Kings are the Gods' vicegerents on the earth The Gods have power, Kings from that power have might, Kings should excell in virtue and in birth; Gods punish wrongs, and Kings should maintain right, They be the suns from which we borrow light. And they as Kings, should still in justice strive With Gods, from whom their beings they derive. DRAYTON. * * * * * COMPANY. Remain upright yet some will quarrel pike, And common bruit will deem them all alike. For look, how your companions you elect For good or ill, so shall you be suspect. T. HUDSON. * * * * * POESIE. All art is learned by art, this art alone It is a heavenly gift, no flesh nor bone Can praise the honey we from _Pind_ distil, Except with holy fire his breast we fill. From that spring flows, that men of special chose Consum'd in learning and perfect in prose; For to make verse in vain does travel take, When as a prentice fairer words will make. KING OF SCOTS. * * * * * TWELVE FOUL FAULTS. A wise man living like a drone, an old man not devout, Youth disobedient, rich men that are charity without, A shameless woman, vicious lords, a poor man proudly stout, Contentious Christians, pastors that their functions do neglect, A wicked king, no discipline, no laws men to direct, Are twelve the foulest faults that most commonwealths infect. W. WARNER. * * * * * RIVERS. Fair _Danubie_ is praised for being wide. _Nilus_ commended for the seven-fold head; _Euphrates_ for the swiftness of the tide, And for the garden whence his course is led, And banks of _Rhine_ with vines o'erspread. Take _Loire_ and _Po_, yet all may not compare With English _Thames_ for buildings rare. STORER. * * * * * The Naturalist. * * * * * QUADRUPEDS AND BIRDS FEEDING ON SHELL-FISH.