Festum Uoluptatis, Or the Banquet of Pleasure Fvrnished with Mvch Variety of Speculations, Wittie, Pleasant, and Delightfull. Containing divers choyce Love-Posies, Songs, Sonnets, Odes, Madrigals, Satyrs, Epigrams, Epitaphs and Elegies. For varietie and pleasure the like never before published. By S. P. [i.e. Samuel Pick] |
An Elegie upon the death of his deare friend Mistresse Priscilla Wadl.
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Festum Uoluptatis, Or the Banquet of Pleasure | ||
An Elegie upon the death of his deare friend Mistresse Priscilla Wadl.
Here though her spot-lesse span-long life be spent,Are silent steps to shew where goodnesse went.
Nature did in such rare compleatnesse make her,
To shew her Art, and so away did take her.
For she was onely to us wretches lent
For a short time to be our president.
Goods we inherite daily, and possession.
O, that in goodnes were the same succession!
For then before her soule to heaven she breathed,
She had to each of us a part bequeathed,
Of her true wealth; and closing thus her eyes,
Would have enrich'd her sex with Legacies.
Sa. Pick.
Festum Uoluptatis, Or the Banquet of Pleasure | ||