Commendatory Verses.
i.
To Sr W. A.
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[Prefixed to “DOOMES-DAY,” by Sir William Alexander.
Edinburgh, 1614, 4to.]
William Drvmmond.
ii.
To the Author.
Sonnet.
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[Prefixed to “The famous Historye of PENARDO AND LAISSA,”
by Patrik Gordon. Dort, 1615, 8vo.]
M. William Drommond.
iii.
ON THE DEATH OF GODEFRID VANDER HAGEN.
[_]
[Prefixed to G. Vander Hagen, “MISCELLANEA POEMATA.”
Middelburgi, 1619, 4to.]
W. Drvmmond.
iv.
Of my Lord of Galloway his learned Commentary
on the Reuelation.
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[Prefixed to “PATHMOS; OR A COMMENTARY ON THE
REVELATION OF SAINT IOHN,” by William Cowper,
Bishop of Galloway. London, 1619, 4to.]
To
this admir'd Discouerer giue place,
Yee who first tam'd the Sea, the Windes outranne,
And match'd the Dayes bright Coach-man in your race,
Americus, Columbus, Magellan.
It is most true that your ingenious care
And well-spent paines another world brought forth,
For Beasts, Birds, Trees, for Gemmes and Metals rare,
Yet all being earth, was but of earthly worth.
Hee a more precious World to vs descryes,
Rich in more Treasure then both Indes containe,
Faire in more beauty then mans witte can faine,
Whose Sunne not sets, whose people neuer dies.
Earth shuld your Brows deck with stil-verdant Bayes,
But Heauens crowne his with Stars immortall rayes.
Master William Drumond of
Hawthorn-denne.
v.
ON THE BOOKE.
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[Prefixed to “HEPTAMERON, THE SEVEN DAYES,” &c., by
A. Symson. Sainct Andrews, 1621, 8vo.]
God binding with hid Tendons this great ALL,
Did make a LVTE which had all parts it giuen;
This LVTES round Bellie was the azur'd Heauen,
The Rose those Lights which Hee did there install;
The Basses were the Earth and Ocean,
The Treble shrill the Aire; the other Strings
The vnlike Bodies were of mixed things:
And then His Hand to breake sweete Notes began.
Those loftie Concords did so farre rebound,
That Floods, Rocks, Meadows, Forrests, did them heare,
Birds, Fishes, Beasts, danc'd to their siluer sound;
Onlie to them Man had a deafned Eare:
Now him to rouse from sleepe so deepe and long,
God wak'ned hath the Eccho of this Song.
W. D.
vi.
On These Lockes.
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[Prefixed to “SAMSONS SEAVEN LOCKES OF HAIRE,”
by A. Symson, Sainct Andrewes. 1621, 8vo.]
Lockes, Ornament of Angels, Diademes
Which the triumphing Quires aboue doe crowne;
Rich Curles of Bountie, Pinnions of Renowne,
Of that immortall Sunne immortall Beames;
Lockes, sacred Lockes, no, adamantine Chaines,
Which doe shut vp and firme together binde
Both that Contentment which in Life wee finde,
And Blisse which with vnbodied Soules remaines;
Faire Locks, all Locks compar'd to you (though gold)
Are Comets-Locks, portending Harme and Wrath,
Or bauld Occasions-Locke, that none can holde,
Or Absaloms, which worke the Wearers death.
If hencefoorth Beautie e're my Minde subdue,
It shall (deare Locks) be for what shines in you.
W. D.
vii.
Paraineticon.
[_]
[Prefixed to “PALLAS ARMATA, OR MILITARIE INSTRUCTIONS
for the Learned,” by Sir Thomas Kellie. Edinburgh, 1627, 4to.]
W. Drvmmond.
viii.
OF THE BOOKE.
[_]
[Prefixed to “THE TRVE CRVCIFIXE FOR TRUE
CATHOLICKES,” by Sir William Moore. Edinburgh, 1629, 8vo.]
W. D.
Of Hawthorn-denne.
ix. [Subjoined to “A FVNERALL SERMON, Preached at the buriall of Lady Iane Maitlane, daughter to the Right Noble Earle, Iohn
Earle of Lauderdail.” Edinburgh, 1633, 4to.]
The flowre of virgins in her prime of years
By ruthlesse destinies is ta'ne away,
And rap'd from earth, poore earth, before this day
Which ne're was rightly nam'd a vale of tears.
Beautie to heauen is fled, sweet modestie
No more appears; she whose harmonious sounds
Did rauish sense, and charm mindes deepest wounds,
Embalm'd with many a tear now low doth lie.
Fair hopes evanish'd are; she should have grac'd
A princes marriage-bed, but (lo!) in heauen
Blest paramours to her were to be giuen;
She liu'd an angel, now is with them plac'd.
Vertue was but a name abstractly trim'd,
Interpreting what she was in effect,
A shadow from her frame, which did reflect
A portrait by her excellencies lim'd.
Thou whom free-will or chance hath hither brought,
And readst, here lies a branch of Metlands stem,
And Seatons offspring, know that either name
Designes all worth yet reach'd by humane thought.
Tombs (elsewhere) rise, life to their guests to giue,
Those ashes can frail monuments make liue.
M. W. Drumond.
x.
Of Persons Varieties.
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[Prefixed to “VARIETIES,” &c., by David Person of Loghlands.
London, 1635, 4to.]
xi.
Distich, of the same.
This Booke a World is; here if errours be,
The like (nay worse) in the great world we see.
William Drummond,
Of Hathorn-den.
