Claraphil and Clarinda in a forrest of fancies. By Tho: Jordan |
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An Acrostical Eulogie, written on the worthy name
of Mr. William Legassick, second sonne to
Mr. Henry Legassick, of little Hempstead
in the County of Devon.
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An Acrostical Eulogie, written on the worthy name of Mr. William Legassick, second sonne to Mr. Henry Legassick, of little Hempstead in the County of Devon.
With a heart free from Flatteries fair crimes,Let me salute you in these rural Rhymes;
I must confess the favours you have done,
Exceed my best Congratulation.
Love (whose bright Laws you never disobay)
Guides you to do more then a Verse can pay:
Learning and those accommodations which
Amplifie Nature, and make Spirits rich,
Improve their fertile Faculties, and do
Shine forth the brighter, 'cause they dwel in you:
A great Apostle 'twas, that said, if I
Speak Angels language without Charity,
My words are but as tinkling Cimbals. You
I mitate him, have Love and Learning too:
CHRIST guard your Family, and may your Name
Keep up, till all the world flye in a flame.
Sic Vaticinatur: T. J.
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