Good ANDREW HILL, thy pains were great!
And WILLIAM THOMAS', in this wherry!
And honour, FERRIS, sure, doth get!
He doubtless means to make you merry!
Your fame is such, through travail's toil,
You win the spur within our soil.

Shall I prefer this to your skill:

No, no! 'twas GOD that did you guide!
For this, be sure ! without His will
You could not pass each bitter tide.

But, pray! you did no doubt, each hour,
Whereby GOD blest you, by His power.

O gallant minds and venturous bold!
That took in hand, a thing most rare.
'Twill make the Spaniards' hearts wax cold!
If that this news to them repair,

That three men hath this voyage done,
And thereby wagers great have won.

But now we may behold and view
That English hearts are not afraid,
Their Sovereign's foes for to subdue :
No tempest can make us dismayed!

Let monstrous Papists spit their fill!
Their force is full against GOD's will.

Hath silly wherry done the deed,
That galleys great dare not to try!
And hath she had such happy speed,
That now in rest on shore she lie!

Doubtless the LORD, her pilot was!
It could not else been brought to pass.

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Well, FERRIS, now, the game is thine!
No loss thou hast! (thank Him above!)
From thy two mates, do not decline;
But still in heart, do thou them love!

So shall thy store increase, no doubt;
Through Him that brought thy boat about.

I end with prayers to the LORD,
To save and keep our royal Queen!
Let all true hearts, with one accord,

J. Sargent, 1590.

Say, "LORD, preserve Her Grace from teen!
Bless, LORD! her friends! confound her foes!
For aye, LORD save our royal Rose ! "

JAMES SARGENT.

FINIS.

The Occasion of the private Impression of this Elegy. Omnibus ad quos pervenerit.

O PREVENT [anticipate] those that would else be inquisitive after my intent in the dispersing of this Elegy among my private friends; I have left this

Preface to inform them, that after my liberty seemed to add a period to my troubles, and I, thinking the worst past, had afresh settled myself to some serious study: wanting consideration to foresee at first what was expedient for him to be furnished withal, that would compass so great a business, as my Phantasy had begun; I was forced to wrestle with so many lets and discouragements in my fortune, that, with all my endeavours, the best forwardness I could bring it unto was, that I had gotten together a confused heap of some materials, necessary for such a structure as I had already fashioned in my brain. Yet despairing not, but comforting myself with hope, that I should, notwithstanding all disadvantages, one day, be able to set together in a uniform building, what my Invention had yet drawn to nothing but an undigested Pile of different matters; I still added something more to that chaos of conceits; such as I deemed necessary either to strengthen or adorn.

Which, whilst I was so busied about, that I almost seemed wholly to forget the looking to my estate; Providence, a friend