudely by, 
 
 And tould me the King's way did open lye. 
 
 I thankt him y' he did me so much grace, 
 
 to take the worse, leave me the better place ; 
 For if by th' owners wee esteeme of things, 
 the wall's the subjects, but the way's the King's.
 
 4S APPENDIX TO EPIGRAMS. 
 
 2. Epi. 5. 
 NIX /- SNOW 
 
 IX J 9 
 
 CORNIX ( A CROW. 
 NIX : . I that the Winter's daughter am 
 whilst thus my letters stand, 
 Am whiter then the plumbe^ of swan 
 or any ladye's hand ; 
 IX : . Take but away my letter first, 
 and then I doe encline 
 That stood before for milke white snowe 
 to be the figure nine. 
 And if that further you desire 
 by change to doe som trickes. 
 As blacke as any bird I am. 
 CORNIX : by adding COR to NIX. 
 
 j.f 3. Epi. 6. 
 
 Health is a jewell true, which when we buy 
 Physitians value it accordingly. 
 
 4. In Amorosum. Epi. 7. 
 A wife you wisht me (sir) rich, faire and young 
 with French, Italian, and the Spanish tongue : 
 
 1 =- 
 
 =plumage. G.
 
 APPENDIX TO EPIGRAMS. 49 
 
 I must confesse yo"" kindnesse verie much 
 but yet in truth, Sir, I deserve none such, 
 for when I wed — as yet I meane to tarry — 
 A woman of one language i'le but marry, 
 and with that little portion of her store, 
 expect such plenty, I would wish no more. 
 
 5- Epi. 9. -^^ ^ft.5Uv*/..4 V 
 
 Westminster is a mill that grinds all causes, ' ' .ff^St 
 
 but grinde his cause for mee there, he y list : 
 For by demures and errours, stayes and clauses, 
 the tole is oft made greater then the grist. 
 
 6. Epi. 10. ' JL , ly '■ 
 He that doth aske St. James they [?] say, shall speed : 
 O y' Kinge James would answere to my need. 
 
 vol.. II.
 
 V. GULLINGE SONNETS.
 
 OJ 
 
 NOTE. 
 
 These ' Gullinge Sonnets ' were first printed in my re- 
 production of the Dr. Farmer MS. for the Chetham Society 
 (2 vols. 4to., 1873) in Part I. pp. 76-81. There seems no 
 question that these Sonnets belong to Sir John Davies. 
 Besides the "J. D." and "Mr. Dauyes" of the MS., 
 his most marked turns of thought and epithet are readily 
 discernible in them. See critical remarks on them and 
 their probable motif in Memorial-Introduction. 
 
 The Sir Anthony Cooke to whom these Sonnets are 
 dedicated descended from the Sir Anthony who was Pre- 
 ceptor to King Edward VI., and for Letters from whom 
 whoso cares may consult the " Reformation " corres- 
 pondence of the Parker Society. His daughter Mildred 
 was second wife of Lord Burleigh, and his daughter Anne 
 was mother of the Bacon. His son and heir, Richard 
 Cooke, died in 1579, and was succeeded by his son Anthony 
 (this Sir Anthony), who was knighted in 1596 by the Earl 
 of Essex at the sacking of Cadiz. He was buried at 
 Romford, Essex, on the 28th December, 1604. G.
 
 55 
 
 [BDeUicatorp bonnet.] 
 
 TO HIS GOOD FREINDE SR ANTH. 
 COOKE. 
 
 H 
 
 ERE my Camelion Muse her selfe doth chaunge 
 
 to diuers shapes of gross absurdities, 
 and like an Anticki mocks w* fashion straunge 
 the fond 2 admirers of lewde gulleries. 
 Your iudgement sees w* pitty, and w'^ scorne 
 The bastard Sonnetts of these Rymers bace, 
 W^h in this vvhiskinge age are daily borne 
 To their own shames, and Poetrie's disgrace. 
 Yet some praise those and some perhappes will praise 
 euen these of myne : and therefore thes I send 
 to you that pass in Courte yo-- glorious dayes ; 
 Y' if some rich rash gull these Rimes commend 
 Thus you may sett this formall witt to schoole, 
 Vse yo' owne grace, and begg him for a foole. 
 
 J. D. 
 
 • = motley-dressed jester or fool. G. - = foolish. G.
 
 57 
 
 Gullmge Sonnets. 
 
 1 'T^HE Louer Vnder burthen of his M"^ love 
 
 W^h lyke to ^tna did his harte oppreffe : 
 did giue fuch piteous grones y' he did moue 
 the heau'nes at length to pitty his dillreffe 
 but for the fates in theire highe Courte aboue 
 forbad to make the greuous burthen leffe. 
 the gracous powers did all confpire to proue 
 Yf miracle this mifcheife mighte redreffe • 
 therefore regardinge y' y® loade was fuch 
 as noe man mighte w'^ one man's mighte fuflayne 
 and y' mylde patience^ imported much 
 to him that (hold indure an endles payne : 
 By there decree he foone transformed was 
 into a patiente burden-bearinge Affe. 
 
 2 As when y'^ brighte Cerulian firmament 
 hathe not his glory w'^ black cloudes defas'te, 
 
 ' A trisyllable. G.
 
 58 GULLING E SONNETS. 
 
 Soe were my thoughts voyde of all difcontent ; 
 
 and w'""- noe myfte of paffions ouercafl 
 
 they all were pure and cleare, till at the lall 
 
 an ydle careles thoughte forthe wandringe wente 
 
 and of y*^ poyfonous beauty tooke a tafle 
 
 W<^'^ doe the harts of louers fo torment : 
 
 then as it chauncethe in a flock of fheepe 
 
 when fome contagious yll breedes firfl in one 
 
 daylie it fpreedes & fecretly doth creepe 
 
 till all the filly troupe be ouergone. 
 
 So by clofe neighbourhood w'^ in my brefl 
 
 one fcuruy thoughte infe6leth all the reft. 
 
 3 What Eagle can behould her funbrighte eye, 
 her funbrighte eye y' lights the world w* loue, 
 
 . the world of Loue wherein I Hue and dye, 
 I Hue and dye and diuers chaunges proue, 
 I chaunges proue, yet ftill the fame am I, 
 the fame am I and neuer will remoue, 
 neuer remoue vntill my foule dothe flye, 
 my foule dothe fly, and I furceafe to moue, 
 I ceafe to moue w'^'^ now am mou'd by you, 
 am mou'd by you y* moue all mortall hartes, 
 all mortall hartes whofe eyes yo"" eyes doth veiwe, 
 Yo"" eyes doth veiwe whence Cupid fhoots his darts,
 
 GULLING E SONNETS. 59 
 
 whence Cupid fhootes his dartes and woundeth thofe 
 that honor you and neuer weare^ his foes. 
 
 4 The hardnes of her harte and truth of myne 
 when the all feeinge eyes of heauen did fee 
 they flreight concluded y' by po\vTe devine 
 to other formes our hartes fliould turned be. 
 then hers as hard as flynte, a Flynte became 
 and myne as true as fLeele, to Reele was turned, 
 and then betwene o"" hartes fprange forthe the flame 
 of kindeft loue, w'^^ vnextinguifh'd burned ; 
 And longe the facred lampe of mutuall loue ^ 
 
 inceffantlie did bume in glory brighte ; 
 Vntill my folly did her fury mpue 
 to recompence my feruice w'^ defpighte, 
 and to put out w^^ fnuffers of her pride 
 the lampe of loue w^^^ els had neuer dyed. 
 
 5 Myne Eye, mine eare, my will, my witt, my harte 
 did fee, did heare, did like, difcerne, did loue : 
 her face, her fpeche, her fafhion, iudgemS arte, 
 w^h did charme, pleafe, delighte, confounde and moue. 
 Then fancie, humo% loue, conceipte, and thoughte 
 did foe drawe, force, intyfe, perfwade, deuife,
 
 6o GULLINGE SONNETS. 
 
 that flie was wonne, mou'd, caryed, compafl, wrought 
 to thinck me kinde, true, comeUe, valyant, wife ; 
 that heauen, earth, hell, my folly and her pride 
 did worke, contriue, labor, confpire and fweare 
 to make me fcom'd, vile, cafl of, bace, defyed 
 W'h her my loue, my lighte, my life, my deare : 
 So that my harte, my witt, will, eare, and eye 
 doth greiue, lament, sorrowe, difpaire and dye. 
 
 6 The facred Mufe that firfle made loue deuine 
 hath made him naked and w'^out attyre, 
 but I will cloth him w'^ this penn of myne 
 that all the world his fafhion fhall admyre. 
 his hatt of hope, his bande of beautye fine, 
 his cloake of crafte, his doblett of defyre, 
 greife for a girdell, Ihall aboute him twyne, 
 his pointes of pride, his Ilet holes of yre, 
 his hofe of hate, his Cod peece of conceite, 
 his (lockings of llerne llrife, his fhirte of Ihame, 
 his garters of vaine glorie gaye and flyte ; 
 his pantofels of paffions I will frame, 
 pumpes^ of prefumption fhall adorne his feete 
 and Socks of fuUennes excedinge fweete. 
 
 5 
 
 = slipper-shoes. G.
 
 GULLIXGE SONNETS. 6i 
 
 7 Into the midle Temple of my harte 
 the wanton Cupid did himfelfe admitt 
 and gaue for pledge yo"" Eagle-fighted witt 
 Y"^ he wold play noe rude vncivill parte : 
 Longe tyme he cloak'te his nature w'^ his arte 
 and fadd and graue and fober he did fitt, 
 
 but at the lafl he gan to reuell it, 
 
 to breake good rules, and orders to peruerte : 
 
 Then loue and his younge pledge were both conuented 
 
 before fadd*5 Reafon, that old Bencher graue, 
 
 who this fadd fentence vnto him prefented 
 
 by dilligence, y' flye and fecreate knaue 
 
 That loue and witt, for euer fhold departe 
 
 out of the midle Temple of my harte. 
 
 8 My cafe is this, I loue Zepheria brighte, 
 Of her I hold my harte by fealtye : 
 W^ I difcharge to her perpetuallye. 
 Yet fhe thereof will neuer me accquite. 
 for now fuppofmge I w'*^ hold her righte 
 (he hathe diftreinde my harte to fatisfie 
 
 • = serious; and so * sadly '= seriously, e. g. Skelton : 
 " I have not offended, I trust, 
 If it be sadly discust." G.
 
 62 GULLINGE SONNETS. 
 
 the duty w^^ I neuer did denye, 
 
 and far away impounds it w*^ defpite ; 
 
 I labor therefore iufllie to repleaue'' 
 
 my harte w'^'* fhe vniufLly doth impounde 
 
 but quick conceite w* nowe is loue's highe Sheife 
 
 retomes it as eflo)Tide, not to be founde : 
 
 Then w<=^ the lawe affords I onely craue 
 
 her harte for myne in wit her name to haue. 
 
 9 To Loue my lord I doe knightes feruice owe 
 and therefore nowe he hath my witt in warde, 
 but while it is in his tuition foe 
 me tliincks he doth intreate it paffmge hard ; 
 for thoughe he hathe it marryed longe agoe 
 to Vanytie, a wench of noe regarde, 
 and nowe to full, and perfe6l age doth growe, 
 Yet nowe of freedome it is mofl debarde. 
 But why fhould loue after minoritye 
 when I am pall the one and twentith yeare 
 perclude my witt of his fweete libertye, 
 and make it flill y^ yoake of wardfhippe beare. 
 I feare he hath an other Title gott 
 and holds my witte now for an Ideott. 
 
 M"^ Dauyes. 
 
 ^ = recover (a legal term) G.
 
 VL MINOR POEMS.
 
 i¥lmor poems?* 
 
 I. Yet other Twelve Wo7iders of the 
 TVorlci: 
 
 I. The Courtier. 
 T ONG haue I liu'd in Court, yet learn'd not all this 
 
 while, 
 To sel poore sutors, smoke : nor where I hate, to smile : 
 Superiors to adore. Inferiors to despise. 
 To flye from such as fall, to follow such as rise ; 
 To cloake a poore desire vnder a rich array. 
 Not to aspire by vice, though twere the quicker way. 
 
 * This and the three following, are from the celebrated collection of 
 early English poetry called the ' Poetical Rhapsody ' by Davison. 
 Our text is from the third edition (1621) which in our case is pre- 
 ferable, as having presumably been revised (in his contributions) by 
 Sir John : It is to be noted that in this edition the original simple 
 I. D. is in the second poem changed to Sir I, D., and that to the 
 third his name is given in full. I have included the Hymn on Music, 
 though the initials I. D. have been assigned to Dr. John Donne by 
 Sir Egerton Brydges and others. It seems to me that as (i) I. D. is 
 our Poet's designation in the 'Rhapsody* throughout, and as (2) the 
 VOL. n. F
 
 66 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 II. T/ie Divine. 
 My calling is Diuine, and I from God am sent, 
 I will no chop-Church be, nor pay my patron rent, 
 Nor yeeld to sacriledge ; but like the kind true mother, 
 Rather will loose all the child, then part it with another; 
 Much wealth, I will not seeke, nor worldly masters serue. 
 So to grow rich and fat, while my poore flock doth sterue. 
 
 Lines were not claimed for Donne by himself, or by his son when he 
 collected his father's Poems — we are warranted in assigning them to 
 Sir John Davies. Sir Egerton favours their Donne authorship 
 simply because " they seem rather to partake of the conceits of Donne 
 than of the simple vigour of Davies " but he forgot the ' Hymnes 
 to Astraea ' and ' Orchestra ' ; which are in the same vein. It is to 
 be regretted that Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas modernized the text in 
 his reprint of the ' Rhapsody ' : (2 vols, crown 8vo. 1826, Pickering) : 
 and perhaps equally so, that Mr. Collier in his careful and beautiful 
 private one, has selected the first incomplete edition. The following 
 is the title-page of the edition of the ' Rhapsody ' used by us : 
 
 DAVISONS 
 POEMS, 
 
 OR 
 
 A POETIC ALL RAPSODIE. 
 
 Deuided into sixe Bookes. 
 
 The first, contayning Poems and Denises. 
 The second, Sonets and Canzonets, 
 The third, Pastoralh and Elegies. 
 The fourth, Madrigalls and Odes.
 
 MINOR POEMS. 67 
 
 III. T/ie Soiddier. 
 My occupation is, the noble trade of Kings, 
 The trj'all that decides the highest right of things : 
 Though Mars my master be, I doe not Vcmis loue, 
 Nor honour Bacchus oft, nor often sweare by loue ; 
 Of speaking of my selfe, I all occasion shunne, 
 And rather loue to doe, then boast what I haue done. 
 
 III. The Lawyer. 
 The Law my calling is, my robe, my tongue, my pen, 
 Wealth and opinion gaine, and make me ludge of men. 
 The kno^\^le dishonest cause, I neuer did defend. 
 Nor spun out sutes in length, but wisht and sought an end ; 
 
 The fift, Epigrams and Epitaphs. 
 The sixt, Epistles and Epithalamions. 
 
 For variety and pleasure, the like neuer 
 published. 
 The Bee and Spider by a diuers poiver, 
 Sucke hony and poy son from the selfe same Jlower. 
 
 The fourth Impression, 
 Newly corrected and augmented, and put into 
 a forme more pleasing to the Reader. 
 London, 
 Printed by B. A. for Roger lackson, 162 1 (small 120.) See our 
 Preface for account of an autograph MS. of "Yet other Twelve Won- 
 ders of the World." G.
 
 68 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 Nor counsell did bewray, nor of both parties take, 
 Nor euer tooke I fee for which I neuer spake. 
 
 V. The Physition, 
 I study to vj^hold the sHppery state of man, 
 Who dies, when we haue done the best and all we can. 
 From practise and from bookes, I draw my learned skill. 
 Not from the knowne receipt of Tothecaries bill. 
 The earth my faults doth hide,^ the world my cures doth 
 
 see, 
 What youth, and time effects, is oft ascribde to me. 
 
 VI. The Merchant. 
 My trade doth euery thing to euery land supply, 
 Discouer unknowne coasts, strange Countries to ally ; 
 I neuer did forestall, I neuer did ingrosse, 
 No custome did withdraw, though I return'd with losse. 
 I thriue by faire exchange, by selling and by buying, 
 And not by lewish vse,^ reprisall, fraud, or lying. 
 
 - ' The earth my faults doth hide.' This recalls the somewhat 
 irate remonstrance of a bibulous Sexton under the reproaches of a 
 medical church-warden at a parish-meeting : "O Sir, you are the 
 last that ever I expected to expose me, seeing I have covered up 
 many of your faults " (i.e. in the graves of his patients.) G. 
 
 •^ ^ usury. G.
 
 MINOR POEMS. 69 
 
 VII. The Country Gentlejnan. 
 Though strange outladish spirits praise towns, and 
 
 country scorn, 
 The country is my home, I dwel where I was born : 
 There profit and command with pleasure I pertake, 
 Yet do not Haukes and dogs, my sole companions make. 
 I rule, but not oppresse, end quarrels, not maintaine ; 
 See towns, but dwel not there, t'abridge my charg or train. 
 
 VIII. The Bacheler. 
 
 How many things as yet are deere alike to me. 
 The field, the horse, the dog, loue, amies or liberty. 
 I haue no mfe as yet, whom I may call mine owne, 
 I haue no children yet, that by my name are knowne. 
 Yet if I married were, I would not wish to thriue. 
 If that I could not tame the veriest shrew aliue. 
 
 IX. The Married Man. 
 
 I only am the man, among all married men. 
 That do not wish the Priest, to be unlinckt agen. 
 And thogh my shoo did wring,'* I wold not make my mone. 
 Nor think my neighbors chance, more happy then mine 
 own. 
 
 -) _ 
 
 = pinch. G.
 
 70 
 
 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 Yet court I not my wife, but yeeld obseruance due, 
 Being neither fond ■-' nor crosse, nor iealous, nor vntrue. 
 
 X. The Wife. 
 The first of all our Sex came from the side of man, 
 I thither am return'd, from whence our Sex began ; 
 I doe not visite oft, nor many, when I doe, 
 I tell my mind to few, and that in counsell too : 
 I seeme not sick in health, nor sullen but in sorrow, 
 I care for somewhat else of, then what to weare to morrow. 
 
 XI. The Widdotv. 
 My dying ^ husband knew, how much his death would 
 
 grieue me. 
 And therefore left me wealth, to comfort and relieue me. 
 Though I no more will haue, I must not loue disdaine, 
 Petielopc her selfe did sutors entertaine ; 
 And yet to draw on such, as are of best esteeme. 
 Nor yonger then I am, nor richer will I seeme. 
 
 i := foolish. G. 
 
 ^ In Sir Egerton Brydges edition of the Rhapsody this line stands 
 " My dying husband knew," &c. 
 an interpolation which, though perhaps called for by the metre, does 
 not appear to be justified by either of the four editions supposed to 
 have been printed during the life-time of the original editor. Nicolas. 
 [True, but as it is found in an autograph MS. of the poem, it is in- 
 serted. See our Preface. G.]
 
 MINOR POEMS. 71 
 
 XII. The Maid. 
 I marriage would forsweare, but that I heare men tell, 
 That she that dies a maid, must leade an Ape in Hell; 
 Therefore if fortune come, I will not mock and play, 
 Nor driue the bargaine on, till it be driuen away. 
 Tithes and lands I like, yet rather fancy can, 
 A man that wanteth gold, then gold that wants a man. 
 (pp. 1—4.)
 
 72 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 II. A CONTENTION 
 Betwixt a Wife, a PViddoza, and a Maide? 
 
 Wife. Widdow, well met, whether goe you to day ? 
 Will you not to this solemne offering go ? 
 You know it is Astreas holy day : 
 The Saint to whom all hearts deuotion owe. 
 
 Widow. Marry, what else ? I purpos'd so to doe : 
 
 Doe you not marke how all the wiues are fine? 
 And how they haue sent presents ready too, 
 To make their offering at Astreas shrine ? 
 
 See then, the shrine and tapers burning bright, 
 Come, friend, and let vs first ourselues ad- 
 vance, 
 
 7 See Introductory Note to the first of these Minor Poems, ante. 
 In Mr. Collier's History of English Dramatic Poetry, Vol. I. p. 323 
 seqq. interesting details are given of an Entertainment to the Queen 
 at Sir Robert Cecil's " newe house in the Strand," at which she was 
 " royally entertained." From Extracts from a Barrister's Diary 
 among the Harleian MSS. adduced herein, we glean a notice of the 
 present Poem, e. g-. " Sundry devises at hir entrance : three women, 
 a maid, a widow and a wife, cache contending [for] their own 
 states, but the virgin preferred." In Nichols' Progs, of Elizabeth 
 (iii. 601) the poem is also ascribed on authority of John Chamber-
 
 MINOR POEMS. 73 
 
 We know our place, and if we haue our right, 
 To all the parish we must leade the dance. 
 
 But soft, what means this bold presumptuous 
 
 maid, 
 To goe before, without respect of vs ? 
 Your fonvardnesse (proude maide) must now 
 
 be staide : 
 Where leamd you to neglect your betters 
 
 thus ? 
 
 Maide. Elder you are, but not my betters here, 
 
 This place to maids a priuiledge must giue : 
 The Goddesse, being a maid, holds maidens 
 
 deare. 
 And grants to them her owti prerogatiue. 
 
 Besides, on all true virgins, at their birth. 
 Nature hath set ^ a crowne of excellence, 
 
 lain to Davies (6th December, 1602). See Letters of Chamberlain 
 published by Camden Society, p. 169 : December 23rd, 1602. Miss 
 Sarah Williams, in her careful edition of Chamberlain's Letters for 
 the Camden Society, by an oversight, has annotated this reference in 
 loco as to Davies of Hereford. Chamberlain calls it a " pretty dia- 
 logue." The Barrister's Diary supra [Manningham] has been 
 edited for the Camden Society by the late lamented Mr. John 
 Bruce of London. G. ^ Misprinted ' sent.' G.
 
 74 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 That all the wiues and widdowes of the earth, 
 Should giue them place, and doe them reuer- 
 ence? 
 
 Wife. If to be borne a maid be such a grace, 
 So was I borne and grac't by nature to. 
 But seeking more perfection to embrace 
 I did become a wife as others doe. 
 
 Widow. And if the maid and wife such honour have, 
 I haue beene both, and hold a third degree. 
 Most maides are Wardes, and euery wife a 
 
 slaue, 
 I haue my livery sued,^ and I am free. 
 
 Maid. That is the fault, that you haue maidens 
 beene, 
 And were not constant to continue so : 
 The fals of Angels did increase their sinne, 
 In that they did so pure a state forgoe : 
 
 But Wife and Widdow, if your wits can make, 
 Your state and persons of more worth then 
 mine, 
 
 ^ A legal phrase = freedom or liberty. G.
 
 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 75 
 
 Aduantage to this place I will not take ; 
 I will both place and priuilege resigne. 
 
 Wife. Why marriage is an honourable state. 
 Widow. And widdow-hood is a reuerend degree : 
 Maid. But maidenhead, that will admit no mate, 
 Like maiestie itselfe must sacred be. 
 
 Wife. The wife is mistresse of her family. 
 
 Widow. Much more the widdow, for she rules alone : 
 
 Maid. But mistresse of mine owne desires am I, 
 
 When you rule others wils and not your owne. 
 
 Wife. Onely the wife enjoys the vertuous pleasure. 
 Widow. The widow can abstaine from pleasures known : 
 Maid. But th' vncorrupted maid preserues ^ such 
 measure, 
 As being by pleasures wooed she cares for none. 
 
 Wife. 
 Widow. 
 
 Maid. 
 
 The wife is like a faire supported vine. 
 So was the widdow, but now stands alone : 
 For being growne strong, she needs not to in- 
 cline. 
 Maids, like the earth, supported are of none. 
 
 > Nicolas, as before, has ' observes.' G.
 
 76 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 Wife. The wife is as a Diamond richly set ; 
 Maid. The maide vnset doth yet more rich aj^peare. 
 Widow. The widdow a lewel in the Cabinet, 
 
 Which though not worn is stil esteem'd as deare. 
 
 Wife. The wife doth loue, and is belou'd againe. 
 Widow. The widdow is awakt out of that dreame. 
 Maid. The maids white minde had neuer such a staine, 
 No passion troubles her cleare vertues streame. 
 
 Yet if I would be lou'd, lou'd would I be, 
 Like her whose vertue in the bay is scene : 
 Loue to wife fades with satietie, 
 Where loue neuer enioyed is euer greene. 
 
 Widow. Then whats a virgin but a fruitlesse bay ? 
 
 Maid. And whats a widdow but a rose-lesse bryer ? 
 
 And what are wiues, but woodbinds which decay 
 The stately Oakes by which themselues aspire? 
 
 And what is marriage but a tedious yoke ? 
 Widow. And whats virginitie but sweete selfe-loue ? 
 Wife. And whats a widdow but an axell broke, 
 
 Whose one part failing, neither part can mooue?
 
 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 77 
 
 Widow. Wiues are as birds in golden cages kept. 
 Wife. Yet in those cages chearefuUy they sing : 
 Widow. Widdowes are birds out of these cages lept, 
 Whose ioyfuU notes makes all the forrest ring. 
 
 Maid. But maides are birds amidst the woods secure, 
 Whichneuerhad could touch, nor yet ^ could take; 
 Nor whistle could deceiue, nor baite allure, 
 But free vnto themselues doe musicke make. 
 
 Wife. The wife is as the turtle with her mate. 
 Widow. The widdow, as the widdow doue alone ; 
 
 Whose truth shines most in her forsaken state. 
 Maid. The maid a Phoenix, and is still but one. 
 
 Wife. The wifes a soule vnto her body tyed. 
 Widow. The widdow a soule departed into blisse. 
 Maid. The maid, an Angell, which was stellified. 
 And now t' as faire a house descended is. 
 
 Wife. Wiues are faire houses kept and fumisht well. 
 Widow. Widdowes old castles voide, but full of state : 
 Maid. But maids are temples where the Gods do dwell, 
 To whom alone themselues they dedicate. 
 
 Nicolas, as before, reads ' net.' G.
 
 78 
 
 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 Wife. 
 
 But marriage is a prison during life, 
 Where one way out, but many entries be : 
 The Nun is kept in cloyster, not the wife, 
 Wedlocke alone doth make the virgin free. 
 
 Maid. The maid is ever fresh, like morne in May : 
 Wife. The wife with all her beames is beautified, 
 Like to high noone, the glory of the day : 
 Widow. The widow, like a milde, sweet, euen-tide. 
 
 Wife. An office well supplide is like the wife. 
 Widow. The widow, like a gainfull office voide : 
 Maid. But maids are like contentment in this life. 
 
 Which al the world haue sought, but none 
 enioid : 
 
 Go wife to Dunmow, and demaund your flitch. 
 Wido7ii. Goe gentle maide, goe leade the Apes in hell. 
 Wife. Goe widow make some younger brother rich, 
 
 And then take thought and die, and all is well. 
 
 Alas poore maid, that hast no help nor stay. 
 Widow. Alas poore wife, that nothing dost possesse ; 
 Maid. Alas poore widdow, charitie doth say, 
 
 Pittie the widow and the fatherlesse.
 
 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 79 
 
 Widow. But happy widdowes haue the world at wall. 
 Wife. But happier wiues, whose ioys are euer double. 
 Maid. But happiest maids whose hearts are calme and 
 
 still, 
 Whom feare, nor hope, nor loue, nor hate doth 
 
 trouble. 
 
 Wife. Euery true wife hath an indented^ heart, 
 Wherein the covenants of loue are wnt, 
 Whereof her husband keepes the counterpart, 
 And reads his comforts and his ioyes in it. 
 
