Flamma sine Fumo or, poems without fictions. Hereunto are annexed the Causes, Symptoms, or Signes of several Diseases with their Cures, and also the diversity of Urines, with their Causes in Poetical measure. By R. W. [i.e. Rowland Watkyns] |
To the Right Worshipful, Sir Richard Basset of Bewper, Knight. |
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To the Right Worshipful, Sir Richard Basset of Bewper, Knight.
Instar omnium.
If commendation is to valour due,
Or vertue, praise then is a debt to you
You could not stoop, nor alter, like the wind,
The loyal resolution of your mind,
You bravely stood in times of war and fear
Like some bright Star sixt in your proper sphear.
Such sparks of Valour from your eyes did fly,
As put your foes into an extasy.
Your Noble actions do transcend all wit,
Or copious lines, unless an Angel writ.
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