Clarastella Together with Poems occasional, Elegies, Epigrams, Satyrs. By Robert Heath |
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To Captain Nym.
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To Captain Nym.
Betimes thou findst me e'r I stir, and sai'stThy mornings draught o'r night thou promis'd wast,
But thou nor car'st so much for that or me,
My breeches in the chair thou com'st to see;
Thy plot prevented thus thou fliest hence,
In hast to th'next friend with the like pretence,
Whose pockets, you surprising, borrow there
Without his leave a crown perhaps, for fear
More mist, might be discover'd, for thy friend
Shouldst thou but ask it, would not six pence lend:
Thus each friends hinder Phob thy want supplies,
Whence thou dost raise thy daily subsidies,
And pick some crums of comfort; but alas!
Nym th'other night by Festus couzned was,
With whom he needs would lie; for Festus did
Not think his money safe though under's bed,
But hid it in Nyms pocket: thought he, ne'r
Wil, shifting Nym, look once for money there.
Thus Nym protected, what he els had stole;
Better to venter thus, then lose the whole.
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