Her of your name, whose fair inheritance
Bethina was, and jointure Magdalo:
An active faith so highly did advance,
That she once knew, more than the Church did know,
The Resurrection; so much good there is
Deliver'd of her, that some Fathers be
Loth to believe one Woman could do this;
But, think these Magdalens were two or three.
Increase their number, Lady, and their fame:
To their Devotion, add your Innocence;
Take so much of th'example, as of the name;
The latter half; and in some recompence
That they did harbour Christ himself, a Guest,
Harbour these Hymns, to his dear name addrest.
J.D.
[To the Lady Magdalen Herbert: &c. Ed: To the Lady
Magdalen Herbert, of &c. Walton's The Life of M^r George
Herbert. (1670, pp. 25-6.) See note]
[4 know, 1675: know 1670]