^Appendix 



Commendatory Verses to the Author of 

 " Scintillula Altar is ' 



(1652) 



To the Author upon the sight of the first sheet of his Book 



My worthy friend, I am much pleased to know, 

 You have begun to pay the debt you owe 

 By promise, to so many pious friends, 

 In printing your choice Poems ; it commends 

 Both them and you, that they have been desir'd 

 By persons of such Judgment ; and admir'd 

 They must be most, by those that best shall know 

 What praise to holy Poetry we owe. 



So shall your Disquisitions too ; for, there 

 Choice learning^ and blest piety, appear. 

 All useful/ to poor Christians : where they may 

 Learne Primitive Devotion. Each Saints day 

 Stands as a Land-mark in an erring age 

 To guide fraile mortals in their pilgrimage, 

 To the Ccelestiall Can'an ; and each Fast, 

 Is both the souls direction, and repast: 



All so exprest, that I am glad to know 



You have begun to pay the debt you owe. 



IZ. WA. 



To my Ingenuous Friend^ JWV. Brome^ 

 on his various and excellent Poems : 

 An humble Eg log. 



Written the 29 of May, 1660. 

 DAMAN AND DORUS 



DAMAN. 



Hail happy day ! Dorus, sit down : 

 Now let no sigh, nor let a frown 

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