XL.

_Ad infantes martyres._ Matt. ii. 16.

Fundite ridentes animas, effundite coelo;

Discet ibi vestra, o quam bene! lingua loqui.

Nec vos lac vestrum et maternos quaerite fontes:

Quae vos expectat lactea tota via est.

_To the infant martyrs._

Go, smiling soules, your new-built cages breake,

In Heav'n you'l learne to sing ere here to speake:

Nor let the milky fonts that bath your thirst

Bee your delay;

The place that calls you hence is, at the worst,

Milke all the way. CR.

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