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Poems on Several Occasions

With Anne Boleyn to King Henry VIII. An Epistle. By Mrs. Elizabeth Tollet. The Second Edition
  

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From Owen's Epigrams.

While Nile diffuses from my streaming Eyes,
Love to my Heart Ætnæan Fire supplies:
Nor can the copious Floods his Ardor tame;
Nor are they wasted by the raging Flame.
The jarring Elements the Wave and Fire,
Thus with united Force in me conspire.