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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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<P>BON-ACORDS DECOREMENT.</P>
<P><HI>OR,</HI> Newes from the North. Wherein is truely expre&s;&s;ed the forme (or &s;ituati|on) of the famous Citie of new <HI>Aberdeene,</HI> the vertues of the honourable and re|nowned governours thereof, toge|ther with the&s;e Grampians Anagrames.</P>
<P>Wherewith is adjoyned the proofe, and prai&s;e of cha&s;t Beautie, and the &s;corne of Idols.</P>
<P>By <HI>William Mercer.</HI></P>
<P>Printed Anno DOM. 16<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="encomium">
<PB REF="3">
<HEAD>Vpon the Author.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THry&s;e happie <HI>Abria,</HI> to who&s;e la&s;ting Fame,</L>
<L>Right valiant <HI>Mercers</HI> Mu&s;e hath vndergone:</L>
<L>To gild, in rich encomiums each mans name,</L>
<L>Like <HI>Mars,</HI> and <HI>Maro,</HI> both combynd in one,</L>
<L>For to your prai&s;e what hee hath pend in word,</L>
<L>Hee bravely vowes for to maintaine by &s;word.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>W. Dow.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
<PB REF="3">
<HEAD>TO THE RIGHT HO|NOVRABLE, THE TRVELY <HI>RENOW|NED, AND WORTHILY RESPECTED</HI> PAVL MEINZIES of <HI>Kinmoundie.</HI> Lord Prove&s;t, M^r. VEDAST LOWSON, PATRICK LESLIE, GILBERT COLINSONE, and M^r. THOMAS GRAY, Baillies, <HI>M^r. Mathew Lom&s;den,</HI> Dean of Gild, <HI>Charles Keillo</HI> The&s;aurer, and to the renowned Coun&s;ellers <HI>and members of the Coun&s;ell of Aberdene,</HI> wi&s;hes Grace, Honour, Promotion, and <HI>Peace in this life, and everla&s;ting</HI> glorie in the life to come. <HI>W. M.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>_REnowned Rulers of this &s;acred &s;eat,</L>
<L>Wherein all goodne&s;se, graciou&s;ly abound,</L>
<L>Who&s;e fames for worth, who&s;e vertues are compleat</L>
<L>Who&s;e liues are lights, who&s;e learnings are profound&punc;</L>
<L>Among&s;t all the&s;e, who loue your vertues be&s;t,</L>
<L>And they who&s;e workes vnfained witne&s;&s;e beare,</L>
<L>I'm loath to bee, the la&s;t, albeit the lea&s;t,</L>
<L>Who would approue, how I your worth admeare.</L>
<L>Therefore let this invention of my Mu&s;e,</L>
<L>(Which though not worthie, boldly weares the ba</L>
<L>Of the&s;e your names, even for its worthie&s;t chu&s;</L>
<L>Obtaine your loue, its errors to inhedge:</L>
<L>And let it plea&s;e you, the&s;e my Lynes to take</L>
<L>Into good part, and doe my paines approue:</L>
<L>If nought for el&s;e, yet for affections &s;ake,</L>
<L>And for a&s;&s;urance heereby of my loue:</L>
<L>And &s;ince I know your generous minds admit,</L>
<L><PB REF="4">A &s;igne of loue, as were more worth therein:</L>
<L>Heerefore am bold to beate my braines and wit,</L>
<L>To &s;ee if I can to your vertues win:</L>
<L>For loe for loue, on my part of your worth,</L>
<L>And through de&s;ire for to ingraue your glore,</L>
<L>I haue imployde my pen, for to &s;et forth,</L>
<L>Your ju&s;t de&s;erts, by men admyrde before.</L>
<L>And that my Lynes may ever witne&s;se bee,</L>
<L>For to impart a portion of your prai&s;e,</L>
<L>Although &s;uch knowledge not con&s;i&s;ts in mee,</L>
<L>To wryte your worth, or dignities to rai&s;e:</L>
<L>Yet though my words&punc; &s;hould render but a view,</L>
<L>And not attaine, the full to te&s;tifie,</L>
<L>This I profe&s;&s;e to bee your proper due,</L>
<L>Yee are of the &s;uperlatiue degree.</L>
<L>And as th' <HI>Arcadians,</HI> gaue to <HI>Pales</HI> bot</L>
<L>A fleece of woole to te&s;tifie their loue:</L>
<L>Th' <HI>Athenians</HI> loe, to <HI>Pallas</HI> did alot,</L>
<L>A di&s;h of O liues, duetie to approue,</L>
<L>So likewi&s;e I, haue with the&s;e two nothing</L>
<L>To giue, but the&s;e vnpoli&s;ht lynes of mine:</L>
<L>Which I confe&s;se not worthie is to bring</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;uch Patrones, for my first propyne.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>Minerva,</HI> did an Owle defend,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> vnder covert of her Targ at &s;aue:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> did her liuely armes extend,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> the deformde <HI>Cyclops</HI> might perceaue.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>Apollo</HI> by his heav'nly Lute,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">, <HI>night-raven,</HI> vnder it did hyde:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> plea&s;e you, to &s;upplie my &s;ute,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eerein keepe my errors vne&s;pyde:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> I finde the &s;ecreet of my thought,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> can know, till they the &s;ame &s;hall view,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> perfection fully brought,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> loue was firmely fixt on you:</L>
<L><PB REF="4">And though &s;ometimes I &s;ecreetly did &s;end,</L>
<L>Some lynes abroad, or yet to publicke eye,</L>
<L>My aime was ay, but that I might amend,</L>
<L>The &s;ame to you, your worth to te&s;tifie.</L>
<L>Con&s;idering then, the worthine&s;se of you,</L>
<L>I did determine, as the trueth requyrde,</L>
<L>Yee were the onely object whom I knew,</L>
<L>My Mu&s;e of duetie ought to haue a&s;pyrde.</L>
<L>Therefore at la&s;t the&s;e Lynes I did compo&s;e,</L>
<L>Which being done, I doe pre&s;ent them heere,</L>
<L>To craue your aid, to keepe them from their foes,</L>
<L>Which if they finde, they &s;hall not fret for feare.</L>
<L>And I who pend them, &s;hall your prai&s;e proclame,</L>
<L>And &s;till procure your honours re&s;t on hie:</L>
<L>Your &s;everall names, and actions conque&s;e fame,</L>
<L>Which by all ages may admeered bee:</L>
<L>Then in the ballance of affection, proue</L>
<L>And try my labours, if they equall are,</L>
<L>Vnto one motion, of my matchle&s;&s;e loue,</L>
<L>And yee &s;hall find my favour pa&s;&s;e them farre:</L>
<L>And though I can no prote&s;tations make,</L>
<L>Yet for your honour, I &s;hall alwayes pray,</L>
<L>Vnto &s;uch tyme, as I occa&s;ion take,</L>
<L>To proue more largely I am yours for ay.</L>
<L>Thus you intreating, yee will plea&s;ed bee,</L>
<L>Them to receaue, and loue them for the Art,</L>
<L>Whence in &s;ome maner, they proceede yee &s;ee,</L>
<L>And doe receaue re&s;emblance in apart:</L>
<L>So of you all, what is divine as due,</L>
<L>I to the three vnited powers commend,</L>
<L>And what is &s;ubject vnto change of you</L>
<L>I know your valour alwayes will defend</L>
<L><PB REF="5">As for my part, what power I can afford,</L>
<L>To death I &s;hall &s;till honour <HI>Bon-acord.</HI></L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>And re&s;ts Your Wor&s;hips and Wi&s;edomes mo&s;t ob&s;equious and truely affectionated &s;erviture at power
William Mercer.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="sonnet">
<HEAD>SONNET.</HEAD>
<HEAD>Acrostick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>W With Manhood, Mu&s;icke, and a Poets mynd,</L>
<L>I In &s;trength, in mirth, and lynes of ver&s;e I vow,</L>
<L>L Loue hath a cord, of threefold links combynd,</L>
<L>L Like one who&s;e worth no violence can bow:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> In, and whereby, I doe pre&s;ent to you,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> A lyuely Lanterne of my loyall loue,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> More haue I not, and le&s;&s;e &s;hall not &s;eeme due,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> My faithfull favour plainely to approue.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 words"> therefore no le&s;&s;e of mee then I</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 words"> heereby, for to de&s;erue to death,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 words"> rather v&s;e &s;ome &s;trategem to try,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 words"> if my words proceed from fixed faith,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 words"> al&s;o, that this threefold band,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 words"> Can &s;er<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e three v&s;es, as you plea&s;e command.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>W. M.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
<PB REF="5">
<HEAD>To the generall Reader.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>REader, remembring that my lynes mu&s;t bee,</L>
<L>Of force to all pre&s;ented publickly:</L>
<L>And that they are not deckt with daintie phra&s;e,</L>
<L>Whereby they alwayes doe not merite prai&s;e:</L>
<L>I, as a Souldier, who defence would make,</L>
<L>Who&s;e part &s;ometimes, I honour had to act:</L>
<L>Con&s;idering that this worke of mine but dout,</L>
<L>Must bee with foes, envyrond round about,</L>
<L>Would faine erect a fort, to keepe it free</L>
<L>From carping of the curious enemie:</L>
<L>And therefore &s;triues this much (in thee) to moue,</L>
<L>That as thou reads, thou cen&s;ure mee in loue.</L>
<L>Which as I wi&s;h, I having once obtainde,</L>
<L>Heereby my lynes, &s;hall hence forth bee maintainde:</L>
<L>And (as a friend) if thou wilt not refu&s;e,</L>
<L>Thou's conqui&s;h kindne&s;&s;e, and advance my Mu&s;e.</L>
<L>Or if thou proue a <HI>Momus</HI> through envy,</L>
<L>Then in that ca&s;e, thy malice I defy:</L>
<L>A curious Critick, if thou &s;tryue to bee,</L>
<L>To carpe, I then contemne thy crueltie:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e thou frets, and fooli&s;hly doth prea&s;e,</L>
<L>To wrong my worke, but doth thy &s;elfe di&s;grace.</L>
<L>Therefore, before thou further on proceede,</L>
<L>Spare what ami&s;&s;e is, and mantaine the gude:</L>
<L>And if perchance, thou errors &s;hall perceaue,</L>
<L>Let the&s;e of myne, by thee a mends&punc; receaue:</L>
<L>Which from thy hands, I will bee glad to take</L>
<L>Albeit for nought, but for my maters &s;ake:</L>
<L>That all the honour, may (as due) increa&s;e,</L>
<L>To <HI>Bon-acord,</HI> who&s;e worth de&s;erues no le&s;se:</L>
<L><PB REF="6">But this I feare if &s;o thou thinke of mee:</L>
<L>That I lacke skill, thy wit &s;hall weaker bee,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e the ba&s;e&s;t and the naughtiest minde,</L>
<L>Doe alwayes malice, 'gain&s;t true vertue find<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</L>
<L>Therefore re&s;olue to read, to thinke and &s;weare,</L>
<L>That all is true that is inclo&s;ed heere.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>W. M.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="sonnet">
<HEAD>SONNET.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THE learned, and vnlearned, both the&s;e two,</L>
<L>Wi&s;e, and vnworthie I apeall them fro:</L>
<L>The learned wi&s;e, becau&s;e no doubt their skill,</L>
<L>Will &s;oone perceiue &s;ome errors heerein-till:</L>
<L>The ignorant vnworthie, I appaile,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e albeit they cannot judge, they'le raile,</L>
<L>Wherefore I wi&s;h, it plea&s;e them but to chu&s;e,</L>
<L>Some other &s;ubject, nor to wrong my Mu&s;e.</L>
<L>The wi&s;e may well by learning, &s;ee mee hault,</L>
<L>And yet perchance they cannot mend my fault:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> al&s;o may the ignorant blaze foorth</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> will, their words I reckon of no worth.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">herefore their be&s;t is both, as would appeare,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> That having read, vnchallengde they reteare.</L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
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<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="6">
<HEAD>TO THE FAMOVS, AND FLOVRISHING <HI>Citie of ABERDEINE.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<LG>
<HEAD>New ABERDEINS Anagramme.</HEAD>
<L>Wee debar &s;inn.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ver&s;e. <HI>Sinne wee debar,</HI> as yee perceiue, and faithfully afford,</L>
<L>Both love and peace, from whence wee have our diton <HI>Bon-acord.</HI></L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<LG>
<HEAD>Acrostick.</HEAD>
<L>IN ME,</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> generous <HI>Meinzies,</HI> beares governament,</L>
<L><HI>B</HI>ut by the worthie <HI>Colin&s;ens</HI> con&s;ent,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven &s;o, the loyall <HI>Low&s;ons</HI> honoureth mee,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>enouned <HI>Le&s;lies</HI> aids couragiou&s;lie.</L>
<L><HI>D</HI>oth not the ancient <HI>Iohn&s;tons</HI> grace mee ay</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>&s;teemd I am, for <HI>Collen, Rutherford, Gray</HI></L>
<L><HI>I</HI>s not brave <HI>Meldrum</HI> mine, mee to defend,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o le&s;&s;e the <HI>Iaffrayes, Robert&s;ons,</HI> &s;o I end,</L>
<L>And many more, who&s;e names though I &s;uppre&s;&s;</L>
<L>Makes mee renounde by vertues I confe&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><HI>W</HI>herefore then Reader, thus much of mee record,</L>
<L><HI>M</HI>ore famous worth, no Citie can afford.</L>
</LG>
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</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="7">
<HEAD>BON-ACORDS DECOREMENT.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>MNemo&s;ine,</HI> the Mu&s;es nyne I crave,</L>
<L>Send foorth from thee that I their aide may have,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e a Worke &s;o rare I heere intend,</L>
<L>Which though begunne by mee, the&s;e nyne mu&s;t end</L>
<L>Goe on, &s;aith &s;hee, they &s;hall a&s;si&s;t thy Mu&s;e,</L>
<L>I know thy worke doth merite no refu&s;e,</L>
<L>Row&s;e vp thy &s;pirits: the rare&s;t of tho&s;e nine,</L>
<L>I &s;hall advance to grace that worke of thine;</L>
<L>By who&s;e a&s;&s;i&s;tance, which I plea&s;de to a&s;ke,</L>
<L>Who lykes to heare, loe I beginne my taske.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>GReat <HI>Babylons</HI> building was ordainde for ea&s;e,</L>
<L>To bee the &s;eate of the&s;e three Monarchies,</L>
<L>Th' <HI>A&s;syrian, Greeke,</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ian,</HI> and did beare</L>
<L>Rule o're all Nations many thou&s;and yeare.</L>
<L>Within who&s;e power all princes did repare,</L>
<L>All Potentates, and Kings re&s;orted there:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> to admire, for to adore, and &s;ee</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;tate, the grandure and magnificencie</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;uch a &s;eate, wherein all pompe appearde,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">&s;e glore and &s;plendour greatly was admired.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ikewi&s;e <HI>Rome,</HI> fame doth record to bee</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">only &s;eate of the fourth Monarchie.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> next to <HI>Babel</HI> did all worth afford,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">de all earthly Kingdomes by her &s;word:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> frowne, the World was forc't to quake,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">aptiues in triumph did take.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">iters in hudge volumes &s;trive,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> the &s;ame for to de&s;crive.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> glorious workes aboundantly,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> the &s;ame to te&s;tifie.</L>
<L><PB REF="7">Of <HI>Athens</HI> al&s;o, hence what &s;hould I &s;ay,</L>
<L>Where worthie&s;t Romans in their &s;tate did &s;tay,</L>
<L>And in the &s;ame, was not a&s;hamde you &s;ee,</L>
