When Chrift did fuffer on the croffe

For mortall finners crimes.

He hath paft through many a foreigne place,

Arabia, Egypt, Africa,

Grecia, Syria, and great Thrace,

And throughout all Hungaria :

Where Paul and Peter preached Chrift,
Thofe bleft apoftles deare;

There he hath told our Saviours wordes,
In countries far, and neare.

And lately in Bohemia,

With many a German towne ;
And now in Flanders, as tis thought,

He wandreth up and downe :

Where learned men with him conferre

Of those his lingering dayes,

And wonder much to heare him tell

His journeyes, and his wayes.

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He ne'er was feene to laugh nor smile,
But weepe and make great moane;
Lamenting fill his miferies,

And dayes forepaft and gone:
If he heare any one blafpheme,

Or take God's name in vaine,
He telles them that they crucifie
Their Saviour Chrifte againe.

If you had feene his death, faith he,
As thefe mine eyes have done,
Ten thousand thousand times would
His torments think upon:

And fuffer for his fake all paine

Of torments, and all woes.

Thefe are his wordes and eke his life

Whereas he comes or goes.

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SIR WALTER RALEIGH,

-is found in a very fearce mifcellany intitled "Davifon's "Poems, or a poeticall Rapfodic divided into fixe books.

"The

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"The 4th impreffion newly corrected and augmented, and put into a forme more pleafing to the reader. Lond. 1621. 12mo." This poem is reported to have been written by its celebrated author the night before his execution, O. 29. 1618. But this must be a mistake, for there were at least two editions of Davifon's poems before that time, one in 1608*: the other in 1611 t. So that unless this poem was an after-infertion in the 4th edit. it must have been written long before the death of Sir Walter: perhaps it was compofed foon after his condemnation in 1603. See Olays's life of Sir W. Raleigh, pag. 173. fol,

Goe tell the court, it glowes

And fhines like rotten wood;

Goe tell the church it showes
What's good, and doth no good:

If church and court reply,

Then give them both the lye.

Tell potentates they live

A&ting by others actions;

Not lov'd unleffe they give,

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Not strong but by their factions;

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Cat. of Sion coll. library. This is either loft or miflaid.

And as they shall reply,

Give each of them the lye.

Tell wit, how much it wrangles
In tickle points of niceneffe;
Tell wifedome, the entangles
Herfelfe in over-wifeneffe ;
And if they do reply,

Straight give them both the lye.

Tell phyficke of her boldneffe;

Tell skill, it is pretenfion;

Tell charity of coldness;

Tell law, it is contention;

And as they yield reply,

So give them ftill the lye.

Tell fortune of her blindneffe;

Tell nature of decay;

Tell friendship of unkindneffe;

Tell juftice of delay :

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And if they dare reply,

Then give them all the lye.

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Tell arts, they have no foundneffe,

But vary by esteeming ;

Tell schooles, they want profoundneffe,

And ftand too much on feeming :