WRIGHT - An account of his excellence - 1688 copia

11 where, after a moft folemn, vocal, and i n f t r u- « mental Mu f i c k, the young Nob i l i t y, Scholars of the Co l l edge, prefented the L o rd Embanador, wi th Devifes, Epigrams, and other compofitions, more immediately relat ing to His Majefty, and His Domini ons; fuch few of which, as they came to hand, were thought fit to be inferted, and that, the rather, becauf e the Engl ifh Na t i on (how- • ever di fcont inu d , this laft Century) had once, a more than ordinary Genius, and aptnefs, that wa y; as he that (hall t u rn Halh Henry the 8 th - Sir Philip Sidney, or Camhdens Remains, may find mu ch of this k i n d, and (perhaps) not unwor thy his time. A nd they, were f uch as thefe. A Stock of Bees, flying to an empty Hi ve, the King-Bee i n their Head. The word ( ande aberr aver ant ) Whence they had fled aftray. Int imat ing thereby, the general defection of His Majeftys Ki ngdoms, and vo luntary return, to their former obedience. A Ki t e, hover ing i n the A i r, and Ch i c k- ens,