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Raglands Niobe

Or Elizas Elegie: Addressed to the unexpiring memory of the most noble Lady, Elizabeth Herbert, wife to the truly honourable, Edward Somerset Lord Herbert, &c. By RI. Brathwait
Brathwait, Richard (1588?-1673)
 
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TO THE HONORABLE, Edward Somerset, Lord Herbert, my most noble and accomplish'd Lord;
 
Elisabeth Herbert.
 
RAGLANDS Niobe: Or, ELIZA'S Elegie.
 
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[Let 't not disraste my Lord, that I have heere]

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[Let 't not disraste my Lord, that I have heere]

Let 't not disraste my Lord, that I have heere
Annex'd th'Elegiack raptures of my Deare:
'Tis said that Polo the Tragedian
When hee on Stage to force some passion came,
Had his Sonnes ashes in an Urne enshrin'd
To worke more deepe impressions in his mind.
The Emblem's good: this Fun'rall pile of ours
Strucke passion in each line address'd to yours.
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