Dia Poemata Poetick Feet Standing Upon Holy Ground: Or, Verses on certain Texts of Scripture. With Epigrams, &c. By E. E. [i.e. Edmund Elys] |
On a Little Gentleman of Great Parts.
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On a Little Gentleman of Great Parts.
Μεγισον ση ελακιστη.
Does Nature act the Limner's part,
Shaping lesse things with rarest Art?
Or (like some Ladies) does she set
Her best Gems i'th' lesse Cabinet?
Great Volumes uselesse oft we see,
He's Natures quaint Epitome:
Or else he may deserve the name
Of her wittiest Epigram.
So small in Stature and in Age,
Yet learn'd he seems Minerva's Page:
No wonder then if she him dresse
In such abundant gaudinesse.
Short (like him) are my Verses Feet;
O were they also (like him sweet.
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