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Till they may say, 'Tis time: wee are of yeares, 



To challenge our Inheritance of Teares. 



Lend to those Orphanes, or lay out an Ey, 25 



Some tender soul, till they can pay, & cry. 



Yet stay. This shrine doth all those eys disdaine, 

 That cheat all funeralls, w*^ a forced raine 

 Eyes ready, that (like watermills for graines) 

 Can ebb, & flow, according to their gaines, 30 



That rent out moysture, to each wealthy grave, 

 Where heires their pounds, freinds may their scruples have. 

 Vanish such easy shewres ; w''^ some full feast 

 Engendring, are lay'd vp, till they are prest 

 To serve att Funeralls : such greifes weep rheumes, as 



And for true sighs, vent onely stomach fumes. 



Wishes to my sonne John, lor this new, and all succeeding yeares : 

 Jan. I. 1630 : 



If wishes may enrich my Boy, 



my Jack, that art thy fathers Joy, 



they shall be showr'd upon thy head 



as thick as manna, Angells bread ; 



And bread I wish thee, this short word 5 



will furnish both thy backe and boord ; 



not fortunatus purse, or Capp, 



nor danaes gold-replenisht Lapp 



can more supply thee ; but content 



is a large patrimony, sent 1° 



from him who did thy soule infuse, 



maist thou this best endowment use 



in any state ; thy structure is 



I see compleate ; A frontispice 



promising faire ; may it nere bee 15 



Like Jesuites volumes, where we see 



Vertues, and vSaints adorne the front, 



doctrines of deuills follow on't : 



may a pure soule inhabite still 



this, well mixt clay ; and a streight will 20 



By act by Reason, that by grace ; 



May Gemms of price maintaine their place 