 Widow. But euery widdowes heart is like a booke, 
 
 Where her ioyes past, imprinted doe remaine, 
 But when her iudgements eye therein doth 
 
 looke ; 
 She doth not wish they were to come againe. 
 
 Maid. But the maids heart a faire white table is, 
 
 Spotlesse and pure, where no impressions be 
 But the immortal Caracters of blisse, 
 Which onely God doth write, and Angels see. 
 
 ' The reference is to the wavy or vandyked cutting of the vellum 
 MS. whereby the one copy fits into the other. Recently two very 
 ancient MSS. were thus unexpectedly brought together in H. M 
 Public Record Office. G.
 
 8o 
 
 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 Wife. But wiues haue children, what a ioy is this ? 
 Widow. Widows haue children too, but maids haue none. 
 Maid. No more haue Angels, yet they haue more blisse 
 Then euer yet to mortall man was knowne. 
 
 Wife. The wife is like a faire manured"* field ; 
 Widow. The widow once was such, but now doth rest. 
 Maid. The maide, like Paradice, vndrest, vntil'd, 
 Beares crops of natiue vertue in her breast. 
 
 Wife. Who would not dye as wife, as Lucrece died ? 
 Widow. Or liue a widdow, as Penelope ? 
 Maid. Or be a maide, and so be stellified,^ 
 As all the vertues and the graces be. 
 
 Wife. Wiues are warme Climates well inhabited ; 
 
 But maids are frozen zones where none may 
 dwel. 
 Maid. But fairest people in the North are bred, 
 
 Where Africa breeds Monsters blacke as hell. 
 
 Wife. I haue my husbands honour and his place. 
 Widow. My husbands fortunes all suruiue to me. 
 
 * ^cultivated. G. 
 
 * Cf. 'Orchestra,' Vol. I., page 192, with relative note. G.
 
 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 8i 
 
 Maid. The moone doth borrow Hght, you borrow grace, 
 When maids by their owne vertues graced be. 
 
 White is my colour ; and no hew but this 
 It will receiue, no tincture can it staine. 
 Wife. My white hath tooke one colour, but it is 
 My honourable purple dyed in graine.^ 
 
 Widow. But it hath beene my fortune to renue 
 My colour twice from that it was before. 
 But now my blacke will take no other hue, 
 And therefore now I meane to change no more. 
 
 JVife. Wiues are faire Apples seru'd in golden dishes. 
 Widtnv. Widows good wine, which time makes better 
 
 much. 
 Maid. But Maids are grapes desired by many wishes, 
 But that they grow so high as none can touch. 
 
 Wife. I haue a daughter equals you, my girle. 
 
 Maid. The daughter doth excell the mother then : 
 
 As pearles are better then the mother of pearle 
 Maids loose their value whe they match with 
 men. 
 
 * = in the fabric. G. 
 VOL. II. G
 
 82 
 
 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 Widouf. The man with who I matcht, his worth was 
 such 
 As now I scome a maide should be my peare : "^ 
 Maid. But I will scome the man you praise so much, 
 
 For maids are matchlesse, and no mate can 
 beare. 
 
 Hence is it that the virgine neuer loues, 
 Because her like she finds not anywhere ; 
 For likenesse euermore affection moues, 
 Therefore the maide hath neither loue nor peere. 
 
 Wife. Yet many virgins married wiues would be. 
 Widow. And many a wife would be a widdow faine. 
 Maid. There is no widdow but desires to see, 
 
 If so she might, her maiden dales againe. 
 
 Widow. ^ There neuer was a wife that liked her lot : 
 Wife. Nor widdow but was clad in mourning weeds. 
 Maid. Doe what you will, marry, or marry not. 
 
 Both this estate and that, repentance breedes. 
 
 '' = peer. G. 
 
 * In the previous editions of the Rhapsody, this line has always 
 been imputed to the Wife, and the following one to the Widow ; but 
 as throughout the Contention each party praises her own state, whilst 
 she ridicules that of the other, the transposition in the text appeared 
 to be imperiously called for. Nicolas.
 
 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 83 
 
 Wife. But she that this estate and that hath seene, 
 
 Doth find great ods betweene the wife and girle. 
 
 Maid. Indeed she doth, as much as is betweene 
 
 The melting haylestone and the solid pearle. 
 
 Wife. If I were Widdow, my merry dayes were past. 
 Widow Nay, then you first become sweete pleasures 
 
 guest, 
 Wife.^ For mayden-head is a continuall fast, 
 And marriage is a continual feast 
 
 Maid. Wedlock indeed hath oft compared bin 
 
 To publike Feasts where meete a publike rout ; 
 Where they that are without would faine go in, 
 And they that are within would faine go out. 
 
 Or to the lewell which this vertue had, 
 That men were mad till they might it obtaine, 
 But when they had it, they were twise as mad, 
 Till they were dipossest of it againe. 
 
 Wife. Maids cannot iudge, because they cannot tell, 
 What comforts and what ioyes in marriage be : 
 
 ' By the rule of note 8, Wife seems necessary to be here prefixed; 
 but see our Memorial-Introduction for a critical notice of this and 
 other portions. G.
 
 84 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 Maid. Yes, yes, though blessed Saints in heauen do 
 dwell. 
 They doe the soules in Purgatory see. 
 
 Wuifliti. If euery wife do Hue in Purgatory. 
 
 Then sure it is, that Widdowes Hue in blisse : 
 And are translated to a state of glory, 
 But Maids as yet haue not attain'd to this. 
 
 Maid. Not Maids? To spotlesse maids this gift is 
 giuen, 
 To Hue in incorruption from their birth; 
 And what is that but to inherit heauen 
 Euen while they dwell vpon the spotted earth ? 
 
 The perfectest of all created things. 
 
 The purest gold, that suffers no allay ;^ 
 
 The sweetest flower that on th' earths bosom e 
 
 springs. 
 The pearle vnbord, whose price no price can 
 
 pay: 
 
 The Christall Glasse that will no venome hold,- 
 The mirror wherein Angels loue to looke, 
 
 1 = alloy. G. ^ It was long a " Vulgar Error" that certain 
 'cliristall glasses' flew into bits on poison being put into them. G.
 
 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 Dianaes bathing Fountaine cleere and cold, 
 Beauties fresh Rose, and vertues huing booke. 
 
 Of loue and fortune both, the Mistresse borne, 
 The soueraigne spirit that will be thrall to none ; 
 The spotlesse garment that was neuer worne. 
 The Princely Eagle that still flyes alone. 
 
 She sees the world, yet her cleere thought doth 
 
 take 
 No such deepe print as to be chang'd thereby; 
 As when we see the burning fire doth make, 
 No such impression as doth burne the eye. 
 
 Wife. No more (sweete maid) our strife is at an end, 
 Cease now : I fear we shall transformed be 
 To chattering Pies, as they that did contend 
 To match the Muses in their harmony. 
 
 Widow. Then let us yeeld the honour and the place. 
 And let vs both be sutors to the maid ; 
 That since the Goddesse giucs her speciall 
 
 grace, 
 By her cleere hands the offring be conuaide.
 
 86 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 Maid. Your speech I doubt hath some displeasure 
 
 mou'd, 
 Yet let me haue the offring, I will see ; 
 I know she hath both wiues and widdowes 
 
 lou'd, 
 
 Though she would neither wife nor widdow 
 
 be. 
 
 (PP 5— 1 5-)
 
 MINOR POEMS. 87 
 
 III. A LOTTERY. f 
 
 Presented before the late Queenes Maiesty at tJie Lord 
 Chancelors House, 1602.^ 
 
 A Marritur with a Boxe vnder his arme, contayning all 
 the seuerall things following, supposed to cofne from the 
 Carrick^ came into tlie Presence, singing this Song: 
 
 Cynthia Queene of Seas and Lands, 
 That fortune euery where commands, 
 
 ^ See Introductory-note to the preceding poem. G. 
 
 - This Lottery was presented to the Queen in the year 1602, at 
 York House, the residence of Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper, not in 
 1 60 1, as stated in Nichols' Pmgresies, vol iii. p. 570. See our 
 Memorial-Introduction for authority for this correction, and for the 
 names of the ladies who drew the successive 'lots,' and also other 
 points. Collier, as before, in a strangely curious remark, supposes 
 these lottery verses may be Samuel Rowland's " When gossips 
 meet," and as strangely does not connect them with Davies' name 
 at all. He, however, supplies interesting memorabilia relating to 
 these Elizabethan Entertainments. He mis-names the poet-compiler 
 of the ' Rhapsody ' throughout, Davidson. 
 
 * Or Caract, a large ship. Chaucer speaks of Satan having " a 
 tayle, broder than of a Carrike is the sayl.' Sir Walter Raleigh, — a 
 contributor to the Rhapsody, — observes " in which river the largest 
 Carack may, &c." Nicolas.
 
 88 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 Sent forth fortune to the Sea, 
 
 To try her fortune euery way. 
 There did I fortune meet, which makes me now to sing, 
 There is no fishing to the Sea, nor seruice to the King. 
 
 All the Nymphs of T/ietis traine 
 
 Did Cinthias fortunes entertaine : 
 
 Many a lewell, many a lem. 
 
 Was to her fortune brought by them. 
 Her fortune sped so well, as makes me now to sing. 
 There is no fishing to the Sea, nor seruice to the King. 
 
 Fortune that it might be seene. 
 That she did serue a royall Queene, 
 A franke and royall hand did beare, 
 And cast her fauors euery where. 
 
 Some toyes fell to my share, which makes me now to 
 sing, 
 
 There is no fishing to the Sea nor seruice to the King.* 
 
 ^ Mr. Nichols, in his Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, cites the 
 tollowing passage from a speech made at her entertainment at Cow- 
 dray, to prove that the line in the text was an " olde saying." 
 " Madame it is an olde saying ' There is no fishing to the sea, nor 
 service to the King ;' but it holds when the sea is calm, and the King 
 virtuous." .... Vol. iii., pp. 95 — 57 1- Nicolas. The sense is 
 that there is no fishing to be compared (in result) to sea-fishing, nor 
 any service to be compared with the king's. G.
 
 MINOR POEMS. 89 
 
 And the Song ended, he vttred this short Speech : 
 
 God saue you faire Ladies all : and for viy part, if 
 euer I be brought to answerefor my sinnes, Godforgiue my 
 sharking, and lay vsury to my charge. I am a Marriner, 
 and am now come from the sea, where I had the fortune 
 to light upon these few trifles. I must cot f esse I came but 
 lightly by the^n, but I no sooner had them, but I made a 
 vow, that as they came to my hands by Fortune, so I 
 would not part with them but by Fortune. To that end 
 I haue euer since carried these Lots about me, that if I met 
 with fit company I might deuide my booty among them. 
 And now, (L thanke my good Fortune,) ! I am lighted 
 into the best company of the world, a company of the fairest 
 Ladyes that euer I saw. Come Ladies try your fortunes, 
 and if any light upon an unfortunate Blanke, let her 
 thinke that Fortune doth but mock her in these trifles, and 
 meanes to pleasure her in greater matters. 
 
 The Lots. 
 
 I. Fortunes IV/teele. 
 Fortune must now no more in triumph ride, 
 The whedes are yours tliat did her Chariot guide.
 
 QO MINOR POEMS. 
 
 2. A Purse. 
 You thriue, or would, or may, your Lots a Purse 
 Fill it with gold, and you are nere the worse. 
 
 3. A Maske. 
 Want you a Maske ? heere Fortune gives you one, 
 Yet nature giues the Rose and Lilly none. 
 
 4. A Looking-Glasse. 
 Blinde Fortune doth not see how faire you be, 
 But giues a glasse that you your selfe may see. 
 
 5. A Hmiker chief e. 
 Whether you seeme to weepe, or weepe indeed. 
 This Hand-ka-chiefe will stand you well in steed. 
 
 6. A Plain e Ri?ig. 
 Fortune doth send^ you, hap it well or ill. 
 This plaine gold Ring, to wed you to your will. 
 
 7. A Ring, 7inth this Poesie : 
 As faithful/ as I find. 
 Your hand by Fortune on this Ring doth light, 
 And yet the words'' do hit your humour right. 
 
 ■'' Manningham, in the original MS., has these variants : 1. i, 
 ' hath sent' ; 1. 2, 'A plaine.' G. 
 
 * Manningham, as before, has ' word doth ' — a reading which
 
 MINOR POEMS. 91 
 
 8. A Fair of Clones. 
 Fortune these Gloues to you in challenge sends, 
 For that you loue not fooles that are her friendsJ 
 
 9. A Dozen of Points.^ 
 You are in euery point a louer true, 
 And therefore Fortune giues the points to you. 
 
 10. A Lace. 
 Giue her the Lace that loues to be straight lac'd. 
 So Fortiines little gift is aptly plac'd. 
 
 II. A Paire of Kniiies. 
 Fortune doth giue this paire of Kniues to you, 
 To cut the thred of loue, if 't be not true. 
 
 12. A Girdle. 
 By Fortunes Girdle you may happy be,^ 
 But they that are lesse happy are more free. 
 
 brings it more into accord with the language of the times, ' word ' 
 being then used for a sentence of import, impressa, or posy. He has 
 also ' fit ' for ' hit.' G. 
 
 ^ Manningham again reads here : — 
 
 . ..." to you in double challenge sends 
 For you hath fools and flatterers hir best friends." G. 
 * A tagged lace used for attaching and keepmg up or together 
 various parts of the dress. G. 
 
 ' Manningham reads, " With Fortune's .... happy may you 
 be." G.
 
 92 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 13. A Fay re of Writiiig-Tablcs. 
 These Tables may containe your thoughts^ in part, 
 But write not all, that's written in your heart. 
 
 14. A Pay re of Garters. 
 Though you haue Fortunes Garters, you must be 
 More staid and constant in your steps then she. 
 
 15. A Cojfe and Crosse- Cloth. 
 Frowne in good earnest, or be sick in iest, 
 This Coife and Cross-Cloth will become you best. 
 
 16. A Scarf e. 
 Take you this Scarfe, bind Cupid hand and foote. 
 So loue must aske you leaue before hee shoote. 
 
 17. A Falling Band. 
 Fortune would have you rise, yet guides your hand. 
 From other Lots to take the falling band. 
 
 18. A Stomacher. 
 This Stomacher is full of windowes^ wrought, 
 Yet none through them can see into your thought. 
 
 ' Ihid, ' thought.' G. " = worked openings in the dress. G.
 
 MINOR POEMS. 93 
 
 19. A Pair of Sizzers? 
 These sizzers do your huswifery bewray, 
 You loue to work though you are borne to play. 
 
 20. A Chaine. 
 Because you scome loue's Captiue to remaine, 
 Fortune hath swome to leade you in a Chaine. 
 
 21. A Prayer-Booke. 
 Your Fortune may prooue^ good another day, 
 Till Fortune come, take you a booke to pray. 
 
 22. A Suiiftkin.^ 
 'Tis Summer yet, a Snuftkin is your Lot, 
 But 'twill be winter one day, doubt you not. 
 
 23. A Fanne. 
 You loue to see, and yet to be vnseen, 
 Take you this Fanne to be your beauties skreene. 
 
 3 Manningham has ' scisser case,' which shows the scissors were 
 in a case. He also reads ' you be borne.' CJ. 
 
 ■• Hid, ' may be.' Then 1. 2 was first as in text, but over ' Till 
 that day ' is inserted above ' Till Fortune come,' though the latter is 
 not erased. G. 
 
 * A small muff for Winter-wear, llnd in heading and 1. i, *Muf- 
 kin': in 1. 2 'It will be.' G.
 
 94 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 24. A Pair of Bracelets. 
 Lady, your hands are fallen into a snare, 
 For Cupids manicles these Bracelets are. 
 
 25. A Bodkin. 
 Euen with this Bodkin you may Hue unharmed, 
 Your beauty is with vertue so well armed. 
 
 26. A Necklace. 
 Fortune giues your faire neck this lace to weare, 
 God grant a heauier yoke it neuer beare. 
 
 27. A CushineL 
 To her that little cares what Lot she wins, 
 Chance gives a little Cushinet to stick pinnes. 
 
 28. ADyall. 
 The Dyal's your's, watch time least it be lost, 
 Yet they most lose it that do watch it most.*" 
 
 29. A Nutmeg with a Blanke ParcJunent in it. 
 This Nutmeg holds a Blanke, but chance doth hide it ; 
 Write your owne wish, and Fortune will prouide it. 
 
 * Ihid., this variant : — 
 
 " And yet they spend it worst that watch it most." G.
 
 MINOR POEMS. 95 
 
 30. Blanke. 
 Wot you not why Fortune giues you no prize, 
 Good faith she saw you not, she wants her eyes. 
 
 31. Blanke. 
 
 You are so dainty to be pleaz'd, God wot. 
 Chance knowes not what to giue you for a Lot. 
 
 32. Blanke. 
 
 Tis pitty such a hand should draw in vaine. 
 Though it gaine nought, yet shall it pitty gaine. 
 
 33. Blanke. 
 
 Nothing's your Lot, that's more then can be told, 
 For nothing is more precious then gold. 
 
 34. Blanke. 
 
 You faine would haue, but what, you cannot tell. 
 In giuing nothing, Fortune semes you well. 
 
 Sir I. D, (pp. 42 — 46.
 
 96 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 IV. CANZONET. 
 
 A Hymne in Praise of Mttsicke.i 
 
 "P RAISE, pleasure, profite, is that threefold band, 
 Which ties mens minds more fast then Gordions 
 knots : 
 Each one some drawes, all three none can withstand. 
 Of force conioynd, Conquest is hardly got. 
 Then Musicke may of hearts a Monarch be, 
 Wherein prayse, pleasure, profite so agree. 
 
 Praise-worthy Musicke is, for God it praiseth. 
 And pleasant, for brute beasts therein delight. 
 Great profit from it flowes, for why it raiseth 
 The mind ouerwhelmed with rude passions might : 
 When against reason passions fond rebell, 
 Musicke doth that confirme, and those expell. 
 
 If Musicke did not merit endlesse praise, 
 
 Would heauenly Spheares delight in siluer round ?'^ 
 
 ^ See Introductory-Note to the first of these Minor Poems. I 
 include this ' Canzonet ' because originally it bore the initials 
 of Davies* other pieces in the Rhapsody,' viz., I. D. — G. 
 
 ^ Qu : sound ? or it may be — their circular movement (sup- 
 posed). G.
 
 MINOR POEMS. 97 
 
 If ioyous pleasure were not in sweet layes 
 Would they in Court and Country so abound .'' 
 And profitable needes we must that call, 
 Which pleasure linkt with praise, doth bring to all. 
 
 Heroicke minds with praises most incited, 
 Seeke praise in Musicke and therein excell : 
 God, man, beasts, birds, with Musicke are delighted, 
 And pleasant t'is which pleaseth all so well : 
 No greater profit is then self-content, 
 And this will Musicke bring, and care preuent. 
 
 When antique Poets Musick's praises tell, 
 They say it beasts did please, and stones did moue : 
 To proue more dull then stones, then beasts more fell, 
 Those men which pleasing Musicke did not loue ; 
 They fain'd, it Cities built, and States defended 
 To shew the profile great on it depended. 
 
 Sweet birds (poor men's Musitians) neucr slake 
 To sing sweet Musickes praises day and night : 
 The dying Swans in Musicke pleasure take. 
 To shew that it the dying can delight : 
 
 In sicknesse, health, peace, warre, we do it need, 
 Which proues sweet Musicks profit doth exceed. 
 
 VOL. n. H
 
 98 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 But I bj' niggard praising, do dispraise 
 Praise-worthy Musicke in my worthlesse Rime : 
 Ne can the pleasing profit of sweet laies, 
 Any saue learnbd Muses well define : 
 
 Yet all by these rude lines may clearely see, 
 Praise, pleasure, profile in sweet musicke be. 
 
 [pp. 138—9.] 
 (No sig. but in 1602. I. D.)
 
 MINOR POEMS. 99 
 
 V. TEN SONETS TO PHILOMEL. » 
 
 SONNET I. 
 
 Vpon Loues entring by the eares. 
 r^ FT did I heare our eyes die passage weare, 
 
 By which Loue entred to assaile our hearts : 
 
 Therefore I garded them, and void of feare, 
 
 Neglected the defence of other parts. 
 Loue knowing this, the vsuall way forsooke : 
 
 And seeking found a by-way by mine eare. 
 
 At which he entring, my heart prisoner tooke, 
 
 And vnto thee sweete Phylomel did beare. 
 Yet let my heart thy heart to pitty moue, 
 
 Whose paine is great, although small fault appeare. 
 
 First it lies bound in fettring chaines of loue, 
 
 Then each day it is rackt with hope and feare. 
 And with loues flames tis euermore consumed, 
 Only because to loue thee it presumed. 
 
 ' In my edition of Donne I have assigned these Ten Sonnets to 
 him, but for reasons given in Memorial-Introduction now reclaim 
 them for Davies. Our text is as with the others from the ' Rhap- 
 ^ody' of 1621, where they are numbered in the class of sonnets 
 xxxiv. to xlii. They were originally signed Melophilus. The 
 various readings are merely orthographieal. G.
 
 loo MINOR POEMS. 
 
 O why did Fame my heart to loue betray, 
 By telHng my Deares vertue and perfection? 
 Why did my Traytor eares to it conuey 
 That Syren-song, cause of my hearts infection ? 
 
 Had I been deafe, or Fame her gifts concealed, 
 
 Then had my heart beene free from hopelesse Loue : 
 Or were my state Ukewise by it reuealed. 
 Well might it Philomel to pitty moue. 
 
 Than should she know how loue doth make me languish, 
 Distracting me twixt hope and dreadfuU feare : 
 Then should she know my care, my plaints and anguish. 
 All which for her deare selfe I meekely beare. 
 
 Yea I could quietly deaths paines abide. 
 
 So that she knew that for her sake I dide. 
 
 0/ Jiis owne, and his Mistresse sicknesse 
 
 at one time. 
 ICKNESSE entending my loue to betray, 
 
 Before I should sight of my deere obtaine : 
 Did his pale colours in my foce display, 
 Lest that my fauour might her fauours gaine. 
 Yet not content herewith, like meanes it wrought, 
 My Philomels bright beauty to deface : 
 
 S
 
 MINOR POEMS. loi 
 
 And natures glory to disgrace it sought, 
 That my conceiued loue it might displace. 
 But my firme loue could this assault well beare, 
 Which vertue had, not beauty for his ground. 
 And yet bright beames of beauty did appeare, 
 Through sicknesse vaile, which made my loue abound; 
 If sicke (thought I) her beauty so excell, 
 How matchlesse would it be if she were well. 
 
 Another of her sicknesse ajzd recovery. 
 
 TDALE Death himselfe did loue my Philomell, 
 When he her vertues and rare beauty saw. 
 Therefore he sicknesse sent : which should expell 
 His riuals life, and my deare to him draw. 
 
 But her bright beauty dazled so his eyes. 
 
 That his dart life did misse, though her it hit : 
 Yet not therewith content, new meanes he tries, 
 To bring her vnto Death, and make life flit. 
 
 But Nature soone perceiuing, that he meant 
 To spoyle her onely Phoenix, her chiefe pride, 
 Assembled all her force, and did preuent 
 The greatest mischiefe that could her betide. 
 
 So both our hues and loues, Nature defended : 
 
 For had she di'de, my loue and life had ended.
 
 I02 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 Allusio7i to Theseus voyage to Crete, 
 against the Minotaiire. 
 
 A /T Y loue is sail'd against dislike to fight, 
 
 Which Uke vile monster, threatens his decay : 
 The ship is hope, which by desires great might, 
 Is swiftly borne towards the wished bay : 
 
 The company which with my loue doth fare, 
 (Though met in one) is a dissenting crew : 
 They are ioy, griefe, and neuer-sleeping care, 
 And doubt, which neere beleeues good newes for true 
 
 Blacke feare the flag is, which my ship doth beare, 
 Which (Deere) take downe, if my loue victor be : 
 And let white comfort in his place appeare. 
 When loue victoriously returnes to me : 
 
 Least I from rock despaire come tumbling downe, 
 
 And in a sea of teares be for'st to drowne. 
 
 Vpo7i her looking secretly ottt at a window 
 as he passed by. 
 /^NCE did my Philomel reflect on me. 
 
 Her Cristall pointed eyes as I past by ; 
 Thinking not to be scene, yet would me see : 
 But soone my hungry eies their food did spy.
 
 MINOR POEMS. la^ 
 
 Alas, my deere, couldst thou suppose, that face 
 Which needs not enuy Phoebus chiefest pride, 
 Could secret be, although in secret place, 
 And that transparent glasse such beames could hide ? 
 
 But if I had been blinde, yet Loues hot flame, 
 Kindled in my poore heart by thy bright eye, 
 Did plainly shew when it so neere thee came, 
 By more the vsuall heate then cause was nie, 
 
 So though thou hidden wert, my heart and eye 
 
 Did tume to thee by mutuall Sympathy. 
 
 When time nor place would let me often view 
 Natures chiefe Mirror, and my sole delight ; 
 Her liuely picture in my heart I drew, 
 That I might it behold both day and night ; 
 
 But she, like Philips Sonne, scorning that I 
 Should portraiture, which wanted Apelles Art, 
 Commanded Loue (wlio nought dare her deny) 
 To burne the picture which was in my heart. 
 
 The more loue burn'd, the more her Picture shin'd : 
 The more it shin'd, the more my heart did burne: 
 So what to hurt her Picture was assign'd. 
 To my hearts ruine and decay did turne. 
 
 Loue could not burne the Spirit, it was divine, 
 
 And therefore fir'd my heart, the Saints poor shrine.
 
 I04 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 To the Sunne of his Mistresse beauty 
 eclipsed with frownes. 
 
 A 'X THEN as the Sunne eclipsed is, some say- 
 It thunder, Hghtning, raine, and wind portendeth; 
 And not vnUke but such things happen may, 
 Sith like effects my Sunne eclipsed sendeth ! 
 
 Witnesse my throat made hoarse with thundring cries, 
 And heart with loues hot flashing lightnings fired : 
 Witnesse the showers which still fall from mine eies, 
 And breast with sighes like stormy winds neare riued. 
 
 O shine then once againe sweet Sunne on me, 
 And with thy beames dissolue clouds of despaire, 
 Whereof these raging Meteors framed be, 
 In my poore heart by absence of my faire. 
 
 So shalt thou prooue thy beames, thy heate, thy light, 
 
 To match the Sunne in glory, grace, and might. 
 
 Vpon sending her a gold ring with this 
 Posie. 
 Pure and Endlesse. 
 T F you would know the love which I you beare. 
 Compare it to the Ring which your faire hand
 
 MINOR POEMS. 105 
 
 Shall make more precious, when you shall it weare 
 So my loues nature you shall vnderstand. 
 
 Is it of mettall pure ? so you shall proue 
 
 My loue, which ne're disloyall thought did staine. 
 Hath it no end ? so endlesse is my loue, 
 Vnlesse you it destroy with your disdaine. 
 
 Doth it the purer waxe the more tis tride ? 
 So doth my loue : yet herein they dissent, 
 That whereas gold the more t'is purifide 
 By waxing lesse, doth shew some part is spent : 
 
 My loue doth waxe more pure by your more trying, 
 
 And yet encreaseth in the purifying. 
 
 The hearts captivitie. 
 
 A /r Y cruell deere hauing captiu'de my heart, 
 
 And bound it fast in chaines of restlesse loue : 
 Requires it out of bondage to depart, 
 Yet is she sure from her it cannot moue. 
 
 Draw backe (said she) your helpeless loue from me, 
 Your worth requires a farre more worthy place : 
 Vnto your suite though I cannot agree. 
 Full many will it louingly embrace. 
 
 It may be so (my deere) but as the Sunne, 
 
 When it appeares doth make the starres to vanish !
 
 i.>6 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 So when your selfe into my thoughts do runne, 
 All others quite out of my heart you banish. 
 The beames of your perfections shine so bright, 
 'lliat straight-way they dispell all other light. 
 
