Poems consisting of Epistles and Epigrams, Satyrs, Epitaphs and Elogies, Songs and Sonnets With variety of other drolling Verses upon several Subjects. Composed by no body must know whom, and are to be had every body knows where, and for somebody knows what [by John Eliot] |
A complaint to one of his friends to whom the Author
sent a coppie of verses which were printed without his consent or knowledge.
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Poems consisting of Epistles and Epigrams, Satyrs, Epitaphs and Elogies, Songs and Sonnets | ||
A complaint to one of his friends to whom the Author sent a coppie of verses which were printed without his consent or knowledge.
I sent you Sir, by way of thankfullness,Verses, which since by stealth have past the press;
I hope by stealth, because a man unknown
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To have him prest then is my humble suit,
Not for the theft, but 'cause he should stand mute:
Would he confess to save him I'l be willing,
And swear the verses were not worth a shilling.
But if his heart obdurate prove like flint,
I'l shortly prove him knave and foole in print.
Poems consisting of Epistles and Epigrams, Satyrs, Epitaphs and Elogies, Songs and Sonnets | ||