impressions on him then an Arrow on a rock of Adamant More impure then the stable of Augaeus H. C As pensive as the night You as cruell as the Duke of Muscovia named Basilides who commanded from his subjects a tribute of Sweat and of Nightingals in the midst of Winter H Court If thou be as hot as the mount Aetna feign thy self as cold as the hill Caucasus carry two faces in one hood As ingenious Cicero could pick gold out of Ennius's dung so may His Fetters like King Agrippa's golden chain more became him then his Imperiall Dâ—adem Ka meka thee As liberall as the Sun which shines on all like Aesops Crow prankt up in borrowed feathers Descriptions HE was even ravished with contentment in beholding thâ—se goodly Pâ—â—aces where was seen an admirable Consort of Art and Nature so many Hâ—lls so well furnished within such rich hangings such most exquisite pictâ—â—es such marbles such guildings and without mountains which make a naturall Theater tapistred without Art to surpasse all workmanship forrests which seem born with the world hedges and knots curiously cut Alleys and Mazes where both eys and feet are lost Rivers which creep along with silver purlings about gardens enameld with most fragrant flowers caverns replenished with a sacred horror grotts and fountains which gently gliding contend with the warble of birds and so many other spectacles which at first sight astonisht spirits and never satiate H.C. There were Hills which garnished their proud heights with treeâ—s humble valleys whose low estate seemed comforted with refreshing of silver rivers meadows eâ—ameld with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers thickets which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so too by the cheerfull disposition of many well-tuned birds each pasture stored wâ—th sheep feeding with sober security while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dams comfort Here a Shepheards Boy piping as though he should never be old there a young Sheâ—â—â—â—rdesse knitting and withall singing and her hands kept time to her voyces musick a shew as it were of an accompaniable solitariness and of a civill wildeness Neither are the gardens to be omitted which for their largeness have the face of a forrest for their variety of a Paradise Here Cypres Groves there walks with Statues Here a Sea of fountains there Swans Ostriâ—hes and other recreative creatures Mer. Ital. It is a place which now humbling it self in fallowed plains â—ow prouâ— in wel-husbanded hils marries barren woods to cultivated valleys and joyns neat gardens to delicious fountains c. Death DEath is that inconsiderable atome of time that divides the body from the soul c. Scaliger defines Death to be the Cessation of the souls functions When Hadrian asked Secundus what Death was he answered in these severall truths It is a sleep eternall the bodies dissolution the rich mans fear the poor mans wish an event inevitable an uncertain journey a thief that steals away man sleeps father lifes flight the departure of the living and the resolution of all Feltham Death had no sooner absented him from her eyes but forgetfulness drew him out of her heart When we once come in sight of the port of Death to which all winds drive us and when by letting fall that fatall Anchor which can never be weighed again the Navigation of this life takes end Then it is I say that our own cogitations those sad and severe cogitations formerly beaten from us by our health and felicity return again and pay us to the uttermost for all the pleasing passages of our lives past Sir Wa. Rawl Death deprived me of my paradized bliss and not onely made my broken heart the sad habitation of woe but also turned my mind which before was a kingdom to me into a hell of tormenting thoughts Torches made of Aromatique wood cast out their odoriferous exhalations when they are almost wasted So the vertuous A. made all the good odors of her life evaporate in the last instant of her death Thaâ— he is dead As if she now scorn'd life Death lends her cheeks his paleness and her eyes tell down their drops of silver to the earth wishing her tears might rain upon his grave to make the gentle earth produce some flower should bear his name and memory She prostrated on the body of her Lover sought in his eclipsed eyes and dead lips the remnant of her life I shall not be unwilling to suffer a goal-delivery of my soul from the prison of my body when I am called to it Delivered up to the immortality of another world This deadly shaâ—t passing through him so wounded me that I my self was arrived within few paces of the land of darkness In his silent marble the best part of that small portion of joy I had in the world but all my hopes are entombed