 I. D.
 
 MINOR POEMS. 107 
 
 VI. TO GEORGE CHAPMAN ON HIS 
 
 OVID.2 
 
 /, D. of the Middle Temple. 
 
 /^NELY that eye which for tme loue doth weepe, 
 Onely that hart which tender loue doth pierse, 
 May read and vnderstand this sacred vierse — 
 For other wits too misticall and deepe : 
 
 Betweene these hallowed leaues Cupid dooth keepe 
 The golden lesson of his second Artist ; 
 For loue, till now, hath still a Maister mist, 
 Since Oiiids eyes were closed with iron sleepe ; 
 
 But now his waking soule in Chapman liues. 
 Which showes so well the passions of his soule ; 
 And yet this Muse more cause of wonder giues, 
 And doth more Prophet-like loues art enroule : 
 
 For Ouids soule, now growne more old and wise, 
 
 Poures foorth it selfe in deeper misteries. 
 
 ^ From " Ovid's Banquet of [ sence. | A Coronet for his Miy- 
 tresse Philosophic, and his amorous | Zodiacke. \ With a translation 
 of a Latine coppie, | written by a Fryer, Anno Dom. 1400. | Quis 
 leget haec? Nemo Ilercule Nemo, | vol dito vel nemo. Persius. | At 
 I.ONDON, I Printed by J. R. for Richard Smith. Anno Dom. 1595. | " 
 See our Memorial-Introduction. G.
 
 io8 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 VII. REASON'S M0ANE.3 
 
 A IT" HEN I peruse heauen's auncient written storie, 
 part left in bookes, and part in contemplation : 
 1 finde Creation tended to God's glory : 
 
 but when I looke upon the foule euasion, 
 Loe then I cry, I howle, I weepe, I moane, 
 
 and seeke for truth, but truth alas ! is gone. 
 
 Whilom of old before the earth was founded, 
 or hearbs or trees or plants or beasts, had being, 
 
 Or that the mightie Canopie of heauen surrounded 
 these lower creatures ; ere that the eye had seeing : 
 
 Then Reason was within the mind of loue, 
 embracing only amitie and loue. 
 
 The blessed angels' formes and admirable natures, 
 their happie states, their hues and high perfections, 
 
 Immortall essence and vnmeasured statures, 
 
 the more made known their falls and low directions. 
 
 These things when Reason doth peruse 
 
 she finds her errors, which she would excuse. 
 
 ^ From close of ' A New Post ' consisting of ' Essayes ' by Sir 
 John Davies. See Prose Works in Fuller Worthies' Library. G.
 
 MINOR POEMS. 109 
 
 But out alas ! she sees strife is all in vaine ; 
 
 it bootes not to contend, or stand in this defence. 
 Death, sorow, grief, hell and torments are her gaine, 
 
 and endlesse burning fire, becomes our recompence. 
 Oh heauie moane ! oh endlesse sorrowes anguish, 
 
 neuer to cease but euer still to languish. 
 
 When I peruse the state of prime created man, 
 
 his wealth, his dignitie and reason : 
 His power, his pleasure, his greatnesse when I scan, 
 
 I doe admire and wonder, that in so short a season. 
 These noble parts, should haue so short conclusion : 
 
 and man himselfe, be brought to such confusion. 
 
 In seeking countries far beyond the seas, I finde, 
 euen where faire Eden's pleasant garden stood : 
 
 And all the coasts vnto the same confinde, 
 
 gall to cruell wars ; men's hands embru'd in blood, 
 
 In cutting throats, and murders, men delight : 
 so from these places Reason's banisht quite. 
 
 O lerusalem I that thou shouldst now turn Turke, 
 and Sions hi), where holy rites of yore were vs'd : 
 
 Oh ! that within that holy place should lurke 
 such sacrilege : whereby loue's name's abusde.
 
 no MINOR POEMS. 
 
 What famous Greece, farewel : thou canst not bost 
 thy great renowne : thy wit, thy learning's lost. 
 
 The further search I make, the worse effect I finde 
 AH Asia swarmes with huge impietie : 
 
 All Affrick's bent vnto a bloody minde : 
 
 all treachers ^ gainst loue and his great deitie. 
 
 Let vs returne to famous Britton's king, 
 whose worthy praise let all the world goe sing, 
 
 Great Tetragramaton, out of thy bounteous loue 
 let all the world and nations truely know, 
 
 That he plants peace, and quarrell doth remoue : 
 let him be great'st on all the earth belowe. 
 
 Long may he Hue, and all the world admire, 
 that peace is wrought as they themselues desire. 
 
 What Vnion he hath brought to late perfection, 
 twixt Nations that hath so long contended : 
 
 Their warres and enuies by him receiue correction, 
 And in his royal person all their iars are ended. 
 
 And so in briefe conclude, ought all that Hue 
 giue thanks to him for ioy that peace doth giue. 
 
 4 
 
 ^traitors [treacherous]. G.
 
 MINOR POEMS. Ill 
 
 By power and will of this our mightie king 
 
 reason doth shew that God hath wroght a wonder 
 
 Countries distract he doth to Vnion bring 
 
 and ioynes together States which others sunder : 
 
 (iod grant him life till Shiloe's comming be 
 in heauen's high seate he may enthronized be.
 
 112 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 VIII. ON THE DEATH OF LORD CHAN- 
 CELLOR ELLESMERE'S SECOND WIFE 
 
 IN 1599.5 
 
 A/OU, that in Judgement passion never show, 
 (As still a Judge should without passion bee), 
 So judge your selfe ; and make not in your woe 
 
 Against your self a passionate decree. 
 Griefe may become so weake a spirit as mine : 
 
 My prop is fallne, and quenched is my light : 
 But th' Elme may stand, when withered is the vine, 
 And, though the Moone eclipse, the Sunne is 
 bright. 
 
 * I take this Sonnet from Collier's 'Bibliographical Catalogue' 
 sill nomine (Vol. I. p. 192). It is thus introduced by him: " It is 
 stated correctly by the biographers of [Sir] John Davys that he was 
 patronized by Lord Ellesmere, and among the papers of his lordship 
 is preserved the following autograph Sonnet, which appears to have 
 been addressed to the Lord Chancellor, on the death of his second 
 wife in 1599." Further : " The following note is appended, also in 
 the hand-writing of Sir John Davys : — "A French writer (whom I 
 love well) speakes of 3 kindes of Companions, Men, Women, and 
 Bookes : the losse of this second makes you retire from the first : 
 I have, therefore, presumed to send y. LP one of the third kind, w-h 
 (it may bee), is a straunger to your Lp- yet I persuade me his con- 
 versation will not be disagreeable to y LP" See Memorial-Intro- 
 duction for notices of Ellesmere and his wives, G.
 
 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 Yet were I senselesse if I wisht your mind. 
 
 Insensible, that nothing might it move ; 
 As if a man might not bee wise and kind. 
 
 Doubtlesse the God of Wisdome and of Loue, 
 As Solomon's braine he doth to you impart, 
 So hath he given you David's tender hart. 
 
 Yr. Lps in all humble Duties 
 and condoling with yr. Lp. most affectionately 
 
 Jo. Davys. 
 
 VOL. 11.
 
 114 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 IX. TITYRUS TO HIS FAIRE PHILLIS.6 
 
 nPHE silly Swaine whose loue breedes discontent, 
 Thinkes death a trifle, life a loathsome thing, 
 Sad he lookes, sad he lyes. 
 
 But when his Fortunes mallice doth relent. 
 Then of Loues sweetnes he will sweetly sing, 
 thus he hues, thus he dyes. 
 
 Then Tityrus whom Loue hath happy made, 
 Will rest thrice happy in this Mirtle shade. 
 
 For though Loue at first did greeue him : 
 yet did Loue at last releeue him. 
 
 I. D. 
 
 ^ From " Englands Helicon : 
 
 Casta placent superis 
 pura cum Veste venite, 
 Et manibus puris 
 sumite fontis aquam. 
 At London 
 Printed by 1. R. for lohn Flasket, and are 
 to be sold in St. Paulas Church-yard, at the 
 signe I of the Beare. 1600. | [40.] 
 E 3 (verso) 
 The Davies authorship of this little lilt, is confirmed by a contem- 
 porary (Harleian) MS. list of contributors to England's Helicon 
 (^280), whcrem his name is placed against it. G.
 
 MINOR POEMS. 115 
 
 UPON A COFFIN BY S. J. D. 
 
 There was a man bespake a thing 
 Which when the owner home did bring, 
 He that made it did refuse it ; 
 And he that brought it would not use it, 
 And he that hath it doth not know 
 Whether he hath it, ay or no. 
 
 From " The Curtaine-Drawer of the Worlde . . . 
 by W. Parkes, Gentleman . . . 1621." 
 
 ^ In my Fuller Worthies' Library edition of Davies, 1 inserted 
 above Riddle as kindly sent me by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt, from the 
 " Philosopher's Banquet: 2d edition, 1614, p. 261. In its text 1. 6 
 'he' is spelled ' hee,' and 'ay' is 'yea.' G.
 
 Ii6 MINOR POEMS. 
 
 X. EPITAPH AND EPIGRAM. 
 
 Sir John Davies had a son who became, if he were 
 not born, an idiot. Anthony-a-Wood states " The son 
 dying, Sir John made an epitaph of four verses on him, 
 
 beginning 
 
 Hie in visceribus terrse &:c." 
 
 It is much to be wished that these 'four verses' were 
 recovered. Further, he had a daughter named * Lucy ' ; 
 and of her the same authority writes: "So that the said 
 Lucy being sole heiress to her father, Ferdinando, Lord 
 Hastings, (afterwards Earl of Huntingdon) became a 
 suitor to her for marriage ; whereupon the father made 
 this Epigram : 
 
 LuciDA VIS oculos teneri perstrinxit amantis 
 Nee tamen erravit nam Via Dulcis erat." 
 
 On this Watts remarks : " This is a remarkable 
 anagram of Lucy Davies. See as remarkable ones on 
 the mother Eleanor Davies, Reveal O Daniel, by herself, 
 the other made on her by Dr. Lamb, — Dame Eleanor 
 Davies, Never so mad a Lady. Heylin's Life of Laud 
 p. 266." Wood's Athenae, (edn. by Bliss) Vol. 11. 
 p. 404. G.
 
 VII. HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED POEMS.
 
 119 
 
 METAPHRASE OF SOME OF THE PSALMS, &c. 
 
 NOTE. 
 
 The Manuscript Volume from which the following 
 hitherto unpublished Poems are taken, is the property of 
 David Laing, Esq., LL.D., Edinburgh, who purchased 
 it, or perhaps obtained it in exchange many years ago from 
 the Rev. John Jamieson, D.D., author of the "ScottisTi 
 Dictionary" and other learned works — a scholar of full 
 learning and to be held in honour in many respects. It was 
 parted with to his like-minded friend as containing the 
 hitherto unprinted 'Psalms,' &c., by Sir John Davies; 
 but no memorial remains to ascertain the quarter from 
 whence Dr. Jamieson obtained the Volume. Mr. Laing 
 states that, if anything was said at the time on the subject, 
 it has escaped his recollection ; and this cannot be wondered 
 at, as it must have been from thirty to forty years ago. 
 
 Along with eminent Experts I have carefully compared 
 this Manuscript with undoubted holographs of Sir John 
 Davies, preserved in Her Majesty's State Paper Office 
 (State Papers : Domestic. James I. Vol. 173. No. 54 : Oct. 
 18, 1624, etc., etc.) and among the Harleian MSS. in the 
 British Museum — the former being preferable as being of 
 the same year-date with ours : and I feel constrained to 
 pronounce it throughout non-autograph. There are at 
 least five handwritings in the volume — as more particularly
 
 I20 NOTE. 
 
 described in locis : but none bears a resemblance to Sir 
 John Davies'. The Manuscript, therefore, belong-s to a 
 class that abounds at the Period, viz, a Scribe's transcript 
 and which closely resembles that of MS. Speeches and 
 other writings of Davies preserved among the Harleian 
 MSS. This is further, in accord with Sir John Davies' 
 practice, as appears by 'The Egerton Papers' of Mr. 
 Collier, (Camden Society, 1840, i Vol. 40.) where in a 
 letter to Ellesmere (pp. 410-16) he apologizes for his own 
 ' ill hand ' and substitutes his ' man's.' The evidence for 
 Davies' authorship of these Poems is external and 
 internal. 
 
 (a) The existence of the ' Metaphrase of the Psalms ' — 
 which composes the greater portion of the Manu- 
 script — has long been on record. Thus Anthony-a- 
 WooD in his Athene states " Besides the before- 
 mentioned things (as also Epigrams, as 'tis said) 
 which were published by, and under the name of Sir 
 John Davies, are several MSS. of his writing and 
 composing, which go from hand to hand, as (i) 
 
 Metaphrase of several of K. David's Psalms " 
 
 (edn. Bliss ii., 403.) The original of the Psalms' 
 MS. was in possession of Sir John's own daughter, 
 the Countess of Huntingdon, as I found in the Carte 
 MSS. Bodleian, Oxford. 
 The others are MSS. — ^some in part since published — 
 which Wood describes as formerly in the Library of Sir
 
 NOTE. 121 
 
 James Ware, and then in that of the Earl of Clarendon. 
 {b) The handwriting of the Manuscript is exactly cor- 
 respondent with that of its date ' 1624.' It is 
 uniform from Psahn I. to L. 
 [c) Throughout the ' Psalms ' and other Poems, fav- 
 ourite words of Sir John Davies' occur: in part 
 peculiar to him or used in a peculiar way. I must 
 refer the Student to the Poems themselves for the 
 great majority of examples : but note here half-a- 
 dozen — all the references being to our own edition 
 of the previous Poems. 
 
 1. 'WithaW : ". . . . that sinne that we are 
 borne luithall." (' Nosce Teipsum ' page 57, stanza 
 5th, line 4th.) So in the ' Psalms ' : 
 
 " Be merciful and hear my prayer tuithall.^' 
 
 (Ps. 4th, line 4th.) 
 
 2. 'Wight ' : ". . . . this World below did need 
 one ivight." (page 60 : stanza 4th, line ist.) So in 
 the ' Psalms ' : ". . . . measures lustice vnto euery 
 zuight." (Ps. 9th, line i6th.) 
 
 3. 'gray Winter': "Here flow'ry Spring-tide 
 and there Winter gray." (page 63, stanza ist, line 
 4th.) So in 'A Maid's Hymne in praise of Virgin- 
 ity' : " To whome graye Winter neuer doth apeare.' 
 (line 7lh.) 
 
 4. 'On' meaning 'o'er' : "Will holds the royall 
 scepter o« the soul" ('Nosce Teipsum,' page 79,
 
 122 NOTE. 
 
 stanza 2nd, line 3rd.) "And on the passions of the 
 henrt doth raigne." (page 79, stanza 2d, line 4th.) 
 So in the ' Psahns ' : " Let not my foes trihumph on 
 mee againe." (Ps. 35th, hne 37th). " In that my 
 foe doth not trihumph on me." (Ps. 41st, line 22d.) 
 
 5. 'Detruded^ : " . . . . such as me detruded 
 downe to Hell." (page no, stanza ist, line ist.) So 
 in the 'Psalms' : Therefore although my soule de- 
 truded were euen to Hell's gates . . . ." (Ps. 23rd, 
 line 7th.) 
 
 6. 'Center^ meaning 'Earth': " Suruey all 
 things that on this center here." (page 25th, stanza 
 1st, line 4th.) So in the ' Psalms ' : "And all that 
 dwell on his round Center here." (Ps. 23rd, line i6th.) 
 
 It were easy to multiply these instances from the ' Psalms' 
 and the other Poems. 
 
 {d) The secular Poems contain personal allusions that 
 authenticate their authorship. In the 'Elegie of 
 Loue ' and in the lines "To the Kinge vpon his 
 Ma'ies first comming into England " these are of 
 singular interest and value. The latter harmonizes 
 with the fact that Sir John Davies proceeded 
 North to meet the King : and it has a direct refer- 
 ence to his ' Nosce Teipsum.' Speaking of his Muse 
 he exclaims, 
 "Thy sight had once an influence divine 
 Which gave it power the Soul of man to vew."
 
 NOTE. 
 
 Another personal allusion is found in his address to 
 the " Ladyes of Founthill " in his native Wilts. 
 {e) The "Verses sent to the Kinge with ffiges" is in- 
 scribed "by Sir John Davis" and the " Elegiacal 
 Epistle" which immediately follows these 'Verses' 
 naturally closes a Volume containing the composi- 
 tions of our Worthy. 'Davis ' is his own spelling in 
 the 1608 edition of ' Nosce Teipsum,' and in Davi- 
 son's ' Rhapsody.' 
 {f) Exclusive of the ' Psalms ' — the Davies' authorship 
 of which admits of no doubt — the other Poems have 
 Sir John Davies' characteristics in choice of subjects 
 and style, and specific wording, as above. ' Elegie ' 
 is herein used as in the title-page of ' Nosce Teipsum.' 
 The Manuscript is a thin folio of forty-one leaves and one 
 page : but i>crso of 35th leaf consists of Memoranda 
 headed " The State of England before the Conquest, 
 briefely. By Henry, Lord Hastings, atnongst his Notes 
 found " : and leaves 36 and 37 and page 38 {i<erso blank) 
 contain ' Notes ' on " William Bastarde, the Norman Con- 
 querour of England." The former is in a handwriting 
 different from all the rest : the latter the same as the Poems 
 that follow " Part of an Elegie in prayse of Marriage." 
 There are a number of contemporary and of more recent 
 blank leaves. It is bound in dark calf, with tooled orna- 
 ment in the centre. 
 
 In preparing this Manuscript for the Press, my anxious
 
 124 NOTE. 
 
 endeavour has been faithfully to reproduce the original : 
 only I have extended the contractions ' w^ and w'^'i ' for 
 'with ' and 'which ' and 'o''. y^ ' for 'our' and 'your' and 
 the like. I have somewhat modified the capitals : but in 
 the Divine names (nouns and pronouns) and impersona- 
 tions, have employed capitals. The punctuation of the 
 Manuscript is almost nil : I have adopted present usage 
 on a uniform principle ; and also the apostrophe of the pos- 
 sessive case, &c. Only one point perplexed me a little, viz. 
 the sign of the plural. At the period a peculiar form repre- 
 sented ' es ' as denoting plural, but examination showed our 
 Manuscript as using it with ' e ' immediately before. 
 Hence it is apparent the Scribe used it arbitrarily. My 
 rule has been to represent it simply by 's ' for our plural, 
 except in the cases — pointed out where they occur — in 
 which ' es ' as an additional syllable is required for the 
 rhythm. Throughout, the orthography is literally pre- 
 served ; and besides six collations of my transcript with 
 the Original, by myself, I have had the advantage 
 of a minute comparison by my experienced and eru- 
 dite friend, the late John Bruce, Esq., of London, and in 
 part by W, Aldis Wright, Esq., M.A., Trinity College, 
 Cambridge. So that our first publication of the Manuscript 
 may be relied on as absolutely true to the Original. It 
 may be added that I have adhered to the order in which 
 the several Poems are given, with the single exception of 
 placing the anonymous very noticeable ' Elegiacal Epistle '
 
 NOTE. 125 
 
 on the death of Davies last. The two short pieces that 
 precede it in our Volume, occupy in the MS. the closing 
 page, which is a kind of fly-leaf. 
 
 I feel assured that every admirer of Sir John Davies will 
 agree with me that a deep debt of gratitude is due to Mr. 
 Laing for his generous consent to have the Manuscript 
 included in our editions of the * Poems.' Independent of 
 the interest attaching to their illustrious authorship the 
 ' Psalms ' seem to me to possess rare merits, being as a 
 whole strikingly faithfull to the Original, and not para- 
 phrastic — hence Anthony-a- Wood's 'Metaphrase' — simple 
 yet picturesque, 'smooth' but melodious, and in every 
 quality infinitely superior to the attempts of Bacon, 
 Jeremy Taylor, Rous, and others. Some of the Ver- 
 sions must find a place in the Church's Psalmody and 
 Hymnology. 
 
 I must not omit to acknowledge the courteous attention 
 of Mr. W. Carew Hazlitt in informing me of the existence 
 and ownership of the Manuscript. Anything further re- 
 quiring to be said, will be found in the footnotes. G.
 
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 METAPHRASE OF SOME PSALMS. 
 
 PSALM I.i 
 'T^HAT man is blest which hath not walkt aside, 
 
 Takeinge ungodly counsell for his guide ; 
 Nor in the way of synners stood and staied, 
 Nor in the couch of Scorners downe him layed, 
 But in God's Lawe hath plac't his whole delight, 
 And studieth to performe it, day and night : 
 Hee, like a plant which by a streame doth growe, 
 His timely fruite shall in due season showe ; 
 Whose leafe shall not decay but flourish euer, 
 And all thinges prosper which hee doth endeauour 
 But with th'vngodly it shall not bee soe, 
 But as the dust, which as the whirlewindes to and fro 
 Uppon the surface of the earth doth driue, 
 They shall a restless life and fruitles liuc ; 
 
 ' There is a title here, " The Psalmes translated into verse, Anno 
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 Nor shall they stand vpright when they are tride, 
 Nor in the assembly of the just abide : 
 But in his way God doth the good man cherish, 
 When wicked men in their bad way shall perish. 
 
 PSALM 11. 
 
 Why doe the nations thus in furie rise ? 
 
 Why doe the people such vaine plotts deuise ? 
 
 Monarches stand vp and Princes doe conspire 
 
 Against the Lord, and His Annoynted Heire : 
 
 ' Let vs in sunder breake their bandes,' say they, 
 
 ' And let vs lightly cast their yokes away.' 
 
 But Hee that sitts in Heauen shall them deride, 
 
 And laugh to scorne their follie and their pride ; 
 
 And in His wrath He shall reproue them sore, 
 
 And vex them in His anger, more and more : 
 
 Sayinge, ' I sett on Sion hill My Kinge, 
 
 To preache my La we, and shew this heauenly thinge 
 
 Thou art My Sonne, this day I Thee begott, 
 
 Aske, and I will assigne thee for Thy Lott 
 
 Of heritage the Landes and Nations all, 
 
 Betweene the Sunne's vprisinge & his fall.' 
 
 Thou with an iron rodd shall keepe them vnder, 
 
 And breake them like an earthen pott in sunder,
 
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 Bee wise, yee Monarches, and yee Princes then ; 
 Be learned, yee that judge the sonnes of men ; 
 Serue yee the Lord, with humble feare Him serue ; 
 Rejoyce in Him, yet tremblinge Him obserue ; 
 Kisse yee the Sonne, lest yee Him angrie make, 
 And perish, while His just wayes yee forsake, 
 If His just wrath but once enkinled bee : 
 Who trust in Him, a blessed man is hee. 
 
 PSALM HI. 
 
 Lord ! how my foes in number doe encrease, 
 
 That rise against mee, to disturbe my peace ! 
 
 Many there are which to my soule haue said, 
 
 His God to him not safety yeilds nor aid ; 
 
 But God is my defence, my Succour nigh. 
 
 My glory, and my head Hee lifteth High : 
 
 To Him with earnest praier appealed I, 
 
 And from His Holy Hill Hee heard my crie : 
 
 I layed mee downe and slept, and rose againe, 
 
 F^or mee the Lord doth cuermore sustaine : 
 
 Though Thousand of my foes besett mee round, 
 
 Noe feare of them my courage shall confound : 
 
 Rise Lord ! and saue mee ; Thou hast giuen a stroke 
 
 On my foes cheeke, that all his teeth are broke : 
 
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 Saluation Cometh from this Lord of ours, 
 Who blessings on His people daily powers. 
 
 PSALM IV. 
 O God ! whose righteousnes by grace is mine, 
 A gracious eare vnto my voyce encline : 
 Thou that hast set mee free when I was thrall, 
 Bee merciful!, and heare my prayer withall. 
 Vaine, worldly men, how long will yee dispise 
 God's honnour, and His truth, and trust in lies ? 
 God for Himselfe, the good man doth select. 
 And when I crie Hee doth not mee reject. 
 Bee angrie, but be angrie without synne ; 
 Try your owne hearts in silence, close within. 
 To God, of godly workes, an offeringe make. 
 Then trust in Him that will not His forsake. 
 For that which good is, many seeke and pray, 
 ' And who shall shew the same to vs ' ? say they. 
 Lord ! shew to vs thy countenance diuine, 
 And cause the Beames thereof on vs to shyne : 
 Soe shall my heart more joyfull bee and glad, 
 Then if encrease of corne and wine I had. 
 To peace therefore lye downe will I and sleepe* 
 For God alone doth mee in safetie keepe. 
 
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 PSALM V. 
 Lord weigh my words, and take consideration 
 Of my sad thoughts and silent meditation : 
 My God, my Kinge, bowe downe Thine eare to mee, 
 While I send vp mine humble prayer to Thee. 
 Early, before the mome doth bringe the day, 
 I will O Lord, look vp to Thee and pray : 
 For Thou with synne art neuer pleased well, 
 Nor any ^ ill may with Thy goodnes dwell : 
 The foole may not before Thy wisdome stand, 
 Nor shall the impious scape Thy wrathfull hand : 
 Thou wilt destroy all such as vtter lies ; 
 Blood and deceit are odious in Thine eyes ; 
 But, trustinge in Thy manie mercies deare, 
 I will approch Thy house with holy feare. 
 Teach me Thy plaine and righteous way to goe, 
 That I may neuer fall before my foe, 
 Whose flatteringe tongue is false and heart jmpure. 
 And throat, an open place of sepulture. 
 Destroy them. Lord, and frustrate their devices, 
 Cast out those Rebells for their manie vices ; 
 But all that trust in Thee and loue Thy name, 
 Make them rejoyce and rescue them from shame. 
 
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 Thou wilt thy blessinge to the righteous yeild 
 And guard them with Thy grace as with a sheild. 
 
 PSALM VI. 
 
 To iudge me, Lord, in Thy just wrath forbeare, 
 To punish mee in thy displeasure spare ; 
 
 ! I am weake : haue mercie, Lord, therefore, 
 And heale my bruised bones which payne mee sore. 
 My souLE is alsoe trubled and dismayed ; 
 
 But, Lord, how long shall I expect Thine aid ! 
 Turne Thee, O Lord, my soule from death deliuer, 
 Euen for Thy mercie's sake which lasteth euer : 
 They which are dead remember not Thy name. 
 Nor doth the silent Graue thy praise proclaime ; 
 
 1 faint and melt away with greifes and feares, 
 And euery night my bed doth swymme with teares. 
 Myne eyes are suncke and weakned is my sight ; 
 My foes haue vexed mee with such dispight. 
 Away from mee, yee sinfull men, away ! 
 
 The Lord of Heauen doth heare mee when I pray. 
 The Lord hath my petition heard indeed : 
 Receaue my prayer and I shall surely speed ; 
 But shame and sorrow on my foes shall light, 
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 PSALM VII. 
 O Lord, my God ! I put my trust in Thee, 
 From all my Persecutors rescue mee : 
 Lest my proud foe doth like a lyon rend mee. 
 While there is non to succour and defend mee : 
 Lord God ! if I bee guilty found in this, 
 Wherewith my foes haue charged mee amisse. 
 If I did vse my freind vnfreindly soe, 
 Nay, if I did not helpe my causlesse foe. 
 Let him preuaile, although my cause bee just. 
 And lay my life and honnour in the dust. 
 Vp, Lord ! and stand against my furious foes. 
 Thy JUDGEMENT against them for mee disclose ; 
 Soe shall Thy People flocke about Thee nigh. 
 For their sakes therefore lift Thy selfe on high. 
 Judge of the world, giue sentence on my i)arte, 
 Accordinge to the cleannes of my heart : 
 Let wickednes be brought vnto an end. 
 And guide the just, that they may not offend. 
 Thou God art just, and Thou Searcher art 
 Of hart and raynes, and euery inward part : 
 My helpe proceedeth from the Lord of Might, 
 Who saueth tliose which are of hart vpright ; 
 A powerful! and a patient Judge is Hee, 
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 But, if men will not turne, His sword Hee whets, 
 
 And bends His bowe, and to the stringe Hee setts 
 
 The INSTRUMENTS of death, His arrowes keene, 
 
 Gainst such as rebells to His will haue beene. 
 
