TO MR. GEORGE HERBERT.

Sent bim with one of my Seals of the Anchor and Christs.

Qui priùs assuetus Serpentum fasce tabellas arada Å Signare (hæc nostræ symbola parva Domûs) › Dic quo Adscitus domui Domini, patrioqué relicto pe470 saT Stemmate, nanciscor stemmata jure novajad, yo 690a Hinc mihi Crux, primo quæ fronti impressa lavacrojƆ Finibus extensis, Anchora facta patet.

Anchoræ in effigiem Crux tandem desinit ipsam v¤ Anchora fit tandem Crux tolerata diu.

Hoc tamen ut fiat, Christo vegetatur ab ipso toŸ Crux, et ab affixo est Anchora facta Jesu.

Nec natalitiis penitus Serpentibus orbored odV Non ita dat Deus, ut auferat ante data..

Quà sapiens, dos est; quà terram lambit et ambit, 19 Pestis; at in nostra fit medicina Cruce

Serpens; fixa Cruci si sit Natura; Crucique

A fixo nobis gracia tota fluat. 1. *.

Omnia cum ( rux sint, Crux Anchora fixa, Sigillum Non tam dicendum hoc, quàm catechismus erit. 2 Mitto, nec exigua, exiguâ sub imagine, dona, di robiu Pignora amicitiæ, et munera, vota, preces.be

Plura tibi accumulet sanctus cognoininis ille, con bàА Regia qui flavo dona Sigillat equo, cik ta3d paw wove I

TASHIAF OF SNAKES OT

Used beretofore to be my Seal, the crest of our poor family:

ADOPTED in God's family, and somehowana aling
Our old coat tost, unto new arms Igo.

d) $18.
The Cross (my seal at baptism) spread below, utiah A
Does by that form into an Anchor growes („statams
Crosses grow Anchors: bear, as thou shouldst dɑ, on H
Thy Cross, and that Cross grows an Anchor too.
But herthat makes our Crosses Anchors thus ectodick
Is Christ, who there is crucify'd for us. 76 8 610done.
Yet may Is with this, my first Serpents holdt nok
God gives new blessings, and yet leaves the old. * 16
The Serpent may, as wise, my pattern be; DAY
My poison, as he feeds on dust, that is met bo mo'f
And as he rounds the earth to murther sure,asiqse 2-3
My death he is, but on the Cross my cure,^!`
Crucify Nature then, and then implore ́ sy?, 20421
All grace from him crucify'd there before idon CAR &
When all is Cross, and that Cross Ancho grown,iamo
This Seal is a catechism, not a Seal alone.b mozno
Under that little Seal great gifts I send, 0.0,
Works, and prayers, pawns, and fruits of a friend 20
And may that saint: which rides in our great Seað st
Toryou who bear his name great - unties deal? 522

TRANSLATED OUT OF GAZEUS.
Vota Amico facta. Føl. 160.

GOD

grant thee thine own wish, and grant thee mine,
Thou who dost, best friend, in best things outshine:
May thy soul, ever chearful, ne'er know cates;
Nor thy life, ever lively, know grey hairs; :
Nor thy hand, ever open, know base holds;
Nor thy purse, ever plump, know plaits or folds;
Nor thy tongue, ever true, know a false thing;
Nor thy words, ever mild, know quarrelling;
Not thy works, ever equal, know disguise;
Nor thy fame, ever pure, know contumelies;
Nor thy prayers know low objects, still divine:
God grant thee thine own wish, and grant thee mine 12

And cannot pleasure chuse ;
When I am caught he can be gone,
And when he list refuse:

Nor he that loves none but fair,
For such by all are sought;

Nor he that can for foul ones care,
For his judgment then is naught:

Nor he that hath wit, for he
Will make me his jest or slave;
Nor a fool, for when others---
He can neither---

Nor he that still his mistress prays,
For she is thrall'd therefore;
Nor he that pays not, for he says
Within she's worth no more.

Is there then no kind of men
Whom I may freely prove?
I will vent that humour then
In this mine own self-love.

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THE heavens rejoice in motion; why should I a: 19 H Abjure my so much-lov'd variety,

And not with many youth, and lov'd, divide? *ai ž Pleasure is none if not diversify'd.

The sun that, sitting in the chair of light,

Sheds flame into what else soever doth seem bright, A
Is not consented at one sign to inn,

But ends his year, and with a new begins.
All things do willingly in change delight,
The fruitful mother of our appetite;

Rivers the clearer and more pleasing are,

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Where their fair spreading streams run wide and clear;
And a dead lake, that no strange bark doth greet,
Corrupts itself, and what doth live in it.
Let no man tell me such a one is fair,
And worthy, all alone, my love to share:
Nature in her hath done the liberal part-
Of a kind mistress, and employ'd her art
To make her loveable; and I aver

Him not humane that would turn back from her....20

I love her well, and would. if need were, die
To do her service, but follows it that I

Must serve her only when I may have choice? LA The law is hard, and shall not have my voice. mo The last I saw in all extremes is fair,

ng dub baa. And hoids me in the sun-beams of her hair÷vo 979H Her nymph-like features such agreements have, bn A That I could venture with her to the grave wa