If she study to please thee and be sweet unto thee in conversation without thy instruction for Love needs no teaching nor precept On the other side be not sower or stern to thy wife for cruelty engendereth no other thing than hatred Let her have equall part of thy Estate whilest thou livest it thou find her sparing and honest but what thou givest after thy death remember that thou givest it to a stranger and most times to an enemy for he that shall marry thy wife will despise thee thy memory and thine and shall possesse the quiet of thy labours the fruit which thou hast planted enjoy thy love and spend with joy and ease what thou hast spared and gotten with care and travel Yet always remember that thou leave not thy wife to be a shame unto thee after thou art dead but that she may live according to thy estate especially if thou hast few Children and them provided for But howsoever it be or whatsoever thou find leave thy wife no more than of necessity thou must but onely during her widowhood for if she love again let her not enjoy her second love in the same bed wherein she loved thee nor flâ—e to future pleasures with those feathers which death hath pulled from thy wings but leave thy estate to thy house and children in which thou livest upon earth whilest it lasteth To conclude Wives were ordained to continue the generation of men not to transferre them and diminish them either in continuance or ability and therfore thy house and estate which liueth in thy son and not in thy wife is to be preferred Let thy time of marriage be in thy young and strong years for believe it ever the young wife betrayeth the old husband and she that had thee not in thy flower will despise thee in thy fall and thou shalt be unto her but a captivity and sorrow Thy best time will be towards thirty for as the younger times are unfit either to chuse or to govern a wife and family so if thou stay long thou shalt hardly see the education of thy Children which being left to strangers are in effect lost and better were it to be unborn than ill bred for thereby thy posterity shall either perish or remain a shame to thy name and family Furthermore if it be late ere thou take a wife thou shalt spend the prime and summer of thy life with Harlots destroy thy health impoverish thy estate and endanger thy life and be sure of this that how many Mistresses soever thou hast so many enemies thou shalt purchase to thy self for there never was any such affection which ended not in hatred or disdain Remember the saying of Solomon There is a way which seemeth right to a man but the issues thereof are the wages of death for howsoever a lewd woman please thee for a time thou wilt hate her in the end and she will study to destroy thee If thou canst not abstain from them in thy vain and unbridled times yet remember that thou sowest on the lands dost mingle the vital bloud with corruption and purchasest diseases repentance and hatred onely Bestow therefore thy youth so that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof whilest thou art young thou wile think it will never have an end but behold the longest day hath his evening and that thou shalt enjoy it but once that it never turns again use it therefore as the Spring time which soon departeth and wherein thou oughtest to plant and sow all provisions for a long and happy life CHAP. III. Wisest men have been abused by flatterers TAke care thou be not made a fool by flatterers for even the wisest men are abused by these Know therefore that flatterers are the worst kind of Traitours for they will strengthen thy imperfections encourage thee in all evil correct thee in nothing but so shadow and paint all thy vices and follies as thou shalt never by their will discern evil from good or vice from virtue And because all men are apt to flatter themselves to entertain the additions of other mens praises is most perillous Do not therefore praise thy self except thou wile be counted a vain glorious fool neither take delight in the praises of other men except thou deserve it and receive it from such as are worthy and honest and will withall warn thee of thy faults for flatterers have never any virtue they are ever base creeping cowardly persons A flatterer is said to be a beast that biteth smiling it is said by Isaiah in this manner My people they that praise thee seduce thee and disorder thâ— paths of thy feet and David desired God to cut out the tongue of a flatterer But it is hard to know them from friends so are they obsequious and full of protestations for as a wolf resembles a dog so doth a flatterer a friend A flatterer is compared to an Ape who because she cannot defend the house like a dog labour as an ox or bear burdens as a horse doth therefore yee play tricks and prouoke laughter Thou mayest be sure that he that will in private tell thee thy faults is thy friend for he adventures thy mislike and doth hazard thy hatred for there are few men that can endure it every man for the most part delighting in self-praise which is one of the most uniuersall follies which bewitcheth mankind CHAP. IV. Private quarrels to be avoided BE carefull to avoid publick disputations at Feast or at Tables among cholerick or quarrelsom persons and eschew evermore to be acquainted or familiar with Ruffians for thou shalt be in as much danger in contending with a brawler in a private quarrel as in a battel wherein thou mayest get honour to thy self and