giue him the right of his due, except the traine of enuie set vpon the traine of honour, as commonly it doth; if it do, see he shall speake for himselfe, and appeale to the most precise, whose wits, being more busie then beautified with moral maners, thrust boldly, yet ignorantly, vpon the well trained sort, approching famous perswasion; he began as sodainly as hee arose sodainly, as if now life had newly reuiued, began to breath this gentle breath from out his mouth.

Sir Hugh Caluerley, Knight.

WHO feares to swim a riuer, dreads the sea,
But he that's best resolu'd dare venture both;
The greatest lumpe doth not the greatest die,
Base mettals to compare with golde are loth :

And why my quiet wit refraines to speake,
Is this, because the tallest ship may leake.

In England late yong Cauerley did liue,
Silke-weauers honour merited by deedes;
In forraine broyles continually I striue,
`Of lasting memorie to sow the secdes:

As by experience, they in Poland may
Expresse my English valour euery way.

After my princes seruice done in Fraunce,
I was entreated to the Polish King;

Where as the Frizeland horse doth breake the launce,
And tamelesse beasts a valiant race doth bring:
There Maximilian hunted with his lords,
Entangling mankind beares in toyling cords,

There did I bring a boare vnto the bay,
That spoyld the pleasant fields of Polonie;
And, ere the morning parted with her gray,
The foming beast as dead as clay did lie:

The ladies cheekes lookt red with chearefull blood,
And I was much commended for that good.

Some sayd I looked like Olympian Ioue,
When as he crackt in two the Centaurs bow;

As swiftly footed as the God of Loue,

Or greene Syluanus when he chast the roe:

They brought me crownes of lawrell wreathd with gold,
The sweet and daintiest tongues my prayses told.

These fauours fronted me with courage frowne,
That like the yong Alcides I did looke;

When he did lay the greedie lion downe.

No beast appeard, when I the woodes forsooke;
So that the King supposd I was some wight,
Ordained by heauen to expell their flight.

In scarlet and in purple was I clad,
And golden buskins put vpon my feete:
A casket of the richest pearles I had,
And euery noble gently did me greete.
So with the King I rode vnto the court,
Where, for to see me, many did resort.

At Iustes I euer was the formost man,
In field still forward, Fame can witnesse it;
And Cauerley at Tilt yet neuer ran,

But foming steed so champed on the bit :

But still my horse his masters valour shewd,
When, through my beavir, I with heat had blood.

Yet men of armes, of wit, and greatest skill,
Must die at last, when Deaths pale sisters please;
But then, for honour, fame remaineth still,
When dead delights in graue shall find their ease:
Ye long to know the truth, in Fraunce I dide,
When from the valiant Polands I did ride.

Now, honour, let me lay me downe againe,
And on thy pillow rest my wearie head;
My passed prayse commaunds my soule remaine,
Wherein these rosie bowers, with sweet dew fed:
Though I was valiant, yet my guiltlesse blood,
In crueltie of warre I neuer stood.

Thus this aduenturous martialist having exprest the zeale of his con science towards his countrey, the toyle and labour he sustained, to better the credite of his first calling, and the perils he waded through to patronage the ancient name of citizens; he reposed himselfe againe downe by the sides of his noble warre-fellowes.

Thus Fame and Clio, the one hauing marked his amiable partes and knightly gesture, the other delineated, with her pen, the eloquence of his oratour-like oration, questioning togisher some fewe poynts, concerning the force of valour, and the vertuous inclination of obmany scure persons, that although they lie sepultured, as it were, without regarde; yet, if oportunitie fitte them to reuiue their courage, will, like the diamond racked out of clay, excell, or, at least, compare with the brightnesse of glories. Rarest iewels concluded, that there was no pernition, but by vertue; no climbing to honour, but by fortitude; and none base, abiect, and ignoble, but the vicious, slouthfull, and faintharted milkesops. They were not wearyed, nor seemed these former knights tales tedious vnto them, although many would thinke it

a paine to bee tied to the hearing of so large a circumstance, and verie few but would exclaime it were plaine slauerie to write such and so many seuerall conceytes, from the mouthes of the speakers. Yet, such was their desire to publish these mens deserts, and the delight they tooke to see the increase spring of the seedes of vertue, for they would not take the smallest recreation, till euery one of the nine had fully finished their discourses, and therefore they attended, when the last would breath the secrets of his breast.

This was a prentice as the rest, and a grocer, sometime dwelling in Cornchill; his face was not effeminate, or his parts of a slender or weake constitution, but, by his lookes, he seemed couragious, and in the height, strength, and faire proportion of his body, victorious. Thus, being in al points armed like a champion, the verie aspect of his outwarde abite made semblance both of manhood and curtesie, wisedome and valour, knit in such a simpathie of operation, that he seemed as much to bee loued for peace, as praysed for prowes. And thus with a yoyce, neyther too meane like a child, nor too big like a gyant, but indifferent betwixt both, he spake as followeth :

Henry Maleuerer, Grocer, surnamed Henrie of Cornhill.

