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The Whole Works of William Browne

of Tavistock ... Now first collected and edited, with a memoir of the poet, and notes, by W. Carew Hazlitt, of the Inner Temple

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Then with her thanks and praises for their skill
In tuning numbers of the sacred Hill.
She them dismist to their contented Coates;
And euery Swaine a seuerall passage floates
Vpon his Dolphin. Since whose safe repaire,
Those Fishes like a well composed ayre.

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And (as in loue to men) are euer seene
Before a tempests rough regardlesse teene,
To swim high on the waues: as none should dare
Excepting fishes to aduenture there.