<L>To learne all &s;cience, and civilitie:</L>
<L>And who for graue governament and wit,</L>
<L>No citie &s;hee, for &s;econd would admit:</L>
<L>And like as <HI>Sparta,</HI> was approvde and prai&s;de,</L>
<L>For Martiall worth, and o're all others rai&s;de.</L>
<L>Likewi&s;e their lyves, and vertues wrapt in &s;tore,</L>
<L>Did farre exceede the&s;e cities told before:</L>
<L>Which was to <HI>Mars</HI> a &s;eminarie fit,</L>
<L>For many warlike &s;prits were bred in it:</L>
<L>And who with force of &s;word, did conqui&s;h fame,</L>
<L>By Martiall deedes, to eternize their name:</L>
<L>As did appeare in many more then the&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>Ly&s;ander, Ages,</HI> and <HI>Clyomines,</HI></L>
<L>With others divers fa&s;hious to rehear&s;e,</L>
<L>Who&s;e worth is viewd, throughout the vniver&s;e:</L>
<L>And who for fame, all ages doth agree,</L>
<L>Vnto all Nations for to te&s;tifie,</L>
<L>Which heeretofore might bee examples rare,</L>
<L>For valour, worth, and vertues but compare:</L>
<L>Who&s;e gifts mo&s;t glorious, never yet hath beene</L>
<L>Once paraleld, or equalized &s;eene.</L>
<L>Till now by force, the&s;e foretold townes yee &s;ee</L>
<L>To <HI>Bon-acord</HI> yeelds by nece&s;&s;itie:</L>
<L>Since to them all, what did belong of old,</L>
<L>This Citie claimes mo&s;t ju&s;tly vncontrold:</L>
<L>For loe, more worth then all of the&s;e I meane,</L>
<L>It doth afford as is apparent &s;eene:</L>
<L>Since <HI>Athens</HI> no wayes herewith could compare</L>
<L>In learning, or civilitie mo&s;t rare:</L>
<L>And &s;ince that <HI>Sparta,</HI> for her valorous fame.</L>
<L>Of force mu&s;t flie, and heereto quyte her name:</L>
<L>And &s;eeing <HI>Babell,</HI> nor that <HI>Rome</HI> indeede,</L>
<L>For vertues no wayes could the &s;ame exceede:</L>
<L><PB REF="8">But as the heav'ns doth over reach the earth,</L>
<L>So in like &s;ort, it doth &s;urpa&s;&s;e their worth;</L>
<L>And like as &s;ince, is nothing vnto faith,</L>
<L>Or who would life, likewi&s;e compare to death:</L>
<L>Or like to man, by rea&s;on who is ble&s;t,</L>
<L>Who&s;e true perfection doth in grace con&s;i&s;t:</L>
<L>Or as a bea&s;t is nought, to man as farre</L>
<L>This Cities vertues, doth the&s;e Cities warre:</L>
<L>For they had but an outward &s;how of glore,</L>
<L>But this in &s;acred &s;ub&s;tance pa&s;&s;e them more:</L>
<L>And though their greatne&s;&s;e were more gro&s;&s;e then it</L>
<L>They all mu&s;t yeeld hereto, for vertuous wit:</L>
<L>And looke wherein the&s;e gloried mo&s;t, &s;aue ill,</L>
<L>This hath more cau&s;e to glorie therintill:</L>
<L>Which once &s;uch Bi&s;hops ble&s;t of memorie had,</L>
<L>Who doth lye &s;ecreet now in earthen bed:</L>
<L>Of famous race, by whom braue buildings &s;tand</L>
<L>In water &s;ome, &s;ome doth decore the land:</L>
<L>By <HI>Chein</HI> and <HI>Lichtoun,</HI> builded were alone,</L>
<L>Sanct <HI>Machers</HI> Church, likewi&s;e the bridge of <HI>Done:</HI></L>
<L>With other two rare buildings as yee &s;ee,</L>
<L>The Old towne Colledge, &amp; the bridge of <HI>Die:</HI></L>
<L>One <HI>Elphin&s;tone,</HI> began them as is told,</L>
<L>And both were fini&s;ht by <HI>Dumbar</HI> of old:</L>
<L>The one is builded vpon Pillers &s;even,</L>
<L>The other holds a Crowne, vp towards heaven;</L>
<L>One <HI>Steward</HI> famous, for his learning lovde,</L>
<L>As al&s;o <HI>Gordon,</HI> for his gifts approvde:</L>
<L>One <HI>Cunningham,</HI> the mirror of his dayes,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd <HI>Blackburne,</HI> likewi&s;e worthie of all prai&s;e,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Forbes</HI> then, and now a <HI>Forbes</HI> more,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ir&s;t mo&s;t rare, but this not matcht before,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> bygon Bi&s;hops, trea&s;ures were of faith,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> now in graue, yet triumphs over death:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 words"> of late, &s;uch prove&s;ts there hath beene,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> famous Towne of <HI>Aberdeene&punc;</HI></L>
<L><PB REF="8">Who&s;e generous &s;prits, who&s;e antient fame and worth,</L>
<L>My Pen can not impart, nor lynes &s;et forth,</L>
<L>So pa&s;&s;ing many, whom I could not know,</L>
<L>Of &s;ome into my tyme, I heere will &s;how.</L>
<L>A <HI>Cheine</HI> much worth, for grace and great renowne,</L>
<L>With linkes of loue, combyned to the Towne:</L>
<L>A prudent Prove&s;t, in this famous place,</L>
<L>And who likewi&s;e, was one of ancient race:</L>
<L>Then <HI>Colin&s;on</HI> their third fold confidence,</L>
<L>Of vertues, who was verie quinte&s;&s;ence:</L>
<L>The Cities comfort, who increa&s;t in grace,</L>
<L>And when but young, was Prove&s;t in that place:</L>
<L>Of ancient &s;tem and &s;tandard, even wheron</L>
<L>The towne relyde, as their chiefe corner &s;tone:</L>
<L>As borne &s;o bred, as livde &s;o died, and loe,</L>
<L>Of all, this all, wee conque&s;t but a &s;how:</L>
<L>Admeerde by men, for wi&s;edome, faith &amp; grace</L>
<L>A lanterne, fortres, favoured in his place:</L>
<L>Who dead yet liues, and who by fame &s;hall le&s;t,</L>
<L>In number one, ay of the worthie&s;t:</L>
<L>Who pa&s;t his pryme, even full of honours &s;hynd</L>
<L>When death in graue of &s;ilence him in&s;hrynde.</L>
<L>Wherefore with gold mo&s;t permanent impo&s;e,</L>
<L>Aboue his bones, this &s;tone all worth inclo&s;e.</L>
<L>As likewi&s;e for their learning they had two,</L>
<L>One liues in Heaven, the other liues below:</L>
<L>The one namde <HI>Gray,</HI> which though gray was his name,</L>
<L>This <HI>Gray</HI> doth glance in verie glorious fame,</L>
<L>The other <HI>Dun,</HI> &s;o doth his name declare,</L>
<L>Who&s;e knowledge in two &s;ciences is rare.</L>
<L>And as this <HI>Dun</HI> is much e&s;teemde by you,</L>
<L>This <HI>Dun</HI> doth yeeld a daintie coloured hew,</L>
<L>Since where pale death, would make your counte</L>
<L>Yee are revivde by vertue of this man,</L>
<L>Ev'n Principals both, &s;o doth their place import</L>
<L>Liues both by fame although <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 words"></L>
<L><PB REF="9">And gracious <HI>Gray,</HI> who&s;e learning was admeerd,</L>
<L>Who livde not long till &s;oone to earth reteerd,</L>
<L>With whom as due, a third I heere admit,</L>
<L>For learning rare, for Phi&s;ick wondrous fit:</L>
<L>Which <HI>I, on &s;tone,</HI> ingravd doth wi&s;h to &s;ee,</L>
<L>Thereby this <HI>Iohn&s;tons</HI> worth to te&s;tifie:</L>
<L>Who doth that place, which <HI>Liddell</HI> left &s;upply</L>
<L>Who&s;e name I heere expre&s;&s;e mo&s;t worthily</L>
<L>And who profe&s;t the Mathematicks airt,</L>
<L>Which in his ab&s;ence <HI>Iohn&s;ton</HI> doth impart,</L>
<L>And many mo, whom I can not expre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Who by ju&s;t merit did de&s;erue no le&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>As is confirmde in Chronicles for ay,</L>
<L>Who&s;e names, nor fames, &s;hall never find decay:</L>
<L>But by their worth, yet recent beares record,</L>
<L>What ancient honour's due to <HI>Bon-acord.</HI></L>
<L>And more you &s;ee of all, what can bee wi&s;ht,</L>
<L>But in this famous citie doth con&s;i&s;t:</L>
<L>For in within its curious corners &s;tand,</L>
<L>A towne which &s;eemes of force for to command</L>
<L>All cities el&s;e, to hyde them vnder &s;loughes,</L>
<L>Since &s;hees the matchle&s;&s;e method of al brughes</L>
<L>And whence apeare for poynts, which doth ari&s;e</L>
<L>Who&s;e worth a&s;cending, &s;eem to pierce the skyes</L>
<L>Vpon who&s;e tops &s;uch fethered fixions &s;tand,</L>
<L>As onely change at <HI>Eolus</HI> command,</L>
<L>And alwayes aimes, as they anone would flie:</L>
<L>To &s;ound abroad their burghs nobilitie:</L>
<L>Which turning and con&s;idering where they &s;it,</L>
<L>They doe re&s;olue, they will not pa&s;&s;e from it:</L>
<L>But rather glories for to glance thereon,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ince each of them, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e &s;uch &s;acred throne:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> by their yeelding all at once, to proue,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;malle&s;t motion, rules them all in loue:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> hereby that they may a cau&s;e afford,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o maintaine their title <HI>Bon-acord.</HI></L>
<L><PB REF="9">And &s;ince of them, each one a place po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Who&s;e walles are full of vpright holvne&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>They thinke it is their be&s;t, for to abide,</L>
<L>Se'ing loue, and good agrement is their guyde.</L>
<L>For vnder one doth &s;tand the trea&s;urie,</L>
<L>From whence doth flow, meanes of felicitie:</L>
<L>The other is on judgement grounded &s;ure,</L>
<L>Repre&s;&s;ing vices, vertues to procure:</L>
<L>The third &s;prings vp from charitie and loue,</L>
<L>As tho&s;e within its corners can aproue:</L>
<L>The la&s;t all learning, as the time relates,</L>
<L>Affords within the compa&s;&s;e of its gates:</L>
<L>So that the&s;e foure; are precious poynts you &s;ee,</L>
<L>As Mercie, Iu&s;tice, Learning, Charitie:</L>
<L>Which though mo&s;t rare, if three of the&s;e &s;hould lake,</L>
<L>But one, it &s;hould great imperfection make:</L>
<L>Wherefore all foure, on faith are founded &s;ure,</L>
<L>To make the name of <HI>Bon-acord</HI> indure:</L>
<L>The which though they antiquitie alledge,</L>
<L>Are much aduanced in this pre&s;ent age.</L>
<L>For they a Proue&s;t haue of pregnant wit,</L>
<L>Who&s;e worth to rule, it is approved fit:</L>
<L>Who&s;e skill, who&s;e knowledge, &amp; who&s;e deeds each day</L>
<L>Gravely pre&s;erues, the Citie from decay:</L>
<L>Who&s;e noble, wi&s;e, pregenitors of old,</L>
<L>Bore alwayes &s;wey, mo&s;t &s;avely vncontrold:</L>
<L>So that by birth, this honour is his owne,</L>
<L>Since his ance&s;tors brookt it as is knowne:</L>
<L>Hee by who&s;e workes in this illu&s;trous place,</L>
<L>Doth alwayes aime, for amitie and peace:</L>
<L>And by his actions, who doth &s;till approue,</L>
<L>To <HI>Bon-acord,</HI> his kyndly con&s;tant loue.</L>
<L>And in who&s;e time, hath &s;o decord the &s;ame,</L>
<L>That by his worth, it hath attaind much fame:</L>
<L>Fir&s;t and as be&s;t, then to record his care,</L>
<L>Hee heereto beares, may be accounted rare&punc;</L>
<L><PB REF="10">For in their charge Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall,</L>
<L>His aime can no wayes bee reputed &s;mall:</L>
<L>Since in his time &s;uch Prelate hath appearde,</L>
<L>As for his worth and learning is admeerd:</L>
<L>Who in this Kingdome, to the Church hath beene,</L>
<L>The grave&s;t guyde, that heeretofore was &s;eene:</L>
<L>Who&s;e Pa&s;tors likewi&s;e doe appeare for worth,</L>
<L>The rare&s;t men, which nature hath &s;ent forth:</L>
<L>1 A <HI>Forbes,</HI> who one letter more you &s;ee,</L>
<L>Doth proue his worth, <HI>For-be&s;t</HI> of all to bee:</L>
<L>2 A <HI>Barron</HI> ble&s;t, who&s;e learned workes decore,</L>
<L>The earth, which can yeeld none &s;uch <HI>Barron</HI> more.</L>
<L>3 A <HI>Sibbald,</HI> who may well bee bold indeede,</L>
<L>His boldne&s;&s;e brings the &s;tarving &s;oules true foode,</L>
<L>4 A <HI>Guild,</HI> who&s;e goodne&s;&s;e is more worth I vow,</L>
<L>Then gold, and all the goods which ever grew,</L>
<L>5 A <HI>Ro&s;&s;e</HI> likewi&s;e, &s;ome lend mee but one vowell,</L>
<L>I's make this <HI>Roi&s;e</HI> more worth then precious Iewell:</L>
<L>Whilks, <HI>Forbest, Barron, Sibbald, Guild,</HI> and <HI>Roi&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Confirmes the faithfull, and confounds Church foes.</L>
<L>And whence doth &s;pring as from fyue fountaines fyne,</L>
<L>Renowned knowledge, doctrine mo&s;t divine:</L>
<L>A Famous, Ble&s;&s;ed, Sacred, Glorious, Rare,</L>
<L>Religion, alwayes, doth they witne&s;&s;e there.</L>
<L>In preaching, praying, and the&s;e men yee heare,</L>
<L>In <HI>Bon-acord,</HI> a <HI>Bon-acord</HI> they beare,</L>
<L>To proue how heaven, and earth, and men all three,</L>
<L>In rendring prai&s;e to <HI>Bon-acord</HI> agree,</L>
<L>And for to &s;hew, that <HI>Bon-acord</HI> hath beene,</L>
<L>And is a diton due to <HI>Aberdene</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ince all the&s;e fore&s;aids, and things low and &s;teepe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oncurres in one, a Bon-acord to keepe,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> of their per&s;ons, and &s;ome certaine parts,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> aimde, to act their rare de&s;erts:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 words"> cea&s;e, till I haue wrought a view,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">peciall what belongs to them as due,</L>
<L><PB REF="10">And yet &s;u&s;pecting that my Mu&s;e or merits</L>
<L>Should proue but weake, to write of &s;uch braue &s;pirits,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e I cannot paint their vertues foorth,</L>
<L>Who all are calld the quinte&s;&s;ence of worth,</L>
<L>I will not prea&s;e to penin poe&s;ie,</L>
<L>Nothing at all of them particularlie:</L>
<L>But will breakefoorth, to witne&s;&s;e to all eyes</L>
<L>In generall what the open Vniver&s;e &s;ees,</L>
<L>For loe, they all haue this attaind alone,</L>
<L>Their Towne doth &s;tand by Gentle-men eachone.</L>
<L>Likewi&s;e this Burgh it is decor'de you &s;ee,</L>
<L>With Rivers two, its bounds to beautifie,</L>
<L>And as a Lover doth approach his love,</L>
<L>Who filde with plea&s;ure, doth at la&s;t remove,</L>
<L>Hee &s;tands a farre, and ravi&s;h'd lookes aback,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e in her &s;uch plea&s;ure hee doth take,</L>
<L>Yet re&s;ts not long but rageth &s;till you &s;ee,</L>
<L>Till in her armes full &s;oone hee throwen bee,</L>
<L>Who&s;e beautie then hee doth imbrace ev'n till,</L>
<L>Hee of his love hath love attainde his fill.</L>
<L>And &s;o beeing &s;erv'd, and &s;atiat with de&s;ire,</L>
<L>Hee from his Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e doth at la&s;t retire.</L>
<L>Ev'n &s;o, the&s;e floods, or roaring Rivers &s;wells,</L>
<L>Delyting daylie to embrace her walles,</L>
<L>And blythlie beates till they them&s;elves retires,</L>
<L>By <HI>Neptunes</HI> cour&s;e, who on her worth admires.</L>
<L>And there as fraught with love a&s;toni&s;ht &s;tands,</L>
<L>In furious forme, &s;eeming to wring their hands.</L>
<L>And then anone they doe per&s;ue &s;o nye,</L>
<L>On either &s;ide, till they advanced bee:</L>
<L>And &s;o doe wa&s;h her walls, and &s;eeks no more,</L>
<L>Which they account to bee their greate&s;t glore,</L>
<L>Vnto which Towne, men &s;car&s;lie can atteine</L>
<L>To come, but by two bridges as is &s;eene,</L>
<L>Which they did build to benefite by tho&s;e,</L>
<L>Such Pa&s;&s;eugers, as thereby ha&s;tily goes,</L>
<L><PB REF="11">And to expede the poore perchance by lot,</L>
<L>Who haue not money to command a boat,</L>
<L>As al&s;o for defence, to bee two forts,</L>
<L>For to hold off inva&s;ions from their Ports.</L>
<L>And who by force can equall power afford</L>
<L>For to defend the worth of <HI>Bon-accord.</HI></L>
<L>In which, for <HI>Mu&s;ick, Latine, Writing,</HI> they</L>
<L>Have three, who&s;e fames for Art &s;hall la&s;t for ay</L>
<L><HI>Wedderburne, David&s;one,</HI> and one <HI>Le&s;lie,</HI></L>
<L>Nor can bee pend, makes vp this number three,</L>
<L>And as in it the&s;e vertues all abound,</L>
<L>I meane true honour, learning mo&s;t profound.</L>
<L>Likewi&s;e the Mu&s;es heere a meeting have,</L>
<L>That they may &s;till the name of Mu&s;ick &s;ave:</L>
<L>Since as a Fountaine it all Mu&s;ick yeelds,</L>
<L>And conduit like convoyes it throgh the fields,</L>
<L>So that albeit it generall now bee come,</L>
<L>Were not this Towne, they &s;hortly would &s;ing dumbe.</L>
<L>For heere &s;o long its re&s;idence hath beene,</L>
<L>That whence comes Mu&s;ick but from <HI>Aberdene.</HI></L>
