The honest ghost or a voice from the vault [by Richard Brathwait] |
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Upon the Commissioners sitting at the Wildman in York.
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Upon the Commissioners sitting at the Wildman in York.
At th' Wildman for Commissioners to sit
Some hold it strange, but I doe think it fit.
We have been Wildmen all; and we 'r to git
From a Wild-man meanes to re-gaine our wit,
But not our Meanes: who can recover it?
This made Alcides wise, was wild before;
Some hold it strange, but I doe think it fit.
We have been Wildmen all; and we 'r to git
From a Wild-man meanes to re-gaine our wit,
But not our Meanes: who can recover it?
This made Alcides wise, was wild before;
O that I had his Limms, I'de aske no more!
For so might I re-gaine my Means at length,
Though by no force of pleading, yet by strength.
For so might I re-gaine my Means at length,
Though by no force of pleading, yet by strength.
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