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The Whole Works of William Browne

of Tavistock ... Now first collected and edited, with a memoir of the poet, and notes, by W. Carew Hazlitt, of the Inner Temple

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The true

Dolphins.

presagers of a comming storme,

Teaching their fins to steere them to the forme
Of Thetis will, like Boats at Anchor stood,
As ready to conuay the Muses brood
Into the brackish Lake, that seem'd to swell,
As proud so rich a burden on it fell.