Poems consisting of Epistles and Epigrams, Satyrs, Epitaphs and Elogies, Songs and Sonnets With variety of other drolling Verses upon several Subjects. Composed by no body must know whom, and are to be had every body knows where, and for somebody knows what [by John Eliot] |
To an honorable Lady that sometimes grac't the author
with the name of servant, and afterwards neglected him.
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Poems consisting of Epistles and Epigrams, Satyrs, Epitaphs and Elogies, Songs and Sonnets | ||
To an honorable Lady that sometimes grac't the author with the name of servant, and afterwards neglected him.
You were my Mistress, and a gratious one,But how I lost you is to me unknowne,
Let me in ignorance so rest for ever,
For 'tis a sin that should be pardoned never;
A sin I mean in him or her that laid
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Ther's none so great but may before she dyes
Have cause to need a slave for Sacrifice,
If such a one your honour chance to want,
Trust not a Parasite or Sicophant.
Nature for their discharge hath this excuse,
She made them up for show, but not for use.
Poems consisting of Epistles and Epigrams, Satyrs, Epitaphs and Elogies, Songs and Sonnets | ||