safety to thy Prince and Countrey but if thou be once engaged carry thy self bravely that they may fear thee after To shun therefore private fight be well advised in thy words and behaviour for honour and shame is in the talk and the tongue of a man causeth him to fall Iest not openly at those that are simple but remember how much thou art bound to God who hath made thee wiser Defame not any woman publickly though thou know her to be evil for those that are faulty cannot endure to be taxed but will seek to be avenged of thee and those that are not guilty cannot endure unjust reproch And as there is nothing more shamefull and dishonest than to do wrong so truth it self cutteth his throat that carrieth her publikly in every place Remember the divine saying He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life Do therefore right to all men where it may profit them and thou shalt thereby get much love and forbear to speak evil things of men though it be truâ— if thou be not constrained and thereby thou shalt avoid malice and revenge Do not accuse any man of any crime if
mind is alienate and face transformed Whom have not plentifull cups made eloquent and talking When DIOGENES saw a house to be sold whereof the owner was given to drink I thought at the last quoth Diogenes he would spue out a whole house Sciebam inquit quod domus tandem evomeret CHAP. X. Let God be thy Protectour and Directour in all thy Actions NOw for the World I know it too well to perswade thee to dive into the practices thereof rather stand upon thine own guard against all that tempt thee thereunto or may practise upon thee in thy conscience thy reputation or thy purse resolve that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest Serve God let him be the Authour of all thy actions commend all thy endeavours to him that must either wither or prosper them please him with prayer lest if he frown â—e confound all thy fortunes and labours like the drops of Rain on the sandy ground let my experienced advice and fatherly instructions sink deep into thy heart So God direct thee in all his ways and fill thy heart with his grace FINIS The dutifull ADVICE OF A LOVING SON To his AGED FATHER SIR I Humbly beseech you both in respect of the honour of God your duty to his Church and the comfort of your own soul that you seriously consider in what tearms you stand and weigh your self in a Christian ballance taking for your counterpoise the judgements of God Take heed in time that the word TEKEL written of old against Belshazzar and interpreted by Daniel be not verified in you whose exposition was You have been poized in the scale and found of too light weight Remember that you are now in the waining and the date of your pilgrimage well nigh expired and now that it behoveth you to look towards your Countrey your forces languisheth your senses impair your body droops and on every side the ruinous Cottage of your faint and feeble flesh threateneth the fall And having so many harbirgers of death to premonish you of your end how can you but prepare for so dreadfull a stranger The young man may die quickly but the old man cannot live long the young mans life by casualty may be abridged but the old mans by no physick can be long adjourned and therefore if green years should sometimes think of the grave the thoughts of old age should continually dwell in the same The prerogative of Infancy is innocency of Child-hood reverence of Man-hood maturity and of old age wisdom And seeing then that the chiefest properties of wisdom are to be mindfull of things past carefull for things present and provident for things to come Use now the priviledge of natures talent to the benefit of your own soul and procure hereafter to be wise in well doing and watchfull in the fore-sight of future harms To serve the world you are now unable and though you were able yet you have little cause to be willing seeing that it never gave you but an unhappy welcome a hurtfull entertainment and now doth abandon you with an unfortunate fare-well You have long sowed in a field of flint which could bring nothing forth but a crop of cares and afflictions of spirit rewarding your labours with remorse and affording for your gain eternal danger It is now more than a seasonable time to alter the course of so unthriving a husbandry and to enter into the efild of Gods Church in which sowing the seed of repentant sorrow and watering them with the tears of humble contrition you may hereafter reap a more beneficial harvest and gather the fruits of everlasting comfort Remember I pray you that your spring is spent your summer over-past you are now arrived at the fall of the leaf yea and winter colours have long since stained your hoary head Be not carelesse saith Saint Augustine though our loving Lord bear long with offenders for the longer he stays not finding amendment the sorer he will scourge when be comes to Iudgement And his patience in so long forbearing is only to lend us respite to repent and not any wise to enlarge us leisure to sin He that is tossed with variety of storms and cannot come to his desired Port maketh not much way but is much turmoyled So he that hath passed many years and purchased little profit hath a long being but a short life For life is more to be measured by well doing than by number of years Seeing that most men by many days do but procure meny deaths and others in short space attain to the life