ty shall trust,
But lymns in water, or but writes in dust.
Yet whil'st with sorrow here we live opprest,
What life is best?
Courts are but only superficial schools,
To dandle fools:
The rural part is turned into a den
Of savage men:
And where's a city from vice so free,
But may be termed the word of all the three?
Domestic cares afflict the husband's bed,
Or pains his head.
Those that live single take it for a curse,
Or do things worse,
These would have children, those that have them none,
Or wish them gone:
What is it then to have, or have no wife,
But single thraldom, or a double strife?
Our own affections still at home, to please,
Is a disease.
To cross the seas, to any foreign soil
Peril and toil.
Wars with their noise, affright us, when they cease.
We're worse in peace.
What then remains, but that we still should cry
For being born, and being born to die.

He is author of the following works;

Epistola de Casparo Scioppio, Amberg. 1638, 8vo. This Scioppius was a
man of restless spirit, and had a malicious pen; who in books against
King James, took occasion from a sentence written by Sir Henry Wotton,
in a German's Album, (mentioned p. 260.) to upbraid him with what
principles of religion were professed by him, and his embassador
Wotton, then at Venice, where the said sentence was also written in
several glass windows, as hath been already observed.

Epist. ad Marc. Velserum Duumvir. Augustae Vindelicae, Ann. 1612.

The Elements of Architecture, Lond. 1624, 4to. in two parts,
re-printed in the Reliquae Wottonianae, Ann. 1651, 1654, and 1672, 8vo.
translated into Latin, and printed with the great Vitruvius, and an
eulogium on Wotton put before it. Amster. 1649, folio.

Plausus & Vota ad Regem e scotia reducem. Lond. 1633, in a large 4to.
or rather in a little folio, reprinted by Dr. John Lamphire, in a
book, entitled by him, Monarchia Britannica, Oxon. 1681, 8vo.

Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex, and George late Duke of
Buckingham, London 1642, in four sheets and a half in 4to.

Difference, and Disparity between the Estates, and Conditions of
George Duke of Buckingham, and Robert Earl of Essex.

Characters of, and Observations on, some Kings of England.

The Election of the New Duke of Venice, after the Death of Giopvanno
Bembo.

Philosophical Survey of Education, or moral Architecture.

Aphorisms of Education.

The great Action between