Flamma sine Fumo or, poems without fictions. Hereunto are annexed the Causes, Symptoms, or Signes of several Diseases with their Cures, and also the diversity of Urines, with their Causes in Poetical measure. By R. W. [i.e. Rowland Watkyns] |
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Upon the Right Worshipful: Sir Henry Lingen
Knight of Stoke in Herefordshire.
Nulli pietate secundus.
My trumpet is too dul, and weak to sound
His meritorious praise: as in rich ground,
Most pleasant springs, sweet flowers, and herbs we find,
So vertues are consistent in his mind.
He's constant in the faith, and he doth hate
Old truth with errors to sophisticate.
Such valour he exprest that men should raise
A stately Pyramide t'advance his praise.
His hands were active, and his heart was free
In loyal actions from Apostasy
He strives not to climb high; a gentle tyde
Thus have I seen within his channel slide,
His actions are so cleer to each mans sight,
As the pure Topaz, or the Chrysolite.
All hearts to him, as to their Loadstone move,
For he's the Center of his Countrey's love.
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His soul in heaven is, his body here.
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