WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT

. On a Virtuous Toung Gentlewoman

that died suddenly

CHE who to Heaven more Heaven doth annex, ^ Whose lowest thought was above all our sex, Accounted nothing death but t' be reprieved, And died as free from sickness as she lived. Others are dragged away, or must be driven, She only saw her time and stept to Heaven ; Where seraphims view all her glories o'er, As one returned that had been there before. For while she did this lower world adorn, Her body seem'd rather assumed than born ; So rarified, advanced, so pure and whole, That body might have been another's soul ; And equally a miracle it were That she could die, or that she could live here.

JAMES GRAHAM, MARQUIS OF MONTROSE 334. / // never love Thee more

MY dear and only Love, I pray That little world of thee Be govern'd by no other sway

Than purest monarchy; For if confusion have a part

(Which virtuous souls abhor), And hold a synod in thine heart, I'll never love thee more.

Like Alexander I will reign,

And I will reign alone ; My thoughts did evermore disdain

A rival on my throne.

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