50An Atome in the beams of Your bright Sun,
Almost Invisible; but still shin'd-uppon.
My Lord
Your Grace's most obedient
Servant, & poore Kinsman.
Thomas Flatman.
Lines to Archbishop Sancroft.] Exactly reproduced from the poet's autograph in Tanner MS. 306, of the Bodleian, where it appears in a group of Sancroft papers at folio 380, and is endorsed on the outer leaf—'These For his Grace, my Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, with my humblest Duty.'
The poem must have been written in the last year of Flatman's life, and have reference to the trial of the Seven Bishops. With l. 50, 'An Atome in the beams of Your bright Sun', compare the Pindaric On the Death of Charles II, l. 37, 'We atoms in his beams might sport and play' ([p. 392]).