We confess our design hath been set forward by friends that honour you, who, lest the ill publishing might disfigure these things from whence you never expected addition to your credit (sundry times endeavoured and by them defeated) furnished us with some papers which they thought authentic; we may not turn their favour into an accusation, and therefore give no intimation of their names, but wholly take the blame of this hasty and immethodical impression upon ourselves, being persons at a distance, who are fitter to bear it than those who are nearer related. In hope of your pardon we remain,
Your most devoted servants,
Rich. Marriot.
Hen. Herringman.
POEMS
Printed in 1657.
Sonnet. The Double Rock.
Since thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grown
A solid stone: