s capere,
Citra injuriam;
Reginamq; non rapere,
Anti-sacri-colam:_
_Quiete gentem haec Rexit,
Nulliq; devincta,
Papamque_ Romae _despexit,
Et tandem Faemella_.

_Ah, ah, quid dixi Faemella?
De hoc fama silet;
Adeo fuit casta-Bella,
Ut nemini liquet:
En Dux_ Andinus _adiit,
Illam petiturus;
Virgo vixit & obiit,
Haec nihilominus_.

_Nec mali quid haec effecit,
Conscientiae stimulo;
Nec semet ipsam subjecit,
Christi-vicario:
At maluit magnamimis,
Sub Christi vexellis,
Pugnare cum_ Papa, Turcis,
_Ac multis aliis_.

_Sin mihi_ Argi _oculi,
Deessent Lachrymae_;
Elizabethae _fletui,
Nuper demortuae,
De nata hic obdormiet,
Die novissimo:
Et tunc expergefaciet,
Papa propudio_.

_The Pressing Constable. Set by Mr._ Leveridge.

[Music]

I Am a cunning Constable,
And a Bag of Warrants I have here,
To Press sufficient Men, and able,
At _Horn-castle_ to appear:
But now-a-days they're grown so cunning,
That hearing of this Martial strife;
They all away from hence are running,
_Where I miss the Man, I'll press the Wife._

Ho, who's at Home? Lo, here am I,
Good-morrow Neighbour. Welcome, Sir;
Where is your Husband? Why truly
He's gone abroad, a Journey far:
Do you not know when he comes back?
See how these Cowards fly for Life!
The King for Soldiers must not lack,
_If I miss the Man, I'll take the Wife._

Shew me by what Authority
You do it? Pray Sir, let me know;
It is sufficient for to see,
The Warrant hangs in Bag below:
Then pull it out, if it be strong,
With you I will not stand at strife:
My Warrant is as broad as long,
_If I miss the Man, I'll Press the Wife._

Now you have Prest me and are gone,
Please you but let me know your Name;
That when my Husband he comes home,
I may declare to him the same:
My Name is Captain _Ward_, I say,
I ne'er fear'd Man in all my life:
The King for Soldiers must not stay,
_Missing the Man, I'll Press the Wife._

_The same in_ LATIN.

_Astutus Constabularius,
Mandata gero in tergore:
Cincturos evocaturus_,
Cornu-Castello _affore:
At hodie adeo sapiunt,
Audita lite Bellica,
Omnes abhinc profugiunt_,
Virum supplebit F[oe]mina.

_Ecquisnam domi En ego
Salve. Sis salvus, Domine:
Ubinam Vir est? Haud nego,
Procul abe