Flamma sine Fumo or, poems without fictions. Hereunto are annexed the Causes, Symptoms, or Signes of several Diseases with their Cures, and also the diversity of Urines, with their Causes in Poetical measure. By R. W. [i.e. Rowland Watkyns] |
Upon the Worshipful, and much deserving Gentleman, John Jeffreys of Abercunrick Esquire. |
Flamma sine Fumo | ||
Upon the Worshipful, and much deserving Gentleman, John Jeffreys of Abercunrick Esquire.
------ Nondum mutatus ab isto
Hectore, qui quondam.
Hectore, qui quondam.
Can silence fit the present stage, or dare
Our tongues be silent, where such merits are?
His actions are too great, too good to lie
Under a bushel in obscurity.
He was not Linsey-woolsey, or content
To be compos'd of King and Parliament:
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With such base freedom to his conscience,
As to neglect his King: he hath a heart,
From whence transparent beams of Vertue dart:
After sad years of cruel storms and wind,
He shall a Haven, and a Heaven find.
Flamma sine Fumo | ||