<L>And in its &s;elfe &s;o much it doth abound:</L>
<L>That ev'n the bells ring mu&s;ick when they &s;ound</L>
<L>As Likewi&s;e, what is by rare men invented,</L>
<L>Within them&s;elves by <HI>Raban</HI> is imprinted:</L>
<L>Which <HI>Rabans</HI> skill doth &s;oare and &s;o ari&s;e,</L>
<L>That in his workes, hee doth &s;urmount the skies</L>
<L>And in who&s;e Per&s;on, doth appeare the&s;e three,</L>
<L>A Poet, Printer, one for Prophe&s;ie.</L>
<L>So I will cea&s;e, albeit I more could &s;ay,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ecau&s;e their vertues doe increa&s;e each day,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;ince I can not, wryte even what I will,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 words"> vnto perfection heereintill:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rofe&s;&s;e and heerewithall will re&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">owne doth much triumph, the&s;e men are ble&s;t,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">erefore who reads in reverence, this record,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ee the doubtle&s;&s;e due of <HI>Bon-acord.</HI></L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
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<PB REF="11">
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>The Coun&s;ell Table of New Aberdene.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>1.</CELL>
<CELL>3.</CELL>
<CELL>5.</CELL>
<CELL>7.</CELL>
<CELL>9.</CELL>
<CELL>11.</CELL>
<CELL>13.</CELL>
<CELL>15.</CELL>
<CELL>17.</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="3">&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>B.</CELL>
<CELL>B.</CELL>
<CELL>D.</CELL>
<CELL>T.</CELL>
<CELL>C.</CELL>
<CELL>M.</CELL>
<CELL>M.</CELL>
<CELL>C.</CELL>
<CELL>T.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>G.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>M.</CELL>
<CELL>I.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>C.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>P. M. P.</CELL>
<CELL COLS="7">BON-ACORD</CELL>
<CELL>33</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
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</TABLE></P>
<LG>
<L>Behold the Coun&s;ell &s;eat of <HI>Bon-acord,</HI></L>
<L>How it with reverent Senators is &s;tord,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let <HI>Meinzies</HI> remaine, as governour fit,</L>
<L>Let <HI>Low&s;on</HI> likewi&s;e a coun&s;eller &s;it:</L>
<L>Let <HI>Le&s;lie</HI> liue al&s;o a ruler &s;till there,</L>
<L>Let <HI>Colin&s;on</HI> likewi&s;e, for vertues mo&s;t rare,</L>
<L>Let <HI>Gray</HI> in governing, as worthie be had,</L>
<L>Let <HI>Lom&s;dena</HI> Dean, if no more bee read:</L>
<L>Let <HI>Forquhare</HI> &s;till ma&s;ter of Kirke worke bee kend,</L>
<L>Let <HI>Keillo</HI> bee Trea&s;aurer, ay to the end,</L>
<L>Let <HI>Colin&s;on, Meinzies,</HI> and <HI>Stewart</HI> all three,</L>
<L>Let <HI>Cochrum</HI> as al&s;o &s;till Coun&s;ellers bee,</L>
<L>Let <HI>Duvie,</HI> and <HI>Paipe,</HI> and <HI>Duffe</HI> bee no le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Let <HI>Ram&s;ay</HI> and <HI>Clarke</HI> their knowledge expre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Let <HI>Gairdin</HI> bee Deacon convener as due,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e his a&s;&s;i&s;tance, giues aide vnto you:</L>
<L>Let <HI>Robert&s;on, Clarke,</HI> for cunningne&s;&s;r bee,</L>
<L>Let <HI>Ingrem</HI> his actions, in ab&s;ence &s;upplie,</L>
<L>And &s;o from the Prove&s;t, where fir&s;t I began,</L>
<L>The Cities &s;oll comfort, that generous man,</L>
<L>I heere haue expre&s;t, the Baillies and loe,</L>
<L>The Coun&s;ellers likewi&s;e, who&s;e wi&s;edomes I know:</L>
<L>Which number, no que&s;tion by their actions &s;hew out&punc;</L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="12">
<HEAD>TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE, THE RIGHT Worthie, and truely Religious, <HI>Paul Meinzies</HI> of <HI>Kilmoundie,</HI> Lord Prove&s;t.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagrams">
<LG>
<HEAD>1. Anag.</HEAD>
<L>Pleis me in zeal:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>2. Anag.</HEAD>
<L>I &s;pie ye ev'll man.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ver&s;. <HI>Pleis me in zeal,</HI> of &s;inne I'm grieved whan,</L>
<L>Within my place, <HI>I &s;pie the ev'll man.</HI></L>
<L>Ver&s;. <HI>Pleas me in ze'll</HI> in vyce doe not debord,</L>
<L>I cannot &s;uffer &s;inne in <HI>Bon-acord.</HI></L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Acro&s;tick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>P</HI> Prai&s;de worthy <HI>Timoleon,</HI> generous, mylde, &amp; graue</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> A <HI>Grecian</HI> borne, who&s;e vertues are inrolde,</L>
<L><HI>W</HI> Who&s;e valour did a Pui&s;ant Prince, and braue,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI> Lead captiue, cald <HI>Dioni&s;ius,</HI> vncontrold,</L>
<L><HI>M</HI> Mo&s;t worthie Chiftan, whom the earth could clame</L>
<L><HI>E</HI> Even he who&s;e acts, the vniver&s;e doth view,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> Is not to bee more eternizde by fame,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI> Nor thou for worth (to witne&s;&s;e) who thee knew:</L>
<L><HI>Z</HI> Zeale is thy glorie, &s;till thou aimes for peace,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI> Eternall prai&s;e, thy labours &s;hall adore:</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> In thee true honour dignifies thy place,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI> Since in thy brea&s;t, all vertues re&s;t in &s;tore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And as <HI>Timoleon, Cicil</HI> did maintaine,</L>
<L>Likewi&s;e thy wi&s;edome ruleth <HI>Aberdene.</HI></L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="sonnet">
<PB REF="12">
<HEAD>Ad Eundem.</HEAD>
<HEAD>SONNET.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>By name^1, by place^2, by birth^3, by fame^4, thou art^5,</L>
<L>A Paul^1, a Prove&s;t^2, noble^3, wi&s;e^4, expert^5,</L>
<L>The Townes triumph, a governour mo&s;t fit,</L>
<L>For con&s;cience, knowledge, cariage, faith, and wit.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Belovd^1, approvd^2, admeerd^3, reteerd^4, and thou^5,</L>
<L>By all^1, for all^2, in all^3, from ill^4, art true^5,</L>
<L>Procleamd^1, e&s;teemde^2, vn&s;taind^3, and trea&s;ure^4 &s;ure^5,</L>
<L>For worth^1, in life^3, for faith^2, which &s;hall^4, indure^5.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The head^1, the hope^2, the helpe^3, who doth afford^4,</L>
<L>The &s;ence^1, they haue^2, each day^3, in Bon-acord^4.</L>
<L>Who as a jewell, richt with tho&s;e gifts &s;o rare,</L>
<L>Decores the Towne, &s;till while thou rule&s;t there.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And as thy worth, hath conqui&s;ht great renowne,</L>
<L>Ev'n &s;o thy head, de&s;erves a Lawrell crowne.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="13">
<HEAD>To the right honorable <HI>Gilbert Meinzies</HI> of <HI>Petfodels.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>Ye &s;e I afford mo&s;t gudnes, le'&s;t ill.</HI></L>
<LG>
<L>Ver&s;. <HI>Ye &s;ee mo&s;t gudnes,</HI> dayly <HI>I afford,</HI></L>
<L>Likewi&s;e <HI>le'&s;t il,</HI> for ill by me is abhord.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Acro&s;tick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>G</HI> Giue <HI>Ages</HI> and <HI>Cleomines,</HI> were prai&s;de,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> In <HI>Sparta,</HI> two young Princes, valorous, wi&s;e</L>
<L><HI>L</HI> Likewi&s;e is <HI>Gaius</HI> and <HI>Tiberius</HI> rai&s;de:</L>
<L><HI>B</HI> Braue hopefull Princes, to the worlds eyes,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI> Even &s;ince and as, their fortune pa&s;t their yeares,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI> Renownde their worth is, o're their fottunes farre:</L>
<L><HI>T</HI> That nought till now, as all beholders &s;ees,</L>
<L><HI>M</HI> Might any match be found, their worth to warre:</L>
<L><HI>E</HI> E&s;tabli&s;h therefore, I thy valour would,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> In due compare the&s;e Princes to exceed,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI> No le&s;&s;e in noble vertues manyfold,</L>
<L><HI>Y</HI> Yen are the&s;e gifts in thee which nature breed,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI> E&s;peciall &s;ince the&s;e fore&s;aid foure heere pend,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> In all externall gifts, were not more rare,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI> Since al&s;o o're them doe thy prai&s;e extend,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;ince thy prudence &s;carce can finde compare,</L>
<L>Thou by who&s;e name, and fame wee plainely &s;ee,</L>
<L>Both noble birth, and liues in libertie.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="13">
<HEAD>To M^r. <HI>VIDAST LOWSONE.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>Lou's ay &s;et downe, Lou's elda&s;t &s;on.</HI></L>
<LG>
<L>Ver&s;. <HI>Lous ay &s;et down,</HI> where thou do&s;t &s;it, and loe,</L>
<L>Thy name neere &s;ayes, <HI>Lou's elde&s;t &s;on,</HI> al&s;o.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Acrostick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>W</HI> Wi&s;e <HI>Cato minor,</HI> noble Romane hee,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI> Even in his time, mo&s;t graue was thought to bee:</L>
<L><HI>D</HI> Doe wee not of <HI>Pericles</HI> likewi&s;e read,</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> As one vnto who&s;e prai&s;e, all Greece agreed:</L>
<L><HI>S</HI> Since at his death, hee gloried and did &s;ay,</L>
<L><HI>T</HI> That hee offended no man to that day:</L>
<L><HI>L</HI> Likewi&s;e that hee had no occa&s;ion wrought,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI> Of mourning when, hee to his graue was brought:</L>
<L><HI>W</HI> Was rather for his wi&s;edome much admeerde,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI> Since from all vyce, his vertues war reteerd:</L>
<L><HI>O</HI> Onely there's equall now appeares by thee,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI> No le&s;&s;e in wi&s;edome, grace and gravitie:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For in thy time, where vyce would worke awry,</L>
<L>Thou it reclaimes mo&s;t con&s;cienciou&s;ly.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>Ad Eundem.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>Mylde wi&s;edome, vertue, knowledge power, and place,</L>
<L>Religion, ju&s;tice equitie and peace:</L>
<L>All full of faith, vnited are in one,</L>
<L>To make thy &s;elfe a map of worth alone:</L>
<L>Not that I faine, but rather &s;tandes in feare,</L>
<L>Lea&s;t in thy prai&s;e deficient I appeare:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e no bud, or brybrie can bereaue,</L>
<L>The&s;e of true ju&s;tice, who thy aide doth craue:</L>
<L>Then in few words, this to thy prai&s;e I pen,</L>
<L>Thou'rt loude by GOD, and much admeerd by men:</L>
<L>For proofe, becau&s;e thou'rt fir&s;t preferd by God</L>
<L>And men (for worth) acconts thy vertues od.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="14">
<HEAD>To <HI>PATRICK LESLIE</HI> Baillie.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>I pertack les il.</HI></L>
<LG>
<L>Ver&s;. <HI>I pertack les il,</HI> nor many who would clame,</L>
<L>To be cald good, for &s;o imports my name.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Acro&s;tick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>P</HI> Preferrd was valorous <HI>Alcibiades,</HI></L>
<L><HI>A</HI> And &s;till e&s;teemde the &s;word of Greece to bee,</L>
<L><HI>T</HI> That in his time, to no man would giue place,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI> Rulling regions, mo&s;t couragiou&s;ly,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> Into who&s;e prai&s;e, this likewi&s;e is approvde,</L>
<L><HI>C</HI> Continually that hee did paine &s;u&s;taine:</L>
<L><HI>K</HI> Knowing his natiue countrie to bee movde,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI> Lea&s;t in defence, his &s;ervice was not &s;eene:</L>
<L><HI>E</HI> Even hee who&s;e power did diver&s;e times orecome,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI> Such <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Emperour, greate&s;t in his dayes,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI> Layes downe his &s;word to thee, as one to whom,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> Into thy actions, merites endle&s;&s;e prai&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI> Eternally that thou the &s;word may brooke,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Since in thy favours, hee the &s;ame for&s;ooke.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>Ad Eundem.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>True courage, valour, worth and manhood mixt,</L>
<L>Wherewith are kindne&s;&s;e, loue and faith prefixt:</L>
<L>Though young, yet wi&s;e, though &s;tout, yet wondrous loath,</L>
<L>To execute thy humor being wroth.</L>
<L>Of ancient &s;tem, and yet no pryde appeares,</L>
<L>But proues &s;o mode&s;t as the earth admeeres,</L>
<L>By &s;ame mo&s;t faithfull, and in promi&s;e true,</L>
<L>And who doth &s;trive, all vice for to e&s;chue,</L>
<L>One of thy &s;elfe, ev'n of more worth than I</L>
<L>Have skill to write, or yet to ver&s;ifie,</L>
<L>Therefore concludes thy vertues who envyes.</L>
<L>Couragious Le&s;lie all his foes defyes.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="14">
<HEAD>To <HI>GILBERT COLENSONE</HI> Baillie.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>No cruell &s;in begotin.</HI></L>
<LG>
<L>Ver&s;. <HI>No cruell &s;in begotin,</HI> is in thee,</L>
<L>But rather merits <HI>Pompeyes</HI> prai&s;e truely.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Acro&s;tick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>G</HI> Gif <HI>Pompey</HI> was among&s;t the Romans lovde,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> In &s;o farre as his cariage was mo&s;t myld:</L>
<L><HI>L</HI> Likewi&s;e his valour makes his worth approvde,</L>
<L><HI>B</HI> Becau&s;e by blame his deeds were vndefyld:</L>
<L><HI>E</HI> Even who &s;ubdude, full many kingdomes then,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI> Renownd was by the Romanes for his wit,</L>
<L><HI>T</HI> That in his time was much e&s;teemde by men,</L>
<L><HI>C</HI> Confe&s;t likewi&s;e to bee a ruler fit.</L>
<L><HI>O</HI> Onely till now no &s;econd hath beene &s;eene,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI> Like to this <HI>Pompey,</HI> but thy &s;elfe I &s;weare,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> Into who&s;e prai&s;e mo&s;t duelie appertaine,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI> No le&s;&s;e then all, that is included heere.</L>
<L><HI>S</HI> Such as are the&s;e, true favour free from ill,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI> One mode&s;t, wi&s;e, both myld and graue al&s;o,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI> Not that its &s;aid, but &s;ignifide intill,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thy actions, which in &s;ub&s;tance yeeld a &s;how,</L>
<L>And as the Romans <HI>Pompeys</HI> prai&s;e approvde,</L>
<L>No le&s;&s;e thy wayes in <HI>Bon-acord</HI> are lovde.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>Ad Eundem.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>If it &s;hould not bee partiall thought in mee,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e of friend&s;hip or affinitie:</L>
<L>I would my Mu&s;e, as worthie not admit,</L>
<L>For to de&s;cryue thy vertue, worth, and wit:</L>
<L>Since that no citie, nor no countrie can,</L>
<L>Produce, afford, or yeeld more wi&s;e young man,</L>
<L>So young I &s;ay, becau&s;e more dayes hath Iuly,</L>
