Sleeping or waking, let us have thy quill,
And sleep and vigils shall admire thy skill.
I. Pickering.
To his Friend.] The extraordinary badness of the orthography in the original may be judged from its form for panegyric—'Panagericke', which is, of course, mere ignorant setting from dictation, with no 'reading' to correct.
11 Does 'engoddessed' occur elsewhere? If not, I think I. Pickering should score for it, though it does not apply very well to three actual goddesses.]
Imprimatur.
Sa. Baker.
June 22, 1637.
Imprimatur.] Samuel Baker, Fellow of Christ's, Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Canon of Windsor and Canterbury, who was deprived of his preferments in the Rebellion, and seems not to have lived quite long enough to recover them. The reverse of the imprimatur leaf bears, in Professor Firth's copy, the inscription 'Rot Tebbutt His Book 1779'—a date at which the Carolines were not usually appreciated, though their turn was coming.