Still to seeme good, would evermore dispence
With their owne faults, so they gave no offence.
If the times sweete entising, and the blood

That now begins to boyle, have thought it good
To challenge Liberty and Recreation,
Let it be done in holy contemplation :
Brothers and Sisters in the feilds may walke,
Beginning of the Holy Worde to talke,
Of David, and Uriahs lovely wife,

Of Thamar, and her lustfull brothers strife;
Then, underneath the hedge that woos them next,
They may sitt downe, and there act out the text.
Nor do wee want, how ere wee live austeere,
In winter Sabbath-nights our lusty cheere;
And though the pastors grace, which oft doth hold
Halfe an howre long, make the provision cold,
Wee can be merry; thinking 't nere the worse
To mend the matter at the second course.

Chapters are read, and hymnes are sweetly sung,

Joyntly commanded by the nose and tongue;

Then on the Worde wee diversly dilate, Wrangling indeed for heat of zeale, not hate: When at the length an unappeased doubt

Feircely comes in, and then the light goes out; Darkness thus workes our peace, and wee containe

Our fyery spiritts till we, see againe.

Till then, no voice is heard, no tongue doth goe, Except a tender Sister shreike, or so.

Such should be our delights, grave and demure,
Not so abominable, not so impure,

As those thou seek'st to hinder, but I feare
Satan will bee too strong; his kingdome's here:

Few are the righteous now, nor do I know
How wee shall ere this idoll overthrow;

Since our sincerest patron is deceas't,

The number of the righteous is decreast.

But wee do hope these times will on, and breed

A faction mighty for us; for indeede

Wee labour all, and every Sister joynes

To have regenerate babes spring from our loynes : Besides, what many carefully have done,

t

Getting the unrighteous man, a righteous sonne.
Then stoutly on, let not thy flocke range lewdly
In their old vanity, thou lampe of Bewdly.
One thing I pray thee; do not too much thirst
After Idolatryes last fall; but first

Follow this suite more close, let it not goe

Till it be thine as thou would'st have 't: for soe Thy successors, upon the same entayle,

Hereafter, may take up the Whitson-ale.

ANNE,

WIFE OF JAMES THE FIRST,

Daughter of Frederick the Second, king of Denmark, died of a dropsy the 2d of March 1619.

On the 18th of November 1618, a comet (as alluded to in a foregoing poem) was seen in Libra, which continued visible till the 16th of December; and the vulgar, who think

Nunquam futilibus excanduit ignibus æther,

considered it indicative of great misfortunes; and the death of the queen which closely followed, the first object of its portentous mission.

"The queen was in her great condition," says Wilson, 66 a good woman, not tempted from that height she stood on to embroyl her spirit much with things below her, only giving herself content

in her own house with such recreations as might not make time tedious unto her; and though great persons' actions are often pried into, and made envy's mark, yet nothing could be fixed upon her that left any great impression, but that she may have engraven upon her monument a character of virtue.”