It shall occasion shame to some,

Who thought much honour'd to become;

And let a just occasion in

To rake up what might hid have bin.

When blocks, and stones, offence shall take, And riots in your cities make,

Beware: for if heed be not took,

A spark shall casually be strook

From some rough flint, which will devour
Your wealth, your glory, and your power;
That future times may not despise,

The wrath and spleen of ants and flies.-
Ere long the welfare of this land
Upon a ticklish point will stand;
And, at that time, if you perceive
The body representative

Act by two factions, and admit
Their grandees to invassall it
To their designs, and captivate
Their equalls, you, shall, after that,
Find little comfort till you see
Extracted a third party bee
From out of those, to search into
Their actions, and with courage do
As they find cause; but then you
Perceive a turn will joy you all.

shall

And to draw nearer to the But,
At which all these our shafts are shot,
When these two diamonds of this land,
Which are the basis whereon stand
The public welfare, polish shall
Each other; and quite rub off all
The rotten pieces, rags, and flawes,
Which disesteem upon them draws;

And perfect make in every thing
Our ancient threefold Gimell-ring,
That's lately broke; then, you shall see
A change, that worth your praise will be:
And he that gives you stones to crack,
Which cause perhaps your hearts to ake,
Will, when that blessed season comes,
Give you a dish of sugar-plumbs.

But know that while this Emperie
Neglects her triple-trinitie;

To wit, three realms beneath one throne,
Within each realm three states in one;

And Godhead one in persons three,

You shall not without trouble be;
Or possibly attain to that
Which your well-willer aimeth at,
Till you shall purely God adore,
And to the common use restore

At least th' Essentials of that power,

Which makes your earthly saving tower;
With which the stronger might be made,
And fairer too, if you could add,
To strengthen, and adorn the same,
Some parts of the Venetian frame.-

These extracts are fully sufficient to gratify curiosity, and the author has already occupied a larger space in the CENSURA than has been assigned to works of more interest, and writers of superior merit.

The two former tracts noticed by me were given conformably to the list in Wood, but I am inclined to assign the Opobalsamum Anglicanum" precedence of "What Peace to the Wicked." The first

commences with reference to the "Vox Pacifica," then lately published; notices the victories of Fairfax, which were early in 1646; and concludes with the humble strain of a suffering supplicant: while the conclusion of the last is in the rank strain of contempt and defiance, and his "take this and consider of it till more comes," implies a threat to awaken fear for the accomplishing that by other means, which he had not succeeded in by passive submission. The doubt is scarcely worth solving. J. H.

ART. CXLVII.-Carmen Expostulatorium; or a timely Expostulation with those both of the city of London, and the present Armie, who have either endeavoured to ingage these kingdoms in a second warre, or neglected the prevention thereof. Intended for averting (if it may be possible) of that general destruction thereby threatened; and to that purpose, hastily (upon the immergent occasion) published by Geo. Wither. 2 Cor. xi, 19, Suffer fools gladly, seeing ye your selves are wise. Printed in the Yere CI IC xlvii. 4to. 14 leaves.

Rather more than 870 lines from this fluent writer, in which he inquires "have you crack'd all my Almonds?" and alludes, I conceive to the same tract afterwards;

"As you by Riddles intimation had,

Though you of them but small accompt have made."

This expostulation must have issued from the press about August 1647, as " the immergent occasion" was the approach of Cromwell with the army to the metropolis; and the arrival of the detachment under the command of Rainsborow and Hewson, at Southwark, appears to have suspended the labours of the poet.

Yea many things materiall, yet in store;
But, whil'st this line is writing, I am told,
Our line is entered and our southerne-hold,
And therefore here I pawse."-

J. H.

ART. CXLVIII.—The life and acts of the most famous and valiant Campion, Sir William Wallace, Knight of Ellerstie, Maintainer of the Liberty of Scotland.

Cicero 2 De Finibus.

Laudandus est is, qui mortem oppetit pro
Republica, qui doceat chariorem esse patriam
Nobis, quam nosmetipsos.

Et memorem famam, qui bene gessit, habet.

Edinburgh, Printed by Andro Hart, and are to be sauld at his buith on the north syde of the gait a little beneath the crosse. Anno Dom. 1611. 4to. pp. 317.

This is not among the several editions mentioned by Pinkerton. S. E. B.

* See list of Wither's Works on British Bibliographer, and in Longman's Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica.

ART. CXLIX.-Mischief's Mysterie; or Treason's Master piece: the Powder Plot, invented by hellish malice; prevented by heavenly mercy; truly related, and from the Latin of the learned and Reverend Doctour Herring, translated and very much dilated by John Vicars.

Underneath a wooden cut, representing King James with a crown on his head, sitting on a throne under a rich canopy, with his sceptre in one hand, and the other held out for a letter which an eagle has brought, and which Cecil is receiving, whereon are these lines.

"The gallant eagle, soaring up on high
Beares in his beake treason's discovery.
Mount, noble eagle, with thy, happy prey,

And thy rich prize to th' King with speed convey."

London. Printed by L. Griffin, dwelling in the Little Olde Bayly neare the signe of the King's Head. In two parts. 1617. pp. 120.

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It is dedicated to Sir John Leman, Kt. Lord Mayor of London, and to Sir Craven, Kt. Alderman and President of Christ's Hospital, with Mr. Richard Heath, Treasurer, and all the Governors. He was induced to do it by three motives; 1st. being the high-topt cedars of Lebanon, chief magistrates of the famous city of London, and pious professors of Christ's verity, they should have had no small part, yea, too great and insupportable a portion, and pondrous burden of sorrow and lamentation in this uparallelled project of the powder