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Poems and Translations upon Several Occasions [by Mary Monck]
  

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Madrigal VII.

[Poor honest Will. was good for nought]

Poor honest Will. was good for nought,
None good, or ill, of him once thought:
To no Man he was Foe or Friend,
Was sometimes lay'd, sometimes an-end;
Amongst us liv'd t'his Eighty'th Year,
E'en just as if he'd ne'er been here.