An Oad sent into Scottland to a Frend by sea November-3-1643 Frend —

'Cause these Sullen Spheres
Blubber and drench our Southern Sky in Tears
After th'increas of Jelouzies and Fears
Love craves a Cabbin mongst the Passengers My will —

Affections word's advance
Without Elsinges decree Brownes Ordinance
The Armes of Love: soe neither Pike nor Launce
But a pens-point let drop in hast by chance

For had I had more time
To know the Bearer was now changing Clime
Than the Alarum of one minutes Chime
Reason had gon along as well as Rime

Alone this Act is sent
To show how Plunder and Imprisonment
Alow not wonted Cloaths for Complement
But sequester with Lands the Muses rent

A Bare revenue: yet
Of soe much force and power as to begett
This Confidence that though a Diamond's set
In brass 'tis stil the same, noe Counterfaict

So's Love, whose luster lies
Not in the ravishment of outward eyes
By quaint expressions but the Soules surmise
And by that standard it must fall or rise

Impatient left alone
In noe case it admitts cessation
But thus by way of recreation
United thinkes of two to become one

Noe protest, Oath, or Vowe
Can such a harmless contract disalowe
From whence noe plot doth spring nor project growe
But what an Earl may find to you I owe

Wherfore I Covenant thus
May your Endeavours prove Auspitious
To bring Peace home, yet not the Scot to us.