of infinite ages what is the body without the soul but a corrupt carkasse And what is the soul without God but a sepulchre of sin If God be the Way the Life and the Truth he that goeth without him strayeth and he that liveth without him dieth and he that is not taught by him erreth Well saith Saint Augustine God is our true and chiefest Life from whom to revolt is to fall to whom to return is to rise and in whom to stay is to stand sure God is he from whom to depart is to die to whom to repair is to revive and in whom to dwell is life for ever Be not then of the number of those that begin not to live till they be ready to die and then after a foes desert come to crave of God a friends entertainment Some there be that think to snatch Heaven in a moment which the best can scarce attain unto in the maintainance of many years and when they have glutted themselves with worldly delights would jump from Diâ—e Diet to Lazarus Crown from the service of Satan to the solace of a Saint But be you well assured that God is not so penurious of friends as to hold himself and his Kingdom saleable for the refuse and reversions of their lives who have sacrificed the principall thereof to his enemies and their own bruitish lust then onely ceasing to offend when the ability of offending is taken from them True it is that a thief may be saved upon the crosse and mercy found at the last gasp But wâ—l saith S. Augustine though it be possible yet it is scarce credible that he in death should find favour whose whole life deserved death and that the repentance should be more excepted that more for fear of hell and love of himself than for the love of God and loathsomnesse of sin crieth for mercy Wherefore good SIR make no longer delays but being so near the breaking up of your mortall house take time before extremity to pacifie Gods anger Though you suffer the bud to be blasted though you permitted the fruits to be perished and the leaves to drie up yea though you let the boughs to wither and the body of your tree to grow to decay yet alas keep life in the root for fear left the whole tree become fewel for hell fire For surely where the tree falleth there it shall lie whether towards the South
nor land and though it was at their own suit yet I know they will wrong me in all that they can I beseech your Honour that the scorn of men may not be believed of me who have taken more pains and suffered more than the meanest Rascall in the Ship these being gone I shall be able to keep the Sea untill the end of August with some four reasonable good ships Sir wheresoever God shall permit me to arrive in any part of Europe I will not fail to let your Honour know what we have done till then and ever I rest Your Honours servant W. Raleigh Sir WALTER RALEIGH'S Letter to King JAMES at his return from GVIANA May it please your most excellent Maiestie IF in my Journey outward bound I had my men murthered at the Islands yet spared to take revenge if I did discharge some Spanish Barks taken without spoil if I so bear all parts of the Spanish Indies wherein I might have taken twentie of their Downs on the sea coasts and did onely follow the enterprize I undertook for Guiana where without any directions from me a Spanish Village was burnt which was new set up within three miles of the Myne By your Majesties favour I find no reason why the Spanish Ambassador should complain of me If it were lawfull for the Spaniards to murther twentie six English men tying them back to back and then cutting their throats when they had traded with them whole moneth and came to them on the land without so much as one sword and that it may not be lawfull to your Majesties subjects being charged first by them to repell force by force we may justly say O miserable English If Pâ—â—â—â—â— and â—â—eâ—â—â—m took Campeâ—â—â— and other places in the Honduras seated in the heart of the Spanish Indies burnt towns and killed the Spaniards and had nothing said unto them at this return and my self forbore to look into the Iâ—â—â—â—as because I would not offend I may as justly say O miserable Sir Walter Raleigh If I have spent my poor estate lost my son suffered by sicknesse and otherwise a world of miseries if I have resisted with manifest hazard of my life the Robberies and Spoils with which my Companions would have made me rich if when I was poor I would have made my self rich if when I have gotten my liberty which all men and nature it self do much prize I voluntarily lost it if when I was sure of my life I rendered it again if I might elsewhere where have sold my ship and goods and put five or six thousand pounds in my purse and yet brought her into England I beseech your Majestie to believe that all this I have done because it should not be said to your Majestie that your Majestie had given libertie and trust to a man whose end was but the recoverie of his libertie and who had betrayed your Majesties trust My Mutiniers told me that if I returned from England I should be undone but I believed in your Majesties goodnesse more than in all their being arguments Sure I am the first that being free and able to enrich my self yet hath embraced povertie and perill And as sure I am that my example shall make me the last but your Majesties wisdom and goodnesse I have made my judges who have ever been and shall ever be Your Majesties most humble Vassal Walter Raleigh Sir Raleighs's Letter to his Wife after his Condemnaetion