Wats in Baa Preface Drawing neere to the confines of Deaths kingdom Deathâ—rees â—rees a man from misery and wafts him to the haven of his happiness Her As soon as Death hath played the Midwife to our second birth our soul shall then see all truths more freely then our corporall eys at our first birth see all bodies and colours Sir K.D. Desire IF you desire that I make you a picture of the nature and perquisites of Desire I wil tell you It is a strange Countrey whereunto the prodigall Child sailed when he forsook his Fathers house to undertake a banishment a Countrey where Corn is still in Grass Vines in the Bud Trees perpetually in Blossome and Birds always in the Shell You neither see Corn Fruit nor any thing fully shaped all is there onely in expectation It is a Countrey full of Figures Phantosmes Illusions and hopes which are dreams without sleep A Countrey where the Inhabitants are never without Fevers one is no sooner gone but another comes into its place There dwells Covetousness a great woman meager lean starven having round about her a huge swarm of winged boys of which some are altogether languishing others cast her a thousand smiles as she passeth along upon herself she hath an infinite number of Horse-leeches which suck upon her to the marrow Time looks on her a far off and never comes neer her shewing her an inchanted Looking-glass wherein she sees a thousand and a thousand false colours which amuse her and when she hath sported enough she hath nothing to dinner but smoke Holy Court Albeit you can no ways quench the coals of Desire with forgetfulness yet rake them up in the ashes of modesty As Pharaoh longed to know his dream so desired he to Desire the nurse of perseverance gave him wings to make the more speed Thus wishing my deserts still suitable to my desires and my desires ever pleasing to your deserts More ready in desire then able in power to serve you Then which nothing could shoot righter at the mark of my desires And wish you as full of good Fortune as I am of desire She â—â—aâ—d not 〈…〉 desires Desire is
pass'd into the soul Thus have you heard the brief but sad story of this good Ladies end and that from Sir Your humble servant T.B. LXXIV LETTER Sir THe punishment that Apollo inflicts of reading Guicciardine is a light one compar'd to this that you impose â—pon your self and yet you will only here play the Stoick in not acknowledging you are in pain Nothing can justify mee but obedience for persuming to offer this tedious Romance to those eyes that should onely look upon Iliads I give verses as Galenists do Phisick which clogs the stomack more then the disease I must confess we may view Cities taken kingdomes ruin'd and new worlds discovered in lesse roome It is a Poem that hath neither height nor profundity yet it has length it overflowes but swells not it wearies without ascents as Promenades do upon a flat In a word I shall think if you do not find fault with it and reprehend me it is because you are angry and will do nothing in Passion however it is a trust I recommend to your secrecy for follies are not things of the least consequence to trust a friend with And having now performed my promise with you I expect you should do the like with Sir Your affectionate servant J.C. LXXV Vpon the New year Sir AS all things sublunary owe their being to the revolution of the upper Spheres so their change And 't is just they should submit to their essentiall Guides Amongst other novelties the first mover had brought about the point of Circular motion that has began us a New year and promises many unwonted effects Whilst these appeare let us be the same we were constant old friends to God heaven and our selves Change though to the better argues imperfection yet not to change to the better were the worst of imperfections As restles rivers hast to their Ocean so ought we to ours which is God that Ocean of bliss repose and Center of aeternity Till here arrived we are in flux and variety Let us be so but hold the right way As Grace is elder then Nature so she first begins her year Astronomers commence theirs with the springs vigour when the Sun 's in Aries the Church is content with Capricorn When her Sun 's in the Cradle that Orient of Justice and mercy the Son of God The signes melancholy yet the forerunner of more propitious So let our sorrows shorten with the nights our joyes with the dayes lengthen This solstice if we follow the conduct of the right Star will fairly move to a brighter height a nearer approach dispell our mists warme our hearts ravish our eyes This rambling prologue is but to bring in the prayer that wishes you a happy New year and that regard of times winged Cariers which in running moments may take hold of the