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Paft marble monuments, to thofe, whofe praife 

 He would perpetuate ? Did he (I feare 

 The dull will doubt :) thefe at his twentieth year ? 

 But, more matur'd ; Did his full foule conceive. 

 And in harmonious- holy-numbers weave 

 K:^ Crown of /acred fonnets^^t to adorne ^La Corona. 

 A dying Martyrs brow : or, to be worne 

 On that bleft head oi Mary Magdalen^ 

 After fhe wip'd Chrifts feet, but not till then ? 

 Did hee (fit for fuch penitents as fhee 

 And he to ufe) leave us a Litany^ 

 Which all devout men love, and fure, it fliall. 

 As times grow better, grow more claflicall ? 

 Did he write Hymnes^ for piety, for wit,^ 

 Equall to thofe, great grave Prudentius writ ? 

 Spake he all Languages ? knew he all Lawes ? 

 The grounds and ufe of Phyfick ; but becaufe 

 *Twas mercenary, wav'd it ? Went to fee 



for piety and wit, — 1633. 



That 



