University of Virginia Library

Out of the third Booke.

Epig. 9. Matrimoniall Rule.

The Nightly Gouernment, is due
Vnto the Female kind;
And vnto Masculines, to Rule
Ith' Day, it is assign'd:
And this we see Experience prooues,
For Cynthia Rules the Night:
And Phœbus rayes his Rule displayes,
Who in the Day shines bright.

Epig. 10. Against a certaine Proud-Woman .

A feather o're thy Head thou hast,
And Corke vnder thy feet;
Both these declare, though thou be faire,
Thee to be fond and fleet.

Epig. 11. Faith.

My Eyes ith' Skies the twinkling Starres,
The Pole, Opinion spyes:
So with mine Eye I view Heauen high;
My Faith, my God descryes.

Epig. 13. Contempt of the World .

Wouldst Liue a Good-Life? then, this Life despise;
'T's a wretched Life this Life highly to Prize.

Epig. 19. Knowledge, Loue.

Two things there be, which I must Know,
And two things I must Loue;
God and My-selfe, God and my Friend,
These, Knowledge, Loue, approue.

Epig. 21. Of God and the World .

God is not in this World, the World's in God:
We are ith' World, O, would we were in God.

Epig. 22. The right of First-fruits and Tithes .

God 's Alpha and Omega, therefore Hee
Must of thy Goods the Tithes and First-fruits, see.

Epig. 50. Grauity, Leuity.

Though, Grossenes, Lightnes, cleane contrary bee,
A Light-Head, Grosse-Head, I'd not wish to Mee;
Both which are bad: and such a Wife I hate,
A Light or Lewd, a Grosse or Grieuous Mate.

Epig. 52. Schoole-Diuines.

What profits all thy Learned-Skill?
If Vertue thou neglect;
Leaue off to Search the Truth of Things,
And Good Things more affect.

Epig. 58. Democritus, Heraclitus.

Democritus , Mens falls and faults,
In his Times, did Lament;
Heraclitus, Mens Foolishnesse,
Did Laugh-at with Contempt:
And euer more such Wretches vile,
And Fooles will still remayne:
That, if they Liu'd, from Laughes and Teares,
They neuer could refraine.

Epig. 60. Against Arrogant, Ignorant Linus .

A two-fold Ignorance hath thee
O Linus, captiuated,
Thou Knowest Nought, yet Nought to Know,
Thou wilt not be Conceited.

Epig. 65. Against a Couetous Niggard .

To Count thy Coyne is nothing worth,
T' Encrease the Heape's as small;
As much to Multiply; Deuide,
Then I'le thee wealthy call.

Epig. 67. Against the Writers of this Age .

We Crop the Tops of others Crop,
Old-Writers Workes most rare:
The most of vs which now doe write,
Old-Writers Eccho's are.

Epig. 69. The Authours Desire. A Good-mans Desire .

With Wealth I wish-not Bags and Chests to stuffe
Too-much, Too-little's Ill; Enough's Enough.

Epig. 78. Christs Life and Death .

Mvch hath Christ Done and Much Endur'd,
All, for vn-worthy Mee,
His Passions shew'd Him to be Man,
His Actions, God to bee.

Epig. 79. The Wise-Mens Starre .

A Starre to Math'maticks vnknowne,
At Christs Birth shining bright,
The Gentile-Typing Wise-Men led
To Christ the Lord of Light:
This Heau'nly Guide did with them bide,
Till they found Christ their King,
Heau'n grant I pray, Faith, my Starre, may,
Me also to Him bring.

Epig. 83. Of the Deluge and Worlds-End .

The crying Crimes of Noahs Times
For foule-Lust-burning Loue,
Were Drown'd & Drench't, that Heat was Quench't,
With Water from aboue:
This Freezing Age of Frosty Loue,
And Key-cold Charity,
Will in due Time, for this Cold Crime,
Make All with Fire to fry,
By Compositions, thus Phisicians
Make Contraries to Cure,
And Heau'ns Phisician, Frost with Flames,
Water with Fire can Pure.

Epig. 86. Of the Iust and vniust.

Pleasure, the Good; but Paine attends the Bad:
This frights th' Uniust; tother the Iust makes glad.

Epig. 88. Our Redeemer .

Worth Sight, but Thee, ith' World I nothing See,
And I am wise in nothing but in Thee;
My Sunne thou art, by Grace Shine in my Heart,
Thou, Thou, alone my Sole, Sweet Sauiour, art.

Epig. 91. A Paradox .

To Hell, though euery wretched Atheist goes,
In Hell's no Atheist; there, He, Hell well knowes.

Epig. 94. Difference betwixt a Good King and a Tyrant.

A Good-King marks what's godly, iust and right,
A Tyrant mindes his strict Command & Might;
I, Good-Kings Power preferre 'fore Tyrants Pray,
Th' Ones threates are treates, the Others Pay's, Decay.

Epig. 95. Against a certaine ------.

For Mad-men Bedlem; Bridewell's for a Knaue,
Choose, wheth'r of these two, thou hadst rather haue.

Epig. 98: Life-Bloud.

Moses the Life of All, ith' Bloud did place:
My Life, in Christs Bloud hath his onely Grace.

Epig. 100. Against a Foolish Writer .

Thy Booke's æternall (if such Bookes may bee)
Beginning none, nor End of it I see.

Epig. 102. Vpon the Death of Prince Henry. 1612 .