You expresse a passion rarely, but pray leave Your couplets and say something in blanck verse Before you goe.

[Page 192] If that his Maiesty would ought with vs, We shall expresse our dutie in his eye, And let him know so.

The glorious pourtraict of that angels face, Made to amaze weake mens confused skil, And this worlds worthlesse glory to embase, What pen, what pencil!, can expresse her fill?

Great God of Might, that reignest in the mynd, And all the bodie to thy hest doest frame, Victor of gods, subduer of mankynd, 45 That doest the lions and fell tigers tame, Making their cruell rage thy scornfull game, And in their roring taking great delight, Who can expresse the glorie of thy might?

The same wisht day (my Lord) you heere arriv'd I bad Lord Hardenbergh commaund two horse Should privately be brought for me and him, To meete you on the waye for honours sake And to expresse my joye of your repaire:

A greater craftesmans hand thereto doth neede, That can expresse the life of things indeed.

Fayre Mirable, the fyrst thinge I intreate you In which to expresse your love, speake for my frend.

LONG SINCE DEDICATED TO THE MOST NOBLE AND EXCELLENT LORD, THE EARLE OF LEICESTER, LATE DECEASED. Wrong'd, yet not daring to expresse my paine, To you, great Lord, the causer of my care, In clowdie teares my case I thus complaine Unto your selfe, that onely privie are.

I am one, To expresse my selfe in my true character, Soe full of civill reason and iust truth That to denie my owne peculiar act I should esteeme as base and black a sinne As Scythians doe adultery:

Our tyrant fate has found Yet uninvented torments to expresse Our loyall soules.

'Here the Heavens open, and there appeare many deities, who in their songs expresse their agreements to these marriages'which was, no doubt, thought very satisfactory by the spectators.

Never expresse any thing unbeseeming, nor act against the Rules morall, before thy inferiours, For in these things, thy own guilt will multiply Crimes by example, and as it were, confirme Ill by authority. 60th.