Certaine serious thoughts which at severall times & upon sundry occasions have stollen themselves into verse and now into the publike view from the author [Wyvill coat of arms] Esquire ; together w[i]th a chronologicall table denoeting [sic] the names of such princes as ruled the neighbor states and were con-temporary to our English kings, observeing throughout ye number of yeares w[hi]ch every one of them reigned.

Gloria Caeli.

Stay, doe not black this Paper, for it is A better Emblem of the place of blisse Then my dull pen can draw; 'tis pure and white May serve to represent eternall light; Hath neither spot nor wrinckle, none of them May come within the new Ierusalem. But how should paper, or my lines, which are Composed both of ragges, such joyes declare As never eye, nor eare, nor heart, nor braine Of man within that small sphear could containe? Yet may thy humble contemplation Discern some glimpses by reflection: Read then the glory of thy great Creator In this large book the world, which is his Creature. If wandring there thou chauncest to espy An object that is glorious in thine eye, Be it those greater, or the lesser lights Innumerably sparkling in cleare nights;

Or the those-emulating Diamond That pretious issue of inriched ground, Doth from some costly root a flow'r arise, Whose various colours please thy gazing eyes. Do'st thou admire the structure of some face, Which seem's to have engrossed every grace, Hast thou observed all the excellence, Wherewith Gods bounty feast's each severall sence? Screw up thy meditation then, think, Lord If to earth on earth thou art pleas'd t'afford Such blessings, ô thrice happy sure they be Who sainted are in blest Eternity.