H' hath paft through many a foreigne place,

Will kindlye give unto the poore,

And thereof make no spare,

Affirming ftill that Jefus Chrift

Of him hath dailye care.

He ne'er was feene to laughe nor fmile,
But weepe and make great moane;
Lamenting ftill his miferies,

And dayes forepaft and gone:
If he heare any one blafpheme,
Or take God's name in vaine,
He telles them that they crucifie
Their Saviour Chrift againe

If you had feene his death, faith he,

As thefe mine eyes have done,
Ten thousand thousand times would yee

His torments think upon:

And fuffer for his fake all paine

Of torments, and all woes.

These are his wordes and eke his life

Whercas he comes or goes.

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is found in a very Scarce miscellany intitled "Davison's "Poems, or a poeticall Rapfodie devided into fixe bookes..... "The 4th impreffion newly corrected and augmented, and put "into a forme more pleafing to the reader. Lond. 1621.

66 1210.99 This poem is reported to have been written by its celebrated author the night before his execution, Oct. 29. 1618. But this must be a mistake, for there were at least two editions of Davison's poems before that time, one in 1608 *: the other in 1611 **. So that unleẞ this poem was an after - insertion in the 4th edit. it must have been written long before the death of Sir Walter: perhaps it was compoSed foon after his condemnation in 1603.

*Catalog. of T. Rawlinson 17..

**Cat. of Sion coll. library, This is either lost or mis laid.

Tell arts, they have no foundneffe.

But vary by esteeming;

Tell schooles, they want profoundneffe,T

And ftand too much on feeming:

If arts, and fchooles reply,

Give arts, and schooles the lye.

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