No Fathers free-will, nor did I touch your person With any edge of spight; or strain your loves With any base, or hir'd perswasions; Witness these tears, how well I wisht your fortunes.

Speak softly Sir, you do not mean to betray me, I wisht the Gallows, now th'are coming fairly.

'I wisht I had a gun,' observed Jimsie.

Worthy Cleon, welcome; We could have wisht you here Lord; you are honest.

I envy your so happy rest, Which oft I wisht, yet never was so blest.

'Pon me word, I wisht Mike had left that ould rick alone.

And then, if please your Majesty to remember, at one time, by my troth I wisht my self wi'you.

" The priest him wisht good speed and well to fare: 550 So parted they, as eithers way them led.

The Land by me welcomes thy vertues home to Rhodes, thou that with blood abroad buyest us our peace; the breath of King is like the breath of Gods; My brother wisht thee here, and thou art here; he will be too kind, and weary thee with often welcomes; but the time doth give thee a welcome above this or all the worlds.

His frend before him wisht the towne a fyre, Now hee would burne the cloyster: too arch-pillers![107] Ashb.

The following stanza is from Anne's poem entitled "Contemplation": "While musing thus with contemplation fed, And thousand fancies buzzing in my brain, The sweet tongued Philomel percht o'er my head, And chanted forth a most melodious strain, Which rapt me so with wonder and delight, I judged my hearing better than my sight, And wisht me wings with her awhile to take my flight.