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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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On a Vintner

A vintner on a time did me perswade
To make an Epigram upon his Trade,
Only the love of Sack did make me write.
They're glad to see men drop, but will not fight,
And yet are alwaies Drawing, which implies,
When others fall, such Knaves as they do rise.