Help, help, (dear children) Oh! some pity take
On her who bore you! Help for mercy sake!
Oh heart! oh head! oh back! oh bones! I feel
They've poyson'd me with giving too much steel
Oh give me that for which I long and cry!
Something that's soveraign, or else I die.

VI.

Kind Cheshire heard ;-and like some son that stood
Upon the bank, straight jump'd into the flood,
Flings out his arms, and strikes some strokes to swim;
Booth ventur'd first, and Middleton with him,
Stout Mackworth, Egerton, and thousands more,
Threw themselves in, and left the safer shore;
Massy (that famous diver) and bold Brown
Forsook his wharfe,-resolving all to drown,
Or save a sinking kingdom :- - But, oh sad!
Fearing to lose her prey, the sea grew mad,
Rais'd all her billowes, and resolv'd her waves
Should quickly be the bold adventurers' graves.
Out marches Lambert, like an eastern wind,
And with him all the mighty waters joyn'd.
The loyal swimmers bore up heads and breasts,
Scorning to think of life or interests;

They ply'd their arms and thighs, but all in vain;
The furious main beat them to shore again;
At which the floating island (looking back,
Spying her loyal lovers gone to wrack)
Shriekt lowder then before,—and thus she crys,
"Can you, ye angry heavens, and frowning skies,
"Thus countenance rebellious mutineers,
"Who if they durst, would be about your ears?
"That I should sink, with justice may accord,
"Who let my Pilot be thrown over-board;

"Yet 'twas not I (ye righteous heavens do know)

"The souldiers in me needs would have it so :

"And those who conjur'd up these storms themselves, "And first engag'd me 'mongst these rocks and shelves, Guilty of all my woes, erect this weather,

"Fearing to come to land, and chusing rather

"To sink me with themselves.-O! Cease to frown, "In tears (just heavens!) behold! my self I drown: "Let not these proud waves do't: prevent my fears, "And let them fall together by the eares."

VII.

Heaven heard, and struck th' insulting army mad;
Drunk with their Cheshire tryumphs, straight they had
New lights appear'd; and new resolves they take,
A single person once again to make.

Who shall be he? Oh! Lambert, without rub,
The fittest Divel to be Belzebub.

He, the fierce fiend, cast out o' the house before,
Return'd, and threw the house now out of dore:
A legion then he rais'd of armed sprights,
Elves, goblins, fairies, quakers, and new lights,
To be his under-Divels; with this rest

His soul and body (Church and State) possest:
Who though they fill'd all countries, towns and rooms,
Yet (like that fiend that did frequent the tombs)
Churches, and sacred grounds they haunted most,
No chappel was at ease from some such ghost.
The priests ordain'd to exorcise those elves,
Were voted Divels, and cast out themselves :
Bible, or Alchoran, all's one to them,
Religion serves but for a stratagem:

The holy charms these adders did not heed,
Churches themselves did sanctuary need. ·

VIII.

The Churche's patrimony and rich store,
Alas! was swallowed many years before:
Bishops and Deans we fed upon before,
They were the ribs and surloyns of the whore:
Not let her legs (the Priests) go to the pot,
(They have the pope's eye in them) spare them not:
We have fat benefices yet to eat,

(Bell, and our Dragon-Army must have meat ;)
Let us devour her limb-meal, great and small,
Tythe calves, geese, pigs, the pettitoes and all :
A vicaridge in sippets, though it be
But small, will serve a squeamish sectary.
Though Universities we cann't endure,
There's no false Latine in their lands (be sure.)
Give Oxford to our horse, and let the foot
Take Cambridge for their booty, and fall to't.
Christ-Church I'll have, (cries Vane ;) Disbrow swops
At Trinity; King's is for Berry's chops;

Kelsey, takes Corpus Christi; All-Souls, Packer;
Carve Creed, St. John's; New Colledge, leave to Hacker;
Fleetwood cries, Weeping Maudlin shall be mine,

Her tears I'll drink insteed of Muscadine :

The smaller halls and houses scarce are big

Enough to make one dish for Hesilrig;

We must be sure to stop his mouth, though wide,
Else all our fat will be i' the fire (they cry'd :)
And when we have done these, we'll not be quiet,
Lordships, and landlords rents shall be our diet.
Thus talk'd this jolly crew, but still mine host,
Lambert, resolves that he will rule the rost."*

The Author of this poem was Dr. Rt. Wild, Rector of Aynoe, in Northamptonshire. He died 1679. The Extracts here given contain about half the poem, which was reprinted with other poems, 1668 and 1670, 8vo. Wood's Ath. ii. F. 21.

ELEVEN TRACTS RELATING TO VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND.

1. "True Declaration of the Estate of the Colonie in Virginia, with a confutation of such scandalous Reports as have tended to the disgrace of so worthy an enterpriser. Published by the advice and direction of the Colony of Virginia. London, printed for William Barret, and are to be sold at the black Beare, in Paul's Churchyarde, 1610," 4to. pp.

68.

2. "The New Life of Virginia: Declaring the former successe and present estate of that plantation, being the second part of Nova Britannia. Published by the authoritie of his Maiesties Counsell of Virginia. London, printed by Felix Kyngston for William Welby, dwelling at the signe of the Swan, in Paul's Churchyarde, 1612," 4to. Sig. G iv.

Dedicated to Sir Thomas Smith of London, Governor of the Muscovia and East India Companies.

3. " Virginia impartially examined, and left to public view, to be considered by all judicious and honest men, &c. By William Bullock, Gent. London, printed and sold by John Hammond, over against St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, 1649,” 4to. pp. 66.

Dedicated to the Earl of Arundell, and to Lord Baltimore, with an address to his much esteemed friends, Mr. Samuel Vassell, capt. Rd. Cranley, capt. N. Davis, capt. Benjamin Cranley, capt. Will. Ryder, capt. Peter Andrews, and the rest

of the Gentlemen Adventurers to the English Plantations beyond seas.

4. " Virginia: being a full and true Relation of the present state of the Plantation, &c. London, printed for Richard Wodenoth, at the Star under Peter's Church in Cornhill, 1649," 4to. pp. 19.

5. "

6.

Virgo Triumphans: or Virginia in general, but the South Part thereof in particular, &c. Humbly presented to the Parliament, &c. By Edward Williams, Gent. London, printed by Tho. Harper for John Stephenson, at the Sun on Ludgate Hill. 1650," 4to. pp. 47.

2d. Edition, same year, withthe addition of the Discovery of Silkworms, by E. W. Gent, making an addition of five pages."

7. "Virginia's Discovery of the Silk Worms, &c. Lon don, by the same for the same."

Dedication signed-" Ed. Williams." 1650, 4to.

pp. 78.

At the end is a wood-cut, and a description of the Saw-Mill.

8. "Virginia and Maryland, or the Lord Baltimore's printed case uncased and answered, &c. London, to be sold at the Crown, in Pope's Head Alley, 1655," 4to. pp. 52.

9. "Public Good without Private Interests, or a compendious remonstrance of the sad state and condition

London, printed for Henry

of Virginia, &c.
Marsh, 1657," Ato. pp. 27.