_Justina_. Should these rarities (Faithlesse as are your wondrous promises) Lead me into the hazard of my soule And losse of such ay-lasting happinesse As all earths glories are but shaddows to? _Cyprian_. Thincke you this rare pile of perfection. Wherein Love reads a lecture of delight, Ows not it's use to Nature? There is love In every thing that lives: the very sunne Does burne in love while we partake his heate; The clyming ivy with her loving twines Clips the strong oake. No skill of surgerie Can heale the wounds, nor oceans quench the flames Made by all pow'rfull love. Witnesse myselfe: Since first the booke of your perfections Was brought so neare than I might read it ore, I have read in it charmes to countermand All my enchantments and enforce mee stoop To begge your love. _Justina_. How ere you please to style A lustfull appetite, it takes not mee. Heav'n has my bow my life shall never bee Elder then my unstain'd virginitie. _Cyprian_. Virginitie! prize you so dearely that Which common things cast of? Marke but the flow'rs That now as morning fresh, fragrant and faire, Lay ope their beautys to the courting sunne, And amongst all the modest mayden rose: These wanton with the aire until unleavd They die and so loose their virginitie. _Justina_. In _India_ there is a flow'r (they say) Which, if a man come neare it, turnes away: By that I learne this lesson, to descrie Corrupt temptations and the tempter flie. Leaves 245-267 are taken up with the _Tragedy of Nero_, which was printed in 1624. Then comes [Daborne's] _Poore Man's Comfort_ (268-292), an inferior play printed in 1655. Afterwards follows a dull play (leaves 293-316), _Loves Changlelings Changed_, founded on Sidney's _Arcadia_. The last piece in the book (leaves 317-349) is _The lancheinge of the May_, Written by W.M. Gent in his return from _East India_, A.D. 1632. There is a second title, _The Seamans honest wife_, to this extraordinary piece. On the last leaf is a note by Sir Henry Herbert:--"This Play called ye _Seamans honest wife_, all ye Oaths left out in ye action as they are crost in ye booke & all other Reformations strictly observed, may bee acted, not otherwise. This 27th June, 1633. HENRY HERBERT. "I command your Bookeeper to present mee with a faire Copy hereaft[er] and to leave out all oathes, prophaness & publick Ribaldry as he will answer it at his perill. H. HERBERT."