The Scourge of Folly Consisting of satyricall Epigrams, And others in honour of many noble Persons and worthy friends, together, with a pleasant (though discordant) Descant upon most English Proverbs and others [by John Davies] |
To the immortall memory, and deserued honor
of the Writer of the Tragedy of Mustapha,
(as it is written, not Printed) by Sr: Fulk Greuill, Knight.
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The Scourge of Folly | ||
To the immortall memory, and deserued honor of the Writer of the Tragedy of Mustapha, (as it is written, not Printed) by Sr: Fulk Greuill, Knight.
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To raise this Buskin-Poet to the Skies;
And fix him there among the Pleyades,
To light the Muse in gloomy Tragedies.
Vpon Times scowling Brow he hath indorc'd,
A Tragedy that shall that Brow out-weare;
Wherein the Muse beyond the Minde is forc'd
(In rarest Raptures) to Arts highest Spheare:
No Line but reaches to the Firmament
Of highest Sense, from surest Ground of Wit.
No Word but is like Phebus luculent;
Then, all yeeld luster well-nere infinite:
So, shine, bright Scænes, till, on the Starry Stage,
The Gods re-act you in their Equipage.
The Scourge of Folly | ||