If this comes forth too late to take effect,
My Conscience knows, it was not my neglect:
For I, my utmost labour, had bestown,
To make it, in a timely-season known.
If, therefore, ought amisse thereby ensue,
There lay the Fault, to whom the Blame is due.
[_]
Here being vacant Pages, the Author
hath filled them with a Copie of certain Verses, wherewith
he lately inclosed two Petitions to the Parlament,
and laid them within their Threshold; hoping by that Expedient,
they might have been presented to the House; The Paper was thus Superscribed;
