Humours Heau'n on Earth With The Ciuile Warres of Death and Fortune. As also The Triumph of Death: Or, The Picture of the Plague, according to the Life, as it was in Anno Domini. 1603. By Iohn Dauies of Hereford |
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To my worthy, and worthily beloued Scholer, Thomas Bodenham Esquier, sonne and heire apparant of Sir Roger Bodenham of Rotherwas, Knight of the Bathe.
And , if among them that are deere to mee,(Remembred by my Pen, my Muses Tongue,)
I should forget to shew my loue to thee,
My selfe, but much more thee, I so should wrong.
Nay, wrong the right which I to thee doe owe:
But neuer shall my loue so guilefull proue,
As not to pay thee so deseru'd a due;
For, I confesse thou well deseru'st my loue.
Thou wert my Scholer; and if I should teach
So good a Pupill such a Lesson ill
(By mine example) I might so impeach
Mine honest fame, and quite disgrace my skill:
But when I learne thee such detested Lore,
Then loathe my loue, and learne of me no more.
Yours, as what's most yours, Iohn Dauies.
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