Impromptu Lines addressed to his Cousin, Mrs. Creed

In a Conversation after Dinner on the Origin of Names

SO much Religion in your Name doth dwell,

Your Soul must needs with Piety excel.

Thus Names, like [] Pictures drawn of old,

Their owners’ Nature and their Story told.

Your Name but half expresses, for in you

Belief and Practice do together go.

My Pray’rs shall be, while this short Life endures,

These may go Hand in Hand, with you and yours;

Till Faith hereafter is in Vision drown’d,

And Practice is with endless Glory crown’d.