iia ANNUAL REGISTER, 1490. 
But far above them all, he moft extolled 
The ftately Heroyns, whofe noble minde 
ltfelf to thofe poor orders cannot bynde, 
Anomelous that flill live uncontrol’d. z 
Theis intertayn great princes; theis have learned 
The tongs, toys, tricks of Rome, of Spayn, of Fraunte 3 
Theis can correntos and lavoltas daunce, 
And though they foote it falfe ’tis near difcearned. . 
The vertues of theis dames are fo tranfcendant, 
‘Themiclvs are learn’d, and their heroyke fpirit 
Can make difgrace an honor, fin a merit; 
All pens, all prayfers are on them dependant. 
Well, gentle wife, thou knowft L am not ftoycall, 
Yet would I with, take not the wifh in evill, 
You kriew the private vertue, kept the civill, 
But in no fort afpite to that hearoycall. 
To my W1FE, 
YOUR mother layes yt to me as a cryme, 
That J fo long do ftay from you fometime, 
And by her fond furmife would make you feare 
My love doth grow more cold, or lefs finceare+ 
But Jet no caufles doubts make you beleeve 
"That being falfe yt being trew would greeve. 
T, when I goe from thee the furtheft diftance, 
Do in my foule, by my true-loves affiftance, 
Infted of fweet imbracements, dove-like kiffes, 
Send kindeft thoughts, and moft indeered wifhes :-—= 
/ Then letters, then kind tokens pafs, and then 
My bufie Mufe imployes my ydle pen. 
‘Then memory in loves defence alledges 
Seavn organ-pipes, our loves affured pledges. 
Alas, how many live itill with their wives, 
Yet in true kindnefs abfent all their lives !— 
Abfence is true loves fauce, and ferves to whet ita 
They never lov’d whom abfence makes forget it. 
VERSES ‘fo Sir Josnua Reynotns, on his late Refignation 9 
the Prefident’s Chair of the RovaL ACADEMY. 
By the Earl of CaRuisve. 
T OO wife for conteft, and too meek for ftrife, 
Like Lear, opprefs’d by thofe you rais’d to life, 
Thy fceptre broken, thy dominion o’er, 
The curtain falls, and thou’rt a king no more— 
5 Stil 