stedfast point of eternity This is the Center of circumference In which who truly fix may be moved but not from it Then as time whirles away the measure of our mortall being it will haâ—ten that which shall know no alteration but to be invariable Sir my complexâ—on suits the dead season at present and yeilds me but a languishing health Hence my pen's as dull You know when the bodies out of order the spirits cannot but flag I must suffer the one you will pardon the other And so to affaires that require no politure but what your patience shall give them c. 2 January W.D. LXXVI ANSWER SIR YOurs I have received read and read again and the more I read it the more I have a a mind to read it such are the incentives of your heaven-inspired lines which as they clearly demonstrate the truth of that Maxime of a modern Author that Eternity is the Port and Sabbath of all humane Contemplations So since my more earthy Soul and lesse heavenly cogitations are not able in due manner to comprehend them I wrap my self in this your learned sheet and say to it with equall wonder As Aristotle once did to Euripus Qâ—uia ego non capio te tu capias me T B. LXXVII A letter to a friend upon his marriage SIR I Have of late with held from you the Characters of my hand though not the welwishes of my heart conceiving you as close in the pursuit of your fair Daphne as Phabus was of his when the breath of his mouth disorder'd her dissheiveld hair For I perceive you have now ran so as happily to take the Virgin-prize may you be ever mutually happy There now onely remains the metamorphosis not into the Beast with two backs which the knavish Shakespear speaks of but of that more ingenious two into one unus una into unum which you have hinted so modestly in yours Your Daphne I hope before the arrivall of this paper will be converted not onely into Bayes but Rosemary which is one fragrancy due to her perfections if you have as I doubt not given her a true Character more then the Poet gave Apollo's Mistress Let this therefore suffice to give you both the parabien of Hymen's honours and felicities and to let you know I shall both expect and be ambitious to wear a sprig in honour of her nor will I faile heartily to commend you both to the great President of the wedding of Cana in Galilee that he may turn the bitter Waters of your long expectation into the Wine of a happy and contented life made up with the blessing of a good and pious posterity In which devotion I affectionately rest Sir Your humble servant H.T. Superscriptions FOR LETTERS to be addressed to all sorts of persons according to the usage of the present times If to a Duke TO the most Noble and some times Excellent or illustrious Prince And in discourse we stile him Grace If to a Marquess To the right Noble or right honourable And in discourse his attribute is Lordship or Honour If to an Earle Viscount or Baron To the right honourable And to begin a Letter we either say May it please your Honor or Lordship Right honorable My Lord. Which last is used only by Lords to Lords or by Gentlemen of some quality otherwise it is held too familiar If to a Baronet or Knight of the Bath we say To the honourable or much honoured And his attribute in the beginning of a letter may be Much honored Sir The like may be given to a Collonel The usuall attribute of a Knight was of old Right Worshipfull And of an Esquire Worshipful But these are much disus'd unles it be by persons of inferiour rank We say writing to a Knight To my noble or to my much honored friend Sir A.B. Knight these present To an Esquire we say To my much honored or most worthy friend T.G. Esquire Observe that when you write to an Esq you be sure not to say Master T.G. Esq for the Master is ridiculous the Esq including it So if you write to a Doctor of Divinity a Doctor of the Civil Law or Doctor of
his mouth was the Oracle whereby I directed my actions As I could not be without his presence so I never would do any thing without his counsel When I am from you I am dead till I be with you when I am with you I am not satisfied but would still be nearer you vnited souls are not satisfied with imbraces Rel. Med. In the intercourse of affection my love surmounts yours Fire comes out of the hardest Flint with a steel oyl out of the driest jet by fire love out of the stoniest heart by faith by trust by time Eupheus I cannot but admire thy love knowing from what height of vertue it proceeds as I will not envy thee thy death so I wish a glory may await thy end great as the constancy that advanc'd thee to it Her Two neighbouring Lillies whom rude winds disperse ' mongst restless dust may sooner meet upon their stacles again and kiss each other in a second growth then we our loves renew Love