Flamma sine Fumo or, poems without fictions. Hereunto are annexed the Causes, Symptoms, or Signes of several Diseases with their Cures, and also the diversity of Urines, with their Causes in Poetical measure. By R. W. [i.e. Rowland Watkyns] |
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Upon the Right Worshipful, Sir Francis Floyd Knight,
Sou to the most eloquent, pious, learned, and honorable Judge, Sir Marmaduke Floyd Knight.
Vertue can never be conceal'd; her flameShines bright, and will disclose a vertuous name:
A brave report of his great worth we hear
As loud as thunder in our Hemisphere:
Contagious times could never make a spot
On his fair clothes, or his white paper blot;
He could not flatter, or affect the crime
To temporize, or smooth the ruder time;
Fixt in his station like a lofty hill
He simply stood, and scorn'd to change his will:
I wish he may enjoy fair Halcion days,
And Heaven bless his meritorious ways.
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