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 his much honoured friend, Major Henry Stedman.
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Flamma sine Fumo | ||
Upon his much honoured friend, Major Henry Stedman.
How shall I write of him, whose pleasant rayesDo further spread than my weak skill or praise?
His mind is like sweet Edens Garden; which
Was fair in trees, as he in vertues rich.
His Loyalty is known, his Valour try'd,
Nor can his serious Judgement be deny'd.
East was not more divided from the West,
Than Treason from his unpolluted breast.
His faith is Catholick, and it is vain
To tempt him with a fond fanatick strain.
Although his Boat with waves and wind was tost,
He ne're his course or resolution lost.
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