Upon a Table-Book, &c.] The title in one of Hannah's MS. copies has 'Noble Lady'. The person addressed does not seem to have been identified.


To the same Lady upon Mr. Burton's Melancholy.

If in this Glass of Humours you do find

The passions or diseases of your mind,

Here without pain, you safely may endure,

Though not to suffer, yet to read your cure.

But if you nothing meet you can apply,

Then, ere you need, you have a remedy.

And I do wish you never may have cause