Poems On several Choice and Various Subjects Occasionally Composed By An Eminent Author. Collected and Published by Sergeant-Major P. F. [i.e. James Howell] |
Of Mrs. Diana Bill,
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Poems On several Choice and Various Subjects | ||
Of Mrs. Diana Bill,
Born and Baptiz'd lately in Cane-wood, hard by High-gate.
Where shold Diana properly be born
But in a Wood? A Wood that thinks it scorn
To yeild to Tempe, or Dodonas Grove,
Which consecrated was to mighty Jove:
A Wood whence great Diana's Temple may
Be seen four thousand paces off each day
With a huge City
, who her Name doth owe
Unto that Goddess, as good Stories show.
But in a Wood? A Wood that thinks it scorn
To yeild to Tempe, or Dodonas Grove,
Which consecrated was to mighty Jove:
A Wood whence great Diana's Temple may
Be seen four thousand paces off each day
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Unto that Goddess, as good Stories show.
May this new-born Diana like Cane-wood
Grow up and Taper, Germinat and Bud;
And in due course of yeers be fitly Mand
To spread the Race of Noble Westmerland.
Grow up and Taper, Germinat and Bud;
And in due course of yeers be fitly Mand
To spread the Race of Noble Westmerland.
Poems On several Choice and Various Subjects | ||