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Was worthy of a good one, and this, here,
I know for such, as (if my word will weigh)
She need not blush upon the marriage day.

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In picture, they which truly understand, Require (besides the likeness of the thing) Light, posture, heightening, shadow, coloring,

All which are parts commend the cunning hand; And all your book, when it is thoroughly scanned,

Will well confess; presenting, limiting

Each subtlest passion, with her source, and spring,

So bold, as shows your art you can command.
But now your work is done, if they that view
The several figures, languish in suspense,
To judge which passion's false, and which is
true,

Between the doubtful sway of reason and

sense,

'Tis not your fault if they shall sense prefer, Being told there Reason cannot, Sense may err.

connected with the tragical death of the author. The public appear to have been interested in this piece by the contrast presented between the portrait drawn in it of a pure and virtuous woman, and the character of the infamous Countess of Essex. B.

30 Prefixed to The Passions of the Mind in general, a poem by Thomas Wright, 1604 and 1620.-B.

TO THE AUTHOR.31

Truth is the trial of itself,

And needs no other touch;
And purer than the purest gold,
Refine it ne'er so much.

It is the life and light of love,
The sun that ever shineth,
And spirit of that special grace,
That faith and love defineth.

It is the warrant of the word,
That yields a scent so sweet,
As gives a power to faith to tread
All falsehood under feet.

It is the sword that doth divide
The marrow from the bone,
And in effect of heavenly love
Doth show the Holy One.

This, blessed Warre, thy blessed book
Unto the world doth prove;
A worthy work, and worthy well
Of the most worthy love.

TO EDWARD FILMER, ON HIS MUSICAL WORK, DEDICATED TO THE QUEEN.32

What charming peals are these,

That, while they bind the senses, do so please?

31 Prefixed to The Touchstone of Truth, by T. Warre, 1630.-B.

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32 Of Filmer nothing is known. The musical work" ap

They are the marriage-rites

Of two, the choicest pair of man's delights,
Music and Poesy;

French air, and English verse, here wedded lie.

Who did this knot compose,

Again hath brought the Lily to the Rose;
And, with their chainèd dance,

Re-celebrates the joyful match with France.
They are a school to win

The fair French daughter to learn English in;
And, graced with her song,

To make the language sweet upon her tongue.

TO RICHARD BROME, ON HIS COMEDY OF "THE
NORTHERN LASS." 83

I had you for a servant once, Dick Brome,
And you performed a servant's faithful parts;
Now you are got into a nearer room

Of fellowship, professing my old arts.

pears to have been a mere adaptation of French music to English words, in compliment to Queen Henrietta. — B.

33 Richard Brome, from having been originally servant to Ben Jonson, became afterwards his friend, and was esteemed so highly by his contemporaries, that most of the principal poets addressed commendatory verses to him on his productions. He was the author of fifteen comedies, all entering into the current humors of the age, and treating them with considerable dramatic sk 11. In addition to these plays he produced The Lancashire Witches, in conjunction with Thomas Heywood; and is said to have written six others. The Northern Lass, to which Jonson's lines were prefixed, was Brome's first play, and was published in 1632. Jonson's

And you do do them well, with good applause, Which you have justly gained from the stage, By observation of those comic laws

Which I, your master, first did teach the age. You learnt it well, and for it served your time, A 'prenticeship, which few do nowadays: Now each court hobby-horse will wince in rhyme, Both learned, and unlearnèd, all write plays. It was not so of old; men took up trades

That knew the crafts they had been bred in right;

An honest bilbo-smith would make good blades,
And the physician teach men spew and
The cobbler kept him to his awl; but now,
He'll be a poet, scarce can guide a plough.

A SPEECH AT A TILTING.34

Two noble knights, whom true desire, and zeal, Hath armed at all points, charge me humbly

kneel

To thee, O king of men, their noblest parts

lines are thus introduced: "To my faithful servant, and (by his continued virtue) my loving friend, the author of this work, Richard Brome." Brome died about the year 1652. His comedy of A Jovial Crew was successfully revived at the Theatre Royal in Cibber's time. — B.

84 This speech, which was copied from Ashmole's MSS., is said to have been "presented to King James at a tilting, in the behalf of the two noble brothers, Sir Robert and Sir Henry Rich." The lines have no date, but were probably pro duced on one of those festive occasions to which the attachment of Prince Henry to martial exercises gave birth. —- G.

To tender thus, their lives, their loves, thei

hearts.

The elder of these two

rich hopes increase.

Presents a royal altar of fair peace ;

And, as an everlasting sacrifice,

His life, his love, his honor which ne'er dies,
He freely brings, and on this altar lays
As true oblations. His brother's emblem says,
Except your gracious eye, as through a glass,
Made pèrspective, behold him, he must pass
Still that same little point he was; but when
Your royal eye, which still creates new men,
Shall look, and on him, so, — then art's a liar,
If from a little spark he rise not fire.

AN EXPOSTULATION WITH INIGO JONES.36
Master Surveyor, you that first began
From thirty pounds in pipkins, to the man
You are from them leaped forth an architect,

35 These youths, says Gifford, were the sons of Robert Rich, first Earl of Warwick, by the too celebrated sister of the Earl of Essex. Robert, the elder, succeeded to the title in 1618. He "protests much," like Hamlet's player-queen, in his speech, and he kept his word somewhat in the same manner. James was scarcely dead, when he threw himself into the arms of the Parliament. His brother Henry, notwithstanding his emblem, trod in Robert's steps. Jamies created him Earl of Holland. Great honors were also conferred upon him by Charles, in return for which he deserted and betrayed the royal cause. He was not long in receiving his reward from his new masters, who deprived him of his head in 1620. — B.

86 This expostulation and the two pieces, also referring to

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