To the much honored Pair, and most pious Preservers of Love and Loyalty in Wedlock, Mr. Nathaniel Lownes Merchant Adventurer, &c. and the perfect Patern of Vertue Mrs. Melior Lownes his beloved Consort.

MY Muse salutes ye both, who to your worth
Devotes her love, and holds my service forth.
All happiness that the Celestial Powers
Ordain for men, wait upon you and yours.
Treasure, long life, love, liberty, and myrth
Dwell with ye, till ye find heaven upon earth;
True Concord be your guide, and may no passion
On either side, provoke a separation.
In medio consistit virtus; we
Find in your loves a meliority:
(Which is most permanent) what is below
That, or above it, is too fast, or slow:
Health, peace, and plenty, with all joyes that can
Add vigour to the noble soul of man;
Erect your spirits, may ye never be
Expos'd to any infelicity;
But may that God, which hath heaven for his home,
Guide you in this world, and the world to come.