A PANEGYRICKE, 



In the deserved honor of this most profitable worke, and 

 no lesse renowned then much-desired Project. 



T Sing of him that is as deere to mee 

 - As to the World ; to whom both aye are bound ; 

 Then briefe, for Bond so long, I cannot be ; 

 Unlesse my Love were (like my Lines) too round. 



Proportion doth so please Witte, Will, and Sense, 

 That where it wants, it grieves Sense, Will, and Witte : 

 Then by Proportion of his Excellence, 

 Thus must we shape our praise of Him, and It. 



When as the Earth all soild in sinne did lye, 



Th almighties long-provokt inraged-HAND 



Emptied Heavns Bottles, it to purifie ; 



And made that (a) FL UD that mud to countermand. 



So, for like crimes, of late, we plagu'd have bin 

 With like (U) O* reflowings , washing all away 

 That lay the Earth upon, or Earth within, 

 Within the limitts where this Deluge lay ! 



3 Which 



(a) Noahs 

 floud. 

 (6) The 

 Inundation 

 caused by 

 the boiling 

 up of the 

 sea in Mun- 

 mouth and 

 Glamorgan 

 shire, the 

 yeare 1607. 



