Facetiae : Musarum deliciae, or, The Muses recreation, conteining ...

Epigrams.You wandring chaunters of the wood,That fillthe ayre with natures layes,Thinking your passions understood,By weak accents, where's your praise,When Philomell her voice shall raise :So when my Princesse shall be seen;In sweetnes of her lookes and mind,By vertues first, then cjioyce a Queen,Tell me, was she not design'dTh' eclipse and glory of her kind ?59. To his noble friend.There's no necessity that can excludeThe poorest being from a gratitude ;For when the strength of fortune lends no more,He that is truely thankefull is not poore :Yours be the bounty then, mine the great debt,On which no time, nor power can ransome set60. On his Mrs death.Unjustly we complain of fate,For shortening our unhappy dayes,When death doth nothing but translateAnd print us in a better phraseYet who can choose but weep ? not I,That beautie of such excellence,And more vertue than could dy ;-By deaths rude hand is ravish'd hence,