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 sad departure of the right reverend Father in God, and the most learned Prelate, William Nicolson, from Caermarthin in South-Wales, to his Bishopick of Gloncester.
Sol vespertinas discedens duplicat umbras.
Quanta sed abscessum est umbra sequuta tuum?
Quanta sed abscessum est umbra sequuta tuum?
The light which did direct us, will appear,
Or shine no more in our dark Hemisphear.
We lost a Shepherd, which could wisely keep
The Fox and Wolf from preying on the sheep.
His Catechism is in doctrine sound,
In language sweet, in learning most profound.
This he hath left behind him; and we look
On nothing more than on his serious book:
He made his Farewel-Sermon: ne're was known
More grief, than now in Prophet Mertin's town.
He utter'd many words; unless fame lyes,
More tears by far flow'd from the peoples eyes.
For Gloucesters Reformation, God thought fit
To use his faithful pains, and holy wit.
And if he can by wholesome doctrine bring
These in obedience to the Church and King,
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Than any of the old Apostles wrought:
His godly presence doth make others live
In peaceful joy; his absence makes us grieve.
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