YOu shall receive my dear Wife my Last words in these my Last lines my love I send you that you may keep when I am dead and my counsell that you may remember it when I am no more I would not with my will present you sorrows dear Bess let them go to the grave with me and be buried in the dust And seing that it is not the will of God that I shall see you any more bear my destruction patiently and with an heart like your self First I send you all the thanks which my heart can conceive or my words expresse for your many travels and cares for me which though they have not taken effect as you wished yet my debt to you is not the lesse but pay it I never shall in this world Secondly I beseech you for the love you bare me living that you do not hide your self many days but by your travels seek to help my miserable Fortunes and the Right of your poor Child your mourning cannot avail me that am but dust Thirdly you shall understand that my Lands were conveyed bona fide to my Child the writings were drawn at Midsummer was twelve moneths as divers can witness and I trust my bloud will quench their malice who desired my slaughter that they will not seek also to kill you and yours with extream poverty To what friend to direct you I know not for all mine have left me in the true time of triall Most sorrie am I that being thus surprised by death I can leave you no better Estate God hath prevented all my determinations that great God which worketh all in all and if you can live free from want care for no more for the rest is but a vanitie Love God and begin betimes in him you shall find true everlasting and endlesse comfort when you have travelled and wearied your self with all sorts of worldly cogitations you shall sit down by sorrow in the end Teach your son also to serve and fear God whilest he is young that the fear of God may grow up in him then will God be an Husband to you and a Father to him an Husband and a Father that can never be taken from you Baylie oweth me a thousand pounds and Arvan six hundred in Jâ—rnesey also have much owing me Dear wife I beseech you for my Souls sake pay all poor men When I am dead no doubt you shall be much sought unto for the world thinks I was very rich have a care to the fair pretences of men for no greater miserie can befall you in this life than to become a prey unto the world and after to be despised I speak God knows not to disswade you from Marriage for it will be best for you both in respect of God and the world As for me I am no more yours nor you mine death hath cut us asunder and God hath divided me from the world and you from me Remember your poor Child for his Fathers sake who loved you in his happiest estate I sued for my life but God knows it was for you and yours that I desired it for know it my dear Wife your Child is the Child of a true man who in his own respect despiseth Death and his mishapen and ugly forms I cannot write much God knows how hardly I steal this time when all sleep and it is also time for me to separate my thoughts from the world Beg my dead body which living was denied you and either lay it in Sâ—â—â—bâ—rn or in Exceter Church by my
a Palmer fit To tread those blest Paths which before I writ Of Death Iudgement Heaven Hell Who oft doth think must needs Die wel Sir Raleigh's VERSES Found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster EVen such is Time which takes in trust Our Youth our Ioye and all we have And pays us nought but Age and Dust When in the dark and silent Grave When we have wandred all our ways Shuts up the storie oâ— our days And from which Grave Earth Dust The Lord shall raise me up I trust Sir W. RALEIGH On the Snuff of a Candle The night before he died Cowards fear to Die but Courage stout Rather than Live in Snuff wil be put out Sir WALTER RALEIGH'S SPEECH Immediately before he was beheaded UPon Simon and Judes day the Lieutenant of the Tower had a Warrant to bring his Prisoner to the Kings-Bench W 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where the Attorney Generall demanded Execution according to the Iudgement pronouâ—ced against him at W 〈…〉 the Lord Chief Iustice caused the Indictment Verdict and Iudgement to be read and after asked him what he could say Why he should not die according to the Law his answer was That this fifteen years he had lived by the meer mercy of the King and did now wonder how his Mercy was turned into Iustice he not knowing any thing wherein he had provoked his Majesties displeasure and did hope that he was clear from that Iudgement by the Kings Commission in making him Generall of the Voyage to Guiana for as he conceived the words To his trusty and well beloved subject c. Did in themselves imply a Pardon But Master Attorney told him these words were not sufficient for that purpose Whereupon he desired the opinion of the Court to which the Lord Chief Iustice replied it was no Pardon in Law Then began Sir Walter Raleigh to make a long description of the events and ends of his Voyage but he was interrupted by the Chief Iustice who told him that it was not for any offence committed there but for his first fact that he was now called in question and thereupon told him That seeing he must prepare to die he would not add affliction to affliction nor aggravate his fault knowing him to be a man full of misery but with the good Samaritane administer oyl and wine for the comfort of his distressed Soul You have been a