is the good which by being diffused is corrupted she that loves one another and a thrid takes in men at the coyle and loves onely for her pleasure The object of true love is but one From the Infancy of Time to her decrepitude the love between two hath been held most honorable Heroinae Our mutuall mindes thus combined was like the Garden of Eden wherein grew more delights then either Nature now affords or Art can expâ—ess Graâ—ious is the face that promiseth nothing but love and most celestiall the resolution that lives upon chastity She had a pure flame shot from heaven into her breast from no other place could so generous a mind be fired My love shall never end but with my life There is nothing that belongs to us both that can be divided our wills united make but one mind which ruling all our actions it seems we are in like manner but one body Ariana He was so rapt with these dear engagements that the commotions of his heart disturbed his mind and stop'd the freedom of his thoughts I must confess my self in prison but 't is a prison of love where my desires my thoughts my hopes my joys are chains H.C. Chast love She changes the fire of Babylon into that of Jerusalem Her hâ—irs which were the nets wherein so many captive souls did sigh under the yoke of wanâ—â—n love are now as the Ensignes and Standards of wicked Cupid traâ—pled under the feet of the Conqueror Those kisses which carried the poyson of a luxurious passion in her heart do now breath fâ—om her nothing but thâ— delicacies of chasâ—iâ—y Her leasing odâ—urs which before were vowed to sensuality are now become the sweetest exhalations from that Amber Isle which brings forth an odoriferous perfume Entertainments for Lent My passion hath for its object a thing too perfect to permit me a thought that may be unworthy of the cause of it I like that love which by a soft ascension does degree it self in the soul Feltham Your presence is like Homers Nepenthe that can banish the sadness of the mind The heart of a lover is a Citie in which upon one and the same day are seen sports and bankets battels and funerals Plutarch Who does not know that love took away the senses of wise Solomon and made him violate the sacred law Love moved Biblis to be enamoured on her own brother Caunus and Pasiphae to accompany vvith a Bull Love is like a pan of Charcoal vvhich meeting vvith the vvind its contrary makes it turn more ardent or like a rapid torrent vvhich justing against adam swells higher so love meeting with opposition grows hotter and stronger Dodona's Grove These two hearts being dissolved into love spake in thoughts not having language enough to express their affection H.C. Since then I cannot retaliate your love or retribute your favours yet vvill I receive them vvith a desire â—o pay The vvorthy St. Dionysius in the book of Divine Attributes distinguisheth three sorts of love one is called circular the other love in a right line and the third oblique Love saâ—th an ancient Lover hath made a But of my heart vvhere so soon as it had shot all its arrows it threw it self as an inflamed dart into the bottom of my heart to set me all on fire There is nothing comparable to the Martyrdom of love It is an exhalation in a cloud It is a fire in a Mine a torrent shut up in ditches a night of sâ—paration lasteth ages and all waxeth old for it but its desires The life of this young Hero vvhich vvas ever hanging about the heart of his Mistress ever in the contemplation of her goodness perpetually in the furnace of love vvholly tranformed it self into his vvel-beloved as one vvax melted into another as a drop of vvater poured into a great vessell of Wine as incense wasted in flames H. Court He said what a warm lover when desire makes eloquent could speak he said she was both Star and Pilot. No birth or estate can chalenge a prerogative in love The deep wound of his love being rubbed afresh with began to bleed again Love is to the soul that which vvings are to Birds to carry us to its fruition For vvant of vvell loving vve apply the most precious thing which is love to gain wretched creatures as if one used a golden hook to fish for frogs and a scepter to shake hay I 'le always dwell with you like your shade I 'le keep a Jubile to your memory My eyes pay tribute where my heart pays love I vvill repay your love vvith usury Love making in the field of his memory a muster of the vertues of that Lady The man that applies not himself to some love is like a body vvithout life Love is the Wine of the soul Love is the greatest Philosopher in the vvorld He can transmute substances vvithout altering the accidents Man commended MAn is the pride of Heavens creation 〈◊〉 A man vvhose life needs no Advocate vvhom detraction it