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] |
To his much Honoured friend Mr. John Williams
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To his much Honoured friend Mr. John Williams
the most pious, and learned Minister, and Uicar of Devynnock, and Luel.
In printed leaves for you I need not look,I have learnt you by heart without the book.
Had I forgotten you, I had bin rude
And guilty of most base ingratitude:
If I had power equal to my mind,
You should an honest friend, and servant find.
But envious fortune hath so clipt my wing,
That I can nothing but affection bring,
I may more large in lands by fortune prove,
But no condition can enlarge my love.
The heavens blest you with a plenteous hand,
That you your friends can help, your foes command.
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