Humours Heau'n on Earth With The Ciuile Warres of Death and Fortune. As also The Triumph of Death: Or, The Picture of the Plague, according to the Life, as it was in Anno Domini. 1603. By Iohn Dauies of Hereford |
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To the right worshipfull my deere Scholler Sir Humfrey Baskeruile of Earsley, Knight:
And the no lesse louely than vertuous Lady his Wife.
Sith I am Lecturing my noblest Schollers,(You being two) this Lecture deigne to reade;
For thogh it treats of nought but death & dollers,
Yet it with pleasure may your passion feede:
For, plagues to see (vnplagu'd) doth Nature please,
Although good nature (gladly) grieues thereat;
As we are well-ill pleas'd to see at Seas
The wofull'st wracke, while we are safe from that.
In health to tell what sickenesse we haue past,
Makes vs more soūd; for, Gladnes health defends:
O then your eies on this Plagues-Picture cast
To glad and grieue you for glad-grieuous ends.
But my sole End by this poore Meane to yee,
Is but to tie your Eares, and Hearts to mee,
Iohn Dauies.
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