[Line: 20 _1647_ reads 'author' for 'poet', an obvious overlooking of the occurrence of the word just before.] _On Mr. Hall's Essays._ Wits that matur'd by time have courted praise, Shall see their works outdone in these Essays; And blush to know, thy earlier years display A dawning, clearer than their brightest day. Yet I'll not praise thee, for thou hast outgrown The reach of all men's praises, but thine own. Encomiums to their objects are exact; To praise, and not at full, is to detract. And with most justice are the best forgot, For praise is bounded when the theme is not: 10 Since mine is thus confin'd, and far below Thy merit, I forbear it, nor will show How poor the autumnal pride of some appears, To the ripe fruit thy vernal season bears. Yet though I mean no praise, I come t'invite Thy forward aims still to advance their flight; Rise higher yet, what though thy spreading wreath Lessen to their dull sight who stay beneath? To thy full learning how can all allow Just praise, unless that all were learn'd as thou? 20 Go on in spite of such low souls, and may Thy growing worth know age, though not decay, Till thou pay back thy theft; and live to climb As many years as thou hast snatch'd from Time. [_On Mr. Hall's Essays._] _1647_ 'To Mr. I. H. on his Essays'. These were the much-praised _Horae Vacivae_ (see Introduction to Hall, vol. ii). Besides the slight difference in general title the _1647_ version divides itself. The first division consists of the first four lines only. A second, to Mr. I. H., appears elsewhere, beginning: _I'll not commend thee_, for thou hast outgrown-- and going on as above, except that 'full' is foisted up from l. 8 to l. 7 ('full objects'), to the destruction of sense and metre.] [Line: 3 earlier] early _1647_.] [Line: 13 'The pride of others' autumns poor appears' _1647_.] _On S[ir] J[ohn] S[uckling], his Picture and Poems._ Suckling, whose numbers could invite Alike to wonder and delight, And with new spirit did inspire The Thespian scene and Delphic lyre, Is thus express'd in either part, Above the humble reach of Art. Drawn by the pencil, here you find His form, by his own pen, his mind. [_On Sir John Suckling, his Picture and Poems._] Initials only in original titles. These poems were the _Fragmenta Aurea_ of 1646.] _The Union._ [Greek: Mia psychê duo sômata.] BY MR. WILLIAM FAIRFAX.