<L>Nor thou hath yeeres, thy age who reckons truely:</L>
<L>And looke what yeere doe manie&s;t minuts moue,</L>
<L>They can not match the number who thee loue:</L>
<L>Who&s;e worth no view, as yeares or minutes yeeld,</L>
<L>But where profe&s;t in loue, la&s;ts as a &s;heeld.</L>
<L>Since neither endle&s;&s;e time, nor &s;uddaine change,</L>
<L>Thy loyall loue, or friend&s;hip can e&s;trainge.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="15">
<HEAD>To Mr, THOMAS GRAY, Baillie.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag, <HI>I go arayt ma'&s;t rair.</HI></L>
<LG>
<L>Ver&s;. Hee <HI>go's arayt ma'&s;t rair,</HI> with gifts of minde</L>
<L>Wherewith all outward vertues are combynd.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Sonnet Acrostick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>Ma&s;ter</L>
<L><HI>T</HI> That <HI>Brutus,</HI> whom a Roman was by birth,</L>
<L><HI>H</HI> Heroick, and yet mode&s;t in his minde,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI> One whom by <HI>Ce&s;ar,</HI> was e&s;teemde for worth,</L>
<L><HI>M</HI> Man in his time, for &s;econd hee could finde.</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> Albeit by birth, hee was brought foorth againe,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI> Should not bee thought but equall vnto thee,</L>
<L><HI>G</HI> Graue, mode&s;t, wi&s;e, who&s;e worth &s;hall ay remaine,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI> Renownde for prudence, and humilitie.</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> A man mo&s;t meete in publicke place to &s;tand,</L>
<L><HI>Y</HI> Yea, peerele&s;&s;e off-&s;pring, or the paterne rather,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Of &s;uch a parent, pre&s;ently at hand,</L>
<L>Who is thought worthie of &s;uch faithfull father:</L>
<L>Or who &s;hould bee, if <HI>Ce&s;ar,</HI> liud to day,</L>
<L>A helpe to him, &s;ince <HI>Brutus</HI> made but way.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>Ad Eundem.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>It is a wonder to perceiue and &s;ee,</L>
<L>A man &s;o youthfull, deckt with mode&s;tie:</L>
<L>As thou art &s;eene, and as thy deedes approue,</L>
<L>Each day, which doth proceede from faithfull loue.</L>
<L>And yet if wee con&s;ider will aright,</L>
<L>It &s;hall appeare no wonder in our &s;ight,</L>
<L>Since wee may &s;urely apprehend, that God.</L>
<L>Ingraft the&s;e gifts in thee which are mo&s;t od</L>
<L>To &s;hew how hee, his benefites impart,</L>
<L>To thee who&s;e worth, them merit by de&s;ert,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> for to proue how hee appeares each day,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> to procure thy fame, may la&s;t for ay.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="15">
<HEAD>To M^r. MATHEW LOMSDEN, Dean of Gild.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>Al the town de&s;'rs me ma&s;t.</HI></L>
<LG>
<L>Ver&s;. <HI>Al the town des'rs me ma&s;t</HI> to bee</L>
<L>Theirs: and of trueth, the &s;ame is wi&s;ht by mee</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Sonnet Acro&s;tick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>Ma&s;ter</L>
<L><HI>M</HI> Mo&s;t worthie, forward <HI>Philophemenes,</HI></L>
<L><HI>A</HI> A Grecian borne, and man of ancient race,</L>
<L><HI>T</HI> That in his pryme, or as his grandor ro&s;e</L>
<L><HI>H</HI> Had much envy by many Romi&s;h foes,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI> Even for his care his countrie to pre&s;erue,</L>
<L><HI>W</HI> Wherefore at la&s;t hee was content to &s;tarue:</L>
<L><HI>L</HI> Like to this man, thou doubtle&s;&s;e art I meane,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI> Onely except, invyde, thou art not &s;eene,</L>
<L><HI>M</HI> Mo&s;t carefull for thy towne and countrie, and</L>
<L><HI>S</HI> So forward therefore, thou decores the land,</L>
<L><HI>D</HI> Due prai&s;e pertaines therefore to thee and maire,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI> E&s;teemd to bee, nor <HI>Philopemenes</HI> heere:</L>
<L><HI>N</HI> Not for thy care alone, but likewi&s;e loue,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which &s;till the towne as they imploy approue,</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>Ad Eundem.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>Thy con&s;cience, knowledge, and thy pregnant wit,</L>
<L>Makes thee bee thought a coun&s;eller mo&s;t fit:</L>
<L>Thy faithfull forward friend&s;hip to the towne,</L>
<L>Affords ju&s;t cau&s;e to conqui&s;h thee renowne.</L>
<L>The care and loue which thereintill thou beares,</L>
<L>Makes all therein, that they thy worth admeeres:</L>
<L>Thou art mo&s;t meete, a generall charge to haue,</L>
<L>Since thou can render ju&s;tice where they craue:</L>
<L>And to bee briefe, my burden is too great,</L>
<L>To prai&s;e thy worth, and vertues mo&s;t perfyte:</L>
<L>Who as in all things, &s;o in learning thou,</L>
<L>Was fir&s;t a Ma&s;ter, now a Dean I vow.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="16">
<HEAD>To Ma&s;ter ROBERT FARWHAIRS.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>My re&s;t rests farr aboue.</HI></L>
<LG>
<L>Ver&s;. My Anagramme &s;ayes, albeit on earth I move,</L>
<L>From earthly &s;ence: <HI>My re&s;t re&s;ts farr aboue.</HI></L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Sonnet Acro&s;tick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>R</HI>enound <HI>Lucullus,</HI> hee of whom its told,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>'re <HI>Mithridates</HI> domineered &s;till,</L>
<L><HI>B</HI>rought likewi&s;e low <HI>Tigranes</HI> vncontrould,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven that Armenian King tooke in his will.</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>eteirde at la&s;t, when hee the&s;e tropheis ended</L>
<L><HI>T</HI>o liue at home where hee was fir&s;t brought foorth,</L>
<L><HI>F</HI>ull peaceably his private &s;tate defended</L>
<L><HI>A</HI>nd waxt in wealth to extraordinar worth</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>egrating that I could no &s;econd &s;ee,</L>
<L><HI>Q</HI>ho might heerein <HI>Lucullus</HI> match bee made:</L>
<L><HI>W</HI>hen I inquirde I tryall found of thee,</L>
<L><HI>H</HI>ow for thy vertues hee an equall had.</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> iu&s;t acquyrer of thy meanes, and lo,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>enound for wi&s;e governament al&s;o.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<HEAD>To CHARLES KEILO, The&s;aurer,</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>Loe yis rech Arke.</HI></L>
<LG>
<L>Ver&s;. <HI>Lo yis rich Arke,</HI> containes much &s;ub&s;tance, and</L>
<L>Grace doth governe, what this man takes in hand.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Sonnet Acro&s;tick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI><HI>C</HI>ra&s;&s;us,</HI> &s;o much in wi&s;dome did abound,</L>
<L><HI>H</HI>is equall &s;carcely theirin could bee found:</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> man who&s;e knowledge did great wealth attaine,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>enounde lykewi&s;e for vertues as is &s;eene,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven hee who did governe his owne e&s;tate,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>yke as his &s;econd doth no time relate,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>urely who&s;e &s;ub&s;tance &s;afely could vphold,</L>
<L><HI>K</HI>eepe, and maintaine great Armies manifold.</L>
<L><HI>I</HI>nto who&s;e ab&s;ence I imput thy name,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>ykewi&s;e to la&s;te with his in endles fame:</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>ooking mo&s;t duely to thy vertues rare,</L>
<L><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI>r to thy actions &s;carce which finds compare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And who for worth, is cho&s;en now wee &s;ee,</L>
<L>The The&s;aurer of this braue Towne to bee.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="16">
<HEAD>To GEORGE MEINYEIS.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>Ye &s;ee me in no rage:</HI></L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Sonnet.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>G</HI>race guides my goings, errours I abhorre,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>&s;teemd is vertue by me evermore:</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>f pride no partner I de&s;ire to bee.</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>eteired I am from vile idolatrie.</L>
<L><HI>G</HI>od is the author each day of my aime,</L>
<L><HI>M</HI>an &s;hall by mee receive no publick &s;hame:</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven what is good in generall I allow,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> love the vpright, vitious I e&s;hew,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o wrong I worke, my acts by faith a&s;pyre,</L>
<L><HI><HI>Y</HI>e &s;ee in me no rage,</HI> and I de&s;ire,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ternall trueth to bee the trea&s;ure &s;till,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI>nto the which my hopes may re&s;t intill.</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>ay not I &s;peake as that proud Phari&s;ee,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I &s;peake but trueth, as &s;hall approved bee</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<HEAD>To ALEXANDER STVARTE.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>&amp; render reward at la&s;t.</HI></L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Sonnet.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>A</HI>nd for to <HI>render</HI> (iu&s;t) <HI>reward,</HI> mu&s;t bee</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>ike to a <HI>Stuarte</HI> of &s;inceritie:</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven one who&s;e actions merits no &s;u&s;pect,</L>
<L><HI>X</HI> and in who&s;e charge is viewed no neglect:</L>
<L><HI>A</HI>ll tho&s;e in one accompli&s;ht heere doe &s;tand,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o le&s;&s;e in worth, then vertues rare&s;t band,</L>
<L><HI>D</HI>emanding good of him, thou &s;halt receive</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven for in&s;truction what thy heart would crave,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>enounde hee is: a <HI>Stuarte</HI> vpright, ju&s;t</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>afely defending whats rendred in his tru&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>T</HI>herefore to &s;peake to thee of him I'le end</L>
<L><HI>W</HI>ithout offence, and let my Mu&s;e commend</L>
<L><HI>A</HI>ll what &s;ee I into this <HI>Stuarts</HI> face</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>emembring how hee doth decore his place.</L>
<L><HI>T</HI>o thee therefore I tell thee, <HI>Stuarte,</HI> truely</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I haue expre&s;t thy properties mo&s;t duely.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="17">
<HEAD>To ALEXANDER COLINSONE.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>And I excell in all re&s;on.</HI></L>
<LG>
<L>Ver&s;. With &s;pirituall gifts, <HI>in re&s;on to excell,,</HI></L>
<L>Makes thee accompli&s;ht, &s;o thy name doth tell</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Acrostick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>A</HI>lbeit <HI>Marcellus,</HI> that braue Roman rare,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>ives yet by fame, for vertues but compare</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven hee, who was thought in his time to bee,</L>
<L><HI>X</HI>ceeding valorous, all the world may &s;ee.</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> man who&s;e worth did vantage fir&s;t attaine,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o le&s;&s;e then of braue <HI>Hanib all</HI> I meane,</L>
<L><HI>D</HI>oubtle&s;&s;e of whom this <HI>Hanib all</HI> confe&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven victor, nor yet vanqui&s;ht could hee re&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>enownd abroad for valour, and by grace,</L>
<L><HI>C</HI>ald to his Friends, a comfort and &s;olace</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>f thee hee now, a &s;econd &s;hall receaue,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>yke to him&s;elfe, both actiue, wi&s;e, and graue&punc;</L>
<L><HI>I</HI>nto who&s;e per&s;on, did appeare as provde,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o error, but by all men is belovde,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>urely abroad thy worth is viewd and &s;eene,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI> but at home a comfort thou ha&s;t beene,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o more then &s;hall <HI>Marcellus</HI> bee I vow,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>&s;teemde or prai&s;de, more righteou&s;ly then thou.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<HEAD>To GWALTER COCHRVME Ma&s;ter of the mortified monyes.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>Trwlee much grace.</HI></L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Sonnet.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>G</HI>iue, <HI>truely much grace,</HI> in thy name is red,</L>
<L><HI>W</HI>hat to thy prai&s;e more can bee wi&s;ht or had?</L>
<L><HI>A</HI>nd if the &s;ame were not approvde in thee,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>ovd as thou art, by all thou would not bee:</L>
<L><HI>T</HI>hat place who&s;e charge, doth in thy power con&s;i&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>&s;teemde is more, for thy cau&s;e by the re&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>enownd thou art, for trueth but treacherie:</L>
<L><HI>C</HI>ompo&s;de of earthly immortalitie,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>f all belovde, and doubtle&s;&s;e who doth &s;tand,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ontrold by none, of what lyes in thy hand,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> forth therefore my Mu&s;e &s;hall ever aime,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> thy prai&s;e in poems to proclaime:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> and what, I heere of thee haue <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="17">
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 paragraph"></P>
<LG>
<L><HI>A</HI>nd <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L><HI>T</HI>hy <HI>aide</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> labours leanes,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>emembrin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> helpe proceedes from thee.</L>
<L><HI>I</HI>ndeed as du<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> thy worth they te&s;tifie,</L>
<L><HI>K</HI>eepes it likewi&s;e in &s;tore where they remaine,</L>
<L><HI>D</HI>oubtle&s;&s;e their prayers &s;hall win a place to thee,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI>n heaven where thou &s;hall liue apart from paine.</L>
<L><HI>V</HI>hat to thy prai&s;e then &s;hall <HI>I</HI> pen but this,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ternally thous liue in heavenly ble&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<HEAD>To THOMAS PAIPE, ma&s;ter of the impo&s;ts.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>Mo&s;t happ'e ay.</HI></L>
<LG>
<L>Ver&s;. <HI>Mo&s;t happ'e ay,</HI> may wee account thy fame,</L>
<L>Since nought but that, is found into thy name.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Sonnet Acro&s;tick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>T</HI>hough <HI>Guido Pape</HI> was for wi&s;edome thought,</L>
