Taking farewell of the Southward,
To Banbury came I, O prophane-One!
Where I saw a Puritane-One
Hanging of his Cat on Monday,
For killing of a Mouse on Sunday.
R. Brathwaite (1638) (Drunken Barnaby).
O the Spring will come,
And once again the wind be in the West,
Breathing the odour of the sea; and life,