Generall and a great Commander imitate therefore that noble Captain who thrusting himself into the middest of a Battell cried aloud Mors me Expectâ—t ego Mortem Expectabo as you should not contemn so to do nor should you fear death the one sheweth too much boldnesse the other no lesse cowardize so with some other few instructions the Court arose and Sir Walter was committed into the hands of the Sheriff of Middlesex who presently conveyed him to the Gate house in Westminster Upon Thursday morning this Couragious although Committed Knight was brought before the Parliament-house where there was a Scaffold erected for his Beheading yet it was doubted over-night that he should be hanged but it fell out otherwise He had no sooner mounted the scaffold but with a chearfull Countenance and andaunted Look he saluted the Companie His Attire was a wrought Night-cap a Ruff band a hair-coloured Sattin Doublet with a black wrought Waste-coat under it a pair of black cut Taffery Breeches a pair of ash-coloured Silk Stockings a wrought black Velvet Night gown putting off his Hat he directed his Speech to the Lords present as followeth My honourable Lords and the rest of my good friends that come to see me die Know that I much rejoyce that it hath pleased God to bring me from darknesse to night and in freeing me from the Tower wherein I might have died in disgrace by letting me love to come to this place where though I lose my life yet I shall clear some false accusations unjustly laid to my charge and leave behind me a testimony of a true heart both to my King and Country Two things there are which have exceedingly possest and provoked his Majesties indignation against me viz. A Confederacie or Combination with France and disloyall and disobedient words of my Prince For the first his Majestie had some cause hâ—â—â—gh groundes upon a weak foundation to suspect mine inclination to the French action for not long before my departure from England the French Agent took occasion passing by my house to visit me had some conference during the time of his abode onely concerning my voyage and nothing else I take God to witnesse Another suspition is had of me because I did labour to make an escape from Plymouth to France I cannot deny but that willingly when I heard a rumour That there was no hope of my Life upon my return to London I would have escaped so the safeguard of my Life and not for any ill intent or conspiracie against the State The like reason of suspition arose in that I perswaded Sir Lewis Steakly my Guardian to flee with me from London to France but my answer to this is as to the other That onely for my safeguard and thought else was my intent as I shall answer before the Almightie It is alleadged That I seigned my self sick and in art made my body full of blisters when I was at Salisbury True it is I did to the reason was because I hoped therebâ— to defer my coming before the King and Councell and so by delaying might have gaine time to have got my Pardon I have an Example out of Scripture for my warrant that in case of necessity and for the safeguard of my life David seigned himself foolish and mad yet it was not imputed to him for sin Concerning the second Imputation laid to my charge that I should speak scandalous and reprochfull words of my Prince there is no witnesse against me but onely one and he a Chimicall French man whom I entertained rather for his Iests than his Iudgement this man to incroach himself into the favour of the Lords and gaping after some great reward hath falsely accused me of Seditions speeches against his Majestie against whom if I did either speak or think a thought hurtfull or prejudiciall the Lord blot me out of the book of Life It is not a time to flatter or fear Princes for I am a subject to none but Death therefore have a charitable conceit of me That I know to swear is an offence to swear falsly at any time is a great sin but to swear false before the presence of Almightie God before whom I am forthwith to appear were an offence unpardonable therefore think me not now rashly or untruly to confirm or protest any thing As for other objections in that I was brought perforce into England that I carried sixteen thousand pounds in money out of England with me more than I I made known that I should receive Letters from the French King and such like with many
father and mother I can say no more Time and Death calleth me away The everlasting God powerfull infinite and inscrutable God Almightie who is goodnesse it self the true Light and Life keep you and yours and have mercy upon me and forgive my Persecutors and false accusers and send us to meet in his glorious kingdom My dear Wife farewell Blesse my Boy Pray for me and let my true God hold you both in his Arms. Yours that was but now not mine own Walter Raleigh Sir Raleigh's Letter to Prince Henry touching the model of a Ship Most excellent Prince IF the Ship your Highness intends to build be bigger than the Victorie then her beams which are laid overthwart from side to side will not serve again and many other of her timbers and other stuff will not serve whereas if she be a size less the timber of the old Ship will serve well to the building of a new If she be bigger she will be of less use go very deep to water and of mightie charge our Channels decaying every year less nimble less mannyable and seldom to be used Grande Navio grande satica saith the Spaniard A Ship of