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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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To the most incomparable, wise, and vertuous Lady, the Lady Goditha Prise,

Lady to the Honourable Colonel, Sir Herbert Prise Knight.

As I do live, I wonder how you can
Forget your sex, and be so much a man!

In wit, and judgment; nay, you are divine
Transcending far our nature masculine.
As you are fair, so you disdain the rude,
And sluttish nature of the multitude.
They say, Promitheus stole from heaven fire,
And brought it down weak mortals to inspire,
If it be now on earth, I do protest
That heavenly fire lies in your sacred breast.
Who writes of you, or gives you greatest praise,
To your high worth shall but a molehill raise.