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Of Observations, fit for Ornament, 



Or use, or to give curious eares content. 



If thou would'st be a Merchant, buy this Booke : 

 For 'tis a prize worth gold ; and doe not looke 

 Daily for such disbursements ; no, 'tis rare, 

 And shall be cast up with thy richest ware. 



Reader, if thou be any, or all three ; 

 (For these may meet and make a harmonic) 

 Then praise the Author for his usefall paines, 

 Whose aime is public good, not private gaines. 



Iz. Wa. 



On the Death of my dear Friend, Mr 

 William Cartwright 



(1651). 

 I CANNOT keep my purpose, but must give 

 Sorrow and Verse their way ; nor will I grieve 

 Longer in silence ; no, that poor, poor part 

 Of natures legacy, Verse void of Art, 

 And undissembled tears, Cartwright shall have 

 Fixt on his Hearse ; and wept into his grave. 



Muses I need you not ; for, Grief and I 

 Can in your absence weave an elegy : 

 Which we will do ; and often inter- weave 

 Sad Looks, and Sighs; the ground- work must 



receive 

 Such Characters, or be adjudg'd unfit 

 For my Friend's shroud; others have shew'd theirWit, 



