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Poems

By Thomas Philipott

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On one dead of a Dropsie.

VVe need not here be lavish, and let fall
Our teares, as tribute, to this Funerall,
Since here we see the Body did resent,
And ev'n, by private instinct, so lament
The Soules departure, that it did appeare,
Transform'd by griefe, to one continued teare.