<L><HI>H</HI>ee in his time whom natures be&s;t had wrought:</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>f wit &s;o rare, hee rulled alwayes then,</L>
<L><HI>M</HI>o&s;t faithfully, his friends and countrie men,</L>
<L><HI>A</HI>nd by his coun&s;els, &s;ubtill, graue, and &s;ure,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>hynd as a light who&s;e labours yet indure,</L>
<L><HI>P</HI>rai&s;e him I would with thee, and thee with him,</L>
<L><HI>A</HI>lbeit I can to none your vertues clim,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI>f I could but for thy cau&s;e prai&s;e him duely,</L>
<L><HI>P</HI>rai&s;de hee &s;hould bee, in prai&s;ing thee mo&s;t truely,</L>
<L>But I to prai&s;e you both may doe my be&s;t,</L>
<L>And yet vnprai&s;de &s;ufficiently mu&s;t re&s;t.</L>
<L>Onely of him this much his worth is told,</L>
<L>And thine each day mo&s;t vively wee behold.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="18">
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 paragraph"></P>
<LG>
<L>Lo &s;carce &s;ufficient &s;hall it &s;eeme <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>Even who for worth is wondred in thy</L>
<L>Xceeding wi&s;e and full of veritie:</L>
<L>And who doth walke in true &s;inceritie,</L>
<L>No wayes offen&s;ive, or mole&s;ting none:</L>
<L>Doubtle&s;&s;e therefore, abroad proclaimde may bee</L>
<L>Eternall prai&s;es duely therevpon.</L>
<L>Re&s;t not, then Fame in ha&s;te, but bee thou gone,</L>
<L>Direct thy cour&s;e, whence, where thou never flew,</L>
<L>Vith faith confirme, that thou do&s;t tell of one.</L>
<L>Farre more prai&s;e worth, than thou do&s;t yeeld a view.</L>
<L>De&s;iring all where e're thou may bee hard</L>
<L>His prai&s;e for Prudence never bee debarde.</L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<HEAD>To ROBERT RAMSEY.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>My re&s;ts bettar.</HI></L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<LG>
<L><HI>R</HI>eceive this briefe Encomium, or prai&s;e</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>f thy ju&s;t merite, though in low-&s;tyld phra&s;e:</L>
<L><HI>B</HI>ut weigh heerewith, that where the &s;treeme &s;eemes &s;till</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven that the ground is deepe&s;t therintill</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>emember then, and let them all who read</L>
<L><HI>T</HI>he&s;e lynes of mine, give true attentiue head.</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>ecording heereby that thy worth may &s;tand.</L>
<L><HI>A</HI>s due among&s;t the&s;e worthie honoured band:</L>
<L><HI>M</HI>y Mu&s;e may prea&s;e, for to import a part,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>hee &s;urely cannot more of thy de&s;ert:</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>&s;tabli&s;h therefore, I the&s;e lynes will now</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> all who reades them may thy prai&s;e avow.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="18">
<HEAD>To THOMAS GAIRDINE: Deacon conveener.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>Sam&s;ons gard in thee:</HI></L>
<LG>
<L><HI>Sam&s;ons gard in thee,</HI> &s;ince thou by votes commands,</L>
<L>What would the Towne, &s;uch powerlyes in thy hands.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Sonnet</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>T</HI>he&s;e worthy for&s;aides, when in doubt they mu&s;de,</L>
<L><HI>H</HI>ow, or by whom they might a&s;&s;i&s;tance crave.</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>f, and by all con&s;ents, thy &s;elfe they chu&s;de.</L>
<L><HI>M</HI>o&s;t meete in generall, and did thee receave.</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> man, vnto who&s;e knowledge doth con&s;i&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>uch parts, as publick are by all approvde:</L>
<L><HI>G</HI>ainde by con&s;ent the&s;e worthies to a&s;&s;i&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>A</HI>nd for thy fame, who's duely now promovde.</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>emembring how thy vertues are e&s;teemde,</L>
<L><HI>D</HI>oubtle&s;&s;e I may, this to thy prai&s;e maintaine:</L>
<L><HI>I</HI>nto thy place thy prudence is proclaimde,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>ot 'lone by mee, but by all <HI>Aberdeene:</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Since therein when their worthie&s;t aimes would faile,</L>
<L>Vp&s;tands thy power, and doth by votes prevaile.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<HEAD>To THOMAS CLARK.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>A mo&s;t cle'r Ark.</HI></L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Acro&s;tick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>T</HI>hink not the wor&s;e though I doe not impairt,</L>
<L><HI>H</HI>eere what thou merits, or thy ju&s;t de&s;art:</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>f force I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e my taske too much,</L>
<L><HI>M</HI>y Mu&s;e likewi&s;e too weake to write of &s;uch.</L>
<L><HI>A</HI>nd yet lea&s;t that my weakne&s;&s;e &s;hould appeare,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>urely as due I mu&s;t &s;ay &s;omething heere:</L>
<L><HI>C</HI>on&s;idering with my Mu&s;e, this I mu&s;t &s;ay,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>yke as tho&s;e worthies, thou &s;hall live for ay,</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> man renound, by fame, for faith and grace,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>eligious likewi&s;e knowen in this place:</L>
<L><HI>K</HI>eepe then thy rowme, or rather bee thou rai&s;de</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For as thou art thou merits to bee prai&s;de,</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="19">
<HEAD>To GWALTER ROBERTSONE, Clerk,</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>Lo, Aberdons wretter.</HI></L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Sonnet.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>G</HI>iue for a&s;&s;i&s;tance, I would come to &s;ee,</L>
<L><HI>W</HI>ho would concurre vnto thy prai&s;e with mee:</L>
<L><HI>A</HI>&s;&s;uredly each day I &s;hould perceive,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>ove to &s;end forth more help than I can crave</L>
<L><HI>T</HI>he&s;e famous for&s;aids truelie would atte&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven endle&s;&s;e knowledge in thy labours le&s;t:</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>enounde likewi&s;e into thy charge for wit,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>ecording all the actions, pa&s;t in it.</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>f all the bygones, in this Burgh they &s;tand,</L>
<L><HI>B</HI>ound vp in lynes accompli&s;ht by thy hand,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven &s;uch a charge, as if thou were not rare,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI> Rulde in order, it &s;carce could well bee there:</L>
<L><HI>T</HI>herefore thy Name for aye &s;hall la&s;te indeede,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>o long as all po&s;terities &s;hall read.</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>r if that men &s;hould bygone things forget,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o doubt but they &s;hall in thy lines &s;eeme late.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>E&s;peciall &s;ince thy deeds, as due record,</L>
<L>The antient, endle&s;&s;e worth of <HI>Bona-cord</HI></L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<HEAD>To IOAN INGREME.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag <HI>I agree in one.</HI></L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Sonnet.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>I</HI>nto thy name I find a faithfull word</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>nly it &s;ayes, <HI>agreement</HI> I afford:</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> word of trueth, for &s;o imports thy place,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>ow while thou'rt conjunct with the Clerk a &s;pace:</L>
<L><HI>I</HI>n generall when the Coun&s;ell doth conveene.</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o doubt, in number thou mu&s;tay bee one:</L>
<L><HI>G</HI>if like wi&s;e that the Clark &s;hould ab&s;ent be,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>emaine then mu&s;t his charge (as due) on thee.</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven for thy knowledge and thy worth approved,</L>
<L><HI>M</HI>o&s;t duely, which in <HI>Bona-cord</HI> is loved</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Wherefore, for prai&s;e this much of thee I ver&s;e,</L>
<L>Who reads my lynes, &s;hall &s;till thy worth reher&s;e,</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="19">
<HEAD>THE HISTORIE OF <HI>SVSANNA.</HI></HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<HEAD>The Argument.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THis Storie tels <HI>Su&s;anna's</HI> cha&s;t, though faire,</L>
<L>As likewi&s;e doth the&s;e Iudges fal&s;e declare:</L>
<L>Her con&s;tant mynde, for to controll their aime,</L>
<L>And for their fault what hapned vnto them,</L>
<L>They with fal&s;e judgement her condemnde to die,</L>
<L>Gods Sprite appeares, convicts them, &s;ets her free:</L>
<L>Her Parents, Husband, and her kin&s;folke all,</L>
<L>Prai&s;e God, who red <HI>Su&s;anna</HI> out of thrall.</L>
<L>Whereby Gods power, the&s;e Iudges two di&s;grace,</L>
<L>And <HI>Daniels</HI> prudence, kytheth in this place:</L>
<L>As likewi&s;e more this storie lets you &s;ee,</L>
<L><HI>Su&s;annas</HI> beauties buskt with cha&s;titie.</L>
</LG>
</ARGUMENT>
<LG>
<L>_IN <HI>Babylon</HI> re&s;ided one by name,</L>
<L>Cald <HI>Ioacim,</HI> yet eternizde by fame,</L>
<L>Who did e&s;pou&s;e, and for his match receaue,</L>
<L><HI>Su&s;anna,</HI> whom no courting could deceaue,</L>
<L>Who doubtle&s;&s;e was <HI>Chelchias</HI> ble&s;t borne chyld,</L>
<L>Since twofold fire, nor loue, nor hate defyld:</L>
<L>One wondrous faire, who&s;e beautie was &s;o braue,</L>
<L>It did graue <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">udges, of their &s;ences reaue:</L>
<L>Who&s;e Parents whence, by nature &s;hee did &s;pring,</L>
<L>Her in the Law of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> did vp bring,</L>
<L>Which <HI>Ioachim,</HI> &s;o richly did abound</L>
<L>In wealth&punc; that &s;carce his equall could bee found:</L>
<L>Vnto who&s;e Palace, was ajoynde full neare,</L>
<L>An Orchard, which for plea&s;ure had no peare:</L>
<L>To whom the Iewes by cu&s;tome did repare,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e of all hee mo&s;t was honoured there,</L>
<L>Now was pre&s;crivde, two ancient Iudges then,</L>
<L>For to reclaime the vitious wayes of men;</L>
<L>Who mo&s;t frequented, and remainde at will,</L>
<L>In <HI>Ioacims</HI> hou&s;e, the law for to fufill:</L>
<L>Whence when the folke, at noone tyde did reteare,</L>
<L><HI>Su&s;anna</HI> in her Orchard did appeare,</L>
<L><PB REF="20">Who was perceavde by the&s;e two Elders ay,</L>
<L>As &s;hee re&s;orted therein everie day:</L>
<L>On whom their lu&s;t, inflaming ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e as fire,</L>
<L>Sought to accompli&s;h their vncha&s;t de&s;ire:</L>
<L>Withdrew their eyes, perverted &s;o their minde,</L>
<L>Heaven not to &s;ee, whence they &s;hould judgement find</L>
<L>And though they both, with loue were tortoured &s;o,</L>
<L>The one dur&s;t not, this to the other &s;ho,</L>
<L>For of their lu&s;t, they both po&s;&s;e&s;t &s;uch &s;hame,</L>
<L>That heereof they, would not expre&s;&s;e their aime,</L>
<L>But alwayes watcht each houre, and did awake,</L>
<L>Till &s;ubtilly they could occa&s;ion take,</L>
<L>Whereby they might their piercing paine expre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And haue the meanes whereby to finde redre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>So when the time aproacht, when they &s;hould eate,</L>
<L>Their &s;tomackes &s;tarving, more for loue then meate,</L>
<L>The one did &s;ay, thus to the other, Loe,</L>
<L>Now is the time wee mu&s;t to dinner goe:</L>
<L>Therefore farewell each to another &s;aid,</L>
<L>For they in minde a privat paction had,</L>
<L>And being parted, both returnd anone.</L>
<L>Vnto that place, from whence they &s;traight were gone</L>
<L>So they began betwixt them both to try,</L>
<L>They both were vrgd by one extreamity:</L>
<L>Then through one loue, or lu&s;t, both did agree,</L>
<L>How they &s;hould find fitt opportunitie:</L>
<L>Or when by fortune &s;he&eacute; alone &s;hould &s;tand,</L>
<L>So that they thought they &s;hould her loue command,</L>
<L>Who watching alwayes, found a time wherein,</L>
<L>Shee with her maids, the Orchard entred in:</L>
<L>Who&s;e bounds were buskt and deckt with floures mo&s;t faire,</L>
<L>And bordered braue with ornaments mo&s;t rare:</L>
<L>Wherein &s;hee thought her &s;elfe to bath and byde,</L>
<L>A while vn&s;eene, till thus they her e&s;pyde,</L>
<L>Shee &s;ent her maids to bring her Balme and Ball,</L>
<L>For to anoynt her body therewithall,</L>
<L>Commanding them they &s;hould the doore make fa&s;t,</L>
<L>As they from her foorth of the Garden pa&s;t,</L>
<L>Who did according, as &s;hee them de&s;irde,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">utting the doore while they them&s;elues retirde:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">d went from thence in private, even as &s;hee&punc;</L>
<L><PB REF="20">But did the Elders not perceaue, for they</L>
<L>Were hid and quyet, in &s;ome corner lay&punc;</L>
<L>Who when the&s;e maids, were ab&s;ent as yee heare,</L>
<L>The Elders to <HI>Su&s;anna</HI> did appeare:</L>
<L>And &s;aid, Behold the Garden doores you &s;ee,</L>
<L>Are &s;hut, and wee are fnard in loue with thee,</L>
<L>Therefore con&s;ent to lye with vs full &s;oone,</L>
<L>Or el&s;e thy life and honour is vndone:</L>
<L>For if thou will not, but thou will deny,</L>
<L>Wee &s;hall approue wee &s;aw one with thee ly:</L>
<L>And that thou &s;ent thy maids away to chu&s;e,</L>
<L>A tyme alone, thy body to abu&s;e,</L>
<L>Thus cha&s;t <HI>Su&s;anna,</HI> &s;ighing &s;aid alace,</L>
<L>On both the &s;ides I'm burthend in this place,</L>
<L>For it is death to grant their ill demands,</L>
<L>And to refu&s;e I cannot &s;cape their hands:</L>
<L>Yet in this doubt, thus I re&s;olue to bee,</L>
<L>Kild rather, then an adultere&s;&s;e to die,</L>
<L>Thus then this cha&s;te&s;t, calde aloud, and loe,</L>
<L>The&s;e Elders did, extend their voyce al&s;o,</L>
<L>And ranne in rage, and opned vp the doore,</L>
<L>To make the matter to appeare the more:</L>
<L>For when the &s;olke, this purpo&s;e did perceaue,</L>
<L>They ru&s;ht in ha&s;te, and curiou&s;ly did craue,</L>
<L>What was the cau&s;e, and why &s;hee calde &s;o hie,</L>
<L>Or of her griefe from whence the ground might bee:</L>
<L>The Elders then, thus their devi&s;e did &s;how,</L>
<L>Whereby they might <HI>Su&s;anna</HI> overthrow:</L>
<L>Which when the &s;ervants hearing were a&s;hamde,</L>
<L>And made <HI>Su&s;annas</HI> fame bee farre proclaimde,</L>
<L>And on the day en&s;uing as is &s;aid,</L>
<L>When <HI>Ioachim</HI> a publick meating made,</L>
<L>The&s;e Elders came, with minds mi&s;chivou&s;ly,</L>
<L>Di&s;po&s;de for to perceiue <HI>Su&s;anna</HI> die:</L>
<L>And in the pre&s;ence of the people &s;ought,</L>
<L>That they might haue this cha&s;t <HI>Su&s;anna</HI> brought,</L>
<L><HI>Helcias</HI> daughter as I vnder&s;tand,</L>
<L><HI>Ioachims</HI> &s;pou&s;e, a rich man in the land,</L>
<L>So &s;hee compeared with her parents two,</L>
<L>Her children and her kinds-folke came al&s;o:</L>
<L>Thus was <HI>Su&s;anna</HI> wondrous faire to &s;ee,</L>
<L>Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> could more beauteous bee&punc;</L>
<L><PB REF="21">Whom when &s;hee &s;tood before the&s;e Iudges tway,</L>
<L>They cau&s;d her ca&s;t her cover quyte away:</L>
<L>For as her minde was maskt with woefull moane,</L>
