“By Night when Others Soundly Slept”
1 By night when others soundly slept And hath at once both ease and Rest, My waking eyes were open kept And so to lie I found it best. […]
1 By night when others soundly slept And hath at once both ease and Rest, My waking eyes were open kept And so to lie I found it best. […]
Most truly honoured, and as truly dear, If worth in me or ought I do appear, Who can of right better demand the same Than may your worthy self from whom it came? The principal might yield a greater sum, Yet handled ill, amounts but to this crumb; My stock's so small I know not [...]
Thou ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth didst by my side remain, Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true, Who thee abroad, expos’d to publick view, Made thee in raggs, halting to th’ press to trudge, Where errors were not lessened (all may judg). […]