Faith's sister! nurse of fair desire! Fear's antidote! a wise and well-stay'd fire! Temper 'twixt chill Despair, and torrid Ioy! Queen regent in yonge Loue's minority! Though the vext chymick vainly chases 45 His fugitiue gold through all her faces; Though Loue's more feirce, more fruitlesse, fires assay: One face more fugitiue then all they; True Hope's a glorious huntresse, and her chase, The God of Nature in the feilds of grace. 50 NOTES. _Various readings from 1646 edition._ Line 2, 'things' for 'those;' adopted. But in HARLEIAN MS. 6917-18, it is 'those.' As this MS. supplies in poems onward various excellent readings (_e.g._ 'Wishes'), it may be noted that the Collection came from Lord Somers' Library of MSS., and is accordingly authoritative. Lines 5-6 read 'Faire cloud of fire, both shade and light Our life in death, our day in night.' Our text (1652) seems finer and deeper, and to put the thought with more concinnity. Line 9, 'thinne' for 'lean.' " 10, 'like' for 'as.' " 11, 'Rich hope' dropped in all the other editions; but as it is parallel with the 'dear Hope' and 'fair Hope' of the preceding and succeeding stanzas, I have restored the words. The line reads elsewhere, 'Thou art Love's Legacie under lock' and the next, 'Of Faith: the steward of our growing stock.' Line 13, 'crown-lands lye.' " 18, 'Thou thus steal'st downe a distant kisse.' " 19, 'Hope's chaste kisse wrongs.'... " 24, 'Nor need wee.'... " 25, 'growing' is dropped. " 28, 'doth' for 'does;' adopted. " 30, 'subtile' for 'supple;' adopted: but in HARLEIAN MS. as before, it is 'supple.' Lines 31-32. This couplet is oddly misprinted in all the other editions, 'Fortune, alas, above the world's law warres, Hope kicks the curld'.... In 1670 there is a capital L to Law: but 'low' yields the evident meaning intended. Alas is = exclamation simply, not in our present limitation of it to sorrow. See Epitaph of HERRYS onward, lines 49-52. Line 33, 'our' for 'these;' the latter necessary in its relation to 'low' not 'law,' the 'winds' being those of the 'warres' of our world. Line 34, 'And Fate's' for 'Fortune's.' " 35-36 dropped by our text (1652) inadvertently. " 36, 'or' for 'nor.' " 45, 'And' for 'Though.' " 47, 'huntresse' for 'hunter;' adopted. " 48, 'field' for 'fields.' " 49. I prefer 'huntresse' of 1646, 1648 and 1670, to 'hunter' of our text (1652). G. =Sacred Poetry.= II. AIRELLES. FROM UNPUBLISHED MSS. NOTE. See our Preface for explanation of the title. 'Airelles' to these and other hitherto unprinted and unpublished Poems from the TANNER MSS. of Archbishop Sancroft: and our Essay for the biographic interest of the poems on the Gunpowder-Plot. I adhere strictly throughout to the orthography of the MS. G.