Alcilia Philoparthens louing Folly. Wherevnto Js Added Pigmalions Image. With The Loue of Amos and Lavra. And also Epigrammes by Sir I. H. and others. Neuer before imprinted |
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Of casting out Spirits by Prayer, without Fasting.
A vertuous Dame, who for her state and qualitie,Did euer loue to keepe great Hospitalitie;
Her name I must not name in plaine reciting,
But thus, The chiefe Instrument of writing,
Was by Duke Humphrey's Guests so boldly hanted,
That her good minde therewith was sorely danted:
She sighing said, one day, to a carelesse lester,
These ill-bred guests my boord and house so pester,
That I pray God oft times with all my heart,
That they would leaue their haunt, and hence depart.
He that by his owne humour haply ghest,
What manner Sprite these smell-feasts had possest;
Tolde her the surest way such Sprites out-casting,
Was to leaue Prayer a while, and fall to Fasting.
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