self cannot mention vvithout addition of some Epithetes of respect to conclude him in a vvord no object for any evill passion but envy and a subject for no discourse but vvhat ends vvith admiration It seems Nature from above had been dispatch'd as a brave Harbinger to score out a lodging for this great Soul and give him a Body suitable to the vigor of his Spirit so vvel vvas it composed c. H. Court What he is according to nature a Master piece vvhere many prerogatives meet together a Body composed of a marvellous Architecture a Soule endowed vvith He is the Orpheus vvho vvith his looks onely vvithout setting his hand to the Lyre enchants and ravishes the most savage of our Wilderness Aristotle that Linceus of Nature Nature vvas sent by God as a gallant Harbinger to compose a Body for him suitable to his great Spirit He did vvith great nobleness and bounty which vertues at that time had their turns in his Nature restore Lo. Bacon
that I must beg leave to lessen though I cannot hope to have it wholly remitted in saying the justness of your Ladyships cause of stay made me presume none had so little compassion as to deny it and that I might expect the being freed from my ague without danger of losing the opportunity of presenting my humble thanks for so many singall favours undeservedly conferred on me but since that happiness with many others is lost by your Ladyships absence honour this paper so far I beseech you as to suffer it to supply my defects herein and testify how ambitious I shall be by my future observance to merit the title of Madam Your most humble servant A.B. LXXII Vpon the death of a fair Lady Sir AMong other impartments your last tells mee you were to usher a fair Lady to her grave A Corporall work of Mercy it is to bury the Dead I grant but to interr so great a Beauty â—eâ—ms to entrench on Pity and blast the Spring Had she lived till Autumne or even Midsommer the funeralls of many flowers had lamented her Urne yea if but till they had been blown they would have lost their lives to adorn her Hearse and have been ambitious like those Savages to have been buried quick with their Ladie Paragon for her attendance in the other World But she has inverted Nature and the Season too the flower of beauty died when the beauty of flowers should spring and so has not onely left a withered World but dismayed the Blowth of what should garnish it Flowers are disheartened to open their fragrant Colors since their Pattern is so early Cropt and seem to intend being she 's entomb'd under the Earths surface to keep themselves under Earth to accompany her dust yet I will free you of cruelty in this fate you had no hand I am sure in her death though you helpt her to her Grave And who should be a fitter Mourner at the exequies of a fair Lady than so compleat a servant of Ladies Sir I see what grace you are entertained with by them they not only love you living but are loath to part with you dead will carry you as for as they can towards the other life when they goe That if they may not have your company quite through which were a wrong to Survivors they may your funerall tears sighes or prayers for their Vltime Vale you preface a happy imprimis to this sad discourse and say having first done all that might tend to her future happiness Happy News and it ownes you I believe an instrument of good effects and offices Had all fair Ladies such faithfull servants More Idols of beauty would receive impression of the divine Image and become the servants of God And she had much reason to desire your care of her bodies enterrment that had first aided her soul with a saving Viaticum for heaven Long may you live the Author or helper of such good deeds In the interim as here was a double work of mercy Corporall and Spirituall exploited so you I am confident have made your usefull application of the Accident beheld in the blasting of this flower the fate of Fairness the frailties of the fairest Clay that feature and white and red could embelish If she were not Superlative in Beauty in beauty she had many inferiours if in fortunes not the favourite of fortune yet she has had her smiles Many Beauties have faln sooner many may sooner fade yet in her all beauties all fortunes have exprest what fortunes and beauties are what is the Exit of the Fable of this temporary life to wit ugly death eternall deprivation the cold Tomb and deformed dust Fortunate life that so contemplates mortal condition as to be indifferent and ready to change that fraile incertainties and vain glitter may be motives to assure and fix on lasting good that by others death learnes to live and lives the life that feares not death that so accompanies others funeralls as in that sable equipage to behold the