Dia Poemata Poetick Feet Standing Upon Holy Ground: Or, Verses on certain Texts of Scripture. With Epigrams, &c. By E. E. [i.e. Edmund Elys] |
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Ad Encomiastas Authoris. |
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Ad Encomiastas Authoris.
You might have sav'd your Labour, th' Author sureDoubts not to stand on his own Legs secure.
Let those on Crutches go, whose Muses All
Bring forth but Cripples for an Hospitall,
Whose Fame by others must supported be;
Their Commendation's but a Charity.
He's Self sufficient, and as the Sun,
Whose scatter'd Beams through every Quarter run;
Maintaines it self in its own Lustre, by
That Font which doth within its Bosom Lie)
Scorns all Recruits from others, th'lesser Stars
Are but this Greater Planets Pensioners.
What Helicon, each Pen distilleth, can
Adde little to this boundlesse Ocean.
Here fix Poetick Rabble, whilst his Grace
The Muses High-Priest enters th' Holy Place.
G. Towerson, Art. Bac. è Col. Reg.
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