A precious cause hath still a rare effect,

And deedes are greatest when the daungers most;
It is no care that trauels dooth neglect,

Nor loue that hath respect to idle cost;

A bramble neuer bringeth forth a rose;

Where fields are fruitfull there the lillie growes.

By this coniecture what may be the end,
Of his defensiue force that fought for Christ;

It is no common matter, if we spend

Both life and goods in quarrell of the hiest;
The least desert dooth merit his reward,

And best employde should haue not worst regard.

No vaine presumption followes my deuise,
For of my actions t' is in vaine to boast,
Yet with the Pagans I encountred twise,
To winne againe faire Sion that was lost :
Vnto which warre I was not forst to go,
T'was honours fire that did incense me so.

For when the lews opprest with Heathens pride
Of Christian princes craude some friendly ayd,
cuery countrey they were flat denide,

In

Saue that in England here their sute preuailde:
Such was the furie of intestine strife,
All Europe sought to spoyle each others life.

And as in London there was order tane,

To make prouision for the Holy Land,

My youthfull mind that fearde no forraine bane,
Was so admirde by might of conquering hand:
As for a single combate they did see,

Th' ambassadours made speciall choyse of me.

Then for the tankerd I did vse to beare,
And other things belonging to mine art;
Mine hand did weelde Bellonas warlike speare,
For I was armde in steele to play my part:
Along we went to beard our daring foes,

That soone were queld with terrour of our blowes.

I neuer left the field, nor slept secure,
Vntill I sawe Hierusalem regainde;
To watch and labour I did still endure,
What ist that diligence hath not obtainde?
Yet grudging enuie valour to deface

By treasons malice brought me in disgrace.

The good that I had done was cleane forgot,
Ingratitude preuailde against my life,
And nothing then but exile was my lot,
Or else abide the stroke of fatall knife;
For so the ruler of the lewes concluded,
His grace by false reports was much deluded.

There was no striuing in a forraine soyle,

I tooke it patient, thought t'were causelesse done,
And to auoyde the staine of such a foyle,

That slaunderous tongues had wickedly begunne;
Where, to the holy well of Jacobs name,

I found a caue to shroude me from their blame.

And though my bodie were within their power,
Yet was my minde vntouched of their hate:
The valiant faint not, though that fortune lower,
Nor are they fearefull at controlling fate:

For in that water none could quench their thirst,
Except he ment to combate with me first.

By that occasion, for my pleasures sake,

I

gaue both knights and princes heauie strokes ; The proudest did presume a draught to take,

Was sure to haue his passeport seald with knocks:
Thus liu'd I till my innocence was knowne,
And then returnde; the King was pensiue growne.

And, for the wrong which he had offerd me,
He vowde me greater friendship than before;
My false accusers lost their libertie,

And, next their liues, I could not challenge more:
And thus with loue, with honour, and with fame,
I did returne to London whence I came.

This valerous champion, having here made an end, bowed himselfe. Then Fame with her owne hand gently laid his head vpon a soft downy pillow wrought with gold, and set with pearle, and so leauing him, and the rest, to the happinesse of their sweete sleepe, commanded Clio to claspe vp the booke, wherein she had written the deedes of these nine worthies, and, as her leysure serued her, to publish it to the viewe of the worlde, that euery one might read their honourable actions, and take example by them to follow vertue, and aspire to honour; and the rather, quoth she, because I would haue malicious mindes that enuye at the deserts of noble citizens, by proofe of these mens worthinesse, to repent their contempt, and amend their captious dispositions, seeing that from the be ginning of the world, and in all places of the world, citizens haue flourished and beene famous; as in Rome, Cæsar; in Athens, Themistocles; and, in Carthage, Hannibal; with an infinite number more, that were, by byrth, citizens, by nature martiall, and by industrie renowned. And so they departed from Elisian; and, within a while after, Clio, according to the charge was giuen her, sent forth this pamphlet of her poems.

THE LEVELLERS:

A Dialogue between two young Ladies, concerning Matrimony,

Proposing an Act for Enforcing Marriage, for the Equality of Matches, and Taxing single Persons. With the Danger of Celibacy to a Nation. Dedicated to a Member of Parliament.

London; Printed and sold by J. How, at the Seven Stars in Talbot Court, in Grace-church-street, 1703. Quarto, containing thirty-two pages.

An Epistle to a Member of Parliament.

Honoured Sir,

Our fore-fathers, if not now in being, have passed an act, prohibiting the importation of foreign, and for the encouragement of the breed of