 The jmpious man conceaues jniquity, 
 
 Trauailes with mischief, and brings forth a ly : 
 
 The Righteous to entrapp hee digs a pitt. 
 
 But hee himselfe first falls and sinks in it. 
 
 The wicked plotts his workinge braine doth cast. 
 
 Light with a mischeife on himselfe at last. 
 
 My thankes with God's great justice shall accord, 
 
 And I WILL highly praise the highest Lord. 
 
 PSALM VHL 
 
 O God, our Lord ! how large is the extent 
 Of Thy great name and glorie excellent ! 
 It fills this world, but it doth shyne most bright 
 Aboue the heauens, in th' vnapproached light. 
 By suckinge Babes thou dost thy strength dis- 
 close. 
 And by their mouth to silence put Thy foes. 
 When I see Heauen wrought by Thy mighty hand. 
 And all those glorious lights in order stand. 
 Lord ! what is man that Thou on him dost looke ! 
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 Next Angells in degree Thou hast him plac't, 
 And with a crowne of honour hast him grac't : 
 Thou hast him made lord of Thy Creatures all, 
 Subjectinge them to his commaund and call ; 
 All birds and aiery fowles are vnder him, 
 And fishes all which in the Sea doe swymme. 
 O Lord, our God ! how large is the extent 
 Of Thy great name and glorie excellent I 
 
 PSALM IX. 
 Thee will I thanke euer with my hart entire. 
 And make the world Thy wondrous workes admire ; 
 In Thee rejoyce, in Thee trihumph will I, 
 My songs shall praise Thy name, O God, most High ! 
 While my proud foes are put to shamefull flight. 
 And fall and perish at Thy dreadfull sight. 
 Thou, righteous Judge, dost sitt vpon Thy Throne 
 And dost maintaine my rightfull cause alone ; 
 Thou checkst the Heathen ; and the wicked race 
 Thou dost destroy, and all their names deface. 
 O Enemy ! behould thy finall fall. 
 Thy CiTTiES perish and their names withall ; 
 But God, our Lord, for cuer shall endure. 
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 AVhere Hee judges the World with equall right, 
 
 And measures Justice vnto euery weight : * 
 
 He Hkewise will become a Bulwarke strong 
 
 And tymely aide to them that suffer wrong. 
 
 Who knowes Thy name in Thee His trust will place, 
 
 Who neuer failest them that seeke Thy face. 
 
 O, praise the Lord ! you that in Sign dwell, 
 
 His noble Acts among the Nations tell ; 
 
 When of oppression Hee enquiry makes. 
 
 Of euery poore man's plaint Hee notice takes. 
 
 Haue mercy, Lord ! and take into Thy thought 
 
 My trubles, which my hatefull foes haue wrought. 
 
 Thou from the gates of death my Soule dost raise. 
 
 That I in Sign's Gates may sing Thy praise ; 
 
 The sweet saluation which Thou dost jmpart 
 
 Shall bee the joy and comfort of my heart. 
 
 The Infidells make pitts, and sinke therein. 
 
 Their feet are caught in their owne proper synne ; 
 
 Thy judgement Lord, Thou hast thereby declar'd 
 
 When wicked men in their owne workes are snar'd : 
 
 Hell is a place for impious men assign'd 
 
 And such as doe cast God out of their minde ; 
 
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 But poore men shall not bee forgotten euer 
 
 Nor meeke mens' patience, if they doe perseuer. 
 
 Rise Lord ! and let [not]^ man aboue Thee rise 
 
 And judge the Infidel with angrie eyes : 
 
 Strike them with feare, that, though they know not Thee, 
 
 Yet they may know that mortall men they bee. 
 
 PSALM X. 
 
 Why standest Thou O Lord ! so farr away 
 And hids't Thy face when trubles mee dismay ? 
 The wicked for his lust the poore man spoyles ; 
 Lord ! take him in the trap of his owne wiles. 
 Hee makes his boaste of his profane desires 
 Contemninge God, while hee himselfe admires : 
 Hee is soe proud, that God hee setts at naught, 
 Nay rather, God comes neuer in his thought. 
 Thy judgements Lord, are farr aboue his sight 
 This makes him to esteemc his foes soe light, 
 And in his hart to say, I cannot fall, 
 Nor can misfortune light on mee at all : 
 His mouth is full of execrat[i]ons vile ; 
 Under his tongue doth sit ungodly guile ; 
 
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 Close in the corners of the waies he Hes, 
 
 And lurkes, and waits, the simple to surprize : 
 
 Euen as a lyon lurkinge in his den, 
 
 To assault and murther innocent poore men ; 
 
 Gainst whom his eyes maliciously are sett, 
 
 To catch them when they fall into his nett. 
 
 Himselfe hee humbles, bowes, and crouchinge stands 
 
 Till poore men fall into his powerfull hands ; 
 
 Then, in his heart hee sayth ' God hath forgott: 
 
 Hee turnes away his face and sees it not.' 
 
 Arise O Lord ! and lift Thy hand on high, 
 
 The poore forgett not which oppressed ly : 
 
 For why should wicked men blaspheme Thee thus 
 
 ' Tush ! God is carelesse and regards not us ' ? 
 
 Surely Thou seest the wronge which they haue done, 
 
 And all oppressions underneath the sunne ; 
 
 To Thee alone the poore his cause commends 
 
 As th' only freind of him that wanteth freinds. 
 
 Lord ! breake the power of the malicious minde 
 
 Take ill away, and Thou not ill shalt finde. 
 
 The Lord is kinge, and doth for euer raigne, 
 
 Nor miscreants shall within His Land remaine ; 
 
 Hee hearkeneth to the poore, but first prepareth 
 
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 That Hee poore orphans, may both help and saue, 
 That worldly men on them no power may haue. 
 
 PSALM XI. 
 I TRUST in God : to mee why should you say, 
 * Fly like a bird to mountaines farr away ' ? 
 Their bowes and arrowes wicked men prepare. 
 To peirce the hearts of them that faithfull are : 
 Euen him whome God hath made a corner-stone 
 They haue cast downe ; but what hath Hee misdone ? 
 God in His holy temple doth remaine, 
 The heauen of Heauens : where Hee doth sitt and 
 
 raigne. 
 Upon the poore He casteth downe His eye, 
 The sonnes of Men He doth discerne and trie ; 
 The just and righteous men Hee doth approue, 
 But hateth synners which their sinnes doe loue ; 
 On them He rayneth snares, brimstone and fire. 
 This is their cup, their wages, and their hire ; 
 The righteous God loues him whose way is right, 
 And on the just His gracious eye doth light. 
 
 PSALM XH. 
 Helpe Lord ! for all the godly men are gon, 
 And of the faithfull, fewe there are, or non ;
 
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 Each man to other doth vaine things jmpart, 
 
 With hpps deceiptfull, and with double hart ; 
 
 The Lord will soone cutt of the lipps that He, 
 
 And root out tongues that speake proud words and 
 
 high. 
 ' With mighty words wee will preuale ' say they : 
 What Lord is Hee that dareth us gainesay ? 
 ' Now for the trubles and oppressions sore 
 The gronings and the sighings of the poore, 
 I will arise ' sayth God, ' and quell their foes 
 That swell with pride; and them in rest repose.' 
 God's words are pure, and chaste, like siluer tride 
 Which hath with seauen fires bene purified. 
 Thou wilt preserue them Lord ! and guard them still, 
 From this vile race of men which wish them ill. 
 The ungodly walke in circles, yet goe free 
 When such as feare not God, exalted bee. 
 
 PSALM XIIL 
 How long O Lord ! shall I forgotten bee ? 
 How long wilt Thou Thy bright Face hide from mee ? 
 How long shall I my thoughts tosse to and fro 
 And bee thus vext by my insultinge foe ? 
 Giue ease, O Lord ; giue light unto mine eyes. 
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 Lest my proud foe vaunt that hee doth preuaile, 
 And laugh at mee when I shall faint or faile ; 
 But in Thy mercie all my trust is pight'^ 
 And thy saluation is my hearte's delight ; 
 Of Thy sweet kindnes therefore sing will I, 
 And highly praise the name of God, Most High. 
 
 PSALM XIV. 
 ' There is noe God,' the foole sayth in his heart, 
 Yet dares not with his tongue his thought impart ; 
 All are corrupt and odious in God's sight. 
 Not one doth good, not one doth well, vpright. 
 God cast His eyes from Heauen on all mankinde, 
 And lookt if Hee one righteous man could finde ; 
 But all were wncked, all from God were gone, 
 Not one did good, in all the world, not one ; 
 Their throat an open graue, their flattering tongue 
 And lyinge lips, like stinge of Avasps haue stung. 
 With bitter cursing, they their mouthes doe fill ; 
 Their feet are swift the guiltles blood to spill ; 
 
 * = pitched. Henry More in one of his Hymns uses the word : 
 " Lord stretch Thy tent in my straight breast, 
 Enlarge it downward, that sure rest 
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 Sad, wretched mischeife, in their wayes doth lye 
 But for the wayes of peace they passe them by ; 
 Noe feare of God haue they before their eyes, 
 Nor knowledge, while these mischeifes they devise ; 
 While they God's people doe with might oppresse 
 And eat them up like bread with greedines ; 
 And since on God they neuer vse to call. 
 They fear'd when cause of feare was non at all. 
 But to the righteous man and to his race, 
 God present is with His protectinge grace ; 
 Though fooles doe mocke the counsell of the poore, 
 Because in God hee trusted euermore. 
 Who shall saluation out of SiON giue 
 To IsRAELL but God ? Who shall releiue 
 His people and of Captiues make them free : 
 Thou Jacob joyfull, Israeli glad shall bee. 
 
 PSALM XV. 
 Lord ! who shall dwell in thy bright tent with 
 
 Thee 
 And of Thy rest in heauen pertaker bee ? 
 Euen hee that is vpright in all his wayes '^ 
 
 7 Written here, as elsewhere, not by the contraction-sign of the 
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 And from his hart speakes^ truth in all hee sayes ; 
 Who hath forborne to doe his neighbour wrong 
 Nor him deceau'd or slaundered with his tong ; 
 Who of himselfe an humble thought doth beare 
 But highly valewes them which God doe feare ; 
 Who of his promis doth himselfe acquitt, 
 Though losse hee suffer by performinge it ; 
 Nor hath for bitinge vse his monie lent, 
 Nor tooke reward against the innocent ; 
 Who shall obserue these poynts, and doe them all, 
 Assuredly that man can neuer fall. 
 
 PSALM XVI. 
 
 Mee thy poore seruant Lord ! preserue and saue, 
 For all my trust in Thee repos'd I haue : 
 Lord ! said my soule, Thou art my God, to Thee 
 My goods are nothinge when they offered bee ; 
 But my delight[s] are in those saints of Thine, 
 Which Hue on Earth, and doe in vertue shine ; 
 But they which nmn to worshipp idolls vaine, 
 Shall multiply their sorrow and their paine. 
 Of their blood offerings will I not pertake, 
 Nor of their names shall my lipps mention make. 
 
 » Another example in the MS., of the plural ' es ' in contraction- 
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 The portion of mine heritage and cupp 
 
 Is God Himselfe who houlds and keepes ^ mee upp ; 
 
 In a faire ground to mee my lott did chance, 
 
 Soe I possesse a rich Inheritance : 
 
 Thankes ^ bee to God His warninge giues mee hght, 
 
 My raynes with paine doe chasten me by night ; 
 
 I looke to God in my endeauors all, 
 
 Hee stands soe neare mee that I cannot fall ; 
 
 This hath my heart and tongue with joyes possest, 
 
 And now my flesh in hope to rise, shall rest ; 
 
 My soule shall not be buryed in the graue, 
 
 Nor shall Thy Holy One corruption haue ; 
 
 Shew mee the path of life ; for in Thy sight 
 
 Doth endles pleasure rest and full delight. 
 
 PSALM XVII. 
 Heare my just cause Lord ! heare my prayer and crie. 
 Which come from lipps not vs'd to faine or lie : 
 Lord, let my sentence from Thy mouth be giuen. 
 For Thou regards't things only just and euen ;2 
 
 ' Another example of ' e ' before the contraction-sign of ' es.' G. 
 
 • In full ' es ' here, as before. Having now given several ex- 
 amples of the arbitrary use of the ' s,' and ' es ' in full and by con- 
 traction-sign, it will not be needful to note more in the sequel. G. 
 
 - A later handwriting substitutes for the respective rhymes of this 
 couplet ' proceed' and ' right indeed.' G.
 
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 In the darke night of my aduersitie, 
 
 Thou did'st my heart examine, proue and trie ; 
 
 And yet vpon this triall did'st not finde 
 
 My heart or tongue to any ill enclinde : 
 
 For that their workes against Thy Word are done 
 
 I doe their wayes which tende to ruine, shunn. 
 
 Lord ! in Thy pathes doe Thou my goings guide, 
 
 Lest in this slippery life my footstepps slide : 
 
 Thy name haue I invok't, Thou shalt mee heare 
 
 And to my humble words incline Thy eare ; 
 
 O Sauiour ! of all those that trust in Thee 
 
 Thy mercies full of wonder shew to mee ; 
 
 Preserue mee as the apple of Thine eye. 
 
 Under Thy winges in safetie let me He ; 
 
 Saue mee from them which Thy right hand oppose, 
 
 And from my ungodly circumuenting foes ; 
 
 Their fatt estates doe them soe fortifie 
 
 As they presume to speake proud words and high ; 
 
 In all my wayes in wait for mee hee lies, 
 
 To cast mee downe hee downewards casts his eyes 
 
 Euen like a lyon, watching for his prey, 
 
 Or lyon's whelpes which lurke beside the way. 
 
 Vp Lord ! defeat, defeat this foe of mine. 
 
 That wicked man who is a sword of Thyne ; 
 
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 From wordly men vouchsafe my soule to saue, 
 Who in their mortall Hfe their portion haue ; 
 Whose beUies with Thy treasure Thou dost fill, 
 Who children haue, and leaue them wealth at will ; 
 But I Thy face in righteousnes shall see 
 And with Thy presence shall contented bee. 
 
 PSALM XVIIL 
 Thou art my strength, O Lord ! Thee will I loue, 
 Thou art my Rocke, which nothing can remoue i 
 My God, in Whome my trust I will repose. 
 My Sauiour, sheild and home, against my foes ; 
 Lord, most praise worthy, pray will I to Thee 
 Soe shall I from my foes protected bee ; 
 When deadly sorrowes did besett mee round, 
 And floods of wickednes did mee surhound^ 
 When paines of hell I felt in my desease, 
 And pangs of death upon my soule did sease ; 
 On God I called in that instant truble, 
 And my complaints unto the Lord did dubble : 
 But when His wrath and vengeance kindled were, 
 The Earth did quake, and mountaines shooke for feare. 
 And coles grew redd with His inflaminge jre ; 
 
 ' — surround: as 'trihumph' for triumph. Cf. Psalm xxxv. 
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 Hee bowed the heauens, and did descend withall, 
 
 And shadowes darke beneath His feet did fall : 
 
 Hee ridinge on the Cherubins did fly, 
 
 And with the winged windes was borne on high ; 
 
 Darkness His clossett, His pauilion wide 
 
 Made of blacke clouds, His face a while did hide ; 
 
 But at His presence right away they flew 
 
 When haile and coles of fire abroad Hee threw ; 
 
 The Lord from heauen did send His thunder lowd 
 
 With fire and haile from out the broken cloud ; 
 
 A shower of arrowes on His foes did fall, 
 
 His thunderboults and lightenings slewe them all ; 
 
 Fountaines were dride and the earthe's foundation 
 
 mou'd 
 When synners, in His ^^Tath, the Lord reprou'd ; 
 But Hee from heauen shall send His angell's downe 
 And take mee vp when waters would mee dro\ATie ; 
 Hee from my foe, too mightie and too strong, 
 Shall saue mee when Hee doth mee mightie wrong, 
 Preuentmge mee [in] my disastrous day : 
 But then the Lord was my support and stay ; 
 When I was captiue, Hee did sett nice free. 
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 He shall reward mee as my dayes bee right, 
 And hands be cleane'* : soe shall Hee mee requite ; 
 For I still kept his pathes, and did not shunn 
 To walke therein, as other men haue done : 
 But euer sett^ His lawes before mine eyes. 
 And neuer did His holy words dispise. 
 My heart was vncorrupt before Him still, 
 Pursuinge goodnes and eschewinge ill ; 
 Hee shall reward mee as my deeds bee right. 
 And hands bee cleane : soe shall He mee requite. 
 Unto the good Thou wilt Thy goodnes show, 
 And righteous men Thy righteousnes shall know ; 
 The pure of heart shall Thee behold most pure 
 But froward men Thy curses shall endure ; 
 Them will God raise, which under pressures ly, 
 And proud men humble which doe looke soe high ; 
 Hee shall sett up for mee a candle bright. 
 My God shall turne my darkness vnto light. 
 Through Thee, an host of men, I conquere shall. 
 And with Thy helpe transcend the highest wal ;^ 
 
 ' Inadvertently written ' cleare.' G. 
 
 s < My ' written and erased here. G. 
 
 ^ 'Wal' is supplied in a more recent hand. G.
 
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 God's way is pure, His word is tride with fire ; ''' 
 Hee heals all them which unto Him retire ; 
 For who is God ? or who hath strength and power 
 Except our Lord, our God and only our ? 
 Hee girdeth mee with furniture to fight, 
 And guideth mee, and houldeth mee upright ; 
 My feet as swift as hart's feet Hee doth make. 
 And vp to honnor's tower Hee doth mee take ; 
 Hee giues such strength unto my fingers weake, 
 As that my arme a bowe of Steele shall breake. 
 Thy hands shall bee my safety and protection, 
 Thou shalt aduance mee with Thy sweet correction ; 
 Thou for my feet shalt make a passage wide, 
 Soe as my steps shall neuer goe aside ; 
 I shall pursue, and in pursuite outgoe, 
 And neuer turne till I haue quelld my foe ; 
 
 ' In the MS. following on the line " God's way fire," is 
 
 this : 
 
 " All those that trust in Him will He vphold." 
 
 The Original enables us to see that this was a variation not settled 
 
 on. The first form was evidently as in the text, but the second line, 
 
 " Hee heals," &c., not being quite the thought of the Original, 
 
 Davies went nearer it in the new line, " All those," &c., thinking 
 
 perhaps of varying the first line to " tride as gold ;" but on reflection, 
 
 seeing that was bad, left it as at first, albeit he must have neglected 
 
 to cancel "All those," &c. I have not hesitated to withdraw a line 
 
 the retention of which would leave it without its fellow. G.
 
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 When I him smite ^ he shall not rise at all, 
 
 If once at my victorious feet hee fall. 
 
 Thou hast girded mee wdth a sword of strength, 
 
 Wherewith I shall subdue my foes at length ; 
 
 For thou shalt turne the stubburne necke about 
 
 Of them that hate mee till, I root them out ; 
 
 Then shall they crie (but helpe there shall be non) 
 
 Euen to the Lord, Who shall not heare their mone. 
 
 My foes to powder I shall breake and bray 
 
 And tread them down like mire amid the way. 
 
 Thou my rebellious subjects shalt accord, 
 
 And ouer Heathen Nations make mee Lord ; 
 
 A people whome I knowe not shall mee seme. 
 
 And with base adulation mee obserue ; 
 
 These AHens all, shall faint and bee dismaied 
 
 And in their strongest Castles bee afraid. 
 
 Line Lord ! my strength : and blessed bee therefore 
 
 And praised bee my Sauiour euermore, 
 
 Who doth repay my foes with vengeance due, 
 
 And unto mee my vassals doth subdue ; 
 
 Who doth not only saue but sett mee high 
 
 Aboue my foes, and there ^ feirce crueltie. 
 
 ^ The MS. reads ' sute' but as above, Query — contracted for 
 'smite'? G. 3 = their. G
 
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 For this, both of my thanks and praise to Thee, 
 The Heathen Nations witneses shall bee ; 
 For wealth and power and blessings manie nice, 
 On Dauid and his race Thou shalt bestowe. 
 
 PSALM XIX. 
 
 The workmanship of heauen soe bright and faire, 
 Thy power O Lord, and glorie doth declare ; 
 One day Thy praise doth to another preach, 
 One night another doth in order teach 5 
 Where euer any tongue or voyce doth sound, 
 In all the world their speech is heard around. 
 In middest of heauen, the hands of God hath pight^ 
 For the sunne's lodgeinge, a pauiUon bright ; 
 Who as a bridegroome from his chamber goes ; 
 Or Giant, marchinge forth against his foes, 
 Hee issues ; and from East to West doth runne : 
 His peircinge heat noe liueinge weight^ can shun. 
 God's lawe is perfect and man's soule renues, 
 And simple mindes with knowledge it endues ; 
 
 • = pitched, as ante. G. 
 
 - A later hand has placed above this, ' wight ' : which is only a 
 different spelling. Mr. Bruce, (as before) adds Qu : It seeme to have 
 stood originally ' weigh.' The Corrector added a ' t ' and then per- 
 haps thinking it not quite clear, or not liking the incorrect spelling, 
 wrote ' wight ' above it. G.
 
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 Right are His statutes and rejoyce the heart, 
 
 Light to the eyes His precepts pure impart ; 
 
 His feare is cleane and soe endures for aye ; 
 
 His judgements true and righteous euery way ; 
 
 More sweet then honie, to bee valewed more 
 
 Then many heapes of finest goulden oare. 
 
 They rectifie withall Thy seruants minde, 
 
 And who soe keeps them, great reward shall finde ; 
 
 But Lord who knowes how oft hee doth transgresse ? 
 
 O dense mee from my secret wickednes ! 
 
 Nor let presumptuous sinns beare rule in mee, 
 
 Soe shall I from the great offence bee free ; 
 
 And Lord ! my strength and Sauiour ! soe direct 
 
 My words and thoughts as Thou maiest them accept. 
 
 PSALM XX. 
 The Lord giue eare to thee in thy distresse ! 
 And bee thy Sheilde, when trubles thee oppresse ! 
 And let H is help come downe from heauen for thee ! 
 And strength from Syon Hill imparted bee ! 
 Let Him remember, and accept withall, 
 Thine offerings and thy sacrifices all ; 
 And of His bountie euermore fulfill 
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 But wee will glory in our great God's name 
 And joy in our saluation through the same ; 
 And pray unto the Lord our God, that Hee 
 The effect of all thy prayers will graunt to thee. 
 Hee now I know will heare, and helpe will bringe, 
 With His strong hand to His annoynted Kinge ; 
 On chariots some, on horses some, rely, 
 But wee inuoke the name of God Most High. 
 Those others are bowed downe and fall full lowe. 
 When wee are risen and \q3right doe goe. 
 Saue us O Lord of Heauen ! and heare us thence. 
 When wee inuoke Thy name for our defence. 
 
 PSALM XXL 
 Glad is the kinge, and joyfull is his hart, 
 That Thou O Lord, his strength and safety art ; 
 That Thou hast giuen him what his heart desired, 
 And not denied him what his lipps required ; 
 Preuentinge him with blessings manifould, 
 And crowninge him with pure refined gould. 
 Hee askt Thee life. Thou gauest him length of daies, 
 Euen endlesse life, to giue Thee endlesse praise ; 
 His safety, through Thy prouidence deuine 
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 Blisse without end Thou wilt to him jmpart, 
 
 The sunn-beames of Thy face will cheare his hart : 
 
 For in Thy mercy hee doth trust withall, 
 
 Which stayes his stepps that hee shall neuer fall ; 
 
 But Thy long hand shall reach Thy flyinge foe 
 
 And finde him when he most secure doth goe ; 
 
 Thine enimies shall (when kindled is Thine ire) 
 
 As in a furnace be consumed with fire ; 
 
 Their ofspringe from the Earth shall rotted bee, 
 
 Their second generation non shall see : 
 
 For against Thee and Thine their councell was, 
 
 Yet could not bringe their wicked plott to passe, 
 
 But turn'd their backes and put themselues to chase, 
 
 When Thou hadst bent Thy bowe against their face ; 
 
 Bee pleased in Thine owne strength Thyselfe to raise, 
 
 Soe shall wee Lord, Thy power and mercie praise. 
 
 PSALM XXIL 
 
 My God ! my God ! why leanest Thou mee ? and why 
 Dost Thou soe farr withdraw Thee from my crie ? 
 I cry all day, but Thou dost not giue eare ; 
 At night I cease not, yet Thou wilt not heare ; 
 Yet Thou art holy still, Thou God of might. 
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 When our forefathers plac't their hope in Thee 
 From cruell bondage Thou didst sett them free ; 
 In Thee they trusted, and to Thee they prayed, 
 And neuer faild of Thy celestiall aid ; 
 But as for mee, a worme not man, am I ; 
 A scome to eueiy man that passeth by ; 
 They laugh and mocke, my poore estate to see ; 
 They draw their mouth and shake their heads at mee ; 
 And say, ' hee hop't in God, that Hee should saue 
 
 him, 
 Now let God rescue him if Hee will haue him.' 
 But Thou Lord from my mother's wombe didst take 
 
 mee, 
 And when I suck't her brest, didst not forsake mee ; 
 Euen from my birth I was to Thee bequeathed, 
 And Thou hast bene my God since first I breathed. 
 O leaue mee not when trubles doe mee presse, 
 And there is non to helpe mee in distresse ; 
 Many strong beasts haue mee invironed 
 As fatt and feirce as bulls in Bashan fedd ; 
 They runne on mee with open mouthes and wide ; 
 Like hungry lyons rampinge in their pride. 
 My soule, like water on the earth is spilt. 
 My joynts are loosed, my heart like wax doth melt.
 
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 My synewes shrunke are, like a potsheard drie, 
 
 My tongue cleaues to my jawes, dead dust am I. 
 
 For many doggs haue compast me about, 
 
 I am besett with a malitious rout ; 
 
 They peirce My hands and feet, and stare on Mee, 
 
 And euery ribb of My leane bodie see ; 
 
 They spoyle Mee of My garments, and beside. 
 
 The parts thereof by lotts they doe deuide. 
 
 Lord ! bee not farr, when I Thy help shall need, 
 
 Thou art My strength, O succour Mee with speed ! 
 
 And sheild Mee from the sword, and from the power 
 
 Of doggs, which would My dearest Soule deuoure ! 
 
 And from the lyon's mouth, and from the homes 
 
 Of many, fearce, insultinge unicornes ! 
 
 Among My kinn will I declare Thy name. 
 
 And in the great Assembly spread the same. 
 
 Yee that feare Him His praise and glory tell, 
 
 And honnour Him yee seed of Israell ; 
 
 Hee scorneth not the poore, nor hides His face, 
 
 But heares his suit when hee laments his case. 
 
 When all Thy faithful! folke assembled bee, 
 
 I sound Thy praise and pay my vowes to Thee. 
 
 The Lord shall fully satisfie the meeke. 
 
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 The East and West shall tume to their right minde, 
 And to the true God's worshipp be inclinde ; 
 Who doth, of all the world the Scepter beare, 
 Rules and commaunds the nations euery where ; 
 The fatt shall eate and worshipp Him therefore, 
 And they that lye in dust shall Him adore. 
 Euen hee which cannot his own life preserue. 
 Nor quicken his owne soule, the Lord shall serue. 
 Their seed, O Lord ! shall serue to worshipp Thee, 
 And with Thy chosen people numbred bee ; 
 And to their children's children, shall expresse 
 Thine euerlasting truth and righteousnes. 
 
