_Let's sing such welcomes, as shall make Her sway Seem easie to Him, though it last till day.
Welcom as Peace t'unwalled Cities, when
Famine and Sword leave them more graves than men.
As Spring to Birds, or Noon-dayes Sun to th' old
Poor mountain Muscovite congeal'd with cold.
As Shore toth' Pilot in a safe known Coast
When's Card is broken and his Rudder lost.
APPENDIX
p. 369, l. 2. C] Antiochus l. 10. C omits] have. l. 12. C _omits] Princes. B _misprints] Prnices. l. 17. C gives this line to Sel. l. 35. A] Cel. l. 40. C] I once more next [instead of beg it thus].
p. 370, l. 9. C] sound. l. 10. C] beat through. l. 16. C adds] Finis. C _omits] Prologue and Epilogue.
p. 371, l. 1. A] And those. l. 6. A omits] Spoke by the Lieutenant.
THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS.
(A) The | Faithfull | Shepheardesse. By John Fletcher. | Printed at
London for R. Bonian | and H. Walley, and are to be sold at | the spred
Eagle over against the | great North dore of S. Paules. Undated, but
probably 1609-10.
(B) The same, with slight differences in the Commendatory Verses and in one or two other sheets.
(C) The | Faithfull | Shepheardesse. | By John Fletcher. | The second Edition, newly corrected. London, | Printed by T.C. for Richard Meighen, in St Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleet-streete, | 1629.