<L>Her vn&s;taind face, a vaile &s;hee put vpon,</L>
<L>Which the&s;e two vnju&s;t Iudges cau&s;de remoue,</L>
<L>With &s;eeing&punc; &s;omewhat to content their loue:</L>
<L>Wherefore her friends, and all her kin al&s;o,</L>
<L>Waxt wondrous &s;ad, to &s;ee Su&s;anna &s;o:</L>
<L>The&s;e Iudges two &s;tood vp in ha&s;t indeede,</L>
<L>And laid their hands on her vn&s;potted heed,</L>
<L>Who holding vp her face, calde to the Lord,</L>
<L>Iu whom &s;hee tru&s;ted, hee would helpe afford,</L>
<L>The Elders then, &s;aid this to her anone,</L>
<L>Into the Garden, as wee walkt alone:</L>
<L>Wee &s;aw <HI>Su&s;anna,</HI> with her maidens two,</L>
<L>Come in, and then in ha&s;te &s;hee let them goe:</L>
<L>Made fa&s;t the doores, and with a &s;tranger lay,</L>
<L>Whom we perceavde in their adulterous play,</L>
<L>And ran mo&s;t fiercely, aiming for to take</L>
<L>Them, as they were in their adulterous act:</L>
<L>But this young man was &s;trong by nature, &s;o</L>
<L>That hee leapt foorth, and from our hands did goe:</L>
<L>And when wee askt this woman, who was hee,</L>
<L>Shee would not tell, and this wee te&s;tifie:</L>
<L>The a&s;&s;emblie then, the&s;e judges having heard,</L>
<L>Believing them, <HI>Su&s;anna</HI> &s;traight debard,</L>
<L>And did command, that &s;hee the death &s;hould die,</L>
<L>For her reward, of vncha&s;t villanie:</L>
<L>Then did anone this innocent out call,</L>
<L>To God for helpe, who&s;e power is over all,</L>
<L>And &s;aid, O LORD, thou liues and all things know,</L>
<L>Therefore alace my innocencie &s;how:</L>
<L>And &s;ince they fal&s;ely now haue mee accu&s;de,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e by them I would not bee abu&s;de,</L>
<L>And &s;eeing that of force I needes mu&s;t die,</L>
<L>Lord, now proclaime my vpright cha&s;titie,</L>
<L>And let this malice which they now haue wrought,</L>
<L>Soone vnto knowledge&punc; by thy power bee brought:</L>
<L>Thus then behold, this jugde great over all,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> her reque&s;t, and &s;et her free from thrall:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> when &s;hee was to dying paine expo&s;de,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> for faith &s;hee fully was rei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="6 letters"></L>
<L><PB REF="21">For as &s;hee prayde, a &s;pirit did appeare,</L>
<L>Namde <HI>Daniel,</HI> who commanded them reteare.</L>
<L>And with a voyce extended wondrous hie,</L>
<L>Did &s;ay, I alwayes from this blood am free:</L>
<L>Then all the people as amazde did &s;tand,</L>
<L>And did the meaning of the&s;e words demand,</L>
<L>Who &s;tood, as if his power could them compell,</L>
<L>And &s;aid, O fooli&s;h &s;onnes of I&s;rael,</L>
<L>Who would without examination &s;o,</L>
<L>An innocent thus to the death let goe:</L>
<L>Convert your cour&s;e, to judgement goe and heare,</L>
<L>And you &s;hall finde, they did fal&s;e witne&s;&s;e beare,</L>
<L>Again&s;t <HI>Su&s;anna,</HI> who is truely cha&s;t,</L>
<L>Vpon the which the people turnde in ha&s;te,</L>
<L>To whom the Elders &s;aid, &s;it downe heer bye,</L>
<L>And &s;hew vs what thou heereof more can try:</L>
<L>And &s;ince that God hath &s;ent thee heere to bee</L>
<L>A judge, come let vs of thy judgement &s;ee,</L>
<L>Then <HI>Daniel</HI> cau&s;de the&s;e two bee &s;et a&s;under,</L>
<L>So that his wit hereby procurde a wonder:</L>
<L>For hee did call the one, and to him &s;ay,</L>
<L>O thou who&s;e haires are waxed old and gray,</L>
<L>And thou who&s;e yeares, haue now attaind &s;uch hight,</L>
<L>Thy forepa&s;t faults, &s;hall now appeare in &s;ight:</L>
<L>For thou fal&s;e judgement hath pronuncde, and &s;o</L>
<L>Condemnde the ju&s;t, and let the guiltie goe,</L>
<L>Albeit the Lord &s;ayes, that thou &s;halt the&s;e tway,</L>
<L>The righteous and the innocent not &s;lay:</L>
<L>Yet if thou &s;aw them, tell mee by what tree,</L>
<L>Thou &s;aw the&s;e two together company:</L>
<L>Who an&s;werd, I a Lentick tree did &s;py,</L>
<L>Beneath the which I &s;aw the&s;e per&s;ons ly:</L>
<L>Then did the Prophet &s;ay, thou lyed and loe,</L>
<L>God hath ordaind that thou bee cut in two:</L>
<L>So that &s;hall bee, of thy intent the hyre,</L>
<L>Since thou again&s;t <HI>Su&s;anna</HI> did con&s;pyre:</L>
<L>And hee was placde a part. where to remaine,</L>
<L>Even till the other was cald in againe:</L>
<L>Who when the prophet, &s;aw him there to &s;tand,</L>
<L>Hee then of him this que&s;tion did demand,</L>
<L><PB REF="22">And &s;aid, O thou <HI>Chanans</HI> &s;infull &s;eede,</L>
<L>And not of <HI>Iuda,</HI> as appeares indeede,</L>
<L>Cha&s;t beautie hath allured thee to ly,</L>
<L>And lu&s;t thine heart perverted hath I &s;ee,</L>
<L>For thus yee dealt with I&s;raell and did v&s;e,</L>
<L>Them by con&s;traint, for they dur&s;t not refu&s;e,</L>
<L>But loe the daughters of ju&s;t <HI>Iuda</HI> they,</L>
<L>Could neither would your wickedne&s;&s;e obey:</L>
<L>Now therefore tell, in what place did thou &s;ee</L>
<L>Them ly, he &s;aid, beneath an Oaken tree,</L>
<L>Then <HI>Daniel</HI> an&s;wered, &s;aying, Thou ha&s;t lyed,</L>
<L>As I perceiue, again&s;t thine owne head,</L>
<L>And loe Gods angell doth a &s;word convoy,</L>
<L>By ju&s;t de&s;ert, thee quyte for to de&s;troy,</L>
<L>Vpon the which the people prai&s;de with tru&s;t,</L>
<L>God for his goodnes, who pre&s;erues the ju&s;t:</L>
<L>And then aro&s;e, again&s;t the&s;e elders two&punc;</L>
<L>Who by them&s;elues were thus convicted &s;o,</L>
<L>And did conforme, to their owne law ordaine,</L>
<L>They &s;hould bee pind, with their appoynted paine,</L>
<L>That thereby might the innocent bee &s;avde,</L>
<L>The guiltie puni&s;ht, and their plots deceavde:</L>
<L>Therefore <HI>Chelchias,</HI> and his wife did &s;ing,</L>
<L>Prai&s;e vnto God, their great and glorious King:</L>
<L>And <HI>Ioachim</HI> her Husband &s;ang that day,</L>
<L>Glore to Ho&s;anna, for <HI>Su&s;anna</HI> ay:</L>
<L>And all their kinred, as wee plainely &s;ee,</L>
<L>Sang endle&s;&s;e honour, to the Trinitie:</L>
<L>Even &s;o doe wee, likewi&s;e let all who moue,</L>
<L>Vnto this God all glorie, power, approue:</L>
<L>Who doth condemne the guiltie, and doth rai&s;e,</L>
<L>The innocent, to render alwayes prai&s;e:</L>
<L>To whom I meane this E&s;&s;ence one in three,</L>
<L>Let men and Angels &s;ing continually.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER>Amen.</CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="22">
<HEAD>To ALEXANDER SETONE of <HI>Petmedden.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>One ex'eland re&s;t.</HI></L>
<LG>
<L>Ver&s;. <HI>One ex'eland re&s;t,</HI> for &s;uch as needes reliefe,</L>
<L>And who to all, yeelds comfort in their griefe,</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Acrostick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>A</HI>s in the volum, heereof which you hold,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>yes reverend Rulers vertues, manyfold:</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven &s;o my Mu&s;e thinkes I ami&s;&s;e commit&punc;</L>
<L><HI>X</HI>cept I &s;hew thy prai&s;es vnto it:</L>
<L><HI>A</HI>nd that thy &s;plendor, may more bright appeare,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>ow with the&s;e worthies, thus inrolled heere:</L>
<L><HI>D</HI>oubtle&s;&s;e as many Diamonds decore,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>namled rich, where they are &s;et in &s;tore</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>are jewels. Even &s;o the&s;e fore&s;aids flow in fame,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>o much the more &s;ince thou art joynde with them,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven thou who&s;e &s;tem, hath intertaind &s;uch worth,</L>
<L><HI>T</HI>hat I in lynes cannot their prai&s;e &s;et foorth,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>nely I &s;ay, thy parents pompes expre&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o le&s;&s;e in thee then actions manife&s;t,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus to thy prai&s;e then, I &s;ubjoyne the&s;e three,</L>
<L>Of antient &s;tocke, worth, &s;elfe nobilitie.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<HEAD>To D. ARTHVRE IONSTOVNE,</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>An vert'ous herti on.</HI></L>
<LG>
<L>Ver&s;. <HI>An vert'ous herti on,</HI> whom grace decore,</L>
<L>With gifts of airt, and naturall gifts in &s;tore.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Sonnet Acro&s;tick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>A</HI>s I haue found by knowledge of my Mu&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>emembring on thy farre renowned name)</L>
<L><HI>T</HI>hough all the antients worth I doe perv&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>H</HI>eere I approue thy prai&s;e &s;urpa&s;&s;es them:</L>
<L><HI>V</HI>hat &s;hall I &s;ay then, of thy endle&s;&s;e &s;ame&punc;</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>ed in the rarene&s;&s;e of thy learned lynes,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> Into who&s;e life and labours is no blame,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>r who for worth pa&s;&s;e Poets prai&s;t ingynes,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o <HI>&V;irgill, Galen, Cicero,</HI> or &s;uch</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>hall bee extold more worthily I vow,</L>
<L><HI>T</HI>hey in their times exceld, but not &s;o much,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>f worth, in &s;undry &s;ciences as thou,</L>
<L><HI>V</HI>hence I conclude, though the&s;e in v&s;e bee had,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o le&s;&s;e &s;hall thou as worthie now bee red,</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="23">
<HEAD>THE HISTORIE OF BELL, AND DRAGON. <HI>OR,</HI> The &s;corne of Idols.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>_ASTYAGES,</HI> the Babylonian King</L>
<L>Beeing dead: the Per&s;ian <HI>Cyrus</HI> fell to reigne:</L>
<L>And <HI>Daniel</HI> who in prophe&s;ie not err'd</L>
<L>The King for worth ov'r all his friends preferrde.</L>
<L>The&s;e Babylonians likewi&s;e did invent</L>
<L>An Idole, whom they &s;ervde with one con&s;ent:</L>
<L>Who&s;e name was Bell: A breathle&s;&s;e brazen bea&s;t,</L>
<L>Whom for their god they did &s;incerely fea&s;t,</L>
<L>With fine&s;t flowre, with flockes of &s;heepe and wine,</L>
<L>And thought this &s;ervice &s;acrifice divine:</L>
<L>Believing blindly what they &s;et before,</L>
<L>This counterfeit it did the &s;ame devore:</L>
<L>O madde bereavers of the divine right!</L>
<L>Who dur&s;t devi&s;e &s;uch errours in his &s;ight.</L>
<L>As to delude the peoples minds &s;o much,</L>
<L>And make them think <HI>Iehovahs</HI> gro&s;&s;enes &s;uch,</L>
<L>As could bee gript, or that his Godhead might</L>
<L>Bee &s;eene by men, who had but earthly &s;ight:</L>
<L>And they who then were callde for Kings to bee,</L>
<L>Should thus con&s;ent to &s;uch Idolatrie.</L>
<L>For they this idole did adore each day,</L>
<L>Although in &s;ub&s;tance nought but bra&s;&s;e and clay:</L>
<L>As likewi&s;e then, this <HI>Cyrus</HI> Per&s;ian King</L>
<L>With <HI>Daniel</HI> dealt mo&s;t earne&s;tly to bring</L>
<L>To <HI>Bell,</HI> the bea&s;t that wor&s;hip which hee ought</L>
<L>To give to God: but hee obeyde him nought,</L>
<L>But did reply, and publickly profe&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Hee would not wor&s;hip gods of carved bra&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>But that eternall God, who&s;e power hee knowes,</L>
<L>Such &s;en&s;ele&s;&s;e idoles alwayes overthrowes,</L>
<L>And who hath &s;trength their pride for to &s;uppre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Who through &s;uch boldne&s;&s;e doth his will tran&s;gre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><PB REF="23">Then &s;aid the King, who&s;e blindne&s;&s;e was not &s;mall,</L>
<L>Thinks thou not <HI>Bell</HI> a living god at all?</L>
<L>And &s;ee&s;t thou not what hee devores each day</L>
<L>For to pre&s;erve his god-head from decay,</L>
<L>But then the Prophet pre&s;ently did &s;myle,</L>
<L>And &s;aid, O King, they doe thee much beguile,</L>
<L>For this is nought but mixture made with hands,</L>
<L>Which cannot eate, nor an&s;were thy demands,</L>
<L>Which made the King to bee offended &s;o,</L>
<L>That hee did vrge the Prie&s;ts to let him know,</L>
<L>Whom it &s;hould bee did the&s;e expen&s;es &s;pend,</L>
<L>Or els by death hee &s;hould abridge their end:</L>
<L>But on the contraire, if you can make cleare,</L>
<L>That <HI>Bell</HI> de&s;troyes what is pre&s;ented heere,</L>
<L>Then doubtle&s;&s;e <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;hall bee made to die,</L>
<L>For hee hath vttred bla&s;phemie to me:</L>
<L>Vnto the which the Prophet thought it right,</L>
<L>To have this doubt re&s;olvde in <HI>Cyrus</HI> &s;ight.</L>
<L>Now all the Prie&s;ts of <HI>Bell</HI> were knowen then,</L>
<L>To bee of number &s;even times &s;urely ten</L>
<L>Without their wives, which them incre&s;t the more,</L>
<L>By birth of bairnes, their boldne&s;&s;e to deplore:</L>
<L>Then went the Per&s;ian King with <HI>Daniel</HI> hence,</L>
<L>And callde the Prie&s;ts for to prepare defence,</L>
<L>Into the Temple for their idole <HI>Bell,</HI></L>
<L>And thought thereby the Prophet to compell</L>
<L>To &s;erve their god: but hee then did deface</L>
<L>Their faigned follies, by their <HI>Bells</HI> di&s;grace.</L>
<L>For loe the Prie&s;ts did boldly &s;ay behold,</L>
<L>Wee will depart that you bee not controld,</L>
<L>Therefore your meate &s;ee that yee &s;et before</L>
<L>Our <HI>Bell,</HI> who&s;e bellie can the &s;ame devore:</L>
<L>Aud let the ve&s;hells full of wine bee fillde,</L>
<L>The doore &s;hutfa&s;t, and with your &s;ignet &s;ealde,</L>
<L>And when to morrow thou &s;hall come to &s;ee</L>
<L>The victualls thou &s;halt find devored bee</L>
<L>By <HI>Bell,</HI> or els the burthen wee &s;hall beare</L>
<L>Of death, or <HI>Daniel</HI> who bees found a lyer&punc;</L>
<L>For with them&s;elves they thought they were &s;ecure,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e they had an entre&s;&s;e in the floore,</L>
<L><PB REF="24" MS="y">Wherein they came by &s;ecreet in the night,</L>
<L>The&s;e things removd from out the peoples &s;ight.</L>
<L>So when they were foorth of the Temple gone,</L>
<L>The King cau&s;de &s;et the&s;e meats by <HI>Bell</HI> alone.</L>
<L>Young <HI>Daniel</HI> then who&s;e knowledg was profound,</L>
<L>Did wi&s;ely cau&s;e &s;trow a&s;hes on the ground,</L>
<L>Before the King, who cau&s;de the doore be lockt,</L>
<L>Seald with his &s;igne, that <HI>Bell</HI> &s;hould not bee mockt,</L>
<L>For they believde their God whom they did &s;erve,</L>
<L>Did eate &s;o much, that hee could never &s;terve.</L>
<L>But as the one was fal&s;e, whereas they thought,</L>
<L>That he devorde what they him dayly brought,</L>
<L>So was the la&s;t, not much to bee admirde,</L>
<L>He could not &s;tarve becau&s;e hee never &s;teirde:</L>
<L>Yet hee for &s;trength of trueth I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Much meate might hold, his bellie was of bra&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>But he could neither &s;mell, nor &s;ee, nor eate,</L>
<L>So that the Prie&s;ts devored all the meate.</L>
<L>O helli&s;h theeves! Idolaters indeede,</L>
<L>Who dur&s;t devi&s;e to &s;ay our Maker feede</L>
<L>As doth a bea&s;t, or any earthly thing:</L>
<L>But lives in heaven, invi&s;ible a King:</L>
<L>Or for their lu&s;t to intertaine their lives,</L>
<L>Wold lo&s;e their &s;oules, their childrens and their wives.</L>
<L>O bea&s;ts not men! O belly-gods prophane,</L>
<L>For <HI>Bell,</HI> in hell yee alwayes &s;hall remaine:</L>
<L>And then that Idole whom yee &s;ervde in bra&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Shall bee a meanes to make your woes incre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>For in the morning when the King aro&s;e,</L>
<L>Hee &s;treight with <HI>Daniel</HI> to the Temple goes,</L>