six hundred Tuns will carrie as good Ordinance as a Ship of twelve hundred Tuns and where the greater hath double her Ordinance the less will turn her broad side twice before the great Ship can wind once and so no advantage in that over-plus of Guns The lesser will go over clear where the greater shall stick and perish the lesser will come and go leave or take and is yare whereas the greater is slow unmanyable and ever full of encumber In a well conditioned Ship these things are chiefly required 1. That she be strong built 2. Swift in sail 3. Stout-sided 4. That her Ports be so laid as that she may carry out her Guns all weathers 5. That she hull and trie well 6. That she stay well when boarding or turning on a wind is required To make her strong consisteth in the care and truth of the work-man to make her swift is to give her a large Run or way forward and so afterward done by act and just proportion and that in laying out of her bowes before and quarters behind the Ship-wright be sure that she neither sink nor hang into the water but lie clear and aâ—ove it wherein Ship-wrights do often fail and then is the speed in sailing utterly spoiled That she be stout-sided the same is provided by a long bearing floar and by sharing off from above waters to the low â—â—edge of the Ports which done then will she carry out her Ordinance all weâ—thers To make her to hull and to trie well which iâ— called a good sea-Ship there are two things principally to be regarded the one that she have a good draught of water the other that she be not overcharged And this is seldom done in the Kings Ships and therefore we are forced to lye or trie in them with our main Course and mizen which with a deep keel and standing streak she would perform The extream length of a Ship makes her unapt to stay especially if she be floatie and want sharpnesse of way forward And it is most true that such over-long Ships are fitter for the narrow Seas in summer than for the Ocean or long voyages and therefore an hundred foot by the Keel and thirtie five foot broad is a good proportion for a great Ship It is to be noted that all Ships sharp before not having a long floar will fall rough into the sea from a billow and take in water over head and ears and the same quality have all narrow-quartered ships to sink after the tail The high Charging of ships is that that brings many ill qualities it makes them extream Lee-ward makes them sink deep into the seas makes them labour sore in foul weather and oft-times overset Safety is more to be respected than shews or nicenesse for ease in sea journeys both cannot well stand together and therefore the most necessary is to be chosen Two Decks and an half is enough and no building at all above that but a low Masters Cabbin Our Masters and Mariners will say that the ships will bear more well enough and true it is if none but ordinary Mariners served in them But men of better sort unused to such a life cannot so well endure the rowling and tumbling from side to side where the seas are never so little grown which comes by high Charging Besides those high Cabbin works aloft are very dangerous in sight to tear men with their splinters Above all other things have care that the great Guns be four foot clear above water when all lading is in or else these best pieces are idle sea for if the Ports lie lower and be open it is dangerous and by that default was a goodly Ship and many gallant Gentlemen lost in the days of Henry the Eigth before the Isle of Wight in a Ship called by the name of Mary-Rose Sir Walter Raleighs PILGRIMAGE GIve me my Scallop shell of Quiet My Staff of Faith to walk upon My Scrip of Joy immortall Diet My Bottle of Salvation My Gown of Glorie Hopes true gage And thus I le take my Pilgrimage Bloud must be my Bodies onely Balmer No other Balm will there be given Whil'st my Soul like a quiet Palmer Travelleth towards the Land of Heaven Over the silver Mountains Where springs the Nectar Fountains There I will kisse the Bowl of Blisse And drink mine everlasting fill Upon every Milken hill My Soul will be a drie before But after it will thirst no more I le take them first to quench my Thirst And tast of Nectars suckets At those clear Wells Where sweetnesse dwells Drawn up by Saints in Chrystal Buckets Then by that happy blestfull day More peacefull Pilgrims I shall see That have cast off their rags of clay And walk apparelled fresh like me And when our Boâ—les and all we Are fill'd with immortalitie Then the blessed Parts wee 'l travell Strow'd with Rubies thick as gravell Sealings of Diamonds Saphire flowers High walls of Coral and Pearly Bowers From thence to Heavens bribeless Hall Where no corrupted voices brawl No Conscience molten into Gold No forg'd Accuser bought or sold No cause deferr'd no vain-spent Iourny For there CHRIST is the Kings Attorney Who pleads for all without degrees And he hath Angels but no Fees And when the twelve Grand-million Iury Of our Sins with direfull furie 'Gainst our Souls black Verdicts give Christ pleads his Death then we Live Be thou my Speaker taintless Pleader Unblotted Lawyer true Proceeder Thou would'st Salvation even for Alms Not with a bribed Lawyers Palms And this is mine eternall Plea To him that made Heaven Earth Sea That since my Flesh must die so soon And want a Head to dine next noon Iust at the stroak when my Veins start spread Set on my Soul an everlasting Head Then am I ready like