 PSALM XXHL 
 The Lord my Sheaperd is, Hee doth mee feed, 
 His bounty euermore supplies my need ; 
 When I in pastures greene my fill haue tooke. 
 He leads mee forth into the siluer brooke ; 
 Hee tumes my soule, when it is gon astray. 
 For His name's glory, to His right[eous]^ way ; 
 Therefore although my soule detruded were, 
 Euen to Hell's gates, yet I not ill should feare ; 
 
 ^ I add ' eous ' to ' right ' of the MS. agreeably to the Prayer Book 
 version — " and bring mc forth in the paths of righteousness." G.
 
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 When Thou art with mee, what sliould mee dismay ? 
 Thy crooke, my comfort is ; Thy staffe, my stay ; 
 My table Thou hast spread and furnisht soe, 
 As glads my heart, and gremes my enuious foe ; 
 Thy balme powr'd on my head, doth sweetly smell ; 
 Thou makst my cup aboue the brimme to swell. 
 Thy mercy, while I breathe, shall follow mee, 
 And in Thy house my dwellinge-place shall bee. 
 
 PSALM XXIV. 
 The Earth, and all things which on the Earth remaine, 
 Euen all the world, doth to the Lord pertaine ; 
 Amid the Sea, Hee founded hath the Land 
 And made this Globe aboue the floods to stand. 
 Who shall unto Jehouah's Mount ascend? 
 Or who shall in His holy place attend ? 
 Euen hee whose hands are cleane, whose heart is pure, 
 Whose tongue is true, whose oath is just and sure. 
 He shall receaue both righteousnes and blisse 
 From God, Whose mercy his saluation is. 
 Such are the seed of Jacob's faithfuU race, 
 Which seeke the Lord, and loue to see His face ; 
 Ye euerlasting Gates, your heads upreare, 
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 That glorious name, to Whome doth it belong ? 
 To God Most Mightie and in warr most stronge. 
 Etemall dores, lift [up] your heads, I say 
 That there, the King of Glorie enter may. 
 The King of Glory enters, what is Hee ? 
 The Lord of Hosts is knowne that Kinge to bee. 
 
 PSALM XXV. 
 Mine humble soule O Lord ! I lift to Thee, 
 On Whome my trust shall euer fixbd bee ; 
 O suffer not my cheekes with shame to glowe, 
 Nor make me slaue to my insultinge foe ; 
 For they which hope in Thee incurr noe blame, 
 But wilfuU synners shall bee clothed with shame. 
 To mee, O Lord ! vouchsafe Thy wayes to show, 
 And Thy right pathes, that I therein may goe ; 
 Teach mee the way of truth, direct my will ; 
 Thou art my Sauiour, I attend Thee still ; 
 Receaue mee Lord, and to remembrance call 
 Thy ould compassions, and Thy mercies all ; 
 But of Thy wonted grace to mee, O Lord 
 Of the errours of my youth keep noe record ; 
 The Lord is good, and for His goodnes' sake 
 Hee teaches sinners, godly wayes to take ;
 
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 Yet Hee His learninge doth to non impart 
 
 But to the meeke and to the humble hart ; 
 
 His pathes are grace and truth ; that only way 
 
 Hee leads all those which doe His will obey. 
 
 For Thy name's glorie, I doe Thee intreat 
 
 To my great sinns, extend Thy mercie great 
 
 To him which feares the Lord, the Lord doth showe 
 
 How in his callinge hee may safely goe ; 
 
 His soule shall bee at ease and all his race, 
 
 Shall in the Land possesse a blessed place ; 
 
 His couenant and His counselles neare,^ 
 
 God shewes to them in whome Hee plants His feare ; 
 
 My looke to Him shall euer raised bee, 
 
 Who from the nett my captiue feet doth free. 
 
 Haue mercy Lord on mee ! and turne Thy face 
 
 To see my desolate and wither'd case ; 
 
 Enlarged is my greife and heauines, 
 
 But Lord, enlarge Thou mee from my distresse ! 
 
 Looke on the wofull State that I am in ; 
 
 Remitt the cause thereof, which is my synne ; 
 
 My foes consider, and their multitude 
 
 Which mee with deadly hatred hath pursude ; 
 
 ■* Though not written with the contraction-sign of ' es ' it is 
 spelled therewith. The measure requires ' neare ' to be read as abi- 
 syllable. G.
 
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 And keepe my soule^ from sinne,^ my face from shame, 
 
 Who trust in Thee and call upon Thy name. 
 
 Let truth and righteousnes without deceipt 
 
 Still wait on mee, because on Thee I wait ; 
 
 And sett Thy faithfuU Israell at rest 
 
 From all the trubles which doe him molest. 
 
 PSALM XXVI. 
 
 Bee thou my Iudge, O Lord ! my cause is just ; 
 
 I shall not stagger while in Thee I trust. 
 
 Weigh and examine mee, search all my vaines, 
 
 The bottom of my heart and inward raines ; 
 
 I sett Thy goodnes euer in my sight, 
 
 Which in Thy truth doth guide my stepps aright ; 
 
 I use not to conuerse with persons vaine, 
 
 Nor with dissemblers fellowship retaine ; 
 
 My soule the assembly of the wicked hates. 
 
 Nor will I sitt among ungodly mates ; 
 
 Repentance haueing made my conscience cleare. 
 
 Then will I Lord, approach Thine Alter neare ; 
 
 That I may thanke [Thee] both with harte and voyce, 
 
 And teUinge of Thy wondrous workes rejoyce 
 
 * ' face ' previously written and erased. G. * ' Shame ' for 
 
 ' sinne : * but also erased. G. 
 
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 Thy temple Lord, I loue exceeding well, 
 
 Wherein Thy Majestie and Glorie dwell. 
 
 O let not sinfull men my soule enclose, 
 
 Nor of my life let sinfull men dispose ; 
 
 Whose hands ai"e foule, their sinnes them foule doe 
 
 make, 
 And full of guifts which they coruptly take ; 
 But I to leaue a blamelesse life entend : 
 
 Lord therein with mercie mee defend. 
 
 My foot stands right and therefore all my dayes 
 In all assemblies I the Lord will praise. 
 
 PSALM XXVII. 
 
 God is my light, saluation, strength and aid, 
 Of whome and what shall I then bee afraid ? 
 The wicked came to haue devour'd mee quite, 
 But stumbled in their way, and fell downe-right. 
 Though mighty armies in my wayes were laid, 
 
 1 stand secure, I cannot bee dismaid. 
 
 One thinge I wish, euen while I line to dwell. 
 In God's faire House, where beauty doth excell ; 
 His tent, in time of truble, shall mee hide, 
 And I shall on His rocke of safety bide ; 
 Now shall Hee lift my head aboue my foes, 
 Which mee with armed multitudes, enclose ;
 
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 And now will I His praise in trihumph singe, 
 And joyfull offerings to His temple bringe ; 
 And let my cries approach Thy gracious eare, 
 Vouchsafe in mercie my complaints to heare ; 
 My heart doth tell that Thou bidst mee still 
 Thy face to seeke : Lord ! seek Thy face I vnW. 
 Then doe not hide from mee Thy face soe bright, 
 Nor in Thy wrath exclude mee from Thy sight ; 
 Thou euer wast mine aid, since I was borne : 
 God of my safety leaue me not forlorne. 
 My father and my mother both forsooke mee. 
 But then the Lord to his tuition tooke mee ; 
 Teach mee the way that I therein may goe, 
 Soe shall I neuer fall before my foe ; 
 Nor fall into their power which doe me hate. 
 And brought false oathes against mee in the gate. 
 My heart had fail'd but that my hope to see 
 God's endlesse blisse in heauen, did comfort mee. 
 Then stay God's time, Hee shall thee stay at length, 
 And Hee till then shall arme thy heart with strength. 
 
 PSALM XXVIII. 
 Heare (Lord my strength !) the crie I make to Thee ! 
 I am but dead, if Thou seeme deafe to mee :
 
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 Heare, when with humble prayer, I Thee entreat, 
 
 With Hfted hands before Thy mercy seate. 
 
 But rancke me not with those which -wicked are, 
 
 Whose hpps speake peace, whose hearts are full of warr ; 
 
 Accordinge to their actions let them speed, 
 
 And as their merrit is, soe make their need ; 
 
 For that they see Thy workes, and yet neglect them, 
 
 Thou shalt destroy and neuer more erect them : 
 
 The Lord bee praisd Who hath vouchsaft to heare, 
 
 And lend unto my prayer a gracious eare ; 
 
 His sheild protects, His strength doth mee aduance ; 
 
 My tongue shall sing His praise, my heart shall dance; 
 
 Hee to His seruants, force, and vertue, giues ; 
 
 Through Him in safetie His annoynted Hues. 
 
 Saue Thy peculier people. Lord ! and blesse them. 
 
 And lift their heads aboue them that oppresse them. 
 
 PSALM XXIX. 
 Yee kings, since by God's power and grace, yee raigne, 
 Glory and power ascribe to Him againe ; 
 Yeild Him the honnour due to His great name. 
 And in His glorious Courts, His praise proclaime ; 
 His voyce doth cause the Seas, to swell and shake. 
 And in the heauens the dreadfull thunder make ;
 
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 Jehouah's voice, effects of power doth breed, 
 It is a stronge and glorious voyce indeed ; 
 His voyce the cedar doth in sunder teare. 
 The Cedars which Mount Lebanus doth beare ; 
 Makes Lebanus, and Hermon hill, to tremble 
 And skippinge Calues and Unicornes, resemble ; 
 Doth breake the clouds, and flames of fire deuide. 
 The deserts shake, euen Cades "^ desert wide ; 
 Makes hindes to calue, for feare makes forrests bare, 
 While in His temple wee His praise declare ; 
 The Lord vpon the water-floods doth raigne, 
 The Lord a Kinge for euer doth remaine ; 
 The Lord shall still His people's strength encrease, 
 And giue to them the blessinge of His peace. 
 
 PSALM XXX. 
 Highly the Lord I praise Who setts mee high 
 Aboue my proud insultinge enimie ; 
 Sicke to the death, I cried to God for ease. 
 And Hee hath cur'd my dangerous disease ; 
 Hee from the graue hath lifted up my head 
 And hath reduc't^ mee from among the dead. 
 
 ^ The Kadesh of our Authorised Version is spelled Cades in the 
 Prayer Book. G. ^= re-led. G.
 
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 Yee SAINTS of His in songs His praise expresse, 
 
 With thankes ^ make mention of His holines ; 
 
 For momentarie His displeasure is, 
 
 When in His fauour there is Hfe and blisse ; 
 
 Sad sorrow may continue for a night, 
 
 But joy returneth with the morninge light. 
 
 When my estate did prosper, then said I 
 
 I shall not fall, my seat is fixt on high. 
 
 But when Thou Lord, didst turne Thy face aside, 
 
 Then was I trubled, and to Thee I cride ; 
 
 To Thee began I then againe to pray. 
 
 And in my humble prayer thus did say : 
 
 What profit can there by my death arise, 
 
 When buried in the graue my body lies ? 
 
 Shall dust and ashes celebrate Thy name ? 
 
 Or shall the silent Toombe Thy truth proclaime ? 
 
 Lord, heare my prayer, and then Thy mercie show 
 
 In aidinge mee against my cruell foe ! 
 
 Loe now to dancinge,^ Thou hast turn'd my sadnes, 
 
 Out 2 of my sackloth girded mee with gladnes. 
 
 "^ With reference to the 'es' here and elsewhere, it is given only 
 when written in full and not by contraction-sign : the latter, except 
 where the rhythm demands it, is represented by the simple ' s' of our 
 modern plural. Cf. prefatory Note to these ' Psalms,' ante. G. 
 
 ^ ' sadnes ' written and erased here. G. 
 
 - I am uncertain whether this is ' But ' or ' Out.' G.
 
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 For this shall euerie good man singe Thy praise, 
 And I shall thanke and blesse Thee all my dayes. 
 
 PSALM XXXI. 
 In Thee, O Lord ! haue I put all my trust, 
 Then rescue mee from shame, as Thou art just ; 
 Giue eare, and soone from perill sett mee free ; 
 Bee Thou a Rocke and stronge defence to mee ; 
 Thou art my Rocke and Castle when I stray ; 
 Bee Thou my Guide, and leade mee in the way. 
 Thou art my strength ; O cleare mee from that net 
 Which priuily my foes for mee haue sett ! 
 Into Thy hands ^ my soule I doe committ : 
 Lord God of truth Thou hast redeemed it. 
 I hate all those which in vain lies delight, 
 For all my trust is in the Lord of might. 
 Thy mercies glad my heart : for in my woe 
 Thou hast vouchsaft my [weary] soule to knowe. 
 Thou hast not left mee prisoner with my foe, 
 But sett me free that I at large may goe. 
 Yeild to my trubles mercifull releife. 
 My eares waxe deafe, my heart doth melt with greife. 
 
 ^ In MS. another example of the contraction-sign of 'es' with 'e' 
 preceding. Cf. prefatory Note, as supra. G.
 
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 Few are my yeares, in number to be tould, 
 
 Yet sorrow, care, and greife, hath made mee ould ; 
 
 My strength with prayer and anguish doth decay, 
 
 My joyi:vts growe weake, my bones consume away ; 
 
 I am a scorne to all my enimies, 
 
 But specially my Neighbours mee dispise ; 
 
 My very presence did my friends affright, 
 
 And all my ould acquaintance shun my sight. 
 
 I am forgott as if I buried lay, 
 
 And viler then a broken pott of clay. 
 
 I heard the waylings of the multitude 
 
 And trembled while they did my death conclude ; 
 
 But all my hope hath beene O Lord in Thee, 
 
 Whome I professe my only Lord to bee ; 
 
 My tyme is in Thy hand, O doe not leaue 
 
 Mee in their hands which would my life bereue. 
 
 O tume to mee the brightnes of Thy face, 
 
 And saue mee through Thy mercy and Thy grace 
 
 Make not mee blush which did invoke Thy name, 
 
 But put my foes to silence and to shame ; 
 
 And let the lipps bee dumbe which vtter lyes 
 
 Against the righteous in spightfull-wise. 
 
 O what blessings, dost Thou keepe in store 
 
 For them that feare and loue Thee euermore ;
 
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 Thou shalt protect them from the great men's pride, 
 
 And in Thy Tent from stormes of tongues them hide. 
 
 Blest bee the Lord Whose mercies manifold 
 
 Doe keepe mee safer then the strongest hold ; 
 
 When I with passion was transported quite, 
 
 I said I was sequester'd from His sight ; 
 
 And yet for all my weaknes, heard was I, 
 
 When to my Maker I did make my crie. 
 
 Loue Him yee Saints of His who guardeth those 
 
 Who trust in Him : and pay'st* their proudest foes. 
 
 Yee that rely on Him be strong of hart 
 
 And Hee to you shall heauenly strength jmpart. 
 
 PSALM xxxn. 
 
 Happie indeed and truly blest is hee 
 
 Whose sinnes remitted and faults couered bee ; 
 
 To whome the Lord doth not jmpute his sinne, 
 
 Whose single heart hath not deceipt therein. 
 
 When I was silent I consum'd away, 
 
 And pyninge greife did waste mee day by day ; 
 
 Thy hand on mee was heauy still, whereby 
 
 My moisture grewe like draught in Summer drie. 
 
 * This word has been altered in the MS. by the (original) writer, 
 and the reading cannot be very certainly made out ; but I read pay'st 
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 My sinne I will acknowledge Lord to Thee, 
 
 My secret faults shall not concealed bee ; 
 
 I said, I will my synnes to God confesse, 
 
 And God forthwith forgaue my wickednesse. 
 
 If good men seeke Him when Hee may be found, 
 
 The world's high wanes shall neuer them surround ; 
 
 Thou hid'st mee close and sauest mee from annoy, 
 
 And dost enuirone mee with songs of joy ; 
 
 When Thou hast sett mee in Thyne owne right way. 
 
 Thine eye doth guide mee that I doe not stray. 
 
 Then must I not be brute, as horse and mule, 
 
 Which men with bitt and bridle only rule. 
 
 With many whipps, God doth the wicked chase 
 
 But doth with mercies faithful! men embrace ; 
 
 Bee glad, rejoyce, and glory in the Lord 
 
 All yee whose hearts doth with His will accord. 
 
 PSALM XXXIII. 
 Rejoyce yee righteous in the Lord, and singe ; 
 To giue God thankes, it is a comely thinge : 
 Singe prayses unto Him and sett your songs 
 To harpe and lute, that speaketh with ten tongues ; 
 Singe to the Lord a new composed songe, 
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 For His most holy Word is euer trae, 
 And all His workes His constancie doe shew. 
 Hee loueth right and justice euermore, 
 And with His blessinge Hee the earth doth store ; 
 For by His word the heauens created were ; 
 His breath made euery Starr and euery sp'ere ;^ 
 The Seas, as in a Storehouse Hee doth keepe, 
 And heapes them up as treasures in the deepe ; 
 The earth before the Lord shall quake for feare, 
 And all that dwell on His round Center here : 
 Hee spake, and they were made ; at His commaund 
 The heauens began to moue, the earth to stand. 
 CouNSELLS of princes and of Nations great, 
 And peoples' plotts, His wisdome doth defeat ; 
 But God's owne counsell, purpose and decree, 
 Etemall stand, and cannot frustrate bee. 
 That Nation hath true happines and blisse, 
 Whose God and Lord, the Lord Jehouah is ; 
 Downe from the highest heauen the Lord did looke, 
 And of all men a full suruey Hee tooke ; 
 From Heauen aboue the Lord did cast His eye, 
 And all mens wayes and wanderings did espie. 
 
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 Hee formed all their hearts, and understands 
 
 Their thoughts, their words, and workes of all their hands. 
 
 The greatest armies cannot saue a Kinge, 
 
 Nor strength unto a stronge man safety bringe ; 
 
 His trust is vaine who trusteth in his horse, 
 
 And seekes deliuerance by soe small a force ; 
 
 With gracious eye the Lord behoulds the just, 
 
 Which Him doe feare and in His mercie trust : 
 
 In tyme of dearth their hungrie soules to feed 
 
 And from deathe's jawes to rescue them with speed. 
 
 Our soules with patience for the Lord haue staid. 
 
 Who is our only sheild, support and aid ; 
 
 Our hearts shall Him as our true joy embrace. 
 
 For wee our only trust in Him doe place. 
 
 Thy mercie Lord to us exceeded bee, 
 
 According to the hope wee haue in Thee. 
 
 PSALM XXXIV. 
 Lord euermore will I giue thankes to Thee, 
 And in my mouth Thy praise shall euer bee ; 
 My soule shall boast that shee Thy seruant is, 
 The humble shall be glad to heare of this ; 
 Come then, O come, and let vs praise the Lord, 
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 I sought the Lord by prayer which He did heare, 
 
 And saued mee from that ill my soule did feare. 
 
 Looke towards God, thou shalt enlightened bee, 
 
 And no foule shame shall euer light on thee. 
 
 The poor man's crie, the Lord doth quickly heare, 
 
 And doth for all his trubles quitt him cleare ; 
 
 Such as feare God His Angell guards them all, 
 
 From euery mischeife that may them befall. 
 
 O taste the Lord, and see how sweet Hee is. 
 
 The man that trusts in Him liues still in bliss. 
 
 O feare the Lord, yee that are saints of His, 
 
 Who feare the Lord noe needfull thinge shall misse. 
 
 Rich become poore, and lyons hungrie bee. 
 
 But such as feare the Lord noe want shall see. 
 
 Come then yee children, listen and giue eare, 
 
 And I will teach you this religious feare : 
 
 What man art thou that longest long to Hue, 
 
 And wouldst that God to thee good dayes should giue ; 
 
 Refraine thy tongue from speaking ill the while, 
 
 And from thy lipps let there proceed noe guile ; 
 
 Doe that is good, decline from that is ill, 
 
 Seeke peace with God and men, and hould it still. 
 
 Upon good men God casts a gentle eye. 
 
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 But to the wicked shewes an angrie browe, 
 
 Till they bee quite exterped, root and bow ;^ 
 
 But when the righteous cry, the Lord doth heare them 
 
 And from all trubles absolutely cleare them ; 
 
 God's present helpe the Lord['s own folk] doth finde, 
 
 And such Hee saues as are of humble minde. 
 
 The righteous into many trubles fall, 
 
 But God's sweet mercy brings them out of all ; 
 
 Their very bones so keepe and count doth Hee, 
 
 As not one broken nor one lost, shall bee. 
 
 But some foule death shall on the wicked light, 
 
 And they which hate the just, shall perish quite ; 
 
 But of his seruants, God the Sauiour is ; 
 
 They trust in Him, their hope they cannot misse. 
 
 PSALM XXXV. 
 Plead Thou my cause, O Lord my Advocate ! 
 Against all those with whome I haue debate ; 
 Fight against them that doe against mee fight, 
 Take up Thy shield, and helpe mee with Thy might ; 
 Lift up Thy launce, stopp them which mee pursue, 
 Say to my soule, I am Thy Sauiour true ; 
 
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 Let shame on them which seeke my ruin light, 
 
 And with confusion turne them all to flight. 
 
 Let them bee like the dust before the winde, 
 
 With God's feirce angell follomnge them behinde ; 
 
 Set them in slipperie wayes, and darke withall, 
 
 And let God's Angell smite them as they fall ; 
 
 For they have spred a nett and dig'd a pitt, 
 
 Euen without cause to catch my soule in it : 
 
 But in that pitt let them fall vnawares, 
 
 And bee entangled in their proper snares ; 
 
 But thou my soule, whom God '^ thus guides from ill, 
 
 Rejoyce in Him, and His saluation still ; 
 
 My bones shall say. Lord who is like to Thee ? 
 
 ^Vho poore weake men men from their strong foe dost 
 
 free : 
 False witnesses arose with oathes untrue. 
 And charged mee with things I neuer knew ; 
 They to my greife did ill for good requite, 
 And recompenc't my kindnes with dispight ; 
 Yet in their sicknes I did sackcloth weare,* 
 And fast and pray with many a secret teare; 
 
 7 Written with a small ' g ' : the Scribe varies much in this. We 
 have given the capital uniformly in Divine names, nouns and pro- 
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 I could not more for friend or brother moume, 
 
 Or if my mother to her graue were borne : 
 
 But in my woe they made great mirth and glee, 
 
 The very abjects mockt and mowde^ at mee ; 
 
 Base flatterers and jesters came withall, 
 
 [And] gnasht their teeth to show their bitter gall. 
 
 How long shall this bee Lord ? my soule withdraw 
 
 From these men's wrongs, and from the lyon's jaw : 
 
 Soe in Thy Church shall I my thankes proclaime, 
 
 And in our Great Assembly praise Thy name ; 
 
 Let not my foes trihumph^ on mee againe, 
 
 Nor with their mockinge eyes shew their disdaine ; 
 
 They meet and parte, but peace they doe not seeke 
 
 But to supplant the peaceable and meeke ; 
 
 They gape and drawe their mouthes in scomefull wise, 
 
 And cry, fie, fie, wee sawe it with our eyes. 
 
 But Thou their deed (O Lord !) dost alsoe see ; 
 
 Then bee not silent soe, nor farr from mee. 
 
 Awake, stand up O God and Lord of might, 
 
 Auenge my quarrell, judge my cause aright ; 
 
 To Thy DOOME rather lett mee fall or stand 
 
 Then subject bee to their insultinge hand ; 
 
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 Then they should say, soe, soe, these things goe right, 
 We haue our will, and haue deuour'd him quite. 
 Shame bee to them that joy in my mischance, 
 And which to cast mee downe themselues aduance ; 
 Let them bee glad that my wellwishers bee. 
 And blesse the Lord that hath soe blessM mee. 
 As for my tongue it shall sett forth Thy praise. 
 And celebrate Thy justice all my dayes. 
 
 PSALM XXXVL 
 The wicked man's bould sinnes my heart doe tell, 
 Noe feare of God before his eyes doth dwell ; 
 Yet flattereth hee himselfe in his owne sight, 
 Untill his hatefuU deeds bee brought to light ; 
 His words are lies, and most deceiptfull too. 
 He leaues of [f] quite all honest deeds to doe ; 
 Hee on his bed doth nought but mischeife muse, 
 Hee shunns noe ill and noe good way doth choose ; 
 Thy mercie Lord doth to the heauens extend, 
 Thy faithfullnes doth to the Cloudes assend ; 
 Thy justice stedfast as a mountaine is, 
 Thy judgements deepe as is the great Abisse ; 
 Thy noble mercirs saue all liueinge thinges, 
 The sonnes of men creepe underneath Thy winges : 
 
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 With Thy great plenty they are fedd at will, 
 And of Thy pleasure's streame they drinke their fill ; 
 For euen the well of life remaines with Thee, 
 And in Thy glorious light wee light shall see ; 
 To them that know Thee, Lord, bee loveinge still, 
 And just to them whose heart intends noe ill ; 
 Let not the foot of pride tread on my Crowne 
 Nor the hand of the vngodly cast mee downe : 
 False are tlie wicked in their slippery wayes, 
 And haue no power againe themselues to raise. 
 
 PSALM XXXVII. 
 If ill men prosper doe not Thou repine. 
 Nor enuy them though they^ in glory shyne ; 
 For as the grasse they shall be mowen away, 
 And as greene hearbes shall turne to withered hay : 
 Trust thou in God and still bee doinge good, 
 And thou shalt neuer v/ant noe house nor food ; 
 Delight in Him, Hee shall to thee jmpajte, 
 The full desires and wishes of Thy heart ; 
 On Him rely, to Him thy way commend, 
 And Hee shall bringe it to a blessed end ; 
 Thine vpright light shall shine like the mominge light ; 
 And Thy just dealinge like the NOONE-day bright ) 
 
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 Bee still and frett not, but God's leasure stay 
 
 Though wicked men doe prosper in their way ; 
 
 Suppresse Thine anger, let offences die, 
 
 Lest thou be moued to offend thereby ; 
 
 Expect a while, obserue what \n\\ befall ; 
 
 Th' ungodly shall bee gon, their place and all. 
 
 The Lord shall root out sinners out of hand. 
 
 When good men and their heires shall hould their Land. 
 
 Meeke persons shall enjoy the earthe's encrease, 
 
 And shall abound in plentie and in peace ; 
 
 Against the just the wicked haue combin'd, 
 
 And in dispight their teeth at them they grinde ; 
 
 But God with scorne behoulds them from the skie, 
 
 For that Hee sees their day of ruin nigh ; 
 
 The vngodly drawes his sword and bends his bowe 
 
 To slay the just, the weake to ouerthrowe : 
 
 But his bent bowe shall breake and make him start. 
 
 And his owne sword shall peirce his wicked heart ; 
 
 That little which the just enioyes with peace, 
 
 'Tis better then th' ungodlie's great encrease ; 
 
 For th' armes of jmpious men the Lord will breake. 
 
 And giue the righteous strength when they are weake ; 
 
 The just man's dayes the Lord doth know and see, 
 
 That his inheritance shall endlessse bee ;
 
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 The tymes of danger shall not him confound, 
 
 And in the dayes of dearth, hee shall abound ; 
 
 Thy foes O Lord, shall perish and consume 
 
 Like fatt of lambes, and vanish into fume ; 
 
 Th' ungodly want and borrow, but repay not 
 
 The good men frankly giue, [and] yet decay not ; 
 
 Their seat is firme whom God hath best belou'd 
 
 But such as Hee doth^ curse shall bee remou'd. 
 
