The teares or lamentations of a sorrowfull Soule Set foorth by Sir William Leighton |
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In laudem Authoris.
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In laudem Authoris.
This is the second time thou hast appear'd,in publick print, wel willing worthy knight
First thy Tryumphant vertue, highly rear'd:
thy fame aboue our Moderne Poets flight.
For why? those lines (in serious wise I write)
do with such generall learning richly shine,
As if some blessed, or Cælesticall spright,
possessed had, that heart, and soule of thine,
But in this second worke, much more Diuine:
thy Lamentations woefully cōposed,
thou dost thy thoughts, in such low verse combine
as wondrous skill thou hast in thē disclosed.
That mē may see, thou canst write high or low,
in both so well; as none thy worth can show.
Iohn Lepton.
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