Commission with a Throne, or Cherubin.

Passe on triumphant in thy glorious way,

Till thou hast reacht the place assign'd: we may

Without disturbing the harmonious Spheares,

Bathe here below thy memory in our teares.

Ten dayes are past, since a dull wonder seis'd

My active soule: Loud stormes of sighes are rais'd

By empty griefes; they who can utter it,

Doe no vent forth their sorrow, but their wit.

I stood like Niobe without a grone,