 The good man's goings soe directeth Hee 
 
 As it most pleasinge to Himselfe may bee ; 
 
 Oft falls the just, yet is not cast away, 
 
 For God's owne hand is his support and stay ; 
 
 Though I am ould, the just man or his seed 
 
 I neuer sawe forsaken or in need ; 
 
 Hee doth giue daily almes, and frankly lend, 
 
 Which makes his offspringe blessed in the end ; 
 
 Shun to doe ill, bee euer doinge well. 
 
 And euermore thou shalt in safety dwell ; 
 
 The Lord who loueth right, forsaketh neuer, 
 
 Those that are His, but keepeth them for euer ; 
 
 His children Hee correcteth now and then. 
 
 But roots out quite the race of wicked men. 
 
 As long as Heauen shall moue and Earth shall stand, 
 
 The righteous men inherit shall the Land ; 
 
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 The just man's mouth is wisedome's flowinge well, 
 His tongue, of truth and judgement loues to tell ; 
 And in his heart the lawe of God doth bide, 
 Which makes him walke vpright and neuer slide ; 
 The wicked sees the just with enuious eye, 
 And lies in waite to wound him mortally ; 
 But God will neuer leaue him to his hands, 
 Nor him condemne when hee in judgement stands : 
 Then wait thou on the Lord, and keepe His way, 
 Hee shall thy patience with promotion pay ; 
 Thy dwellinge in the Land shall stablisht bee. 
 When thou the fall shalt of the wicked see. 
 The vngodly in great power myselfe haue seene, 
 Soe that he flourisht like a bay-tree greene ; 
 But soone's^ I passed by, and gon was hee, 
 His place I sought, but noe where could it see ; 
 Keepe a cleare conscience, right and truth intend, 
 For that brings peace and comfort in the end ; 
 When sinners shall at once together fall, 
 And in the end shall be exterped all ; 
 But good mens' safety doth from God proceed. 
 Who is their strength in truble, helpe at need ; 
 Against the wicked Hee assists the just, 
 And recues them, because in Him they trust. 
 
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 PSALM XXXVIII. 
 
 If for my sinnes Thine anger kindled bee, 
 
 Lord ! let not then Thy justice chastise mee ; 
 
 Thine arrowes fix^d in my fleshe doe stand, 
 
 I feele the pressure of Thy heauie hand ; 
 
 I haue noe health Thine anger is soe much, 
 
 My bones noe rest ; my greiuous synne is such. 
 
 My wickednes doth mount aboue my head 
 
 And fallinge presse mee like a load of lead ; 
 
 My ulcers are corrupted and doe smell, 
 
 Caus'd by my folly, which I blush to tell. 
 
 I am with greife soe broken and soe tome, 
 
 As I all day in heart and habit mourne. 
 
 My loynes are filled with a sore desease, 
 
 Noe parte of all my bodie feeleth ease ; 
 
 I am soe faint, soe feeble, and soe sore, 
 
 As paine and anguish make mee crie and roare ; 
 
 Thou Lord ! the longings of my heart dost see, 
 
 My sighes and groanings are not hidd from Thee. 
 
 My heart doth pant, my sinewes faile mee quite, 
 
 My weepinge eyes haue lost their power of sight ; 
 
 Meane while, my freinds and neighbours they looke on, 
 
 My nearest kinsmen farthest of[f ] are gon : 
 
 And they which seeke my life haue layed their snares 
 
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 They that to doe mee mischeife lye in wait, 
 
 Doe plott and practise nothinge but deceit ; 
 
 But as for mee in silent patience 
 
 I seemed deafe and dumbe and voyde of sence ; 
 
 As one whose eare admitts not any sound, 
 
 And in whose mouth there ^ is noe answeare found. 
 
 For on the Lord I euermore rely, 
 
 Though I stand mute, Thou shalt for mee replie ; 
 
 My suite is that my foes may not preuaile 
 
 Who greatly joy to see my footinge faile ; 
 
 For in a place of stumblinge sett am I, 
 
 My sad estate is still before mine eye ; 
 
 But I with sorrow will confesse my S}Tine, 
 
 And grieue that I offend my God therein ; 
 
 And yet my foes do Hue and grow in might, 
 
 They grow in numbers which do beare me spight. 
 
 They which doe ill for good, doe hate mee too. 
 
 Because I loue good turnes for ill to doe : 
 
 Lord leaue mee not nor from mee farr depart, 
 
 Saue mee with speede : for Thou my safety art. 
 
 PSALM XXXIX. 
 I said I will bee wary in my way ; 
 Lest I offend in that my tongue should say, 
 
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 I will my mouth as with a bridle hould, 
 
 While wicked men with enuy mee behould : 
 
 I dumb did stand and from all speech refraine, 
 
 Euen from good words, which was to mee a paine : 
 
 My heart was hott : while I such doubts did cast, 
 
 The fire brake out, and thus I spake at last : 
 
 ' Lord of my life reueale to mee the end, 
 
 The period showe, to which my dayes doe tend ' ! 
 
 My life is but the measure of a spann, 
 
 Nought as to Thee, so vaine a thinge is man : 
 
 Who dreaminge walks, and toyles for wealth in vaine, 
 
 And doth not know to whome it shall remaine. 
 
 But what doe I expect ? what is my hope ! 
 
 Of my desires Thou art the only scope. 
 
 Lord ! from my synnes Thine indignation turne 
 
 And make mee not to wicked fooles a scorne, 
 
 When Thou didst strike I silent was and dum[b] 
 
 Because I knewe the blowe from Thee did come. 
 
 Remoue Thy hand, withdrawe Thy plague from me 
 
 Wherewith my vitall spirrits consumed bee : 
 
 Thy plagues for sinne doth like a moth consume 
 
 Man's beauty vaine, which is nought else but fume. 
 
 Lord ! heare my prayer, and listen to my cries. 
 
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 For I am but Thy guest, and sojourne heare, 
 On earth a pilgrim as my fathers were ; 
 O spare a Httle, and my strength restore 
 Before I goe from hence to come noe more. 
 
 PSALM XL. 
 Long on the Lord, I waited patiently. 
 Till He enclin'd His eare, and heard my cry : 
 Drew mee from out the pitt of mire and clay 
 Did sett mee on firme ground and guide my way : 
 Put in my mouth a new and joyfull song 
 Of thankes^ and praise, that to Himselfe belong. 
 Of His great mercie, many shall haue sense. 
 And of the Lord haue feare and confidence. 
 Blest is the man who hath on God relide. 
 Not tuminge vnto lies or worldly pride ; 
 O Lord ! Thy works of wonder, they are such 
 Thy care and loue to vsward is soe much. 
 They are soe great, they are soe numberlesse, 
 As if I would, I could not them expresse. 
 My sacrifice of meates Thou would'st not take, 
 But Thou mine eare didst peirce and open make. 
 
 ^ Another example of e ' preceding the contraction ' es,' as also 
 on line 5th below this, in ' workes,' and in Psalm xli, line 19th, 
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 Thou didst not aske burnt-offerings at my hand 
 Then Lord said I ' I come at Thy commaund ; 
 Thy Booke eternall, doth of mee record, 
 That I should come to doe Thy will O Lord ! 
 To doe Thy will, my heart is pleased well, 
 For in my heart Thy lawe doth euer dwell ; 
 Thy truth I haue to all Thy people tould, 
 Therein Thou knowest my tongue I cannot hould : 
 Thy justice in my heart is not conceal'd, 
 Thy mercy to the world I haue reueal'd ; 
 I haue not spar'd to make Thy bounty knowne, 
 But in the Great Assembly haue it showne. 
 Take not Thy wonted mercy Lord, from mee, 
 But let Thy goodnes still my safety bee. 
 My trubles numberlesse such hould haue tooke 
 On my weake soule, as vp I cannot looke : 
 My sinnes beinge more then ^ haires upon my head, 
 Make my heart faint and vitall spirrits dead : 
 But bee it Lord, Thy pleasure and Thy will, 
 With speed to saue and rescue mee from ill : 
 Bringe them to shame that would my life destroy, 
 Reproue them Lord, that wish my soule's annoy : 
 Let them bee left to scome and pride, which blame 
 \\1iich scominge say to me, fie, fie, for shame. 
 
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 But let all those that seeke their blisse, in Thee 
 Rejoyce and say, the Lord's name praisbd bee'. 
 For mee who am contemtible and poore, 
 The Lord takes care, and feeds mee euermore : 
 Thou Lord art my protection, and my aid. 
 Let not Thy gracious helpe bee long dela/d. 
 
 PSALM XLL 
 That man is blest who doth the poore regard ; 
 In tymes of truble God shall him reward. 
 Prolong his life, and blesse him in the Land, 
 And free him from his foes' oppressing hand : 
 Shall comfort him, when sicke and weake hee lies. 
 And make his bedd till hee in health doe rise : 
 My synne hath giuen my soule a greiuous wound, 
 Apply Thy mercy Lord, and make it sound ; 
 Thus speakes my foe of mee to show his spight, 
 ' When shall his life and honnour perish quite ' ? 
 Hee vissitts mee, but with false heart and tongue 
 And thereof vaunts, his complices amonge : 
 Euen all my foes against mee doe conspire. 
 And with one minde my ruin doe desire ; 
 ' Let him,' say they of mee, ' in judgement fall 
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 The freind I trusted, which did eat my bread, 
 
 Hath Hfted vp his heele against my head. 
 
 Thy mercie's winges on mee O Lord display ; 
 
 Raise mee againe, and I shall them repay. 
 
 By this I doe Thy gracious fauour see. 
 
 In that my foe doth not trihumph on mee. 
 
 Thou in my health uphouldst mee with Thy hand, 
 
 And in Thy presence I shall euer stand. 
 
 The name of Jacob's God bee blessed then, 
 
 From age to age for euermore : Amen. 
 
 PSALM XLII. 
 As for the streames the hunted hart doth bray, 
 Soe for God's grace my heart doth pant and pray. 
 My soule doth thirst (O God of life !) for Thee, 
 When shall I come Thy blessed^ face to see ? 
 My teares are all my food both night and day. 
 While ' where is now thy God ? ' the wicked say. 
 I powred out my hart, while thus I thought 
 And to God's House the multitude I brought : 
 With songs of praise and thankfullnes withall, 
 To celebrate the Lord's great festiuall : 
 Then why art thou my soule soe full of woe, 
 Vnquiet in thyselfe and vexed soe ? 
 
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 put thy trust in God and thankfull bee, 
 
 For his sweet helpe His presence yields to Thee. 
 My soule is greiu'd remembringe all the ill 
 
 1 felt in Jordan's vale and Hermon hill. 
 One depth of sorrow doth to another call, 
 Thy waves O God haue ouergon mee all : 
 I prais'd at night God's bounty of the day, 
 And vnto Him that giues mee life did pray. 
 God of my strength, why hast Thou left mee soe, 
 With heauy hart oppressed by my foe ? 
 
 My foe doth cut my bones as with a sword, 
 
 While hee in scome repeats this bitter word, 
 
 ' Where is thy God ? ' his speech to mee is such : 
 
 * Where is thy God, of which thou talk'st soe much ? ' 
 
 But why art thou my soule dejected soe? 
 
 Why art thou trubled and soe full of woe ? 
 
 Trust thou in God, and giue Him thankfull praise^ 
 
 Who is Thy present helpe in all thy wayes. 
 
 PSALM XLHL 
 Judge thou my^ cause, [O God !] and right mee then, 
 Against vngodly and dcceiptfuU men. 
 
 ' ' O put thy trust in God and thankfull bee' written and erased. G. 
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 O God, my strength, why sett'st Thou mee aside 
 
 And leau'st mee to my foes' oppressinge pride ? 
 
 Send forth Thy Ught and truth and guide mee still, 
 
 In the right way to Thy most holy hill. 
 
 God of my 2 joy, before Thine Alter high, 
 
 My thankfull harte, my harpe shall justifie. 
 
 Then why art thou my soule dejected soe? 
 
 Why art thou trubled and soe full of woe ? 
 
 O put thy trust in God and thankfull bee, 
 
 For that sweete aide His presence giues to thee, 
 
 PSALM XLIV. 
 Lord ! of Thy workes, our fathers haue vs tould, 
 Some in their dayes, and former times of ould ; 
 How Thou hast rooted out the Pagan race, 
 And Thy choice people planted in their place : 
 Who did not with their owne sword winne the Land, 
 Nor make the conquest with their proper hand ; 
 But by Thine Arme, Thy fauour and Thy grace. 
 Thy countenance and brightnesse of Thy face ; 
 Thou art my Kinge, O God, and royal Guide, 
 And Thou for Jacob's safety dost prouide. 
 
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 Wee through Thine aid our foes doe bouldly meet, 
 And by Thy vertue^ cast them at our feet ; 
 Therefore my trust I place not in my bowe, 
 Nor in my sword, to saue mee from my foe. 
 Thou only sau'st vs from our enimies, 
 Confoundinge them that doe against vs rise. 
 Wee boast and glor^- in our strength therefore, 
 And to Thy name singe praises euermore ; 
 But now Thou standest of[f] and leau'st vs quite, 
 And dost not lead our armies out to fight ; 
 Thou mak'st vs fly before our foes with feare. 
 While they from vs rich spoyles away doe beare ; 
 Like sheepe, to feed them Thy poore flock is giuen. 
 Or scattered into seuerall Nations driuen. 
 Thyne owne deare people Thou dost sell for naught, 
 And setts on them noe price when they are bought ; 
 Thou hast vs made vnto our Neighbours all. 
 An object of reproch and scorne withall : 
 To Nations which doe worship Idolls dumbe, 
 Wee are* a byword of contempt become ; 
 All the day long my shame is in my sight. 
 Which makes me hide my face and shun the light, 
 
 •' =Through the ' vertuc ' of Thy name, i.e., through Thee. The 
 original is ' And in Thy name.' G. 
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 Not able to endure the blasphemies 
 And scomes of my reuengefuU enimies. 
 For all these ills wee doe not Thee forgett, 
 Thy blessed Couenant wee renounce not yet. 
 Our hearts recede not from the Lawe deuine, 
 Nor doe our footsteps from Thy pathes declyne ; 
 Though wee in dennes of dragons haue bene plac't, 
 And with death's fearefull shadowes^ ouercast. 
 If wee the name of our true God forgett, 
 And IdoUs false wee in His place doe sett. 
 Shall not Hee search [it] out, Whose eye doth see 
 The heart of man whose thoughts most trubled bee? 
 But for Thy cause Lord wee are martir'd still, 
 Like sheep which slaughter-men cull out to kill. 
 Up Lord ! why dost Thou seeme to slumber thus ? 
 Awake and bee not alwayes farr from vs : 
 Why hidest Thou from vs Thy blessed face, 
 Forgettinge our distresse and wretched case ? 
 Our soules euen to the dust are humbled lowe, 
 Our prostrate bodies to the ground doe growe. 
 Arise and helpe vs Lord ! defend vs still, 
 And saue vs for Thy mercie's sake from ill. 
 
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 PSALM XLV. 
 My heart is mou'd to vtter some good thinge, 
 Which I entend to offer to the kinge. 
 My tougue shall bee the pen, and swiftly ^vTite 
 What in my heart deuotion doth endite. 
 Fairest of men, whose lipps with grace abound, 
 Whom with etemall blessings God hath cro\\'n'd ; 
 Gird Thy sharp sword vpon Thine armed thigh, 
 And shew Thyselfe in power and majestie. 
 Ride on with Thy great honnour prosperously, 
 Raigne and trihumph, and bee Thou mounted high. 
 Borne vp with justice, truth and meeknes' wings : 
 And Thy right hand shall teach Thee dreadfull things ; 
 Thine arrowes sharpe, shall make Thy foes to fall, 
 Which Thou shalt shoote and peirce their hearts withall. 
 Etemall is Thy judgement-seat O God ! 
 Thy scepter is a true directinge rod ; 
 Right hast Thou lou'd and loth'st vnrighteousnes, 
 And therefore God Thy God Who doth Thee blesse. 
 Hath powr'd on Thee O Prince of Princes best. 
 More oyle of gladnes then on all the rest : 
 Thy garments, which Thy person shall aray. 
 Brought out of luory wardrobes where they lay, 
 
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 Of Myrrh, of Alloes, and of Casha smell ; 
 Which odours doe refresh and please Thee well. 
 The queene, all cladd in gould at Thy right hand, 
 Daughters of Kings attendinge her, shall stand. 
 Attend faire daughter, listen and giue eare, 
 Forgett thy father's house and Cuntry deare. 
 Soe shall the Kinge take pleasure in thy beautie ; 
 Hee is thy Lord, yield Him both loue and duty. 
 The Tyrian virgins shall bringe guifts to thee, 
 And MERCHAJSTTS rich, thy suppliants shall bee. 
 The daughter of the Kinge is rich without. 
 Her gownes embroidered all with gould about; 
 And yet within, shee is more glorious farr, 
 The Jewells of her minde more precious are. 
 In finest dressinge;, with the needle wrought, 
 Shee Avith her fellow virgins shall bee brought. 
 They shall with joy, O Kinge bee brought to Thee, 
 And in Thy princely Courte receauved bee. 
 Thou in thy father's stead, O Bride shalt gaine 
 Sonnes, which in sundry Prouinces shall raigne. 
 Thee Lord, will I remember, all my dayes. 
 And all the world shall giue Thee endlesse praise. 
 
 PSALM XLVI. 
 God is our hope and strength, which neuer failes ; 
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 Though the earth remoued, and the mountaines were 
 
 Amid the Ocean cast, wee would not feare. 
 
 Though raginge seas a dreadful! noise doe make, 
 
 Thou[gh] floodes and tempestes [roaring,] hills doe shake. 
 
 There is a streame, which though it bee not great, 
 
 Makes glad God's Cittie, and His holy seate. 
 
 God in her Center dwells, and makes His place 
 
 Unmoueable, by His preuentinge grace. 
 
 They were*^ enrag'd which heathen kingdomes sway, 
 
 But when God spake, the Earth did melt away. 
 
 The Lord of Hosts assists vs with His power, 
 
 And Jacob's God to vs becomes a Tower. 
 
 Come, and behould what workes the Lord hath wrought, 
 
 And Hee, His foes hath to destruction brought. 
 
 In all the world Hee warr to peace doth tume. 
 
 The bowe and speare doe breake and chariotts bume ; 
 
 Bee quiet then and still, and know that I 
 
 Am Lord of the world and God Most High : 
 
 The Lord of Hosts assists vs with His power, 
 
 And Jacob's God to vs becomes a Tower. 
 
 PSALM XLVn. 
 Clap hands yee people, with applause rejoyce, 
 Singe to the Lord with loud and chearfuU voyce ; 
 
 ^ Miswritten 'warr.' G.
 
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 His throne is high, His judgement breedeth feare, 
 
 On all the earth Hee doth the Scepter beare. 
 
 Hee makes much people our commaund obey, 
 
 And many Nations at our feet doth lay ; 
 
 And hath for vs an heritage in store, 
 
 Euen Jacob's portion whom Hee lou'd before. 
 
 In glorious trihumph God is mounted high. 
 
 The Lord with trumpet's sound ascends the skie. 
 
 Singe, singe, vnto our God, vnto our Kinge, 
 
 All praises due, euen all due praises singe. 
 
 All KiNGDOMES of the earth to Him belonge, 
 
 Singe wisely then, and vnderstand your song. 
 
 In all the heathen Hee doth raigne alone, 
 
 And sitts in judgment in His holy throne. 
 
 And heathen princes which were seuerd farr, 
 
 To Abraham's faithfull seed now joined are. 
 
 And God, Whose highnes doth the heauens transcend, 
 
 As with a buckler doth the earth defend. 
 
 PSALM XLVIII. 
 Great is the Lord and highly to bee praised, 
 In God's owne Cittie, Syon hill is rays'd ; 
 The beautie and the joy of all the Land, 
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 In his faire Pallaces God's name is knowne, 
 
 Where Hee doth cherish and protect His owne. 
 
 Though manie kings against her gathred bee, 
 
 They stand astonisht her great strength to see. 
 
 As when a woman doth in trauell fall, 
 
 A suddaine feare and tremblinge takes them all ; 
 
 And God shall breake them though they bee combin'd, 
 
 As shipps are broken with an Easterne winde. 
 
 What wee haue heard, wee see Thou dost fuUfill, 
 
 Thou God of Hosts vphoulds't Thy Cittie still : 
 
 Amidst Thy Temple Lord, wee doe attend 
 
 Till Thou to vs Thy grace and fauour send. 
 
 Great is Thy name, O God, Thy praise noe lesse, 
 
 And Thy right hand is full of righteousnes. 
 
 Rejoyce O Sion, and your joyes renew. 
 
 Daughters of Judah,''' for His judgements true. 
 
 About the walls of Sion walke yee round, 
 
 And tell the towers wherewith that forte is crownd ; 
 
 Obserue her bulwarks and her turrets high, 
 
 And tell the same to your posterity. 
 
 This euer liuinge God our God is Hee, 
 
 And shall our Guide while we haue liuinge, bee.^ 
 
 ^ ' Judgement' written here and erased. G. 
 
 8 A later hand substitutes another line, 'And while we live, our 
 only guide shall be.' G.
 
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 PSALM XLIX. 
 
 Heare this yee people, all yee people heare ; 
 Listen to^ mee and giue attentiue eare, 
 All yee that in the world residinge bee, 
 Both rich and poore, of high and low degree : 
 My mouth shall vtter, and my heart deuise, 
 Matters of greatest skill, profound and wise. 
 Mine eares to parables will I encline, 
 And singe vnto my harpe, of things deuine. 
 Then why should I in ill times fearfull bee, 
 When mischeife at my heeles doth follow mee. 
 Howbeit, some doe in their riches trust, 
 And glory in their wealth, which is but dust ; 
 Yet non from death his brother's life can stay. 
 Nor vnto God for Him a ransome pay. 
 For it cost more the soule of man to saue. 
 Then all the wealth is worth, which worldlyngs haue. 
 Nor may men hope to Hue on earth for euer, 
 Though long they last, ere soule and body seuer. 
 That fooles and wise men die alike they finde, 
 And vnto strangers leaue their wealth behinde. 
 Their houses yet they thinke shall euer stand. 
 They giue their proper names vnto their land ; 
 
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 Yet noe man can in honnour euer bee, 
 
 But as the brute beast dies, euen so does hee. 
 
 This is their follie, this their stumbHnge wayes ; 
 
 And yet the children doe their fathers praise. 
 
 ^They are shut vp in graues as sheepe in folde, 
 
 And hungry Death feeds on their bodies cold, 
 
 The just shall rule them when the sunne doth rise, 
 
 With them their pride and beauty buried lies ; 
 
 But God shall from Deathe's power my soule dehuer. 
 
 When Hee shall take it to Himselfe for euer. 
 
 Then let not feare and enuy thee surprize, 
 
 When thou seest men in wealth and honnour rise, 
 
 For to their graues they naught away shall beare, 
 
 Nor shall their glory waite vpon them there ; 
 
 Yet they themselues thought happie all their dayes. 
 
 For him who helps himselfe others will praise: 
 
 As his forefathers all are gon before, 
 
 Soe shall hee die and see the light noe more. , 
 
 Soe man on honnour little doth foresee. 
 
 But as brute beasts doe perish, soe dies hee. 
 
 PSALM L. 
 The Lord, the God of Gods, the world doth call, 
 Euen from the sunn's vprisinge to his fall ; 
 
 ' The MS. begins here with ' and ' : but is struck out. G.
 
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 From out of Sion doth the Lord appeare, 
 And shewes the brightnes of His beauty cleare. 
 In trihumph, not in silence come shall Hee, 
 His vsher fire, His guard a storme shall bee. 
 Hee by His summons heauen and earth will call, 
 That Hee [may] ^ judge at once his creatures all. 
 To Mee, saith Hee, let all My saints repaire, 
 Which worshipp Mee with sacrifice and prayer ; 
 God's justice shall from heauen declared bee. 
 For Who is judge of all the world but Hee ? 
 Harke Israell ! I am Thy God, giue eare ; 
 I will against thee speake and witnes beare. 
 Not for the dailie taske of sacrifice. 
 Or that burnt-offerings shine not in Mine eyes : 
 I want them not, nor will I take at all, 
 Goat from thy fould or buUocke from thy stall ; 
 All beasts are Mine within the forrest wide, 
 And cattle on a thousand hills beside ; 
 I knowe all fowles which in the aire doe fly. 
 And see all beasts which in the feild doe lye. 
 If I were hungrie would I begg of thee, 
 When all things in the world belong to Mee ? 
 
 ^ I have filled in ' may ' as evidently overlooked, and as it is the 
 word of the prose version: a later hand has written 'will' and 
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 Art thou O man, soe simple as to thinke 
 
 That bulls' flesh is My meat, goats' blood My drinke ? 
 
 * * * * * 
 
 PSALM LXVII. 
 Shew us Thy mercy, Lord, and grace diuine : 
 Tume Thy bright face that it on vs may shine, 
 That all the men on Earth enlight'ned so 
 Theire owne saluation and Thy wayes may know. 
 O let Thy people praise Thy blessed name. 
 And let all tongues and nations doe the same ; 
 And let all mortall men rejoyce in this. 
 That God['s] their judge, and iust His iudgment, is. 
 
 ^ The Manuscript thus far is in one handwriting : and since the 
 prefatory Note to these Psalms was written, I have discovered among 
 the Harleian MSS. a very remarkable document by Sir John Davies, 
 viz. his " Plea spoken at the Bar of the House of Lords " on " the 
 King's power to impose Ship-money," (126. B 10 — 4266) and it is 
 identically the same holograph with that of these Fifty Psalms, pre- 
 senting precisely the same forms and contractions throughout. So 
 that the Scribe of the one must have been the Scribe of the other : no 
 doubt one of Sir John's Secretaries or ' men,' as he himself calls 
 them. I shall give above important historical Paper — which never 
 has been published, or even referred to, so far as I am aware — in my 
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 let Thy people praise Thy blessed name, 
 And let all tongues and nations doe the same : 
 Then shall the Earth * bringe forth a rich encrease, 
 And God shall blesse vs with a fruitfull peace. 
 Euen God shall bless vs and ^ His holy feare, 
 Possesse the harts of all men euery where. 
 
 PSALM XCI. 
 
 T Who vnder the Most High Himselfe doth hide, 
 In most assured safety shall abide. 
 
 2 Thou art, O Lord, my hope and my defence, 
 My God, in Thee is all my confidence. 
 
 3 Hee shall preserue thee from the hunter's snare, 
 And from the pestilent contagious aier. 
 
 valuable is this additional verification of the Davies authorship of our 
 Manuscript — that is in so far as the Psalms up to L. are concerned. 
 
 1 stand in doubt of his authorship of the remainder; but see our 
 Memorial-Introduction on this. 
 
 The Psalms that follow have interposed a half-page and one leaf, 
 blank, and another leaf, filled with the secular Poems that succeed 
 them : but it was deemed better to place all the Psalms together. 
 These other Psalms have the same orthography : but the hand- 
 writing is different and plainer. It will be noticed that Psalm L 
 supra, is imperfect, extending only to v. 13. G. 
 
 ■* ' Nations ' written and erased. G. 
 
 » ' Wth ' written and erased. G.
 
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 4 His winges shall both protect and cherish thee, 
 
 5 His faithfull promise shall thy buckler bee. 
 Noe terror of the night shall thee dismay, 
 Nor Satan's arrow flyinge in the day, 
 
 6 Nor mortall plague, which in the darke annoyes, 
 Nor that ill angell which at none** destroyesJ 
 
 7 Thousands, ten thousands shall about thee fall, 
 Yet noe such ill shall thee approach at all ; 
 
 8 Yea with thine eyes thou shalt behould and see. 
 The iust reward of such as impious bee ; 
 
 9 Thou art my hope, I will on Thee rely, 
 Thy tower of safety, Lord, is sett soe high. 
 
 ID Noe mischeefe, noe mischance shall thee betide 
 No plague come near the place where Thou shalt 
 bide. 
 
