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 Honourable Colonel; Sir Randolph Egerton Knight. |
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Upon the Honourable Colonel; Sir Randolph Egerton Knight.
In pace optimus; in bello maximus.
My trumpet is to dull too sound his praise,
Who guilds this Nation with his vertuous rayes.
His merits do, like Nilus, overflow
The banks of comprehension; and I know
No better way than silence to commend
His vertues, which no measure have, nor end;
The muses shall meloudious Anthems sing
Of his bold love, and valour for the King.
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