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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]

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Upon the young, most beautiful, and most ingenuous Gentlewoman, Mrs. Mary Carne,
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Upon the young, most beautiful, and most ingenuous Gentlewoman, Mrs. Mary Carne,

Daughter to the gallant Gentleman Mr Thomas Carne Esq; once of Bro-Castle,

It is a strange and wondrous thing,
To see ripe Autumn in the Spring:
He scarcely lives, that ever saw
Fruit the same time both ripe and raw.
As strange a thing we may behold
In her so young, in her so old:
She is a tender Child in years,
In wit a Matron she appears.
Observe her growth, she is but small;
Observe her wit, she is most tall
Here Nature seems to rob Old age,
By making Childhood, grave and sage.
So cleer a Morning doth betray
And speak the fairness of the day:
So sweet a Bud doth well disclose
We may expect a fragrant Rose.
As she within is free from dross,
So Nature gave her such a gloss
Of gracious Beauty, that we have
Nothing, except her Mind, so brave
If Nature's stock were wholly spent,
Here Beauty might again be lent

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T'enrich the world, because that she
Hath Beauty's sole Monopoly:
She like a lively Spring oreflows,
And daily in perfection grows.