CONTENTS.

The Satires, in Six Books:-

A Defiance to Envy

De Suis Satyris

Book I.

Book II.

Book III.

Book IV.

Book V.

Book VI.

A Postscript to the Reader

On Mr. Greenham's Book on the Sabbath

Elegy on Dr. Whitaker

Some Few of David's Psalms metaphrased

Anthems for the Cathedral of Exeter

Glossary of Hard Words

THE

Satires

OF

BISHOP HALL.

IN SIX BOOKS.

THE FIRST THREE

OF

TOOTHLESS SATIRES.

1. POETICAL.
2. ACADEMICAL.

3. MORAL.

A

DEFIANCE TO ENVY.

NAY; let the prouder pines of Ida feare
The sudden fires of heaven, and decline
Their yielding tops that dar'd the skies whilere:
And shake your sturdy trunks ye prouder pines,

Whose swelling grains are like begall'd alone,
With the deep furrows of the thunder-stone.

Stand ye secure, ye safer shrubs below,
In humble dales, whom heav'ns do not despight;
Nor angry clouds conspire your overthrow,
Envying at your too disdainful height.

Let high attempts dread envy and ill tongues,
And cow'rdly shrinke for feare of causelesse wrongs.

So wont big oaks feare winding ivy weed:

So soaring eagles fear the neighbour sunne :

So golden* Mazor wont suspicion breed,

Of deadly hemlock's poisoned potion:

So adders shroud themselves in fairest leaves:

So fouler fate the fairer thing bereaves.

* Mazor-a standing cup to drink in.