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Herrick’s poem, His Daughter's Dowry, written about 1648, 
is a very pretty testament. 1 It contains some moral advice 
very prettily phrased and a legacy of several enviable virtues. 
The Departure, a very short poem of even date, is a good ex¬ 
ample of the adieu. 2 
Phineas Flechter’s Father's Testament (c. 1650) is a book 
written partly in verse and partly in prose. 3 It is intended 
as a handbook of moral instruction for the author’s children 
and relatives. The writer says that this is an elaboration of a 
similar legacy of advice left him by his father, Giles Fletcher. 
During these years the writers of satire were also making 
use of the testament. The Last Will and Testament of the 
Doctor's Commons is the title of a prose tract called out by 
the suppression in 1641 of the English spiritual jurisdictions. 4 
The Ijast Will and Testament of Charing Crosse is a prose 
tract belonging to 1646. 5 The Cross gives an account of her 
own life, and complains of the way in which she has been 
lately neglected. Foreseeing that she must soon be taken 
down, she makes her testament, in which the chief bequests 
are satirical gifts of parts of her body. Some idea of the na¬ 
ture of a testament printed in The Fall of Tyranny and the 
Resurrection of Royalty (1650) may be gathered from the 
title: “The Last Will and Testament of Philip Herbat, Bur- 
gesse for Barkshire, vulgarly called Earl of Pembroke and 
Montgomery, ivho died, of Foole-age, Ja. 23, 1650, with his 
life and death and several legacies to the Parliament and Coun¬ 
cil of State, also his elegy, taken verbatim in the time of his 
sickness and publisht to prevent false copies by Michael Oldis- 
worth . Of nearly the same date is The Last Will and Testa¬ 
ment of the Earl of Pembroke, a testament the contents of 
which do not correspond to the description given of the preced¬ 
ing one. 6 This represents the Earl of Pembroke as impiously 
1 A. Pollard, Robert Herrick: The Hesperides and Noble Numbers , 
London and N. Y., 1891. II, 260. 
2 Ibid., I, 223. 
s Grossart, Phineas Fletcher's Poems (Fuller Worthies Library) 
1869, I, lx, and clix; III, pp. 273 ff. 
4 Somers’ Tracts, IV, 297. 
s Ashbee, Occasional Facsimile Reprints. 
e Somers’ Tracts; VII, 89. 
