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Small poems of Divers sorts

Written by Sir Aston Cokain

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22. To Mrs. Elizabeth Sheepy of Ashbourne.

Betty, your wine is good: and yet we know
You may get better; which we pray you do.
Our Countrey-wits would then leave clubbing groats,
In Darby-Ale, and chang their penny-Pots
Into fine Venice-glasses (sparkling full)
Of generous Sack, and be more bountiful.
Your Talbot then would rore, and Poets sing
That there did run the true Castalian spring.
Your husband honest Tom (that's sick) it would
Recover soon, and make him live t'be old.
Get therefore (Betty) the best wine you may:
And we will style you our Mnemosyne.