{ Best friends no more than worst of foes I'll spare;
{ And all this I can do, because I dare.
He who writes on, and cudgels can defy,
And, knowing he'll be beaten, still writes on, am I.
London, printed for J. Smith, 1681. J. D.
[4] Sir Roger L'Estrange, whose skill in music is said to have amused Cromwell, who had some turn that way.
Thou, as once the healing serpent rose,
Was lifted up, not for thyself, but us.