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Poems, and phancies

written By the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, And Excellent Princess The Lady Marchioness of Newcastle [i.e. Margaret Cavendish]. The Second Impression, much Altered and Corrected

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[But at all other things let Fancy fly]

But at all other things let Fancy fly,
And, like a Towring Eagle, mount the Sky;
Or like the Sun, swiftly the World to round,
Or like pure Gold, which in the Earth is found:
But if a Drossie Wit, let't Buried be
Under the Ruins of all Memory.