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To his Friend the Author.

If antique Swaines wanne such immortall praise,
Though they alone with their melodious Layes,
Did onely charme the Woods and flowry Lawnes:
Satyres, and Floods, and Stones, and hairy Fawnes:

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How much braue Youth to thy due worth belongs,
That charm'st not thē but men with thy sweet Songs?
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