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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
  
  

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128. A Prayer to God in time of Sickness.

Natures great Parent! when as thou shalt please,
My Soul from flesh, Her Prison, to release;
Let Grace, with thy afflicting Hand comply:
When I want strength to Live; give will to Die.