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The primerose.

The Primerose. is the faire Spring's harbinger,
And first sweete Flower, the wealthie Earth: doth yee[lde]
After the Heaue'ns, haue newlie crown'd the yeare,
No flower appeares, before it, in the feelde:
So: in trew worthe, and vertue, I do finde,
You are the firste, the rest come lagg behinde.