Du Bartas His Divine Weekes And Workes with A Compleate Collectio[n] of all the other most delight-full Workes: Translated and written by yt famous Philomusus: Iosvah Sylvester |
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[Your double Title to My single heart]
Your double Title to My single heart,Both by your Purchase, and your Parents Right;
Claims both a better and a greater Part
Of gratefull Service, than This slender Mite.
Yet, sith (to profit, more than please) I write
More Sighes than Songs (less vs'd to Smiles than Smart)
Disdain not These Restrainers of Delight;
Though bitter, fitter, than the Smoothing Art,
To keep the Minde and Bodie both in Health;
To coole the Fits of Lust, Ambition, Pride
(Surfaits of Ease, Youth, Liberty, and Wealth)
And cure All Sickness of the Soule, beside.
Whence, Ever free; and full of Every Good
From GOD and Men, be ESSEX Noble Bud.
Ex Animo exoptat
Iosvah Sylvester.
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