A choice manual containing what is to be believed, practised, and desired or prayed for; the prayers being fitted to the several days of the week. Also festival hymns, according to the manner of the ancient church. Composed for the use of the devout, especially of younger persons, by Jeremy Taylor, D.D.

On the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin.

A Winged Harbinger from bright Heav'n flown Bespeaks a lodging-room For the mighty King of Love, The spotless structure of a Virgin-womb O're-shadow'd with the wings of the blest Dove: For he was travelling to earth, But did desire to lay By the way, That he might shift his cloaths, and be A perfect man as well as we. How good a God have we! who for our sake, To save us from the burning lake, Did change the order of Creation: At first he made Man like himself in his own Image; now, In the more blessed reparation, The Heaven's bow, Eternity took the measure of a span, And said,

Let us make our self like Man, And not from Man the Woman take, But from the Woman, Man. Allelujah: we adore His Name whose goodness hath no store.

Allelujah.