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An Epigram. To K. Charles
for a 100. pounds he sent me in my sicknesse.
Great Charles, among the holy gifts of graceAnnexed to thy Person, and thy place,
'Tis not enough (thy pietie is such)
To cure the call'd Kings Evill with thy touch;
But thou wilt yet a Kinglier mastrie trie,
To cure the Poëts Evill, Povertie:
And, in these Cures, do'st so thy selfe enlarge,
As thou dost cure our Evill, at thy charge.
Nay, and in this, thou show'st to value more
One Poët, then of other folke ten score.
O pietie! so to weigh the poores estates!
O bountie! so to difference the rates!
What can the Poët wish, his King may doe,
But, that he cure the Peoples Evill too?
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