Short Poems

Robin for Poesy to a wedding ring hath Cupio or I desire

Surely the God of love did him inspire
With a Conceipt that must not be said noe
Whilst that but symbol was o'th't'other thing
Wishes as thoughts are free
Let O be Alpha and Omega P.

Commissioners for the Irish affaires

Whilst all those Lords and Commons heads ere round
Intrusted are I'th'Irish affairs
Let such as list for me venter for ground
My head as dealing's square: I'le to my prayers
And thos shall be, that whilst wee conquest muse
Wee not forget what Christ prayed for the Jewes.

Upon Jack, Tom, Will, and Dick

Jack would live Batchelour yet neds must wive
Tom goes although hee'l neither Lead nor drive
Will from his charge roavs and Condemned is
Dick stayes at marke and that is judg'd a miss
Will Tom Dick Jack may well examples bee
To point out this worlds mutability.

The Cosmography of this County It alwares in former times stood distinguished by Longetude of east and West and yet held paralell the Hundreds to all services but now it is Lancht wounded and cut through by so many miridian Lines hott fiery Zealots or rather bonte feux firebrands of Cisme and seeds men of all seditions that it accknowledges noe bounding Tropicks but strives to Lay Levell in the Equator both Day and night a Like Pesant and Peer noe difference twixt Thrones and Coblers Bulkes nor is it girt thin other then the Torrid Zone and Soe spitts Flames-fire and Sword gainst Crowns and Sc

To Sir A W Clerk of the Kitt[chen] to KJ Upon his well cookt Dish — now in print calld the Gut of K. James

Reader behold what past times did afford
Heer set before ye on this dresser-bord
Where thou mayst find both Coke and Bacon which in
Good Diets Clerkship would commend the Kitchin
Then tell me ever if thou Knewst a Man
Write stronger from the spitt or dryping pann

Emblem Amours Sigillum

Mans hart lockt up within his secret Brest
Cannot by Tongue or Gesture be exprest
For what's of soe great worth we must suppose
It is a work of Power to disclose
Such Harts as make Men faithfull and upright
Are those at once both face and mind unite.

Use and Memory Parents to Wisedome Epigram

Use out of Date and to Remember
Our Saviours Berth' (wont bless December)
Cride downe: what may we ludg by these?
But this: that Wisedome's in decrease
And certainly must Folly owne
When as Her parents are not known.

A posy upon a weeks absence from her

What breath the dampe
Of soe great absence doth allowe
I heer instampe
And signe it from my hart a vowe
It is short-winded, yet I long for you.

Epigram: Upon one Beal a minister that took the Covenant thinking therby to save and hould his living but being discovered lost it and soe was deceived

Beal coming wher the Covenant was a guiving
Swallows it, rather than He'd loose his living
But when 'twas known upon what tearms he took it
They bid him for his living goe look it
Whoso playes fast and loose with God's not fit
T'partake of Benefice or benefit.

Ad Scoto Brittannum cui Carolus noster novum operaturus

Opus se subtraxit — May-5: 1646 Englisht thus

What wonder ist the King to th'Scots is fled
When by the English He was borrowed
Soe now's restored: that all their debts pay thus
I'de wish our Brethren send him back to us.