[_the junior Warden_ _at the time_] hand is to yt. This is aucthorised vnder the hand of the L[ord] Bysshop of LONDON PROVYED that yt must not be printed without his L[ordships] hand to yt again. _Transcript &c._ iii. 142. _Ed._ 1876. [Illustration] To my most gracious dread Sovereign. [Illustration] _To that clear Majesty which in the North Doth like another sun in glory rise; Which standeth fixt, yet spreads her heavenly worth Loadstone to hearts, and loadstar to all eyes:_ _Like heaven in all; like th' earth in this alone, That though great States by her support do stand, Yet she herself supported is of none, But by the finger of th' Almighty's hand:_ _To the divinest and the richest Mind, Both by Art's purchase and by Nature's dower, That ever was from heaven to earth confined, To shew the utmost of a creature's power:_ _To that great Spirit which doth great kingdoms move, The sacred spring, whence Right and Honour streams, Distilling Virtue, shedding Peace and Love In every place, as CYNTHIA sheds her beams:_ _I offer up some sparkles of that fire, Whereby we Reason, Live, and Move, and Be. These sparks, by nature, evermore aspire; Which makes them to so high a Highness flee._ _Fair Soul, since to the fairest body knit, You give such lively life, such quick'ning power. Such sweet celestial influence to it As keeps it still in youth's immortal flower;_ _(As where the sun is present all the year, And never doth retire his golden ray, Needs must the Spring be everlasting there, And every season, like the month of May)_ _O many, many years, may you remain A happy Angel to this happy land! Long, long may you on earth our Empress reign! Ere you in heaven, a glorious angel stand._ _Stay long, sweet Spirit, ere than to heaven depart, Which mak'st each place a heaven, wherein thou art._ _Her Majesty's least and unworthiest subject,_ _JOHN DAVIES._ [Illustration] [Illustration] Of Human Knowledge. [Illustration] Why did my parents send me to the Schools, That I with knowledge might enrich my mind? Since the Desire to Know first made men fools, And did corrupt the root of all mankind. For when GOD's hand had written in the hearts Of the First Parents, all the rules of good; So that their skill infused, did pass all Arts That ever were, before, or since the Flood; And when their Reason's eye was sharp and clear, And, as an eagle can behold the sun, Could have approached the Eternal Light as near As th'intellectual angels could have done: