To the Indifferent Readers.

T o pray, in measur'd Sillables, is strange ,
Familiars with peruersenesse may conceits
But PIETIE herselfe, allowes this Change:
and, for our Learning, doth Example leaue .

Her Friend ( sweet Psalmist) sung his Soules- Conceits
in sacred Numbers; and, the Heau'ns did Charme
With pow'rfull Verse: so, those commanding Heights,
he wanne but with his Muses mighty Arme!

All Christian Churches ( howsoe'er at ods )
with Psalmes & Hymnes beate Heau'ns resounding Wall:
Nay, more the Pagans sing into their Gods;
and, which is most, the Angels most of all
Then, sith both Heau'n and Earth This still doe vse ,
He shames himselfe that for this blames our Muse.