TO HIS MUSE: ANOTHER TO THE SAME.

TELL that brave man, fain thou wo'dst have access
To kiss his hands; but that for fearfullness,
Or else because th'art like a modest bride,
Ready to blush to death sho'd he but chide.

UPON VINEGER.

VINEGER is no other, I define,

Then the dead corps or carkase of the wine.

UPON MUDGE.

MUDGE every morning to the postern comes,
His teeth all out, to rince and wash his gummes.

TO HIS LEARNED FRIEND, M. JO. HARMAR, PHISITIAN TO THE COLLEDGE OF WESTMINSTER.

WHEN first I find those numbers thou do'st write
To be most soft, terce, sweet, and perpolite;
Next, when I see thee towring in the skie
In an expansion no less large then high;
Then in that compass sayling here and there,
And with circumgyration every where

Following with love and active heate thy game,
And then at last to truss the epigram;

I must confess, distinction none I see
Between Domitians Martiall then and thee.
But this I know, should Jupiter agen
Descend from heaven to re-converse with men,
The Romane language, full and superfine,
If Jove wo'd speake, he wo'd accept of thine.

UPON HIS SPANIELL TRACIE.

Now thou art dead, no eye shall ever see
For shape and service spaniell like to thee.
This shall my love doe, give thy sad death one
Teare that deserves of me a million.

'Tis some solace in our smart
To have friends to beare a part;
I have none; but must be sure
Th' inundation to endure.
Shall not times hereafter tell
This for no meane miracle,
When the waters by their fall
Threatn'd ruine unto all?
Yet the deluge here was known
Of a world to drowne but one.

UPON LUPES.

LUPES for the outside of his suite has paide,
But for his heart, he cannot have it made;
The reason is, his credit cannot get
The inward carbage for his cloathes as yet.

RAGGS.

WHAT are our patches, tatters, raggs, and rents, But the base dregs and lees of vestiments?

STRENGTH TO SUPPORT SOVERAIGNTY.

LET kings and rulers learne this line from me ; Where power is weake, unsafe is majestie.

UPON TUBBS.

FOR thirty yeares Tubbs has been proud and poor;

Tis now his habit, which he can't give ore.

CRUTCHES.

THOU seest me, Lucia, this yeare droope;
Three zodiaks fill'd more I shall stoope.

Let crutches then provided be
To shore up my debilitie:

Then while thou laugh'st, Ile sighing crie,
A ruine underpropt am I.

Do'n will I then my beadsmans gown,
And when so feeble I am grown,
As my weake shoulders cannot beare
The burden of a grasshopper,
Yet with the bench of aged sires,
When I and they keep tearmly fires,
With my weake voice I'le sing or say
Some odes I made of Lucia.

Then will I heave my wither'd hand
To Jove the mighty for to stand

Thy faithfull friend, and to poure downe
Upon thee many a benizon.

TO JULIA.

HOLY waters hither bring
For the sacred sprinkling;
Baptize me and thee, and so
Let us to the altar go,

And, ere we our rites commence,

Wash our hands in innocence.

Then I'le be the Rex Sacrorum,

Thou the queen of peace and quorum.

UPON CASE.

CASE is a lawyer that near pleads alone;
But when he hears the like confusion

As when the disagreeing commons throw
About their house their clamorous I or no,
Then Case, as loud as any serjant there,
Cries out, My Lord, my Lord, the case is clear.
But when all's husht, Case, then a fish more mute,
Bestirs his hand but starves in hand the suite.

TO PERENNA.

I A DIRGE will pen for thee,
Thou a trentall make for me;
That the monks and fryers together
Here may sing the rest of either.
Next, I'm sure, the nuns will have
Candlemas to grace the grave.

TO HIS SISTER IN LAW, M. SUSANNA HERRICK.

THE

person crowns the place; your lot doth fall Last, yet to be with these a principall. How ere it fortuned, know for truth I meant You a fore-leader in this testament.