When Chrift did fuffer on the croffe

For mortall finners crimes.

He hath past through many a foreigne place,
Arabia, Egypt, Africa,

Grecia, Syria, and great Thrace,

And throughout all Hung ra.

Where Paul and Peter preached Chrift,

Those bleft apostles deare;

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He wandreth up and downe:

Where learned men with him conferre

Of thofe his lingering dayes,

And wonder much to heare him tell

His journeyes, and his wayes.

If people give this Jew an almes,
The most that he will take
Is not above a groat a time:

Which he, for Jesus' fake,

Will kindiye give unto the poore,
And thereof make no fpare,
Affirming still that Jefus Chrift
Of him hath dailye care.

He ne'er was feene to laugh nor smile,
But weepe and make great moane;
Lamenting ftill his miferies,

And dayes forepast and gone:
If he heare any one blafpheme,
Or take God's name in vaine,
He telles them that they crucifie
Their Saviour Christe againe.

If you had feene his death, faith he,
As these mine eyes have done,

Ten thousand thousand times would yee

His torments think upon :

And fuffer for his fake all paine

Of torments, and all woes.

These are his wordes and eke his life

Whereas he comes or goes.

IV.

LYE,

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BY SIR WALTER RALEIGH,

is found in a very scarce mifcellany intitled " Davifon's "Poems, or a poeticall Rapfodie divided into fixe books. The 4th impreffion newly corrected and augmented, and

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"put

put into a forme more pleafing to the reader.

Lond. 1621,

I 2mo." This poem is reported to have been written by its celebrated author the night before his execution, Oct. 29, 1618. But this must be a mistake, for there were at leaft two editions of Davifon's poems before that time, one in 1608*, the other in 161 †. So that unless this poem was an after-infertion in the 4th edit. it must have been written long before the death of Sir Walter: perhaps it was compofed foon after his condemnation in 1603. See Oldys's Life of Sir W. Raleigh, p. 173, fol.

Catalog. of T. Rawlinson, 1727.

+ Cat. of Sion coll, library. This is either loft or mislaid.

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And as they shall reply,

Give each of them the lye.

Tell wit, how much it wrangles
In tickle points of nicenesse;
Tell wifedome, she entangles
Herfelfe in over-wiseneffe ;
And if they do reply,

Straight give them both the lye.

Tell phyficke of her boldneffe;

Tell skill, it is pretenfion;

Tell charity of coldness;

Tell law, it is contention;

And as they yield reply,
So give them ftill the lye.

Tell fortune of her blindneffe

Tell nature of decay;

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Tell friendship of unkindneffe ;

Tell justice of delay:

And if they dare reply,

Then give them all the lye.

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Tell arts, they have no foundneffe,

But vary by esteeming ;

Tell schooles, they want profoundneffe,

And ftand too much on seeming: