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In th' orb empyreal will they make, those three
That will outshine the radiant Cassiopee.

But stay: these blundering lines do wrong the blest,
Let Yare and Isca murmur out the rest:
Only our dropping tears shall never stint,
Till on his marble they these words imprint:

Maugre the peevish world's complaint,
Here lies a Bishop and a saint.

Whom Ashby* bred, and Granta nurs'd
Whom Halsted, and old Waltham first
To rouz the stupid world from sloth,
Heard thund'ring with a golden mouth,
Whom Wor'ster next did dignifie,
And honoured with her Deanry:
Whom Exon lent a mitred wreath,
And Norwich, where he ceas'd to breath.
These all with one joint voice do cry,
Death's vain attempt, what doth it mean?
My Son, my Pupil, Pastor, Dean,

My rev'rend Father, cannot die.

Deflevit H. N. B. D.

de-la-zouch.

IN OBITUM AMPLISSIMI PATRIS J. H. EPISCOPI

NORVICENSIS,

IAMBI RECTI.

INDULTE coeli tam benigno munere,
Quantis tuorum luctibus refers pedem,
Facunde Præsul! quo domante multiceps
Pecu, profanas ordini intentans sacro
Latè ruinas, concidit; quo vindice,
Censûs secundi Flamen anctus infula
Nondum superbit; siquibus distinguere
Humana brutis arma jam cordi fiet;
Mentisq; doctæ si tropea viribus
Nequam protervis præferant. Olim tuos
Sensit lacertos factio Brownistica:

Antistes ille septicolli culmine,

Superbus olim sensit. Ut tantùm cluat

Sagata virtus, neutiquam toga minor
Incedis, hinc te duplicis serti decus,
Oliva, laurus, gloriâ pari beat.
Tricisque præpedita conscientia
Quàm dexter adsis perpetim fatebitur,
Quàm luculentâ nubilam ducas fide,
Cujusq; scripti quæ venusta lumina !
Qualésque nervi! cuncta quàm normaliter
Concinna, queis sunt attributa partibus!
Piâq; suavitate quem non detinent!
Sed quæ Camana, dulcibus fastigiis
Dignanda coeli, pergat exiles domos
Rectoris alti, spiritus et accolas
Referre tecum? quando penè libera
Mens jam senilis corticem perrumpere,

Coepit catastæ, et limpido vesci æthere,
O quanta pomis indidem mysteria!
At vita qualis sanctitatis! quàm pii
Foecunda amoris! quámq; nullis seculi
Exulcerata cladibus, quas ordine
Longo furentes, miles infractus pati!
Lætisque possis impiger cervicibus.
Partes in omnes qui volet te prosequi
Laudum canenti quanta cresceret seges!
Sed nos Galenus.

Instantibus amicis extempore profudit,

J.W. M.D.C.L.

ΤΟ MASTER JOSUAH SYLVESTER, OF HIS BARTAS METAPHRASED.

I DARE confess, of muses more than nine,
Nor list, nor can I envy none but thine.
She, drencht alone in Šion's sacred spring
Her Maker's praise hath sweetly chose to sing,
And reacheth nearest th' angel's notes above;
Nor lists to sing or tales or wars or love.
One while I find her, in her nimble flight,
Cutting the brazen spheres of heaven bright:
Thence, straight she glides, before I be aware
Through the three regions of the liquid air:
Thence rushing downe, through Nature's closet door,
She ransacks all her grandame's secret store;
And diving to the darkness of the deep,
Sees there what wealth the waves in prison keep;
And, what she sees above, below, between,
She shows and sings to others ears and eyne.
'Tis true, thy muse another's steps doth press
The more's her pain, nor is her praise the less.
Freedom gives scope unto the roving thought;
Which, by restraint, is curb'd. Who wonders aught,
That feet unfettered, walken far, or fast?

Which, pent with chains, mote want their wonted haste.
Thou followest Bartasses diviner streine;

And singst his numbers in his native vein.
Bartas was some french angel, girt with bayes
And thou, a Bartas art, in English lays.
Whether is more! me seems (the sooth to sayn)
One Bartas speaks in tongues,-in nations twain.

JOS. HALL.

INDEX.

ACT for the propagation of religion in Wales, 362.

Apprentices, of London, their petition against the church, 214, 271, 272.
Army, insisting on toleration, 339 taking the sovereign power into their
own hands, 349. Remonstrance of, ibid. Secure the person of the
king in Hurst castle, 350. Shut out the presbyterian members from
parliament. determine to impeach the king, ib.
Assembly of Divines, 309. prohibited by the king, ib. forsaken by the
episcopal divines, 310. manage church matters, 313.

Bagshaw, 167.

Barebone's parliament, 366. their intended reformation, 367. described
by Clarendon, ib. dissolve themselves, 369.

Barton, 148, 149, 193.

Bastwick, ib.

Bill, to exclude ecclesiastics from civil employments, 221. Clarendon's
remarks upon it, ib. His majesty's opinion of it, 223. passed the
commons, ib. opposed and thrown out in the house of lords, 224.
Bishop Hall's speech on the occasion, 224-230.

Bill, for abolishing deans and chapters, 233. for the extirpation of epis-
copacy, 230. opposed, 231. read a second time, ib. Clarendon's
manœuvre respecting it, 232.

-For taking away the bishops' votes, passed, 282. opposed by the
Bishop of Rochester and the Earl of Bedford, ib. obtained the royal
assent, 285.

-To continue parliament, 242. to abolish the high commission, and the
star chamber, 243. for the abolition of episcopacy, 308, 309, 329.
Bishops, many of them disposed to remove offensive innovations, 217.
Their cares and anxieties, 121, note. Their protestation, 275--277.
Their plea and demurrer, 247, 270. Their houses threatened to be pulled
down, 274. determine not to quit the parliament, ib. Twelve protest-
ing impeached, 279. entreated to relinquish their right of voting, 282.
Twelve protesting petition for council, 291. Their trial, ib. 292.
released, 293. when prisoners in the tower, preach every Sunday, 294.
Blundel, Peter, 15.

are

Book of Sports, 72. republished, 131. Copy of, 131--138. bad effects
of it, 138--142. refused to be read by many of the clergy, 139. the
cause of much trouble to them, 139, 140. not mentioned in the Works
of Bishop Hall, 143.

Brown, Robert, some account of, 48, 49.

Brownists, 48, 49, 50.

Burnet, Bishop, quoted, 333.

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