Morgan! to call thee sadd and discontente Were to proclaime thee weake; twere an evente Of more then folly, since the obscurest eye Is witness of thy magnanimity: And yett to tell thee that thou hast noe cause To greife, were to belye thy worth, because The gapinge wound speakes out the sovldiers fame, And deepe despites giue fortitude a name. Tis true hee's dead, and the sterne fates (accurst) There browes haue wrinkled, and haue done their worst To spite this State and thee, in tearinge hence That Nature's Accademy, that Starre, from whence Streamd such full influence, of what the mind Accounteth quintisentiall; and the vnkinde And cruell Death, hath blasted such a flower, Stolne such a gemme, as makes the sad Earth poore. And yett alasse[275] hee is not fledd for want Of what could make the ambitious, proud soule vaunt: For whilst hee liv'd hee brocke up Honour's gates, And pluck't bright fame from snarling Envie's grates Doomd to obliuion; and his unmatchèd penne (Drop'd from the winge of some bright Seraphin) Inculpates him thus to all eternitye The eldest of the Muses proginie. Said I hee's dead? not soe; he could not die, But findinge that curst lucre, bribery And puft[276] ambition were the scarlett crimes Of the Tribunall's tenants, and the times Not suitinge with his vertues, cause his manner Was to deserue and not desire, an honour; Hee's sor'd aloft, where nought but virtue's pris'd, And where base Mammon is not idoliz'd: To that Kinge's Bench where Iustice is not gould, Nor honours with old Ladies bought and sould; To heauen's Exchequer, with intent to paye, And render thence the Royall subsidaye Of his rich spirit, which his soueraigne tooke Without subscription, and crost Nature's booke. [Footnote 275: This use of 'alas' was common contemporaneously, and especially by the Puritan divines. G.] [Footnote 276: I am not quite certain as to this word. It may be 'pust': query from pus = poisonous matter? and so intended to characterize ambition? G.] IX. ENTERTAINMENT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH AT HAREFIELD BY COUNTESSE OF DERBY. NOTE. This 'Entertainment' has the additional interest of having been that wherein "The Lottery" (pp. 87-95), was introduced. The reasons for our giving the whole to Davies, we have stated in the Memorial-Introduction (II. Critical: Minor Poems). Our text is from Nichols' Progresses of Q. Elizabeth, Vol. III., pp. 586-94. G. _Entertainment of Q. Elizabeth at Harefield by Countesse of Derby._ After the Queene entered (out of the high way) into the Deamesne grounde of Harefielde, near the Dayrie howse, she was mett with 2 persons, the one representing a BAYLIFFE, the other a DAYRIE-MAIDE, with the Speech. Her Majesty, being on horsebacke, stayed under a tree (because it rayned) to heare it.