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Amorea, The Lost Lover

Or The Idea of Love and Misfortune. Being Poems, Sonets, Songs, Odes, Pastoral, Elegies, Lyrick Poems, and Epigrams. Never before printed. Written by Pathericke Jenkin

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To his Ingenious Friend Mr. P. J. on his Poems of the King's Return.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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To his Ingenious Friend Mr. P. J. on his Poems of the King's Return.

VVelcome sweet soul into the Company
Of noble Poets, (welcome again say I)
Where hast thou been? tell us, how conld thy worth
Lie hid so long, why did it not break forth?
Where wert thou when as half the world did sing
The glorious welcomes of our Sacred King,
Did Amorea so much hold thy mind
In due observance? that thou could'st not find
One hour to express thy joyes with us:
No 'twas not so, the reason sure was thus.
Thou went's into Arabia, to bring
A Quill from off the Widow-Phenix's wing,
With which thou'st written, that thy Loyalty
Is so apparent, as the world may see,
If they but read thy Poems, thou'st out gone,
Not only half, but most, that writ upon
Our Kings Return; thy enemies do think
Thou writ'st in gold, and not with vulgar Ink.
Jo. Dancie.