Devovt Rhapsodies In Which, Is Treated, of the Excellencie of Divine Scriptvres ... By J: A: Rivers [i.e. John Abbot] |
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To his honoured Friend, Mr. Rivers,
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To his honoured Friend, Mr. Rivers,
upon his excellent Poemes, the Devout Rhapsodies.
Mysterious Rivers, whose each sacred lyne,Shewes that thy Muse is absolute Divine;
And cannot with impurity be stain'd,
Or with obsceane conceptions be prophain'd.
But in Meanders, holy turnes, and windes,
Delightfull to thine owne, and Readers mindes.
He that will give thee a deserved praise,
Must crowne thy head with groves, not boughes of bayes.
Iames Yate.
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