The last link is broken That bound me to thee, And the words thou hast spoken Have rendered me free.

RICHARD BAXTER.

1615-1691.

_Love breathing Thanks and Praise_.

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

ROGER L'ESTRANGE.

1616-1704.

_Fables from several Authors_.

Fable 398.

Though this may be play to you, 'Tis death to us.

MISCELLANEOUS.

_From Apophthegms_, &c., first gathered and compiled in Latin, by Erasmus, and now translated into English by Nicholas Vdall.

8vo. 1542. Fol. 239.

That same man, that rennith awaie, Maie again fight an other daie.

_From the Musarum Deliciae_, compiled by Sir John Mennis and Dr. James Smith. 1640

He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day.[24]

[Note 24: See Butler--Hudibras, _ante_, p. 125.]

RICHARD GRAFTON.

_Abridgement of the Chronicles of Englande_. 1570. 8vo.

"A rule to knowe how many dayes euery moneth in the yeare hath."

Thirty dayes hath Nouember, Aprill, June, and September, February hath xxviii alone, And all the rest have x.x.xi.

_The Return from Parna.s.sus_. 4to. London. 1606.

Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, February eight-and-twenty all alone, And all the rest have thirty-one; Unless that leap year doth combine, And give to February twenty-nine.

_Lines used by Joint Hall, in encourage the Rebels in Wat Tyler's Rebellion. Hume's History of England_, Vol. I. Chap. 17.

Note i.

When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?

_From the Garland, a Collection of Poems_.

1721, by Mr. Br--st, author of a Copy of Verses called "The British Beauties."

Praise undeserved is Satire in disguise.[25]

[Note 25: This line is quoted by Pope, in the 1st Epistle of Horace, Book ii,--"Praise undeserved is _Scandal_ in disguise."]

THOMAS A KEMPIS.

1380-1471.

_Imitation of Christ_.

Book i. Chapter 19.

Man proposes, but G.o.d disposes.[26]