THE STATUE OF ADONIS.-CLI.

WHEN Venus, 'longst that plain,

This Parian Adon saw,

She sigh'd, and said, What pow'r breaks Destine's law,
World-mourned boy, and makes thee live again?
Then with stretch'd arms she ran him to enfold.

But when she did behold

The boar whose snowy tusks did threaten death,
Fear closed up her breath.

Who can but grant then that these stones do live,
Sith this bred love, and that a wound did give?

CHLORUS TO A GROVE.-CLII.

OLD oak, and you thick grove,

I ever shall you love,

With these sweet-smelling briers :

For briers, oak, grove, ye crowned my desires,

When underneath your shade

I left my woe, and Flore her maidenhead.

UPON A BAY TREE NOT LONG SINCE GROWING IN THE

RUINS OF VIRGIL'S TOMB.--CLIII.

THOSE stones which once had trust

Of Maro's sacred dust,

Which now of their first beauty spoil'd are seen,

That they due praise not want,

Inglorious and remain,

A Delian tree (fair Nature's only plant)

Now courts, and shadows with her tresses green :
Sing Io Pæan, ye of Phoebus' train;

Though envy, av'rice, time, your tombs throw down,
With maiden laurels Nature will them crown.

LOVE NAKED.-CLIV.

AND would ye, lovers, know
Why Love doth naked go?

Fond, waggish, changeling lad!

Late whilst Thaumantia's voice

He wond'ring heard, it made him so rejoice,
That he o'erjoy'd ran mad:

And in a frantic fit threw clothes away,

And since from lip and lap hers cannot stray.

NIOBE. CLV.

WRETCH'D Niobe I am;

Let wretches read my case,

Not such who with a tear ne'er wet their face.

Seven daughters of me came,

And sons as many, which one fatal day,

Orb'd mother! took away.

Thus reft by heavens unjust,

Grief turn'd me stone, stone too me doth entomb;

Which if thou dost mistrust,

Of this hard rock but ope the flinty womb,

And here thou shalt find marble, and no dust.

CHANGE OF LOVE.-CLVI.

ONCE did I weep and groan,

Drink tears, draw loathed breath,

And all for love of one

Who did affect my death:
But now, thanks to disdain!
I live reliev'd of pain.
For sighs I singing go,

I burn not as before-no, no, no, no!

SONNET.-CLVII.

WHEN with brave art the curious painter drew
This heavenly shape, the hand why made he bear,
With golden veins, that flow'r of purple hue,
Which follows on the planet of the year?
Was it to shew how in our hemisphere

Like him she shines? nay, that effects more true
Of pow'r and wonder do in her appear,

While he but flow'rs, and she doth minds subdue? Or would he else to virtue's glorious light

Her constant course make known? or is 't that he
Doth parallel her bliss with Clitra's plight?

Right so; and thus he reading in her eye
Some lover's end, to grace what he did grave,
For cypress tree this mourning flow'r he gave.

MADRIGAL.-CLVIII.

IF light be not beguil❜d,

And eyes right play their part,

This flow'r is not of art, but fairest nature's child;
And though, when Titan's from our world exil'd,
She doth not look, her leaves, his loss to moan,
To wonder earth finds now more suns than one.

EPIGRAM.-CLIX.

WHEN lately Pym descended into hell,
Ere he the cups of Lethe did carouse,
What place that was, he called loud to tell ;
To whom a devil-This is the Lower House.

THE STATUE OF ALCIDES.-CLX.

FLORA, upon a time,

Naked Alcides' statue did behold;

`And with delight admir'd each am'rous limb; Only one fault, she said, could be of 't told. For, by right symmetry,

The craftsman had him wrong'd;

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Fair nymph,

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CLXI.

GREAT lies they tell, preach our church cannot err;
Less lies, who say the king's not head of her;
Great lies, who cry we may shed other's blood,
Less lies, who swear dumb bishops are not good;
Great lies they vent, say we for God do fight,
Less lies, who guess the king does nothing right;
Great lies and less lies all our aims descry;
To pulpits some, to camp the rest apply.

THE

CHARACTER

OF AN

ANTI-COVENANTER, OR MALIGNANT.

CLXII.

WOULD you know these royal knaves,

Of free men would turn us slaves;

Who our union do defame

With rebellion's wicked name?

Read these verses, and ye 'll spring 'em,

Then on gibbets straight cause hing 'em.