Virtus Rediviva Or a Panegyricke On the late King Charls the I. Second Monarch of Great Britain. By Tho. Forde |
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On T. Bastard, and his Epigrams.
That thy names Bastard, friend, is thy hard fate,Thy Births I'm sure are Legitimate.
Well may'st a Bastard be, all Common race
To thy diviner wit must need give place:
No, Jove himself begat thee, and thy Birth,
Gets in us Wonderment as well as mirth.
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