[A Collection of devotional verse], [ca. 1655-1668].

Manuscript on paper, in a single Italic hand, of a collection of 8 religious poems by Sir Matthew Hale, Samuel Clarke, and Francis Quarles. The collection includes a series of dated "Poems upon Christmas day," "A Paraphrase on Simeon's Song," "Paraphrase on Seneca's Thyestes," and two poems titled "Changes and Troubles." The poem titled "A Dialogue" stages a conversation among Christ, Justice, and a Sinner, and the final poem is a lengthy work in four-line stanzas entitled "A Poetical meditation, wherein the usefullness excellency and several perfections of Holy Scripture are briefly hinted at by J. C." Followed, in the same hand, by four pages of psalms