<L>And did inquyre this Prophet, if the &s;eale</L>
<L>Which he had &s;ignet yet remained heale,</L>
<L>Who an&s;werde truely as hee &s;aw it hing,</L>
<L>And &s;aid, as yet it whole remaines O King,</L>
<L>So then the King cau&s;de make a patent doore,</L>
<L>And entring in perceivde the meate no more,</L>
<L>Vpon the which hee boldly blazed foorth,</L>
<L>How great is <HI>Bell?</HI> a god of wondrous worth.</L>
<L>Who hath devorde in this one night, more meate</L>
<L>Than could an hundreth men and children eate.</L>
<L><PB REF="24">Then <HI>Daniel</HI> laughing, did the King demand,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t reuerently, hee would bee plea&s;de to &s;tand,</L>
<L>And not goe in till hee con&s;idered right</L>
<L>From whence the&s;e foot-&s;teps came vpon the night.</L>
<L>The King beholding vively in his face,</L>
<L>There had beene &s;undrie walking in that place,</L>
<L>Hee waxed wroth, and did the Prie&s;ts conveene,</L>
<L>Who did confe&s;&s;e, they there them&s;elves had beene.</L>
<L>Revealed then their villanie at la&s;t,</L>
<L>And &s;hewde the doores where they in private pa&s;t:</L>
<L>Therefore King <HI>Cyrus</HI> then confounded all,</L>
<L>The Prie&s;ts, their wives, their children great and &s;mall,</L>
<L>And vnto <HI>Daniel</HI> rendred <HI>Bel</HI> to bee</L>
<L>By him con&s;umde, the Storie te&s;tifie.</L>
<L>As likewi&s;e, then there did a Dragon &s;tand,</L>
<L>Whom they did wor&s;hip all throughout the land,</L>
<L>Then did the King this vnto <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;ay</L>
<L>Thou can not vowe that this is bra&s;&s;e or clay,</L>
<L>And though thou movde our idole <HI>Bel</HI> bee broken,</L>
<L>Our Dragon feare, let no bla&s;pheme bee &s;poken.</L>
<L>Wee doe not care although that <HI>Bell</HI> bee gone,</L>
<L>Wee'le &s;erve the <HI>Dragon</HI> for our god alone,</L>
<L>For this thou &s;ee&s;t hee lets no meates remaine,</L>
<L>But eats vp all, and rendreth nought againe:</L>
<L>To prove his power mu&s;t be a gods indeed,</L>
<L>Since hee &s;o &s;trangely everie day doth feede,</L>
<L>Therefore thy faith re&s;olve for to renue,</L>
<L>And to our Dragon render homage due,</L>
<L>But divine <HI>Daniel</HI> an&s;wered the King,</L>
<L>Ile &s;erve my God, and not thy earthly thing,</L>
<L>VVhich if thou will permit mee vncontrold,</L>
<L>Thou &s;hall the Dragons weakne&s;&s;e &s;oone behold:</L>
<L>For I not v&s;ing weapon, fword nor &s;taffe,</L>
<L>Shall &s;lay the Dragon as he were but chaffe.</L>
<L>Vpon the which, the King did &s;ay, behold</L>
<L>I giue thee leave, doe if thou dare, be bold.</L>
<L>Then <HI>Daniel</HI> tooke materialls not to fight,</L>
<L>And thereof made &s;uch things as hee had hight,</L>
<L>Such as was pitch and fatt and haire all three,</L>
<L>Made lumps thereof, his skill to te&s;tifie.</L>
<L><PB REF="25">And gave the Dragon wherewith it to &s;lay,</L>
<L>Which did in &s;under bur&s;t and fall in tway,</L>
<L>Then when the Prophet had the&s;e wonders wrought,</L>
<L>Vpon their gods the Babylonians &s;ought,</L>
<L>By publick convent to make <HI>Cyrus</HI> rew,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e they &s;aw hee was become a lew:</L>
<L>For hee, &s;aid they, our great God <HI>Bel</HI> did fir&s;t</L>
<L>Confound, and then our Dragon made to bur&s;t.</L>
<L>Hee hath our Prie&s;ts likewi&s;e with death oppre&s;t,</L>
<L>So that our &s;elves hencefoorth &s;hall find no re&s;t:</L>
<L>Vpon the which, the&s;e wicked people &s;aid,</L>
<L>To vs in ha&s;te let <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;oone bee had,</L>
<L>Or els but doubt, wee will de&s;troy by death,</L>
<L>Thee and thine hou&s;e, &s;ince thou ha&s;t changd thy faith,</L>
<L>So when the King perceivde they vrgde him &s;o,</L>
<L>Hee was con&s;trainde the Prophet to let goe:</L>
<L>VVhom when they did receive, they &s;et him then</L>
<L>Sixe dayes and more within the Lyons den,</L>
<L>Into the which by common cour&s;e remaind,</L>
<L>Seven Lyons, whom by hunger they con&s;traind</L>
<L>To roare and rage, their prey for to perceive,</L>
<L>VVhereon &s;ome helpe for hunger they might have,</L>
<L>And to the end that when they <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;aw,</L>
<L>For lack of food they &s;hould him overthrow.</L>
<L>Yet there remainde one <HI>Abacuk</HI> by name,</L>
<L>In Iurie who a Prophet was by fame,</L>
<L>VVho had made &s;undrie ve&s;&s;ells full of meat,</L>
<L>Even that the reapers of the &s;ame might eate,</L>
<L>To whom the Angell of the Lord did call,</L>
<L>Take the&s;e to <HI>Daniel</HI> to remead his thrall;</L>
<L>For they haue ca&s;t him in a den of dreed,</L>
<L>VVhere Lyons live, not looking for remead,</L>
<L>Then <HI>Abacuk</HI> &s;aid to the Lord anone,</L>
<L>I never knew nor &s;aw I Babylon,</L>
<L>Nor know I &s;urely where that den doth ly,</L>
<L>VVherefore of force thy &s;ute I mu&s;t deny,</L>
<L>But then the Lord who hath a kindly care,</L>
<L>Of all his &s;ervants throwen in di&s;pare,</L>
<L>Tooke <HI>Abacuk</HI> and bare him by the crowne,</L>
<L>VVhere <HI>Daniel</HI> lay, and thereby &s;et him downe.</L>
<L><PB REF="25">Then <HI>Abacuk</HI> did thus his voyce extend,</L>
<L>Come take &s;uch meate, as thee the Lord hath &s;end,</L>
<L>Vnto the which did <HI>Daniel</HI> an&s;were make,</L>
<L>O God, who never doth thy Saints for&s;ake,</L>
<L>Nor never failes them who doe tru&s;t in thee,</L>
<L>A &s;peciall care thou ha&s;t had towards mee,</L>
<L>So hee aro&s;e, his hunger &s;tainchd in ha&s;te,</L>
<L>And <HI>Abacuk</HI> by God at home was plac't.</L>
<L>VVho made his Angell him for to tran&s;port,</L>
<L>So that hee thought his journey was but &s;hort:</L>
<L>Then not long hence, the King came to bewaile,</L>
<L>VVith grievous mone the lo&s;&s;e of <HI>Daniel,</HI></L>
<L>VVhom hee perceivde among&s;t the Lyons &s;tand,</L>
<L>So that he &s;eemd their force for to command.</L>
<L>Then calld King <HI>Cyrus</HI> with a voice mo&s;t hie,</L>
<L>Thy God O <HI>Daniel,</HI> great of power mu&s;t bee.</L>
<L>And I perceive on earth there is not one.</L>
<L>But even that God, whom thou do&s;t &s;erve alone.</L>
<L>VVherefore hee cau&s;de draw him out of the den,</L>
<L>And therein threw all the&s;e malitious men,</L>
<L>VVho &s;ought to bee the cau&s;e of his di&s;grace,</L>
<L>And they were rent into a moments &s;pace.</L>
<L>The v&s;e therefore which heere of wee &s;hould make,</L>
<L>Should move vs all &s;uch idoles to for&s;ake:</L>
<L>VVhich are nought els but bea&s;ts of equall worth</L>
<L>Vnto them&s;elves who &s;eekes to &s;et them foorth.</L>
<L>For they their <HI>Bel-god</HI> dayly gaue &s;uch meat,</L>
<L>As &s;ervde at large the&s;e belly-gods to eat,</L>
<L>VVho did not care, if they their &s;tomacks &s;erved,</L>
<L>Although their &s;oules for lack of foode even &s;terved</L>
<L>Let vs therefore who walke in perfite light,</L>
<L>Goe on with courage, Chri&s;t hath clen&s;de our &s;ight:</L>
<L>And let vs not &s;uch fictions fal&s;e approve,</L>
<L>But only God who&s;e e&s;&s;ence is aboue,</L>
<L>For you may &s;ee their ignorance &s;o great,</L>
<L>That they to &s;erve the&s;e idoles tooke delyte,</L>
<L>But when our God Iehovah once they knew,</L>
<L>They then began their wickedne&s;&s;e to rew,</L>
<L>And did lament that they had runne &s;o long,</L>
<L>In &s;inne as &s;laves, &s;till wandring alwayes wrong.</L>
<L><PB REF="26">And ye may &s;ee what vengeance they receivde,</L>
<L>For their reward who had them long deceivde,</L>
<L>For they were rent with Lyons in their rages,</L>
<L>VVhich &s;hall bee red to all &s;ucceeding ages.</L>
<L>In recompence of their idolatrie,</L>
<L>Therefore to vs let this example bee,</L>
<L>That wee bee not with doctrine fal&s;e deluded,</L>
<L>VVhich may procure wee bee from heaven &s;ecluded.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="26">
<HEAD>To THOMAS COLENSONE of <HI>Auchlownes,</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. 1. <HI>Lo, I canthol no &s;hame.</HI></L>
<L>2. <HI>Set on hol'e comlines.</HI></L>
<LG>
<L>Ver&s;e Thy name I &s;ee doth thus expre&s;&s;e, <HI>Lo I canthol no &s;hame</HI></L>
<L>Wherefore, <HI>in hol'e comlines,</HI> thou'le brooke a diademe</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Acrostick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>T</HI>hough <HI>Scipio major,</HI> &s;till was I confe&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>H</HI>eld by the Romans rudder of their &s;tate</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>f yeares but young, to whom did acquie&s;ce</L>
<L><HI>M</HI>o&s;t mightie trowpes, as antient tymes relate,</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> man who&s;e valour, actions force and &s;trength,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>ubdude, o'rethrew, great <HI>Haniball</HI> but doubt,</L>
<L><HI>C</HI>ontrold, bare downe, as al&s;o who at length,</L>
<L><HI>O'</HI>recame and wan all <HI>Africa</HI> throughout:</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>oe, hee who was both learned, wi&s;e and graue,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>ykewi&s;e but whom the Romans could doe nought:</L>
<L><HI>I</HI>nto who&s;e worth, they knowledge did receaue,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o le&s;&s;e in word, then many vertues wrought,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>hall I therefore, &s;ince heereof were but tway,</L>
<L><HI>O'</HI>re pa&s;&s;e thy part, who merits all their prai&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o <HI>I</HI> will not but &s;omething heere will &s;ay,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Since thou'rt admeerd for wi&s;edome in thy dayes,</L>
<L>And &s;ince their prai&s;e doth from thy name flow foorth,</L>
<L>Ile cea&s;e heerefra, and hence foorth &s;hew thy worth,</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>Ad Eundem.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>To thee I come as one of worthie&s;t chu&s;e,</L>
<L>And for this purpo&s;e, doth exalt my Mu&s;e,</L>
<L>To aide my aime, to dignifie thy due,</L>
<L>And to thy prai&s;e, to pen &s;ome lynes mo&s;t true.</L>
<L>Since where to ju&s;tlye, can I equall bee,</L>
<L>But to &s;uch one wherein all worth wee &s;ee,</L>
<L>Belovde by all, and who in all things can,</L>
<L>Proue prudent, pregnant, and a righteous man,</L>
<L>And like as <HI>Scipio,</HI> did adopt to bee,</L>
<L>Braue <HI>Scipio</HI> minor, for his &s;onne you &s;ee,</L>
<L>So thou &s;ucceeds vnto thy famous father,</L>
<L>For worth, or el&s;e vnto tho&s;e <HI>Scipios</HI> rather,</L>
<L>And as the Romans but their aide did nought,</L>
<L>So where thou liues thy aide is alwayes &s;ought:</L>
<L>Wherefore of force <HI>I</HI> this of thee mu&s;t &s;ay,</L>
<L>Thou &s;hall bee prai&s;de beyond all date or day,</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="27">
<HEAD>To M. ALEXANDER IAFFREY.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>Al &s;in is fardar frae me, ay,</HI></L>
<LG>
<L>Ver&s;. <HI>Al &s;in is farder frae mee ay,</HI> then tho&s;e,</L>
<L>Who in religions outward &s;ho rejoyce.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Acro&s;tick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>A</HI> mid&s;t the number of the&s;e worthies heere,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>oe, I mu&s;t make thy worthine&s;&s;e appeare,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven in the&s;e true encomiums thus &s;et downe,</L>
<L><HI>X</HI> tolling truely this much honoured towne:</L>
<L><HI>A</HI>nd to expre&s;&s;e thy pregnant wit and skill,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o le&s;&s;e in worth then ruling thereintill:</L>
<L><HI>D</HI>emanding of my Mu&s;e how I &s;hould prai&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>evn thy admeered vertues in thy dayes,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>e&s;t not &s;aid &s;hee over all for to &s;et foorth,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI>n ver&s;e &s;uch words, as may advance his worth,</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> man who&s;e minde &s;till meditates on grace,</L>
<L><HI>F</HI>ull kyndly aimes at equitie and peace,</L>
<L><HI>F</HI>aith is the ground, whereon thy travels &s;tand,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>enownd therefore thou &s;hall bee in this land,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>&s;traingde from vyce, whence well <HI>I</HI> may alledge,</L>
<L><HI>Y</HI> at thou appeares a paterne in this age.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<HEAD>To ANDREW&punc; MELDRVME,</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>Ver'e demure and m'ld.</HI></L>
<LG>
<L>Ver&s;. Thy name declares thee, both <HI>demur and m'ld,</HI></L>
<L>Lykewi&s;e thy fame proclaimes thee vndefilde.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Sonnet Acrostick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>A</HI>s <HI>Cato major,</HI> is renowned yet,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o le&s;&s;e in wi&s;edome, then in actions fit,</L>
<L><HI>D</HI>eclaird hee is, likewi&s;e for publick skill,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>are, and recorded wondrous thereintill:</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven in governiug Common-wealths, and lo,</L>
<L><HI>W</HI>i&s;e in the ruling of his hou&s;e al&s;o:</L>
<L><HI>M</HI>uch volums whereof hee hath pend to bee,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ternall proofes, to all po&s;teritie:</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>ykewi&s;e thy worth of his containes a view,</L>
<L><HI>D</HI>ecord no le&s;&s;e with vertues rare and true,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>enownd in generall, for thy wayes but hate,</L>
<L><HI>V</HI>i&s;e al&s;o in governing thy e&s;tate,</L>
<L><HI>M</HI>o&s;t duely therefore may I change the fame,</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="27">
<HEAD>GEORGE IOANSTONS</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>An gorgious &s;tone.</HI></L>
<LG>
<L>Ver&s;. <HI>Ane gorgious &s;tone,</HI> which &s;tone is &s;et in grace,</L>
<L>And in who&s;e heart for error is no place.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Acro&s;tick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>G</HI>iue &s;uch <HI>ane gorgeous &s;tone</HI> bee &s;et in grace,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>verla&s;ting glorie &s;hall decore his face:</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>r if this place wherein this &s;tone doth &s;tand,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>ecord the worth which doth this &s;tone command:</L>
<L><HI>G</HI>reat &s;hall that prai&s;e which heereon &s;hall bee told,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven one who&s;e &s;plendor &s;hall all eyes behold,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI>nto who&s;e heart or inward parts appeare,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>f all the &s;tones on earth, <HI>a &s;tone</HI> but peere:</L>
<L><HI>A</HI>nd if that men would aske mee of this <HI>&s;tone,</HI></L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o doubt but I would &s;end to thee anone:</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>uch glorious <HI>Ioan stone</HI> who doth glance mo&s;t rare,</L>
<L><HI>T</HI>hrough <HI>Bon-acord</HI> while <HI>gorgeous George</HI> is there,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>f due this <HI>&s;tone</HI> de&s;erueth much renowne,</L>
<L><HI>V</HI>ith &s;tones of &s;tate, or rather &s;tately crowne,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o more then can this <HI>&s;tone</HI> bee hence expre&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>ince that this &s;tone <HI>a &s;tone</HI> of &s;taits confe&s;t,</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<HEAD>To GEORGE MORISONNE.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>None moir gorgeos.</HI></L>
<LG>
<L>Ver. <HI>None moir gorgeos,</HI> who&s;e worth &s;hall &s;hine in glore</L>