 1 1 The Lord His angells will Thy keepers make. 
 
 In all Thy righteous wayes which thou shalte take ; 
 
 1 2 They in their liands shall thee sustaine and stay 
 That Thou shalt neuer stumble in thy way. 
 
 13 Uppon the basilisk and adder's head. 
 Dragon and lyon thou shalt safely tread. 
 
 14 Thy loue to Mee shall saue thee from mischance, 
 Thy knowledge of My name shall thee aduance. 
 
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 1 5 I will him hear, and help him in His trouble ; 
 I will protect him and his honour duble. 
 With length of dayes, hee satisfied shall bee, 
 And hee at last shall My saluation see. 
 
 PSALM XCV.8 
 Come let vs hartily reioyce and singe 
 To God our mightie Sauiour, and our Kinge ; 
 Present the prayse which doth to Him belonge. 
 And show our gladnes in a cheerfuU songe ; 
 For God our Lord, the greatest God is Hee, 
 And Monarch of all gods that worshipt bee. 
 The Earth's round globe, Hee holdeth in His hand 
 And th' highest mounta)Ties are at His command. 
 The sea is His, Hee hath it made of old, 
 And the dry land His blessed hands did mould : 
 Come let vs worship then, and humble fall 
 Before our mightie God which made vs all. 
 Hee is our Lord, and wee His people bee ; 
 Our shepheard, and His proper sheep are wee. 
 This day yf you His holy voice will heare, 
 Let not your hearts bee hardned as they were. 
 When in the desert you His wrath did moue. 
 And temptinge Him His mightie power did proue. 
 
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 Full forty yeeres this nation greeud mee so, 
 Their erringe harts My wayes would neuer know ; 
 Therefore displeas'd by oath I did protest 
 They neuer should possesse my Land of rest. 
 
 PSALM C. 
 Bee ioyfull in the Lord, yee nations all. 
 Cheer vp your harts in mirth, and songs withall ; 
 The Lord is God, not wee but Hee alone 
 Hath made vs all, and feeds vs euery one. 
 Then enter yee His gates and courts with prayse, 
 And striue with hart and voice His name to raise. 
 For why ? the Lord is sweet. His mercy rare. 
 His truth for euer constant shall endure. 
 
 PSALM CHL 
 My soule with all thy powers thy Maker praise ; 
 
 Forget not all His benefits to thee, 
 Who pardons all thy sinnes, and doth thee rayse 
 
 When thou art fal'n through any infirmitie : 
 Who doth thee saue from mischeifs that would kill thee. 
 
 And crowneth thee with mercies euer more. 
 And with the best of thinges doth feed and fill thee, 
 
 And egle-like thy youth and strength restore.
 
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 When men oppressed doe to Him appeale, 
 
 Hee righteth euery one against his foe ; 
 Hee vnto Moses did His lawes reueale, 
 
 And vnto Jacob's eare His workes did show. 
 Hee is more full of grace then wee of sinne ; 
 
 To anger slowe, compassionate and kind ; 
 Hee doth not euer chide, and never linne,^ 
 
 Nor keepes displeasure alwayes in His minde, 
 Nor after our misdeedes doth Hee vs charge ; 
 
 Nor takes Hee of our faults a strict account, 
 But as the space from earth to heauen is large, 
 
 So farr His mercy doth our sinnes surmount. 
 As east from west is distant farr away, 
 
 Soe farr doth Hee from us our sinnes remoue : 
 As fathers, kindnes to their sonnes bewray, 
 
 Soe God to them that feare Him, showes His loue. 
 For Hee that made vs and knowes all, doth know 
 
 The matter whereof man was made of old ; 
 That wee were formed heer on earth below 
 
 Of dust and clay, and of noe better mold. 
 Man's age doth wither as the fadinge grasse ; 
 
 He flourisheth, but as y<= flower in May, 
 Which when the South-wind ouer it doth passe 
 
 Is gone ; and where it grew no man can say. 
 
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 But God's sweet kindnes ^ euer doth consist ; 
 
 His truth, from age to age, continew shall, 
 
 To them that in His righteous lawes persist, 
 
 And thinke vppon them to performe them all. 
 
 Heauen is God's seat ; there doth His glorie dwell. 
 
 But ouer all, His empire doth extend ; 
 
 Praise Him yee angells which in strength excell, 
 
 And His command doe euermore attend. 
 
 Praise Him yee hosts of heauen which serue Him there, 
 
 Whose seruice with His pleasure doth accord ; 
 
 And praise Him all His creatures euery where ; 
 
 And thou my soule for thy part, praise the Lord. 
 
 PSALM CL. 
 To Him with trumpets and with flutes. 
 With cornets, clarions and with lutes ; 
 With haqDes, with organs and with shawmes, 
 With holy anthems and with psalmes ; 
 With voice of angells and of men 
 Sing! Aleluyia! Amen, Amen. 
 
 '" 'to mankind for 'written here and erased : 'doth consist ' and 
 its corresponding rhyme two lines below, ' persist,' written in a later 
 hand. Originally the former line read ' But God's sweet kindness to 
 mankind for euer,' and to rhyme with this, the coreesponding lint- 
 ended with ' perseuer.' G.
 
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 211 
 
 Miscellaneotts Poems. 
 
 OF FAITH THE FIRST THEOLOGICALL 
 VERTUE. 
 T7 AITH is a sunbeame of th' ^temall light, 
 
 That in man's soule infusd by grace doth shine : 
 Which giues her dazled eye soe cleare a sight 
 As evidently sees the truith divine ; 
 This beame that cleares our eyes, inflames our hearts, 
 And Charitie's kind fire doth there begett : 
 For sunlike, it both light and heate imparts : 
 Faith is the light, and Charitie the heate : 
 This light of faith the noblest wisdome is, 
 For it the onley truith allowes and a'plyes : 
 The virgin's lamp, that lights the soule to blisse ; 
 The Jacob's scales,^ whereby shee clymes the skyes ; 
 The eye that sees, the hand that apprehends ; 
 The cause of causes, and the end of ends. 
 
 ^ Scala = ladder. G. 
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 A SONGE OF CONTENTION 
 
 BETWEENE FOWRE MaIDS CONCERNINGE THAT WHICH 
 ADDETH MOST PERFECTION TO THAT SEXE. 
 
 The FIRST FOR Beauty. 
 /^UR fairest Garland, made of Beautye's flowers, 
 
 Doth of it selfe supplyall other dowers : 
 Women excell the perfects' men in this, 
 And therefore herein theire perfection is : 
 For beautye wee the glorious heauens admire ; 
 Faire feilds, faire howses, gold and pearle, desire. 
 Beautye doth alwayes health and youth imploy 
 and doth delight the noblest sense, the eye. 
 
 The second for Witte. 
 Beautye delights the soule, but witte the Reason : 
 Witte lasts an age, and beautye but a season : 
 The sense is quickly cloyd with beautye's tast ; 
 ^Vhen witt's delight still quicke and fresh doth last : 
 Beautye, weake eyes with her illusion blindes, 
 Witte conquers spirits and triumphs ouer minds : 
 Deade things haue beautye, onely man hath witte, 
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 The third for Wealth. 
 Wealth is a power that passeth nature farre : 
 Makes euery goose a swanne, and sparke a starre : 
 Queene money, bringes and giues vnlh. royall hands 
 Freinds, kindred, honour, husband, house and lands ; 
 Not a faire face, but fortune faire, I craue, 
 
 Lett mee want witte soe I fooles' fortune haue. 
 
 The fourth for Vertue. 
 Yet those perfections most imperfect bee. 
 If there bee wantinge vertuous modestye ; 
 Vertue's aspect would haue the sweetest grace 
 If wee could see as wee conceaue her face : 
 Vertue guids witte, with well-affected will, 
 Which if witte want, it proues a dangerous ill : 
 Vertue gaines wealth with her good gouerment, 
 If not, sh'is rich, because shee is content.- 
 
 A MAID'S HYMNE IN PRAISE OF 
 VIRGINITY. 
 O ACRED virginity, vnconquered Queene ! 
 
 
 Whose kingdome never hath invaded beene ; 
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 Of whose sweete rosy crowne noe hand hath power 
 Once but to touch, much lesse to plucke a flower : 
 
 Gainst whome proud Love — which on the world doth 
 
 raigne, — 
 With armies of his passions fights in vaine ; 
 In whome gray Winter neuer doth appeare, 
 
 To whome greene Springtide lasteth all the yeare. 
 
 O fresh immortall baye, vntroubled well, 
 Or violett, which vntoucht doest sweetest smell ; 
 Faire vine, which without prop ^ doest safely stand, 
 Pure gold, new coynd, which neuer past a hand. 
 
 O temperance, in the supreame degree 
 And hiyest pitch that vertue's winges can flee : 
 O more then humane spirit, of Angells' kind : 
 O white, unspotted garment of the mind, 
 
 Which first cloathed man, before hee was forlome ; 
 And wherein God Himselfe chose to bee borne. 
 Within my soule, O heavenly vertue rest, 
 
 Untill my soule with heaven it selfe bee blest.* 
 
 •* Miswritten ' drop ' in MS . G. 
 
 * At bottom of this page in the MS. 'Thomas Bakewell ' is 
 scribbled twice. G.
 
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 PART OF AN ELEGIE IN PRAISE OF 
 MARRIAGE. 
 "X 1 THEN the first man from Paradise was driven, 
 
 Hee did from thence his onely comfort beare : 
 Hee still enioyes his wife, which God had giuen, 
 Though hee from other joyes deuorced were. 
 
 This cordiall comfort of societye, 
 
 This trueloue knott, that tyes the heart and will. 
 
 When man was in th' extremest miserye 
 
 To keepe his heart from breaking, existed still ^ 
 
 There is a tale then^ [when] the world beganne, 
 Both sexes in one body did remaine : 
 Till Joue, offended with that double man, 
 Caused Vulcan to diuide him into twayne. 
 
 In this diuision, hee the hart did seuer, 
 But cunningly hee did indent the heart, 
 That if they should be reunited euer. 
 
 Each part might know which was the counterpart : 
 
 * Written • x'ested. ^ Miswritten ' There is a tale then.' G.
 
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 Since when, all men and women thinke it longe, 
 Each of them their other part haue mett : 
 Sometimes the[y] meete y^ right, sometimes y*^ wrong, 
 This discontent, and that doth ioy begett. 
 
 It ioye begetts in there indented harts, 
 When Hke indentures they^ are matcht aright : 
 Each part to other mutuall joy imparts, 
 And thus the man which Vulcan did deuide, 
 
 Is nowe againe by Hymen made entire, 
 And all the ruine is raeedified ; 
 Two beeinge made one by their diuine desire. 
 Sweete marriage is the honny neuer cloyinge ; 
 
 The tune, which being still plaid, doth euer please, 
 The pleasure which is vertue's in inioyinge. 
 It is the band of peace and yoake of ease. 
 It is a yoake, but sweete [and] hght it is ; 
 
 The fellowship doth take away the trouble. 
 For euery griefe is made halfe lesse by this. 
 And euery ioy is by reflection double. 
 
 It is a band, but one of Love's sweete bands, 
 
 '' Miswritten ' ye.' G.'
 
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 Such as hee binds the world's great parts wathall : 
 Whose wonderous frame by there convention stands, 
 But beinge disbanded would to ruine fall.^ 
 
 [A FRAGMENT OF A LOVE ELEGIE.] 
 "O UT those impressions by this forme are staynde, 
 
 and blotted out as if they had not beene : 
 And yet if nothing else in mynde I beare, 
 
 makes me not lesse learn[e]d then before : 
 For that in her as in a merrour cleare, 
 I see and learne far better things and more. 
 
 The students of the world and Natur's booke, 
 
 Beauty and order in the world doe noate ; 
 
 She is my little world ; on her I looke, 
 
 and doe in her the same p'fections quoate : 
 For in her eyes the beames of beauty shine, 
 
 and in her sweete behaviour and her grace, 
 Order apears, and comlines divine, 
 
 Befitting every tyme and every place. 
 
 3- 
 Vnto that sparkling wit, that spirit of fire. 
 
 That pointed diomond looke, that angle's eye 
 
 ® Two preceding arc apparently in the same handwriting with 
 those before them. G.
 
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 Whose lyghtning makes audacity retire 
 
 and yet drawes on respectiue modesty, 
 With wings of feare and loue, my spirit doth fly 
 
 and doth therein a flame of fire resemble ; 
 Which, when it burnes most bright and mounts most 
 high, 
 
 then doth it waver most and most doth tremble. 
 O that my thoughts were words, or could I speake 
 The tongue of Angells, to expresse my mynde : 
 For mortall speach is far too faint and weeke 
 
 to utter passion of so high a kynde. 
 You have a beauty of such life and light 
 
 As it hath power all wandring eyes to stay : 
 
 To move dombe tongues to speake, lame hands to 
 write, 
 
 Stayde thoughts to run, hard harts to melt a way : 
 Yet painters' can of this draw every line 
 
 And every wittles person that hath eyes. 
 Can se[e] and judg and sweare it is divine : 
 For in these outwarde formes all fooles are wise. 
 But that which my admireing spirit doth veiw, 
 I[n] thought whereof it would for ever dwell, 
 Eie never saw, the pensill never drew. 
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 It is the invisible beauty of your mynde, 
 Your cleare immagination, lively witt, 
 So tund, so temp'rd, of such heavenly kind, 
 As all mens spirits ar charmd and rapt with it. 
 This life within begetts your lively looke, 
 As fier doth make all metalls looke like fier ; 
 Or your quicke soule by choise this body tooke, 
 As angells w'^ bright formes themselves attire. 
 O that my brest might ope, and hart might cleave 
 That so you might my silent wondring veiw : 
 O that you might my soreing spirit p'ceive, 
 How still with trembling wings it waites on you. 
 Then should you se[e] of thoughts an endles chaine. 
 Whose links are^ vertues, and yor vertues bee ; 
 Then should you see how your faire forme doth raigne 
 Through all the regions of my fantesie. 
 
 Then should you fynde that I was yours as much 
 As ar your sharpe conceits borowd of none ; 
 Or as your native beautyes, that are such 
 As all the world will sweare it is your owTie. 
 
 4- 
 As they that workc in mines, rich vaines beray, 
 By some few garaines^ of ore whereon the[y] hit : 
 
 3 Miswritten 'y' G. ' Qu : Grains? G.
 
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 And as one letter found is oft a kay 
 To many lines that ar in cipher writt ; 
 So I by your few loveing lines descry 
 Of your long hiden love the golden mine ; 
 And reade therein with a true lover's eye 
 Of the hart's volume, every secrett line. 
 But what availes it now, alas to know 
 That once a blessed man I might haue beene ? 
 Since I haue lett, by lookeing downe too low 
 My highest fortunes sore away vnseene : 
 And yett if I had raisd my humble eyes 
 As high as heauen I could not haue discer[n]d 
 Of invisible thoughts which in your hart did rise, 
 Unles of you I had my lesson learnd. 
 But all was darke and folden v[) to me ; 
 As soon might I my selfe, my selfe haue taught 
 To read y^ blacke records of destiny. 
 As read the ridles of the silent thought : 
 But whereto may I best resemble this ? 
 Your loue was like the springing of a tree : 
 We cannot see the growing when it is. 
 But that it hath sprunge up and growne, we see. 
 Or it is like to wealth by fairyes brought. 
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 But all doth vanish and doth tume to nought, 
 If once a man enricht, those fairyes know : 
 But now your loue (say you) is dead and gone : 
 But my strong faith shall giue it life againe. 
 By strength of fancy miricles are done, 
 And true beleefe doth seldom hope in vaine. 
 Your Phoenix loue is vnto ashes turnd, 
 But now the fier of my affection true, 
 Which long within my hart hath kyndly burnd. 
 Shall spreade such heate as it shall Hue anew. 
 Or if the fyer of your celestiall loue, 
 Be mounted vp to heauen and cannot dye : 
 Another slye Prometheus will I prove, 
 and play the theife to steale it from the skye. 
 When you vouchsaft to love vnworthy me, 
 Your loue discended like a shower of raine ; 
 Which on the earth, euen senceles though she bee, 
 when once it falls, retumeth not againe. 
 Then why should you withdraw the heauenly dew 
 Which fell sometymes on your despairing lover ? 
 Though then his earthly spirit full little knew 
 How good an Angel did about him houcr. 
 O you the glory of your sex and race ! 
 You that all tymes and places hapie make ! 
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 and make men love it better for your sake : 
 One sunbeame yet of favour cast on mee, 
 Let one kinde thought in your cleare fancy rise 
 Loue but a thouglit, or if that may not be 
 Be pleasd that I may love, it shall suffise. 
 
 TO THE Q : [UEENE.] 
 Tl /"HAT Musicke shall we make to you? 
 
 To whome the strings of all men's harts 
 Make musicke of ten thousand parts : 
 In tune and measure true, 
 With straines- and changes new. 
 
 How shall wee fraime a harmony 
 Worthie your eares, whose princely^ hands 
 Keepe harmony in sundry lands : 
 Whose people divers be. 
 In station and degree ? 
 
 Heauen's tunes may onely please, 
 and not such aires as theise. 
 
 - Miswritten 'strainest ' in MS. G. 
 ^ ' heavenly ' written and erased. G.
 
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 For you which downe from heauen are sent 
 Such peace vpon the earth to bring, 
 Haue h[e]ard y^ quire of Angells sing : 
 
 and all the sph seres consent, 
 
 like a sweete instrument. 
 
 How then should theise harsh tunes you ^ heare 
 Created of y^ trubled ayer, 
 breed but distast — when you repaire — 
 to your celestiall eare ? 
 So that this center here 
 for you no musicke fynds, 
 but harmony of mynds. 
 
 L 
 
 [TO FAIRE LADYES.] 
 AD YES of Founthill,^ I am come to seeke 
 My hart amongst you, which I late did leese ; 
 
 *• Spelled here and elsewhere 'yu' It may be noted here, that 
 throughout these Poems, as with the Psalms, my rule has been to 
 extend mere contraction-forms. The few left have a place for philo- 
 logical ends. A kind of flourish at the end of a number of words, I 
 was disposed to regard as intended to represent ' s,' but instances 
 occur in the MS. to show that it is a mere ornamental addition : and 
 so I leave it unrepresented. G. 
 
 * Founthill or Fonthill in Wilts. See Prefatory Note to these 
 hitherto unpublished MSS. G.
 
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 but many harts may be perhaps aUke : 
 Therefore of mine, the proper markes, are theise. 
 It is not hard, though true as Steele it be, 
 And hke y^ diomond, cleare from any spot ; 
 Transmixt with many darts you shall it se[e], 
 but all by vertue, not by Cupid, shot ; 
 It hath no wings, because it needeth none. 
 Being now arived and settled where it would ; 
 Winged desires and hopes from it gon are, 
 but it is full of joyes as it can hold. 
 Faine would I find it where it doth remaine, 
 but would not haue it though I might againe. 
 
 UPON A PAIRE OF GARTERS. 
 ^ O loveinge woode-bynde, clip with louely grace, 
 
 those two sweet plants which beare y^ flowers of loue ; 
 Go silken vines, those tender elmes embrace. 
 Which flourish still, although their roots doe moue. 
 As soone as you possess your blessed places. 
 You are advanced and ennobled more 
 Then dyodemes, which were white silken laces 
 That ancient kings about there forehead wore :
 
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 Sweete bands, take heed lest you vnge[n]tly bynd, 
 Or with your stricktnes make too deepe a print : 
 Was neuer tree had such a tinder rynd, 
 Although her inward hart be hard as flynt ; 
 And let your knots be fast, and loose at will, 
 she must be free, though I stand bounden still. 
 
 [TO HIS LADY-LOVE.] 
 T N this sweete booke, ye treasury of witt, 
 
 All virtues, beautyes, passions, written be : 
 And with such life they are sett forth in it 
 as still methinkes y' which I read I see. 
 But this booke's Mrs. is a liveing booke. 
 Which hath indeed those vertues in her mynde, 
 And in whose face though enve/s selfe do looke, 
 Even envye's eye shall all those beautyes fynd. 
 Onely y*= passions y are printed here, 
 In her calme thoughts can no impression make : 
 She will not love, nor hate, nor hope, nor feare, 
 Though others seeke theise passions for her sake. 
 So in y'= sonne, some say there is no heate 
 though his reflecting beames doe fire begett. 
 
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 [TOBACCO.]'^ 
 T T OMER'' of Moly and Nepenthe singes : 
 
 Moly, the gods most soveraigne hearbe divine. 
 Nepentli Hellen's^ drink, which gladnes brings, — 
 Hart's greife repells, and doth y^ witts refine. 
 But this our age another world hath found, 
 From whence an hearbe of heavenly power is brought : 
 Moly is not soe soveraigne for a wound 
 Nor hath Nepenth[e] so great wonders wrought 
 It is tobacco : whose sweete subtile fume 
 The hellish torment of y^ teeth doth ease, 
 By drawing downe and drieing up y^ rume^ 
 The mother and the nurse of each disease.^ 
 
 * Cf. Harleian MS. lines * Of Tobacco ' in Epigrams pp. 32-35, 
 ante. G. ^ Miswritten ' Honnour.' G. 
 
 ^ Cf. an Epigram ' Of Tobacco,' 36. The first edition thereof in 
 its reading ' Hekens ' is an obvious misprint, probably through 
 Davies' ill writing. The reading here ' Nepen ye Hellens ' in the 
 MS. is a scribe's misreading of ' Nepen/Zie Hellen's ' — he having 
 taken the ending ' the ' for the article. Both point to the true read- 
 ing, 'Nepenthe Helen's drink.' It is impossible that a scholar like 
 Davies could have supposed ' Nepenthe ' to be the drink of the gods, 
 and equally impossible that he could have thought it drink of the 
 Hellenes. G. '•' Rheum. G. 
 
 * The handwriting of the six preceding pieces seems to be the 
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 ELEGIES OF LOUE. 
 T IKE as the diuers-fretchled^ Butter-flye, 
 
 ^Vhen Winter's frost is fallne upon his winge, 
 Hath onely left Hfe's possibiHty, 
 
 and lies halfe dead untill the cherefull Spring : 
 
 But then the Sunne from his all-quickning eye, 
 Darts forth a sparkle of the liuinge fire : 
 Which 2 with kinde heate, doth warme the frozen flye 
 and with newe spirit his little breast inspire : 
 
 Then doth hee lightly rise and spread his winges, 
 And with the'* beames that gaue him life doth playe : 
 Tasts euery flower that on th' earthe's bosoome springs, 
 and is in busye motion all the day : 
 
 See my gaye Muse, which did my heart possesse, 
 And in my youthful fantasie doth raigne : 
 Which cleard my forehead with her cheerefulLnes 
 and gaue a liuely warmth unto my brayne : 
 
 ' =freckled? G. 
 
 ^ Miswritten ' with which.' G. '' Miswritten * they.' G.
 
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 With sadder 5 studye, and with graue conceite 
 Which late my Immagination entertaynd : 
 Beganne to shrinke, and loose her actiue heate, 
 and dead as in a Igethargy remaynd. 
 
 Long in that senseles sleepe congeald shee laye, 
 Untill euen now another heauenly eye, 
 And cleare as that which doth begett the daye, 
 and of a like reviuinge simpathy : 
 
 Did cast into my eyes a subtile beame, 
 Which peirieinge*^ deepe, into my fancy went, 
 And did awake my muse out of her dreame, 
 and unto her new life and vertue lent : 
 
 Soe that shee now begins to raise her eyes 
 Which yett are dazled with her beautye's raye ; 
 And to record her wonted melodyes. 
 
 Although at first shee bee not full so gaye. 
 
 ^ =more serious. See Vol. I., p. i6o, and related Note in Post- 
 script. G. '' Sic: not peircinge. G.
 
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 THE KINGES WELCOMEJ 
 /^ NOWE or never gentle muse be gaye, 
 
 And mount vp higher on thy paper winges, 
 Then doth the larke when he salutes the daye, 
 And to the mome a merrie welcome singes. 
 
 Fly s\Aafter then the egle sent by art 
 
 From Noremberg, to the Almaine emperour : 
 
 A hand lesse cuning, but as true a hart 
 
 Sends thee to a prince of greater worth and power. 
 
 Rencounter him thowe shalt vpon the waye, 
 like Phebus midst of all his golden trayne ; 
 And knowe him too thou shalt at first suruaye 
 By proper notes and by distinctions plaine. 
 
 By his faire outward formes and princely port, 
 by honours done to him wth capp and knee ; 
 He is decyphred by the vulgar sorte, 
 but truer caracters will rise to the[e]. 
 
 7 From the autograph MS. in All Souls' College, Oxford, MS. 
 155. W. W, 11, 26, fol. 72, a and /•. The contractions of the MS. 
 have been expanded, but u and v are reproduced. This full hob-
 
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 Thy sight had once an influence devine. 
 which gave it power the soule of man to viewe ; 
 wipe and make cleane that dazeled eye of thine, 
 and thowe shall see his reall markes and true. 
 
 Looke ouer all that divers troope, and finde 
 whoe hath his spirites most Jouiall and free, 
 whose bodie is best tempred, and whose minde 
 Is ever best in tune, and that is hee. 
 
 See who it is whose actions doe bewraye 
 that threefold power, which rarely mixt we see ; 
 A iudgment graue, and yet a fancie gaye, 
 Joynd with a ritch remembrance, that is hee. 
 
 Marke who it is, that hath all noble skill, 
 which maye to publique good referred bee ; 
 the quickest witt, and best affected will, 
 whence flowes a streame of vertues, that is hee 
 
 graph of 'The Kinge's Welcome,' while it supersedes the short and 
 imperfect copy from Dr. Laing's MS. — as first printed in our F. W. 
 L. edition — confirms the authorship thereof. The abbreviated copy is 
 also given after this one, as it is expedient to .reproduce the MS. in 
 lits integrity. G.
 
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 If any more then other clearely wise 
 or wisely iust or iustly valiant be ; 
 If any doe fainte pleasures more despise, 
 or be more maister of himselfe, 'tis hee 
 
 But soft, thie Egletes eye will soone be dym 
 
 If thou this rising sunne directly viewe ; 
 
 looke syde waies on the beames that spread from him ; 
 
 faire peace, rich plentie, and religion true 
 
 Besides a guard of blessed angells houer 
 about his sacred person, day and night ; 
 and with invisible winges his head doe cover, 
 that dangers dartes thereon may never light 
 
 when by these proper notes thowe shalt him ken, 
 fly towardes him with winges of love and feare ; 
 like fire which most doth wane and tremble then 
 when it doth mount most high and burne most cleare. 
 
 Yet on ; for wingM time with the[e] goes on, 
 which like old ^'son hatli liis youth renewd ; 
 his hower glase turned and his sickle gone, 
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 On, for the braue yong sonn aboue his head 
 Conies Northward, that he may his glorie meete ; 
 whilest the fresh earth in all her pride doth spread 
 greene veluit carpettes vnderneath his feete. 
 
 On, for thee birds will help to fill thie songe, 
 whereto all english harte stringes doe agree ; 
 And the Irish harpe stringes, that did iarre soe long 
 to make the musicke full, nowe tuned be. 
 
 There is noe eye cast downe, there is noe voice 
 that to pronounce the harte assent, is dombe ; 
 the world of thinges doth everie where reioyce, 
 in certaine hope of blessed times to come 
 
 Thousandes while they possesse and fill the waies 
 doth both desire, and hinder his repaire ; 
 they fill the emptie heaven with praier and praise, 
 which he requites with demonstrations faire. 
 
 Then what hast thowe to doe, and what remaines ? 
 praie as the people doth, and add but this 
 This Httle wish ; that whiles he lives and raignes, 
 he maye be still the same, that nowe he is. 
 
 John Dauis.
 
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 TO THE KINGE 
 
 UPON HIS Ma'tIES first COMMING into ENGLAND. 
 
 O now or neuer, gentle Muse, be gaye : 
 And mount up higher with thy paper winges, 
 Than doth the larke when hee sallutes the daye, 
 And to the morne a merry wellcome singes. 
 
 Thou must goe meete King James, upon the way 
 Advanceing Southward, with his golden trayne ; 
 And know him too thou maist at first survaye, 
 by proper noates and by distinctions plaine. 
 
 By his faire outward formes, and princely port. 
 By honour done to him with cap and knee, 
 Hee is distinguist to the vulgar sort : 
 but truer characters will rise to thee. 
 
 Thy sight had once an influence divine, 
 Which gaue it power the Soule of man to vew : 
 Wipe and make cleare that dazled eye of thine, 
 and thou shalt see his reall markes and true.
 
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 Looke over all that divers troope, and finde 
 Who hath his spirits most joviall and free ; 
 Whose body is best tempred, and whose mind 
 is ever best in tune ; and that is he. 
 
 See who it is, whose actions doe bewraye 
 That threefold power, which rarely mixt wee see ; 
 A judgment grave, and yett a fancy gaye 
 joynd with a rich remembrance. That is hee. 
 
 Marke who it is, that hath all noble skill, 
 Which may to publicke good referred bee : 
 The sharpest witte and best affected will, 
 
 whence floes a streame of vertues, That is hee. 
 
 If any more than other clearely wise, 
 Or wisely just, or justly valiant bee ; 
 If any doe faint pleasure more dispise 
 or bee more maister of himselfe, its hee. 
 
 But soft, thine eagle's eye will soone bee dim, 
 If thou this risinge sonne directly vewe : 
 Looke sidewayes on the beames that spread from him,' 
 Faire peace, with Plenty, and Religion true. 
 
 ^ Miswritten ' them.' G.
 
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 With that strong g'ard of Angells which doe houer 
 About his sacred person, daye and night : 
 And with invissible winges his head doe cover, 
 that danger's darts thereon may neuer light. 
 
 Now on, for winged Time with thee goes on, 
 Which like old ^son hath his youth renewed. 
 His hower glasse turnd, and his sickle gon, 
 and all his graye and broken feathers mewd. 
 
 On, for the brave young sonne above his head 
 Comes North ward, that hee may his glory meete ; 
 While the fresh Earth in all her pride doth spread, 
 greene velvett carpetts underneath his feete. 
 
 On, for the birdes will helpe to fill the songe, 
 Whereto all English hartstringes will agree : 
 An' th' Irish harpstringes that have jarrd soe longe, 
 to make the Musicke full, now tuned bee. 
 
 There is noe eye cast dowTie, there is no voyce 
 Which to expresse the harts assent, is dumbe : 
 The world of thinges doth every where rejoyce 
 In certaine hope of blessed times to come.
 
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 While thousands doe posses and fill the wayes, 
 The[y] both desire and hinder his repaire ; 
 They fill the emptie aire with prayer and praise, 
 which hee requitts with demonstrations faire. 
 
 TO THE QUEENE AT THE SAME TIME. 
 T F wee in peace had not received the kinge 
 
 Wee see wee had beene conquered, since wee see 
 The Queene such armyes doth of beauties bringe 
 
 As all our eyes and hearts her vassals bee. 
 
 The Danish armyes once great honnour wonne 
 Upon this Land ; yett conquered but a part. 
 But you greate Lady more, alone, haue done ; 
 For at first sight you conquer'd every heart. 
 
 Starre of the North ! upon these Northeme Realmes 
 Long may your vertues and your beauties raigne : 
 Beyond our Cinthiae's yeares, whose golden Beames 
 
 Ar[e] sett with vs, and cannot shine againe : 
 Well may it bee ; though sunne and moone goe downe 
 
 Seas haue noe power the North pole starre to drowne.^ 
 
 ^ The allusion is to the storm on her voyage to Scotland in 1 590. 
 Cf. Constable's Sonnet to the King of Scots. See our Memorial- 
 Introduction on these Lines. G.
 
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 MIRA LOQUOR SOL OCCUBUIT NOX NULLA 
 
 SECUTA EST. 
 T) Y that Eclipse which darkned our AppoUo, 
 
 Our sunne did sett, and yett noe night did follow ; 
 For his successor's vertues shone soe bright, 
 As they continued still, there former light ; \their\ 
 And gaue the world a farther expectation 
 To adde a greater splendor to our Nation. 
 
 CHARLES HIS WAINE. 
 T) RITTAINE doth vnder those bright starres remaine. 
 Which English Shepheards, Charles his waine, doe 
 name ; 
 But more this He is Charles, his waine, 
 Since Charles her royall wagoner became. 
 For Charles, which now in Arthure's seate doth raigne. 
 Is our Arcturus, and doth guide the waine.
 
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 OF THE NAME OF CHAROLUS, BEING THE 
 
 DIMINATIVE OF CHARUS. 
 'T^HE name of Charles, darlinge signifies : 
 
 A nanie most fitte, for hee was ever such. 
 Neuer was Prince soe deare in all mens eyes. 
 Soe highly valued or esteemed soe much : 
 Edgar was England's darlinge, once wee find, 
 But Charles the Darlinge is of all mankind. 
 
 VERSES SENT TO THE KINGE WITH FIGGES 
 
 BY S-: JOHN DAVIS. 
 'T'O add unto the first man's happiness, 
 
 His maker did for him a garden make ; 
 And placd him there, that hee the same might dresse, 
 And pleasure great with little labour take. 
 And this \vith nature stands, and reason right, 
 That man who first was formed of the earth 
 In trimminge of the earth should take delight, 
 And her adome from whom hee tooke his birth. 
 Nor her for this doth hee ungratefuU finde ; 
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 The Earth in gardens is a mother kinde, 
 
 When shee is but a steepdame in the feild. 
 
 Sir, in your service God hath mee soe blest 
 
 As I haue beene enabled to acquire 
 
 A garden, ready planted, trimd and drest, 
 
 WTiereto in vacant times I doe retire. 
 
 This garden, and the fruite thereof, indeede 
 
 Are fruites of your great favour unto mee ; 
 
 And therefore all the fruites which thence proceed 
 
 A proper offeringe to your Highnes bee : 
 But if this verse or boldness, meritt blame. 
 Those figge leaues, S"; I hope shall hide the same.^ 
 
 [LOVE-LINES.] 
 O TAY lovely boy ! why flyest thou mee 
 
 that languish in theis flames for thee .'* 
 I'me black 'tis true — why so is night, 
 yet louers in darke shades delight : 
 the whole World, doe but close thyne eye 
 will appeare as black as I ; 
 or open'd, view but what a shade 
 is by thyne owne fayre body made, 
 
 ' The six preceding pieces and the 'Elegiecall Epistle' are in the 
 same handwriting with the ' Maid's hymne in praise of Virginity.' G.
 
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 that follows thee where ere thou goe 
 Ah, who allow'd would not doe so? 
 lett mee for euer dwell so nigh, 
 and thou shalt need no shade but I. 
 
 [LOVE-FLIGHT.] 
 "D LACK Mayel, complayne not y' I flye, 
 
 since fate commaunds antipathy : 
 prodigious must y^ vnion proue, 
 where day and night togeather moue : 
 and the commotion of our lipps 
 not kisses make but an eclipps ; 
 where the commixed blacke and white 
 portend more terrour then delight : 
 yet if thou wilt my shaddow bee, 
 enioy thy deerest wish, but see 
 that like my shaddow's property 
 thou hast away as I come nye : 
 els[e] stay till death hath blinded mee 
 then rie bequeath my selfe to thee.^ 
 
 ^ These two are in a new and apparently less-trained handwrit- 
 ing. G. '•-<€ »•' 
 
 •> t*
 
 HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED POEMS. 241 
 
 AN ELEGIECALL EPISTLE ON SIR JOHN 
 DAVIS DEATH. 
 IV /[ ORGAN ! to call thee sadd and discontente 
 
 Wtxe to proclaime thee weake ; t^\'ere an evente 
 Of more then folly, since the obscurest eye 
 Is witness of thy magnanimity : 
 And yett to tell thee that thou hast noe cause 
 To greife, were to belye thy worth, because 
 The gapinge wound speakes out the sovldiers fame, 
 And deepe despites giue fortitude a name. 
 Tis true hee's dead, and the sterne fates (accurst) 
 There browes haue wrinkled, and haue done their 
 
 worst 
 To spite this State and thee, in tearinge hence 
 That Nature's Accademy, that Starre, from whence 
 Streamd such full influence, of what the mind 
 Accounteth quintisentiall ; and the vnkinde 
 And cruell Death, hath blasted such a flower, 
 Stolne such a gemme, as makes the sad Earth poore. 
 And yett alasse^ hee is not fledd for want 
 Of what could make the ambitious, proud soule vaunt : 
 
 ' This use of ' alas ' was common contemporaneously, and 
 especially by the Puritan divines. G. 
 
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 For whilst hee liVd hee brocke up Honour's gates, 
 
 And pluck't bright fame from snarHng Envie's grates 
 
 Doomd to obUuion ; and his unmatched penne 
 
 (Drop'd from the winge of some bright Seraphin) 
 
 Inculpates him thus to all eternitye 
 
 The eldest of the Muses proginie. 
 
 Said I hee's dead ? not soe ; he could not die, 
 
 But findinge that curst lucre, bribery 
 
 And puft* ambition were the Scarlett crimes 
 
 Of the Tribunall's tenants, and the times 
 
 Not suitinge with his vertues, cause his manner 
 
 Was to deserue and not desire, an honour ; 
 
 Hee's sor'd aloft, where nought but virtue's pris'd. 
 
 And where base Mammon is not idoliz'd : 
 
 To that Kinge's Bench where Justice is not gould, 
 
 Nor honours with old Ladies bought and sould j 
 
 To heauen's Exchequer, with intent to paye. 
 
 And render thence the Royall subsidaye 
 
 Of his rich spirit, which his soueraigne tooke 
 
 Without subscription, and crost Nature's booke. 
 
 * I am not quite certain as to this word. It may be 'pust': 
 query from pus = poisonous matter ? and so intended to character- 
 ize ambition? G.
 
 IX. ENTERTAINMENT OF 
 
 QUEEN ELIZABETH AT HAREFIELD BY 
 
 COUNTESSE OF DERBY.
 
 NOTE. 
 
 This * Entertainment ' has the additional interest of having 
 been that wherein "The Lottery" (pp. 87-95), was intro- 
 duced. The reasons for our giving the whole to Davies, we 
 have stated in the Memorial- Introduction (II. Critical: 
 Minor Poems). Our text is from Nichols' Progresses of Q. 
 Elizabeth, Vol. III., pp. 586-94. G.
 
 245 
 
 Entertainment of Q. Elisabeth at 
 Harefield by Countesse of Derby. 
 
 A FTER the Queene entered (out of the high way) 
 into the Deamesne grounde of Harefielde, near 
 the Dayrie howse, she was mett with 2 persons, the one 
 representing a Bayliffe, the other a Dayrie-Maide, 
 with the Speech. Her Majesty, being on horsebacke, 
 stayed under a tree (because it rayned) to heare it. 
 
 B. Why, how now, Joane ! are you heere ? Gods 
 my life, what make you heere, gaddinge and gazinge 
 after tliis manner ? You come to buy gape-seede,^ doe 
 you ? Wherefore come you abroade now I' faith can 
 you tell ? 
 
 jFoa. I come abroade to welcome these Strangers. 
 
 B. Strangers ? how knew you there would come 
 Strangers ? 
 
 ' A pun on the open mouth of wonder and curiosity. G.
 
 246 Q. ELIZABETH AT HAREFIELD. 
 
 yo. All this night I could not sleepe, dreaming of 
 greene rushes \ and yesternight the chatting of the pyes, 
 and the chirkinge^ of the frisketts^ did foretell as much ; 
 and, besides that, all this day my lefte eare glowed,^ and 
 that is to me (let them all say what they wil) allwaies a 
 signe of Strangers, if it be in the Summer ; marye, if it 
 be in the Winter, tis a signe of anger. But what make 
 you in this company, I pray you ? 
 
 B. I make the way for these Strangers, which the 
 Way-maker himself could not doe ; for it is a way was 
 never passed before. Besides, the Mrs. of this faire 
 company, though she know the way to all men's harts, 
 yet she knowes the way but to few men's howses, ex- 
 cept she love them very well, I can tell you ; and there- 
 fore I myselfe, without any comission, have taken upon 
 me to conduct them to the house. 
 
 yo. The house ? which house ? doe you remember 
 yourselfe ? which way goe you ? 
 
 B. I goe this way, on the right hand. Which way 
 should I goe ? 
 
 yo. You say true, and you're a trim man ; but I' 
 faith I'll talke noe more to you, except you ware wyser. 
 
 - Imitative word, as the ' chirr ' of the grasshopper. G. 
 
 3 An unrecorded word. G. " Folk-lore, as in Herrick, &c. G.
 
 Q. ELIZABETH AT HARE FIELD. 247 
 
 I pray you hartely, 'forsooth, come neare the house, and 
 take a simple lodginge with vs to-night ; for I can as- 
 suere you that yonder house that he talks of is but a 
 Pigeon-house, which is very little if it were finisht, and 
 yet very little of it is finisht And you will believe 
 me, vpon my life. Lady, I saw Carpenters and Brick- 
 layers and other Workmen about it within less than 
 these two howers. Besides, I doubt my Mr. and Mrs. 
 are not at home ; or, if they be, you must make your 
 o^\^le provision ; for they have noe provision for such 
 Strangers. You should seeme to be Ladies ; and we in 
 the country have an old saying, that " halfe a pease a 
 day will serve a Lady." I know not what you are, 
 nether am I acquainted with your dyet; but, if you 
 will goe with me, you shall haue cheare for a Lady : for 
 first you shall haue a dayntie sillibub ; next a messe of 
 clowted creame ; stroakings,^ in good faith, redd cowes 
 milk, and they say in London that's restorative : you 
 shall have greene cheeses and creame. (I'll speake a 
 bould word) if the Queene herself (God save her Grace) 
 [were here] she might be scene to eat of it. Wee will 
 not greatly bragge of our possets, but we would be 
 loath to leame to praise : and if you louc frute, for- 
 
 ' =the last milk drawn from a cow in milking : same as strip- 
 pings. G.
 
 248 Q. ELIZABETH AT HAREFIELD. 
 
 sooth, wee haue jenitings,*' paremayns/ russet coates,^ 
 pippines, able-johns,^ and perhaps apareplum/^ a dam- 
 sone, I or an apricocke^ too, but that they are noe 
 dainties this yeare ; and therefore, I pray, come neare 
 the house, and wellcome heartily, doe soe. 
 
 B. Goe to, gossip ; your tongue must be running. 
 If my Mrs. should heare of this, I' faith shea would give 
 you little thankes I can tell you, for offeringe to draw 
 so faire a flight from her Pigeon-house (as you call it) 
 to your Dayrie-house. 
 
 "yo. Wisely, wisely, brother Richard ; I' faith as I 
 would vse the matter, I dare say shee would giue me 
 great thankes : for you know my Mrs. charged me 
 earnestly to retaine all idele hearvest-folkes that past 
 this way ; and my meaning was, that, if I could hold 
 them all this night and to-morrow, on Monday morn- 
 ing to carry them into the fields ; and to make them 
 earne their entertaynment well and thriftily; and to 
 that end I have heere a Rake and Forke, to deliver to 
 the best Huswife in all this company. 
 
 B. Doe soe then : deliver them to the best Hus- 
 
 "= rennets — a kind of apple ? G. '= another kind of apple: 
 
 see Gerard's Herbal, p. 1459 (1636 edn.) G. ^ A species of apple 
 like ' rennets.' G. ^=z apple-johns, as in i, Henry IV., iii. 3 : 2, 
 Henry IV., ii. 4 fZiwj. G. i" Query, a peach? See Gerard, as 
 before, (p. 1447). Perse-boom is given as the Low-Dutch name of 
 the peach. G. ^= Apricot. G.
 
 Q. ELIZABETH AT HAREFIELD. 249 
 
 wife in all this company : for wee shall haue as much 
 vse of her paines and patience there as here. As for 
 the dainties that you talke of, if you have any such, you 
 shall doe well to send them ; and as for these strangers, 
 sett thy hart at rest, Joane ; they will not rest with 
 [thee] this night, but vdW passe on to my Mr[s.] house. 
 
 J^oa. Then, I pray, take this Rake and Forke with 
 you ; but I am ashamed, and woe at my hart, you 
 should goe away soe late. And I pray God you repent 
 you not, and wish yourselves here againe, when you 
 finde you haue gone further and fared worsse. 
 
 When her Maiestie was alighted from her horse, and 
 ascended 3 steeps neare to the entering into the house, 
 a carpet and chaire there sett for her; Place and Time 
 present themselves, and vsed this Dialogue : 
 
 Place in a partie-colored roabe, like the brick house. 
 
 Time with yeollow haire, and in a green roabe, with a 
 hower glasse, stopped, not runninge. 
 
 P. Wellcome, good Time. 
 
 T. Godden, my little pretie priuat Place. 
 
 P. Farewell, godbwy Time ; are you not gone? doe 
 you stay heere ? I wonder that Time should stay any 
 where ; what's the cause ? 
 
 T. If thou knewest the cause, thou wouldst not 
 wonder ; for I stay to entertaine the Wonder of this
 
 250 Q. ELIZABETH AT HARE FIELD. 
 
 time ; wherein I would pray thee to ioyne mee, if thou 
 wert not too little for her greatnes ; for it weare as great 
 a meracle for thee to receive her, as to see the Ocean 
 shut up in a Httle creeke, or the circumference shrinke 
 vnto the pointe of the center. 
 
 F. Too little ! by that reason shee should rest in 
 noQ place, {or no place \s great ynough to receive her. 
 Too little ! I haue all this day entertayned the Sunn, 
 which, you knowe, is a great and glorious Guest ; hee's 
 but euen now gone downe yonder hill ; and now he is 
 gone, methinks, if Cinthia her selfe would come in his 
 place, the place that contaynde him should not be to 
 little to receave her. 
 
 T. You say true, and I like your comparison ; for 
 the Guest that wee are to entertaine doth fill all places 
 with her divine vertues, as the Sunn fills the World with 
 the light of his beames. But say, poore Place, in what 
 manner didst thou entertaine the Sunn ? 
 
 P. I received his glory, and was fiU'd with it : but 
 I must confesse, not according to the proportion of his 
 greatnes, but according to the measure of my capacitie ; 
 his bright face (methought) was all day turned vpon 
 mee; nevertheless his beames in infinite abundance 
 weere disperst and spread vpon other places. 
 
 T. Well, well ; this is noe time for vs to entertaine
 
 Q. ELIZABETH AT HAREFIELD. 251 
 
 one another, when wee should ioine to entertaine her. 
 Our entertaynment of this Goddesse will be much 
 alike ; for though her selfe shall eclipse her soe much, 
 as to suffer her brightnes to bee shadowed in this ob- 
 scuere and narrow Flace, yet the sunne beames that 
 follow her, the traine I meane that attends vpon her, 
 must, by the necessitie of this Place, be deuided from 
 her. Are you ready, Flace ? Time is ready. 
 
 P. Soe it should seeme, indeed, you are so gaye, 
 fresh, and cheerfull. You are the present Time, are 
 you not ? then what neede you make such haste ? Let 
 me see, your wings are dipt, and, for ought I see, your 
 hower-glasse runnes not. 
 
 T. My wings are dipt indeed, and it is her hands 
 hath dipt them : and, tis true, my glasse runnes not : 
 indeed it hath bine stopt a longe time, it can never 
 rune as long as I waite upon this Mris. I [am] her 
 Time ; and Time weare very vngratefull, if it should not 
 euer stand still, to serue and preserue, cherish and de- 
 light her, that is the glory of her time, and makes the 
 Time happy wherein she liueth. 
 
 P. And doth not she make Place happy as well as 
 Time 1 What if she make thee a contynewall holy-day, 
 she makes me a perpetuall sanctuary. Doth not the 
 presence of a Prince make a Cottage a Court, and the
 
 252 Q. ELIZABETH AT HAREFIELD. 
 
 presence of the Gods make euery place Heauen ? But, 
 alas, my littlenes is not capable of that happines that 
 her great grace would impart vnto me : but, weare I as 
 large as there harts that are mine Owners, I should be 
 the fairest Pallace in the world ; and weere I agreeable 
 to the wishes of there hartes, I should in some measure 
 resemble her sacred selfe, and be in the outward frount 
 exceeding faire, and in the inward furniture exceeding 
 rich. 
 
 T. In good time do you remember the hearts of 
 your Owners \ for, as I was passing to this place, I 
 found this Hart^^ which, as my daughter Truth tould 
 mee, was stolne by owne^ of the Nymphes from one 
 of the seruants of this Goddesse \ but her guiltie con- 
 science enforming her that it did belong only of right 
 vnto her that is Mrs. of all harts in the world, she cast 
 [it] from her for this time; and Oportunity, finding it 
 delivered it vnto me. Heere, Place, take it thou, and 
 present it vnto her as a pledge and mirror of their harts 
 that owe thee. 
 
 P. It is a mirror indeed, for so it is transparent. It 
 is a cleare hart, you may see through it. It hath noe 
 close comers, noe darkenes, noe unbutifuU spott in it. 
 
 * A Diamond. ^ = one. G.
 
 Q. ELIZABETH AT HAREFIELD. 253 
 
 I will therefore presume the more boldly to deliver it ; 
 with this assurance, that Time, Place, Persons, and all 
 other circumstances, doe concurre alltogether in bid- 
 dinge her wellcome. 
 
 The humble Petition of a guiltlesse Lady, delivered in 
 writing vpon Munday Mornifige, when the [robe] of rain- 
 bowes wcLs presented to the Q. by the La. Walsingham. 
 
 Beauties rose, and vertues booke, 
 Angells minde, and Angells looke, 
 
 To all Saints and Angells deare. 
 Clearest Maiestie on earth, 
 Heauen did smile at your faire birth, 
 
 And since, your daies have been most cleare. 
 
 Only poore St. Staythen now 
 
 Doth heare you blame his cloudy brow : 
 
 But that poore St. deuoutly sweares. 
 It is but a tradition vaine 
 That his much weeping causeth raine, 
 
 For S" in heauen shedd no teares : 
 
 But this he saith, that to his feast 
 Commeth Iris, an vnbidden guest, 
 In her moist roabe of coUers gay ;
 
 254 Q- ELIZABETH AT HAREFIELD. 
 
 And she cometh, she ever staies, 
 For the space of fortie daies, 
 
 And more or lesse raines euery day. 
 
 But the good St., when once he knew, 
 This raine was Uke to fall on you, 
 
 If S'^ could weepe, he had wept as much 
 As when he did the Lady leade 
 That did on burning iron tread : 
 
 To Ladies his respect is such. 
 
 He gently first bids Iris goe 
 Unto the Antipodes below, 
 
 But shee for that more sullen grew. 
 WTien he saw that, with angry looke. 
 From her her rayneie roabes he tooke. 
 
 Which heere he doth present to you. 
 
 It is fitt it should with you remaine. 
 For you know better how to raine. 
 
 Yet if it raine still as before, 
 St Swythen praies that you would guesse. 
 That Iris doth more robes possesse. 
 
 And that you should blame him no more.
 
 Q. ELIZABETH AT HAREFIELD. 255 
 
 At her Maiesties departure from Harefield, Place, 
 attyred in black mouringe aparell, vsed this farewell 
 follovvinge : 
 
 F. Sweet Maiestie, be pleased to looke vpon a 
 poore Wydow, mourning before your Grace. I am this 
 Place, which at your comming was full of ioy ; but now 
 at your departure am as full of sorrow. I was then, for 
 my comfort, accompanied with the present cheerful 
 Time ; but now he is to depart with you ; and, blessed 
 as he is, must euer fly before you : But, alas ! I haue 
 no wings, as Time hath. My heauiness is such, that I 
 must stand still, amazed to see so greate happines so 
 sone bereft mee. Oh, that I could remoue with you, as 
 other circumstances can ! Time can goe with you, 
 Persons can goe with you ; they can moue like Heaven ; 
 but I, like dull Earth (as I am indeed) must stand vn- 
 mouable. I could ^vish my selfe like the inchanted 
 Castle of Loue, to hould you heere for euer, but that 
 your vertues would dissolue all my inchauntments. 
 Then what remedy ? As it is against the nature of an 
 Angell to be circumscribed in Place, so it is against the 
 nature of Place to haue the motion of an Angell. I 
 must stay forsaken and desolate. You may goe with 
 maiestie, joy, and glory. My only suyte, before you 
 goe, is that you will pardon the close imprisonment
 
 256 Q. ELIZABETH AT HAREFIELD. 
 
 which you haue suffred euer since your comminge, im- 
 putinge it not to mee, but St. Swythen, who of late hath 
 raysed soe many stormes, as I was faine to prouide this 
 Anchor,^ for you, when I did vnderstand you would put 
 into this creeke. But now, since I perceaue this har- 
 bour is too little for you, and you will hoyse sayle and 
 be gone, I beseech you take this Anchor with you. And 
 I pray to Him that made both Time and Place, that, in 
 all places where euer you shall arriue, you may anchor 
 as safly, as you doe and euer shall doe in the harts of 
 my OwTiers. 
 
 THE COMPLAINT OF THE V SATYRES 
 AGAINST THE NYMPHS. 
 Tell me, O Nymphes, why do you 
 Shune vs that your loues pursue ? 
 What doe the Satyres notes retaine 
 That should merite your disdaine ? 
 
 On our browes if homes doe growe, 
 Was not Bacchus armed soe ? 
 Yet of him the Candian maid 
 Held no scome, nor was affraid. 
 
 ■• A Jewell.
 
 Q. ELIZABETH AT HAREFIELD. 257 
 
 Say our colours tawny bee, 
 Phoebus was not faire to see ; 
 Yet faire Clymen^ did not shunn 
 To bee Mother of his Sonne. 
 
 If our beards be rough and long, 
 Soe had Hercules the strong : 
 Yet Deianier,2 with many a kisse, 
 Joyn'd her tender lipps to his. 
 
 If our bodies hayry bee, 
 Mars as rugged was as wee : 
 Yet did Ilia^ think her grac'd, 
 For to be by Mars imbrac'd. 
 
 Say our feet ill-fauored are. 
 Cripples leggs are worse by farre : 
 Yet faire Venus, during life, 
 Was the lymping Vulcan's wife. 
 
 Breefly, if by nature we 
 But imperfect creatures be ; 
 Thinke not our defects so much, 
 Since Celestial Powers be such. 
 
 ' Clymene. G. ^ Deianeira, daughter of Oeneus. G. 
 
 ^ Mother of Romulus. G.
 
 258 Q. ELIZABETH AT HAREFIELD. 
 
 But you Nymphes, whose veniall loue 
 Loue of gold alone doth moue, 
 Though you scome vs, yet for gold 
 Your base loue is bought and sold. 
 
 finis.
 
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 A very few ' slips ' have met my eyes on a final reading. They 
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 may put them right, and any others that may have escaped Editor 
 and Printer. In Nosce Teipsum, the heading and head-line (Vol. I., pp. 
 25, 26 onward) has 'Immortalitie' misprinted ' Immortalite ' — a com- 
 mon contemporary spelling — but it is ' tie ' in the title-page (p. 5) : 
 il: p. 80, 1. 15, read ' be best.' In Hymnes to Asiraea, ih. p. 147, 1. 3, 
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 53, 1. 7, read ' perfect-cunning ' : p. 185, foot-note 7, put G. at end : 
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