Newe Sonets and pretie Pamphlets. Written by Thomas Howell. Newly augmented, corrected and amended |
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Iohn Keper Student to the Vpright Reader of these pretie Pamphilets.
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Iohn Keper Student to the Vpright Reader of these pretie Pamphilets.
As Feilde is none so ill, where fruitlesse weedes do groe,but yt some herbe of vertue good, his pearyng flowres may shoe
So though in Howels soyle, ilwillers seeme to see,
at first nought els but thriftlesse thornes, and Thistles wilde to bee:
Yet who shall vew his Feildes, and rightly them peruse,
shall see that frutes and frutfull Herbes, do spryng of his sweet muse:
For playnly he depayntes, the fits of youthfull loue:
whose modest Pen from honest act, no mindefull man will moue.
Here learne affects to rule, and youth in care to spende,
beware thou mayst by others harmes, how youthly toyes do ende:
Here reape, with other frutes, precepts of mortall minde.
Are these no Herbs of goodly grace, in fertile Feilde to finde?
Also his fined phrase, shall get deserued prayse,
whose cunnyng verse of youthly yeres, graue actes of age displayes.
Wysh him more workes to Pen, by this his tried skill:
and hope to see by tract of time, more frutes of painfull quill.
To Howels happie hande, restore thou thankes for this,
and wish him after death to liue, in wittie workes of his.
Finis.
IOANNES KEPER OXON. AD tho Howell.
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