A farrago of several pieces being a supplement to his poems, characters, heroick pourtraits, letters, and other discourses formerly published by him / newly written by Richard Flecknoe.

On Her Miscarrying.

NOT yet! but must she iterate her pray'r Before heaven grants, & Carolus has an Heyr? And has it only impregnated her womb, To give assurance that an Heyr will come? If so, we are satisfied, O Gracious Heaven! And thank thee, for th' assurance thou hast given. This was a pattern only (it seems) to shew What men were to expect, and God could do. As Statuaries little models make, From which for greater works they patterns take. Let all who grieve, that shee's miscaried, then Take comfort, that she'll soon conceive agen: Which since 'tis caused by her fruitfulness, Does make our Hopes the more, though Joyes the less: So when trees once have born, it is a sign That they will bear agen another time. What, though their first fruit by untimely frost Or Hayl, or wind, or some mischance be lost; Why shu'd we grieve? since w'are assur'd they'l bear Vs other fruit agen, another year.