Did his youth scatter poetry wherein Lay Love's philosophy? Was every sin Pictured in his sharp satires, made so foul, That some have fear'd sin's shapes, and kept their soul Safer by reading verse: did he give days, Past marble monuments, to those whose praise He would perpetuate? Did he--I fear Envy will doubt--these at his twentieth year? But, more matured, did his rich soul conceive And in harmonious holy numbers weave A crown of sacred sonnets, fit to adorn A dying martyr's brow, or to be worn On that blest head of Mary Magdalen, After she wiped Christ's feet, but not till then; Did he--fit for such penitents as she And he to use--leave us a Litany Which all devout men love, and doubtless shall, As times grow better, grow more classical? Did he write hymns, for piety and wit, Equal to those great grave Prudentius writ? WALTON POEMS, _by_ J. D. WITH ELEGIES ON THE AUTHORS DEATH. LONDON. Printed by _M. F._ for IOHN MARRIOT, and are to be sold at his shop in S^t _Dunstans_ Church-yard in _Fleet-street_. 1633. It is not on the praises of others, but on his own writings that he is to depend for the esteem of posterity; of which he will not easily be deprived while learning shall have any reverence among men; for there is no science in which he does not discover some skill; and scarce any kind of knowledge, profane or sacred, abstruse or elegant, which he does not appear to have cultivated with success. JOHNSON à coelo salus Religio, Medici. _Printed for Andrew Crooke. 1642. Will Marshatt. scu._ Waller was smooth. POPE THE WORKES OF EDMOND WALLER Esquire, Lately a Member of the Honourable HOUSE of COMMONS, In this present Parliament. _Imprimatur_ NA. BRENT. _Decem. 30. 1644._