Wit in a Wildernesse of Promiscuous Poesie By the Author Tho. Jordan |
An Encomium to the much honored Rich. Cheyny
of Hackney Esquire, his bountiful Patron,
and to his incomparably vertuous Consort.
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Wit in a Wildernesse of Promiscuous Poesie | ||
An Encomium to the much honored Rich. Cheyny of Hackney Esquire, his bountiful Patron, and to his incomparably vertuous Consort.
Health, wealth, worth, wit, with all that can be broughtIn the circumference of humane thought
Exalt your soul and body; may the breath
Of Praise and Prayer guard your life and death:
Nothing appear to you, but what may be
A Badg of honor, or of amity;
What God can give, or wisest men intreat,
Fall upon you, till you are good and great:
May your dear Consort, and her issue grow
Brighter then Lillies on the Banks of Poe:
All Excellence that waits on humane breath,
From the disquiet Cradle to the death,
Remain with you two, in whose Spirits move
Concords Elixar, and the soul of Love:
May all that man can wish, or Angels do,
(In sacred consultations) fall on you:
Wit wait upon your wealth, what e're is fit
For man to ask, may you accomplish it;
May Providence defend ye from those jars
That sink great families in Civil wars:
Religion rule my Poesie, that all
Which I have said, may prove Prophetical.
These are the wishes, and the prayers of one,
Who makes your welfare his devotion.
Wit in a Wildernesse of Promiscuous Poesie | ||