Small poems of Divers sorts :: :: University of Virginia Library

65. To my Cousins Germans Mr. Cromwell, Mr. Byron, Mr. Ratcliff, and M. Alexander Stanhope.

The worlds four Parts, and all the various Seas
And Rivers that embrace them thousand wayes,
Perfect the Globe terrestrial, set it fix't
Equal the circumvolving Heaven betwixt:
So you four (joyning in a Sympathie
Of an unmach'd, fraternal Amitie,
Sought to for noble Soules, by all that can
Understand Honour, or a Generous man)
Are courted on all sides, and truly do
Love them reciprocally that love you;

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So that your friends and you do justly stand
The Centre of fair Friendship in the Land.