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The Works in Verse and Prose

(including hitherto unpublished Mss.) of Sir John Davies: for the first time collected and edited: With memorial-introductions and notes: By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. In three volumes

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MIRA LOQUOR SOL OCCUBUIT NOX NULLA SECUTA EST.

By that Eclipse which darkned our Appollo,
Our sunne did sett, and yett noe night did follow;
For his successor's vertues shone soe bright,
As they continued still, there former ligbt;
And gaue the world a farther expectation
To adde a greater splendor to our Nation.