In all her equipage: befides to know 10 Both fpiritual pow'r and civil, what each means, The bounds of either fword to thee we owe : Therefore on thy firm hand religion leans XVIII. On the late maffacre in Piemont *. Avenge, O Lord, thy flaughter'd faints, whofe bones Their moans 5 To Heav'n. Their martyr'd blood and ashes fow 10 *This perfecution of the Proteftants in Piemont broke out in 1655. In May that year Cromwell wrote feveral letters to the Duke of Savoy, and other potentates and ftates, complaining of that perfecution. Echard tells us, that he proclaimed a faft, and caufed large contributions to be gathered for them in England; that he fent his agents to the Duke of Savoy, a prince with whom he had no correfpondence or commerce, and the next year fo engaged Card. Maza、rine, and even terrified the Pope himself, without fo much as doing any favour to the English Roman Catholics, that the Duke thought it neceffary to reftore all that he had taken from them, and renewed all thofe privileges they had formerly enjoyed. "So great (adds Echard) "was the terror of his name; nothing being more ufual than his fay«ing, that his ships in the Mediterraneon fhould vifit Civita Vecchia, and the found of his cannon fhould be heard in Rome." A hundred fold, who having learn'd thy way XIX. On his blindness. When I confider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, XX. To Mr. LAWRENCE*. Lawrence of virtuous father virtuous fon, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, 5 This Mr. Lawrence was the fon of the Prefident of Cromwell's council. What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, He who of thofe delights can judge, and fpare XXI. To CYRIAC SKINNER*. Cyriac, whofe grandfire on the royal bench And what the Swede intends, and what the French. XXII. To the fame. Cyriac, this three years day these eyes, tho' clear, 10 5 10 * Cyriac Skinner was the fon of William Skinner, Efq; and grandfon of Sir Vincent Skinner, and his mother was daughter of the famous Lord Chief Juftice Coke. Mr. Wood relates, that he was one of Harrington's political club, and sometimes held the chair; and farther adds, that he was a merchant's fon of London, and ingenious young gentleman and scholar to John Milton. Bereft of light their feeing have forgot, Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but ftill bear up and steer Right onward. What fupports me, dost thou ask ? The confcience, Friend, to' have loft them overply'd 10 In liberty's defenfe, my noble task, Of which all Europe talks from fide to fide. This thought might lead me through the world's vain Content tho' blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. On his deceased Wife *. [mask Methought I faw my late efpoufed faint Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint And fuch, as yet once more I trust to have But O as to embrace me fhe inclin❜d, I wak'd, fhe fled, and day brought back my night. 5 10 This was his fecond wife, Catharine the daughter of Capt. Woodcock of Hackney, who lived with him not above a year after their mairiage, and died in childbed of a daughter. PSA L M S. PSALM I. Done into verfe, 1653. Lefs'd is the man who hath not walk'd aftray BLefs'd In counsel of the wicked, and i' th' way For the Lord knows the upright way of the juft, PSAL. II. Done Aug. 8, 1653. Terzette. WHY do the Gentiles tumult, and the nations WHY 15 Mufe a vain thing, the kings of the earth upstand With pow'r, and princes in their congregations Lay deep their plots together thro' each land Against the Lord and his Meffiah dear? Let us break off, fay they, by ftrength of hand M 5 |