Of Golds Kingdome, and This Vnhelping Age Described in sundry Poems intermixedly placed after certaine other Poems of more speciall respect: And before the same is an Oration or speech intended to haue bene deliuered by the Author hereof unto the Kings Maiesty [by Edward Hake] |
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The Author.
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The Author.
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here my Booke shall haue his end
with my complaint of Gold;
God graunt that high and holy thing.
in sound estate may hold.
with my complaint of Gold;
God graunt that high and holy thing.
in sound estate may hold.
And as the seate of Iustice is
at this day firme and pure,
So passages vnto the same
may be both plaine and sure,
at this day firme and pure,
So passages vnto the same
may be both plaine and sure,
Not clogd with shifts and falsitie:
by such as haue to deale
Infersourly with Iustice in
our English common-weale
by such as haue to deale
Infersourly with Iustice in
our English common-weale
That Suitors may be soone dispatch'd
before they be opprest
With bribes and charges in their sutes
and so for all the rest,
That Gold may neuer beare the sway,
But that true vertue flourish may.
before they be opprest
With bribes and charges in their sutes
and so for all the rest,
That Gold may neuer beare the sway,
But that true vertue flourish may.
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