Divinity and Morality in Robes of Poetry :: :: University of Virginia Library

To the much honored Pair, and most pious Preservers of Love and Loyalty in Wedlock, Mr. Nathaniel Lownes Merchant Adventurer, &c. and the perfect Patern of Vertue Mrs. Melior Lownes his beloved Consort.

On Reason.

On Henry the VIII.

An Epigram on one, who said, He liv'd by his wits.

On Ribaldry.

Good Wits may Jump.

On a School-Master.

An Elegy and Epitaph on the deplored death of the much worthy William Barklay Esquire, one of the Aldermen of the City of London; dedicate to Mr. Hen. Barklay.

The material substance of our Creed contracted in twelve lines.

The ten Commandements in ten lines.

The happy estate of the Blessed,

The wretched estate of the cursed,

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To the much honored Pair, and most pious Preservers of Love and Loyalty in Wedlock, Mr. Nathaniel Lownes Merchant Adventurer, &c. and the perfect Patern of Vertue Mrs. Melior Lownes his beloved Consort.

My Muse salutes ye both, who to your worth
Devotes her love, and holds my service forth.
All happiness that the Celestial Powers
Ordain for men, wait upon you and yours.
Treasure, long life, love, liberty, and myrth
Dwell with ye, till ye find heaven upon earth;
True Concord be your guide, and may no passion
On either side, provoke a separation.
In medio consistit virtus; vve
Find in your loves a meliority:
(Which is most permanent) what is belovv
That, or above it, is too fast, or slow:
Health, peace, and plenty, vvith all joyes that can
Add vigour to the noble soul of man;
Erect your spirits, may ye never be
Expos'd to any infelicity;
But may that God, vvhich hath heaven for his home,
Guide you in this vvorld, and the vvorld to come.

Such are the wishes of a Servant to both your Vertues; Tho. Jordan.