<L>So &s;ayes thy name, fir&s;t, then &s;ayes, <HI>Sin no more.</HI></L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<LG>
<L><HI>G</HI>iue the&s;e two vertues merits to bee prai&s;de,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ternally the&s;e two in thee are rai&s;de,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI> fall in grace, <HI>moir gorgeos none</HI> then thou,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>enownde for outward gorgeou&s;ne&s;&s;e as due,</L>
<L><HI>G</HI>raue gracious goodnes, <HI>gorgeous</HI> in thy minde,</L>
<L><HI>M</HI>o&s;t <HI>gorgeous</HI> vertues likewi&s;e are combynde:</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>f grace <HI>more gorgeous</HI> then I can extoll,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>icher in wi&s;edome, then I can inroll:</L>
<L><HI>I</HI>ndude with all the&s;e <HI>gorgeous</HI> gifts and maire,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>ententious knowledge, then I can declare;</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>f all whom of into my time I read,</L>
<L><HI><HI>N</HI>one moir gorgeous</HI> then thy &s;elfe indeede:</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>ot that I meane thou <HI>gorgeos</HI> art in ill,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But what is generous, <HI>gorgeos</HI> thereintill,</L>
<L>What &s;hould I &s;ay then? this which I defend,</L>
<L>Thy <HI>gorgeos</HI> life&punc; &s;hall make a glorious end&punc;</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="28">
<HEAD>To IOANN LESLIE old The&s;aurer.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>Al lyes in one.</HI></L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Sonnet.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>I</HI>nto three charges, thou was cho&s;en, and</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>f all the&s;e three, the power was in thy hand:</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> The&s;aurer, which did the &s;ame containe,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o le&s;&s;e in worth, then honourd <HI>Aberdeine,</HI></L>
<L><HI>L</HI>ikewi&s;e without thy licence for a &s;pace,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven the&s;e departed, &s;carce receavde a place,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>ince in thy power, that honour which them cled,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>ay that convoyde them to their funerall bed:</L>
<L><HI>I</HI>nto thy power this likewi&s;e knew I maire,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven all the monyes mortified there:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>No doubt three charges, worth renowne&punc; which mu&s;t,</L>
<L>E&s;teemd wee more, while rendred in thy tru&s;t,</L>
<L>And as before the&s;e three were ay in one,</L>
<L>So &s;ince from thee the&s;e three are &s;everall gone,</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<HEAD>To ROBERT SKEENE,</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>Seek no beterr.</HI></L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Sonnet.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>R</HI>emembring how for to expre&s;&s;e thy prai&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>r with my &s;elfe con&s;idering what to &s;ay,</L>
<L><HI>B</HI>ehold how rea&s;on would extoll my phra&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven for thy vertues viewed everie day:</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>emaine therefore thy worthine&s;&s;e &s;hall ay,</L>
<L><HI>T</HI>hat thou to all, a paterne may bee &s;ure,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>ince that thy fame &s;hall never finde decay,</L>
<L><HI>K</HI>nowing thy worth, all &s;hall thy prai&s;e procure:</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ternally, that all may te&s;tifie,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI>nto thy &s;elfe, &s;uch properties appeare,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o le&s;&s;e in actions then civilitie,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>&s;teemd by all, who&s;e wi&s;edome men admeere.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And wherefore now, thou cho&s;en art to &s;it,</L>
<L>A Coun&s;eller in <HI>Bon-acord</HI> mo&s;t fit:</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="28">
<HEAD>To M. WILLIAME MOIRE,</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>Lo me I mai rule.</HI></L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Sonnet.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>Ma&s;ter</L>
<L><HI>W</HI>ith all tho&s;e worthies <HI>Moir</HI> thou art belovde,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI>n number whereof thou thy &s;elfe art one,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>ykewi&s;e thy worth in <HI>Bon-acords</HI> approvde,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>ong which &s;hall la&s;t, when endle&s;&s;e time is gone,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI>f Fame had force <HI>Moir,</HI> then it hath to flee,</L>
<L><HI>A</HI>ll it would &s;ound would bee in prai&s;e of thee,</L>
<L><HI><HI>M</HI>oir</HI> is thy name, and thou in worth is <HI>Moir,</HI></L>
<L><HI>E</HI>&s;teemde <HI>Moir</HI> duely, for thy gifts in &s;tore,</L>
<L><HI>M</HI>eeke in thy life and <HI>moir</HI> I cannot &s;ay,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>f thee tho&s;e parts approved everie day:</L>
<L><HI>I</HI>n youth well bred, the which thou do&s;t declare.</L>
<L><HI>R</HI> Ruling by wi&s;dome in the coun&s;ell there,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Wherefore though I, thee <HI>Moire</HI> might much co~mend</L>
<L>More Ile not &s;ay, but <HI>Moire</HI> I might defend.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="encomium">
<HEAD>To IOHN LOWSONE.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L><HI>I love no &s;in.</HI></L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<LG>
<L><HI>I</HI>f Poets pens haue parted prai&s;es oft,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>r prai&s;e expo&s;de vnto the Worlds view,</L>
<L><HI>H</HI>ow much are they then bound to rai&s;e aloft,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>ot &s;imple &s;ayings, but of thee mo&s;t true,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>et then my lynes impart a publick view,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>f all thy prai&s;e to bee approved rare,</L>
<L><HI>V</HI>ith Romanes, Grecians rendring them their due,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>ince that their name with thine &s;tands in compare:</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>r to bee briefe, behold its &s;aid of mee,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>o prai&s;e is lo&s;t that is applyde to thee,</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="encomium">
<HEAD>To THOMAS MOWET.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>T</HI>here was among&s;t the Romans many lovde</L>
<L><HI>H</HI>opefull in youth, and for their worth approvde,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>f all in generall, whom <HI>I</HI> read I &s;ee,</L>
<L><HI>M</HI>o&s;t duely thou for worth comparde may bee.</L>
<L><HI>A</HI>s hopefull alwayes, and no le&s;&s;e belovde,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>uchlike for wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h in Bon-acord approvde,</L>
<L><HI>M</HI>ay I not therefore, thus enroll thy name,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>f due de&s;ert comprable with them,</L>
<L><HI>V</HI>nchallengd truely may I thee impo&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven 'mong&s;t the&s;e worthies, to bee red with tho&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>T</HI>hat in the&s;e lynes by mee which are inver&s;t,</L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<PB REF="29">
<HEAD>To ALEXANDER RAMESEY,</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>Se I randar al mercy.</HI></L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Acro&s;tick.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>A</HI>nd if thou <HI>randar mercy,</HI> then bee &s;ure,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>yfe endle&s;&s;e thereby, &s;halt thy &s;elfe procure,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven thou who&s;e worth is viewed everie day,</L>
<L><HI>X</HI>ceeding rare in wi&s;edome thought alwaye:</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> man of mercie, wherefore thou art meete,</L>
<L><HI>N</HI>ow where thou rules into that judgement &s;eat.</L>
<L><HI>D</HI>ecorde with grace, and vertues of the minde,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI>nto the which all ble&s;&s;ings are combynd,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>emaine therefore, for ever &s;hall thy fame,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>ed in tho&s;e lynes, which doth import thy name,</L>
<L><HI>A</HI>dmeerd for <HI>mercie</HI> &s;ince thy life began,</L>
<L><HI>M</HI>uch lovd for grace, and grace doth make the man:</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ternally therefore, I will my Mu&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>S</HI>hould fing thy prai&s;e, among&s;t my worthie&s;t chu&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>&s;teemde thou art, for mercie grace and faith,</L>
<L><HI>Y</HI>airefore thy worth &s;hall long liue after death.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="eulogy">
<HEAD>To WILLIAME GRAY.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag: <HI>Age may ruill.</HI></L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Sonnet</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>W</HI>hat &s;hould bee &s;ought into a ruler more,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI>f hee hath knowledge (for to rule) in &s;tore,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>ikewi&s;e, if that his age hath conqui&s;ht wit,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>ike one who&s;e worth is thought in coun&s;ell fit,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> know in thee, the&s;e one, the other yeelds,</L>
<L><HI>A</HI>ccompli&s;ht both, mo&s;t like two faithfull &s;hields:</L>
<L><HI>M</HI>ore <HI>age to rule,</HI> mo&s;t &s;urely none can craue,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven &s;o more skill to rule, needes no man haue,</L>
<L><HI>G</HI>raue yeares of youth, in thee doth now appeare,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>are vertues likewi&s;e which may breed admeere:</L>
<L><HI><HI>A</HI>ge to rule,</HI> and ruler in thy age,</L>
<L><HI>Y</HI>at may a match to any bee I'lledg.</L>
<L><HI>V</HI>nto thy prai&s;e therefore I fix my name,</L>
<L><HI>M</HI>aintaining truely this thy endle&s;&s;e &s;ame.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="encomium">
<PB REF="29">
<HEAD>To GEORG MELDRVM,</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="anagram">
<L>Anag. <HI>Go mild rumer.</HI></L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="acrostic">
<HEAD>Sonnet</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>G</HI>iue vertue crownde with con&s;cience, merits loue,</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ven in thy &s;tation thou de&s;erues e&s;teeme,</L>
<L><HI>O</HI>r if graue cariage, due re&s;pect can moue,</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>ich are the&s;e parts in thee, as fame proclaime:</L>
<L><HI>G</HI>race doth governe them, companide with faith,</L>
<L><HI>M</HI>eeke wi&s;edome al&s;o ruleth in thy wayes:</L>
<L><HI>E</HI>ternall prai&s;e &s;hall proue thee after death,</L>
<L><HI>L</HI>ike one who&s;e worth &s;hall &s;uffer no decayes:</L>
<L><HI>D</HI>oubtle&s;&s;e and rather evermore thy fame.</L>
<L><HI>R</HI>emaine it &s;hall in <HI>Bon-acord</HI> as due,</L>
<L><HI>V</HI>hen thou art dead, to eternize thy name,</L>
<L><HI>M</HI>en &s;hall each day, thy dignities renue,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And for their aide <HI>myld rumer</HI> foorth &s;hall goe,</L>
<L>And with my Mu&s;e &s;ound foorth thy prai&s;e al&s;o.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="apology">
<HEAD>For Apologie.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>IT's &s;aid, a Prophet &s;hall reape honour, &s;aue</L>
<L>Hee it vnto his natiue countrie craue:</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> &s;aying &s;ad, to &s;uch as would a&s;pyre,</L>
<L>Since Friends at home to them as foes con&s;pyre.</L>
<L>For my part <HI>I,</HI> nor Prophet, Poet, am <HI>I,</HI></L>
<L>Yet from your bounds, by birth of parents came <HI>I.</HI></L>
<L>Therefore that proverb, let mee not approue,</L>
<L>As for reward, of this my &s;igne of loue,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> haue done &s;omething on your names <HI>I</HI> know,</L>
<L>Though not &s;o much, as <HI>I</HI> of duetie owe:</L>
<L>And &s;ince not loftie in my phrai&s;e am glad,</L>
<L>Yee know how <HI>I</HI> was educat and bred:</L>
<L>Which is of learning, <HI>I</HI> no part profe&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And hath by v&s;e or reading rather le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Whence comes a &s;igne, of &s;erious mynde in mee:</L>
<L>To &s;hew your worth in &s;trained Poe&s;ie:</L>
<L>Yet your Acro&s;ticks claimes to mee no prai&s;e,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e the letters doth the &s;entence rai&s;e:</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> by my weakne&s;&s;e, rather did omit,</L>
<L>For to expre&s;&s;e, tho&s;e prai&s;es which were fit:</L>
<L><PB REF="30">And &s;o in mee the &s;ault con&s;i&s;ts as due,</L>
<L>Since what is right, and more belongs to you,</L>
<L>But &s;ince <HI>I</HI> grant, what wrong is done by mee,</L>
<L>Let mee of you obtaine this courte&s;ie,</L>
<L>That yee in loue my lynes receaue, and then,</L>
<L>Yele &s;hew your &s;elues braue courteous gentle men.</L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="sonnet">
<HEAD>Sonnet.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>LOE now my Mu&s;e, I haue betrothed twy&s;e,</L>
<L>And rewes of none the matches &s;hee did make:</L>
<L>But doth contemne all &s;uch as mee envyes:</L>
<L>And of my Patrons doe protection take</L>
<L>Her maidinhead: My Mu&s;e did fir&s;t direct</L>
<L>To <HI>Edenburgh,</HI> for her fir&s;t favoured choy&s;e,</L>
<L>Her wedowhead &s;hee yeelded by re&s;pect,</L>
<L>To <HI>Bon-acord,</HI> who&s;e worth the &s;ame injoyes,</L>
<L>The fir&s;t's a famous, and a glorious Towne,</L>
<L>And is for vertues wondrous much admeerde,</L>
<L>The other &s;oares by &s;overaigne due renowne,</L>
<L>And hath all vyce foorth from her &s;treets reteerde:</L>
<L>And though I founde the fir&s;t a match mo&s;t rare,</L>
<L>So now I thinke for worth this may compare.</L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="sonnet">
<HEAD>Sonnet.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>I Sweare its not to &s;hew the thing I haue not,</L>
<L>What I haue ver&s;t within this volume heere,</L>
<L>Likewi&s;e I vow, part of thy prai&s;e <HI>I</HI> craue not,</L>
<L>Nor of thy cen&s;ure doe I &s;tand in feare,</L>
<L>I wryte in loue, and labours to allot,</L>
<L>My lynes to bee a witne&s;&s;e of the &s;ame.</L>
<L>And doth not care the carping of no &s;ot,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e there is no courte&s;ie in them,</L>
<L>The rare&s;t lynes that ever yet were pend,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t byde the cen&s;ure of &s;ome curious eye:</L>
<L>Therefore re&s;olues my Mu&s;e&punc; to recommend,</L>
<L>Vnto thy murther, or thy mode&s;tie.</L>
<L>Shee was a Maid, but now twy&s;e married &s;tands,</L>
<L>If wrongd by thee, betwixt a knaves two hands.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<PB REF="30">
<PB REF="31">
<PB REF="31">
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