mournfull Pomp of the Worlds farewell and their own destiny that reads in that earthy bed of death the Grave of others their own Motto we are dust and all mortall things Momentary Sir pardon this long slip of my pen you see how a fair Ladies death and your living pietie entrances me to the forgetfulness of other subjects I confess I am also now in a dull Mood not apt as to expression Thanks for your News on which the only present comment shall be that I am for ever Sir Your thankfull servant D.W. LXXIII The Reply relating the particulers of that Ladies death Sir SInce you have been pleas'd to sing so sweet a dirge and to make so excellent a comment upon our late funerous text I cannot think the particulers of that sad subject how confusedly soever I deliver them will be unacceptable to you This Lady was 3 moneths continually dying without any hope of recovery and this occasioned by an ulcer in her throat it was my good fortune though others had assai'd it to gain her first assent to bring a spirituall Phisitian to her Dr. G. was next at hand and did act his part exceedingly well after 2 or 3 effective visits the Patient through the comfort and ease of the spirituall Cataplasmes and emplaisters which the Doctor applied was so rapt and piously enamor'd of him as she even embrac'd him at every appearance When shee drew neer the confines of deaths kingdom she did usually ejaculate not only most pious but even eloquent or rather diviniloquent expressions as this amongst many others which heaven grant I may never forget I have said she lived long in the vanity of this World for which God hath placed mee in this bed of sorrow Were it his holy pleasure I should act over one of them again and the choice left to mee I would by the Grace of Jesus rather chose the torments of this bed and malady then have any thing to do with the Worlds vanities c Besides nothing did so much trouble her as that she had lived as she said for fear of Worldly endamagement some yeares in an outward profession that contradicted her inward perswasion The Doctor was no less taken with his Patient then she with him for I heard him say hee was never more satisfied with the manner of any persons death And I confess her exit did more tristitiate mee then did that of my own Sister the manner of it not a little both mortifying and edifying mee For to see her picture in the Anti-chamber and then go in and look upon the originall was subject enough for mortification the one being so incomparable beautifull the other so ghastly In a word the last breath she drew was Je-and in pronouncing sus she expir'd So that we may conclude as she was a great beauty living she was a greater dead For whereas corporall beauty in others dies with the body hers did not so but by a secret transition
I find not any man over vvhom he has not some advantage nor any one life vvhich take it altogether is so admirable as his The Prince He is an Anthony in clemency a Trajan in bounty and another Augustus in wisdom Though he exceeds not in those vertues which gâ—t admiration as depth of wisdom height of courage and the like yet he is notable for those qualities which stir affection as truth of word meekness courtesie mercifulness and liberality He was Lord of great Revenues to which his vertue not his fortune was his Title his mind was richly embroydered with all the studied ornaments of learning c. Heroinae Bravest A sooner shall the fathers bowels be silent at the sight of his long unseen son then posterity forget thy name Nor shall I rest content till I bring one grain of incense more to that great oblation which I hope the Muses will offer ere long in publick to his memory thereby to induce Historians those Goldsmiths of time in their elaborate rings the Chronicles and Relations of these days curiously to enchase this choycer Diamond to the delight and benefit of succeeding ages Of Sir I.S. The worth of worthiness hath his whole Globe comprised in his breast The gallantry of his mind was plainly legible to every eye that was acquainted with the characters of vertue In this man there were such great abilities of wit and understanding that into what Climate sâ—ever his nativity had cast him he seem'd to be able to command of fâ—rtune Bacon Men whâ—â—e Sentiments are Maximes and Oracles to govern the worlds beliefs and actions Sir K.D. So wel was he studied in the Art of Dying that by continuall watchings fastings prayers and such like acts of Christian humiliation his flesh was rarified into spirit and the whole man so fitted for eternall glories that he was more then halfe in heaven before Death brought his bloody but triumphant Chariot to convey him thither His head did bear the Calender of age Every man is a vast