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 Right Worshipful Sir Richard Floyd,
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Upon the Right Worshipful Sir Richard Floyd,
one of his Majesties Honourable Judges in South-Wales.
Blush all you scarlet gowns, that heretoforeDid wink at rich men, and condemn the poor.
Great flyes break through, when the lesser fly
In slender cobwebs doth intangled ly.
But here is one of Jethro's Judges, he
Fears God and is from base corruption free:
The person he respects not, but the cause,
He fancies not opinion, but the laws.
The scales of Justice no fine gold can turn,
He righteth those which laugh, and those that mourn.
He's careful of the poor; for he doth know
That men will soon tread down a hedge that's low.
His language is attractive, sweet, and full,
And falls like rain into a fleece of wooll.
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For his good King he did a Martyr prove.
He is a honest Jude; my active will
Would guild his name, had I but perfect skill:
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