Part 7 (1/2)

_Hobbinol_ Come, let's in some carol new Pay to love and them their due

_All_ Joy to that happy pair Whose hopes united banish our despair

What shepherd could for love pretend, Whilst all the nymphs on Damon's choice attend?

What shepherdess could hope to wed Before Marina's turn were sped?

Now lesser beauties may take place And h Shall grace Our flocks and us with a propitious eye”

All this merriment came to an end on the 3rd of September 1658, when Oliver Croht and of the field of Worcester And yet the end, though it was to be sudden, did not at once seem likely to be so There was time for the poets to tune their lyres Waller, Dryden, Sprat, and Marvell had no doubt that ”Tumbledown dick” was to sit on the throne of his father and ”still keep the sword erect,” and were ready with their verses

Westminster Abbey has never witnessed a statelier, costlier funeral than that of ”the late man who made himself to be called Protector,” to quote words frolish prose, the opening sentences of Cowley's _Discourse by way of Vision concerning the Governs, potentates, and powers crowded the aisles, and all was done that pomp and cere the Council had voted him on the 7th of September, e may be sure, in the Abbey, and it ue, to whom the sa the service

Milton's muse re the undoing of this great ceremony was little more than two years ahead

_O caecathe poems first printed by Captain Thompson from the old manuscript book was one which ritten therein in Marvell's own hand entitled ”A poehness the Protector” Its co delayed:--

”We find already what those olad nor Heaven riefs, calm peace succeeds a war, Rainbows to stor in the poe:--

”I saw him dead: a leaden sluentle rays under the lids were fled, Which through his looks that piercing sweetness shed; That port, which so our, stretched along; All withered, all discoloured, pale and wan, How lory vain! O, Death! O, wings!

O, worthless world! O, transitory things!

Yet dwelt that greatness in his shape decayed, That still though dead, greater than Death he laid, And in his altered face you soain”

FOOTNOTES:

[49:1] In 1659 Clarendon, then Sir Edward Hyde, and in Brussels, writing to Sir Richard Fanshaw, says, ”You are the secretary of the Latin tongue and I will mend the warrant you sent, and have it despatched as soon as I hear again from you, but I nified by the person who hath sonet belongs to it, which can be only kept by a Secretary of State, from whom the Latin Secretary always receives orders and prepares no despatches without his direction, and hath only a fee of a hundred pound a year And therefore, except it hath been in the hands of a person who hath had some other employment, it hath fallen to the fortune of inconsiderable men as Weckerlin was the last” (_Hist MSS

Com_, _Heathcote Papers_, 1899, p 9)

[51:1] _The Rehearsal Transprosed_--Grosart, iii 126

[55:1] Even Mr Firth can tellabout this Ward of Cromwell's

[56:1] For reprints of these tracts, see _Social England Illustrated_, Constable and Co, 1903

[57:1] ”England's Way to Win Wealth” See _Social England Illustrated_, p 253

[57:2] _Ibid_ p 265

[58:1] Dr Dee's ”Petty Navy Royal” _Social England Illustrated_, p

46

[58:2] ”England's Way to Win Wealth” _Social England Illustrated_, p