would not have thee die but live,--will neither let me die nor let me live, but die an everlasting life and live an everlasting death; that that God, who when He could not get into me by standing and knocking, by His ordinary means of entering, by His word, His mercies, hath applied His judgments and hath shaked the house, this body, with agues and palsies, and set this house on fire with fevers and calentures, and frighted the master of the house, my soul, with horrors and heavy apprehensions, and so made an entrance into me; that that God should frustrate all His own purposes and practises upon me, and leave me and cast me away, as though I had cost Him nothing; that this God at last should let this soul go away, as a smoke, as a vapour, as a bubble, and that then this soul cannot be a smoke, a vapour, nor a bubble, but must lie in darkness, as long as the Lord of light is light itself, and never spark of that light reach to my soul: what Tophet is not Paradise, what brimstone is not amber, what gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage-bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God!" [1] Add. MS. 24,487 ("Chorus Vatum"). [2] Grosart's _Introduction_ to Marston's _Poems_, 1879 (privately printed). [3] Elizabeth Guarsi, the poet's grandmother, on the death of her husband, Andrew Guarsi, had married John Butler of Wardington, co. Oxon. [4] I have to thank the Dean of Winchester for supplying me, from the books of the Dean and Chapter of Winchester, with the date of Marston's presentation. The date of his resignation had been previously communicated to me by Dr. Brinsley Nicholson, who procured it from the Diocesan Registry, Winchester. [5] The will was printed in Halliwell's preface to his edition of Marston. Dr. Grosart gives a literatim copy (which I have followed) collated by Col. Chester with the original. [6] An abstract of her will, communicated by Col. Chester, is printed in Dr. Grosart's _Introduction_ (p. xxiv.). To her "reverend Pastor Master Edward Calamy"--the famous puritan minister, _Edmund_ Calamy--she leaves "6 angels as a token of my respect." [7] _Pygmalion's Image_ was republished, without the satires, in 1613 and 1628, in a volume containing the anonymous poem _Alcilia_ and S. P.'s [Samuel Page's?] _Amos and Laura_.