Pocula Castalia The Authors Motto. Fortunes Tennis-Ball. Eliza. Poems. Epigrams. &c. By R. B. [i.e Robert Baron] |
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XVII. To Mr Robert Brownrigg.
Prophetick Delius, (to whom is seenWhat is, and what shall be, and what ere hath been,
From whose instructive Genius, Meeter springs,
And how to touch the well-concording strings,)
Being banish'd Delphos (where he us'd to shew
Inquisitive Mortalls what should ensue)
To Abions Woollie Isle he came, to find
A Monastry where he might sit enshrin'd.
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Where he raignes, mounted on a Throne of wit;
And by Prerogative has given to thee
Th'manor of Tempe, t'hold in Capite
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