and spacious Sea His passions are the winds that swell him in disturbant waves c. Feltham A good man is like the day enlightning warming all he shines on and is always raising upwards to a Region of more constant purity then that wherein it finds the object The bad man is like the night dark obtruding fears and dimitting unwholsome vapouts upon all that rest beneath Envy her self could not detract from his worth he was learned even to an example pious up to a proverb A person that in the Hurricans of great transactions is serenely pleas'd to throw off the publick person and adopt into his tenderness and protection all that unto which worth and letters may make a claim Mr. Halls Epistle before Longinus Of the K and his letters intercepted 1645. AS a Man see but with what sagacity he writes and with what judgement see but what a clean sense he hath of things which does so overlook all his most perplexed affairs that they seem to blush they have no better difficulties See but how farre his wisdom looks into mens persons which doth so weigh them and their actions with the grains and allowance of their unworthy servile ends that he seems not more to observe then prophesie See but what an even spirit of Elegancy runs through every line vvhich beats and leaps as much in the description of his saddest condition as of his serenest fortune Insomuch that posterity will a little love his misery for her very clothing Then as a Husband do but observe how kind he is and withall how chast how full of warm expressions of love and yet how far from wanton Do but observe how he vveighs his own health by his vvives Standard every line bears a Venus in it and yet no Doves and he drives the trade of thoughts between the Q. and him with so much eagerness and yet with so much innocence in all his letters as if he meant they should be intercepted As a Christian see but what a conscience he makes of oaths esteeming them not according to the popular account as if their ceremony made them the less sacred or as too many use them in the vvorld as bracelets to their speech not as they are indeed as chains unto their souls look but how he startles at the name of Sacriledge though never so commodious a sin c. Last of all as a King see but vvhat a constant and true soul he bears to Justice vvhich none of his sad infelicities can alter A soul that vvould come off true vvere it put to Plato's triall vvho said That for a man to approve himselfe a true just man indeed His vertue must be spoyld of all her ornaments Key K. Cabinet So many excellent pens have vvritten upon his brave acts and made them so well known to all the vvorld that it vvere to bring light into day to go about to mention them H. Court He is the Pelops of wisdom and Minos of all good government Who hath not known or read of that prodigy of vvit and fortune Sir Wa. Ra. a man infortunate in nothing but in the greatness of his vvit and advancement vvhose eminent vvorth vvas such both in domestick policie forreign expeditions and discoveries in arts and literature both practick and contemplative that it might seem at once to conquer both example and imitation Mr. Nath. Carpenter Man vvho contracts in himselfe all the draughts and vvorks of the Divine hand and epitomizeth the vvhole world in his perfections and bears the most animated Character of the living God H.C. He is a noble generous and vvell-manur'd youth bears beauties ensignes in his gracious looks has that supream Divinity in his eyes as sparkleth flames able to fire all hearts and the superlative vertue of his mind transcends his outvvard figure he is vvise as most mature age valiant in resolve as fames beloved child reputaon conjoyns the masculine graces of his soul vvith lovely carriage and discreet dicourse c. Argalus and Parth. I could say much more of his vvorth vvithout flattery did I not fear the imputation of presumption and vvithall suspect that it might befall these papers of mine though the losse vvere little as it did the pictures of Q. Eliz. made by unskilfull and common Painters which by her own commandement vvere knockt to pieces and cast into the fire For ill Artists in setting out the beauty of the externall and weak Writers in describing the vertues of the internal do often leave to posterity of well-formed faces a deformed memory and of the most perfect and Princely minds a most defective representation Sir Wa. Rawl in Preface He was a man whose brave undaunted Spirit dignified his Family many stories high in the estimate of Fame The excellent endowments of his soul acknowledged even by Envy and admired by Truth together with his known propension to goodness invited me to I have been possessed with extream wonder when I consider the excellency