The Furies With Vertues Encomium. Or, The Image of Honour. In two Bookes of Epigrammes, Satyricall and Encomiasticke. By R.N. [i.e. Richard Niccols] |
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TO THE LEARNED AND vertuous Gentleman my Worshipfull good friend Master Christopher Osborne.
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TO THE LEARNED AND vertuous Gentleman my Worshipfull good friend Master Christopher Osborne.
The scourge of Carthage and Augustus wereTwo pillers of great Rome and taught her how
To make the World beneath her Empire bow;
Yet they sometimes would state affaires forbeare
Their Enius and their Maroes Musæ to heare,
Whose tunefull verse did smooth cares ruged brow;
Which custome since those Worthies did alow.
Be pleased (Sir) to lend a gentle eare
Vnto my Muse, and cease some little space
From serious studies worthie pretious time,
To grauest readers verse is no disgrace,
Good wits reape good by reading idle rime,
But smile on these with gentle entertaine,
And they perhaps will cause you smile againe.
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