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Rapt with delight, of her eye-pleasing treasure,

Now culling this, now that Flower, takes such pleasure;

That the strict time, whereto she was confin’d

Is all expir’d: whiles she thought halfe behind,

Or more remayn’d: So each attracting line

Makes them forget the time, they doe not tyne:

But since sweet future travell, is cut short,

Yet loose no time, now with the Muses sport;

That reading of thee, after times may tell,

In Travell, Prose, and Verse, thou didst excell.

Patrick Hannay.

To his dearely respected friend William Lithgow.

Shall Homer sing of stray’d Ulysses toyle?

From Greece to Memphis, in parch’d Ægypts soyle:

Flank’d with old Piramides, and melting Nyle,

Which was the furthest, he attayn’d the while:

A length of no such course, by ten to one,

Which thou thy selfe pedestrially hast gone:

Then may thy latter dayes out-strip old times,

That now hast seene, Earths circulary Climes:

And far beyond Ulysses, reach’d without him,

Both East and West, yea, North and South about him: