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The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden

With "A Cypresse Grove": Edited by L. E. Kastner

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vi. A Replye.

Swadl'd is the Babye, and almost two yeeres
(His swadling tyme) did neither crye nor sturre,
But star'd, smyld, did lye still, void of all feares,
And sleept, though barked at by eurye curre:
Yea, had not wakt, if Leslea, that hoarse Nurce,
Had not him hardlie rock't; old wyues him curse!