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The Poetical Works of William Basse

(1602-1653): Now for the first time collected and edited with introduction and notes by R. Warwick Bond
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FRAGMENTS

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(Probably from the poem entitled “Of Witham House, Oxfordshire, the house of a Noble Knight and favourer of my Muse”).

These prov'd themselves from Pegasus derived:
There doth the northern spur oft draw a rayne
From the fleet flanks of Barbary or Spayne,
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And wilde Arabia, whose tincture dyed
Greene earth with purple staynes of bestiall pride.
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Lo! but too ofte of man and horse, when young,
The naked heele and hammered hoofe I sung;
Which now to heare, or reade, might please some men,
Perchance, as youthful now as I was then.
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