The Poems of Thomas Pestell Edited with an account of his life and work by Hannah Buchan |
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Epigr: on the Rt Rev: Father in God: Lo. BB of Winchester
(deceasd) & the Rt honble The Earle of Manchester (Liuing) a payre of
most noble & virtuous Lights in Church and Commonwealth |
The Poems of Thomas Pestell | ||
Epigr: on the Rt Rev: Father in God: Lo. BB of Winchester (deceasd) & the Rt honble The Earle of Manchester (Liuing) a payre of most noble & virtuous Lights in Church and Commonwealth
If Chester boast hir (flesh & bloud) cheife men:What was Winchester? is Manchester then?
Both noble borne to equall heights of Spirit
Both glorious strong in sev'rall wayes of merite:
That was a Cheife, compackt of Learnd & Good
Both abling preisthood, both ennobling blood,
This that surviues, cheif man of those that weild
Great Charls his Law's & Counsell: Sword & Sheild:
An Isthmus, or a Rod, t'imbarr the pride,
Or swelling waues of violence deuide.
Death tooke Winchester cheife of churchmen young
O Spare Manchester Cheife of Statesmen Long.
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