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Occasions Off-spring

Or Poems upon Severall Occasions: By Mathew Stevenson
 

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To a Philomuse from whom I received a Paper upon the same Subject and by the same Post.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

To a Philomuse from whom I received a Paper upon the same Subject and by the same Post.

Well my good Cos. what the same fish
That J was frying? faith i'de wish
To meet the oftner in my dish:
The proverbs, good witts jump, we both design'd
The plot, yet neither knew each others minde.

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But didst not think it strange to see,
My part borne in thy Symphonie?
Trust mee I marvelld much at thee,
Nay under Morpheus you complaine your Muse,
Mine under Saturne, Not a pin to choose.
Well fare thy pen! recald to light
This plot, that else had slept in night;
(As dark as Faux his Lanthron) might
(Should we neglect such mercy) us include
In as high treason, deep ingratitude.
Ben god a mercy for thy sonnet,
Let all Papists descant on it;
Whilst all Protestants vaile the Bonnet:
But for this time ile let thy praise alone,
Least having writ too: I bespeak mine own.