On the fly-leaf of _Theophila, or Love's Sacrifice_, a divine poem by
E. B., Esq., London, 1652, I find the following rare morsel:
"MR. JAMES TINKER,
Rector of St. Andrews, Droitwich.
"Father Tinker, when you are dead,
Great parts a long wir you are fled,
O that they wor conferred on mee,
Which would ad unto God's glory."
The subject of the above laudation flourished in the early part of the last
century.
In a Geneva Bible, date 1596:
"Thomas Haud: his booke:
God giue him grace theare on to looke:
And if my pen it had bin better,
I would haue mend it euery letter.
1693."