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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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TO THE Reader.

I am not Eagle ey'd to face the Sun,
My mind is low, and so my Verse doth run.
I do not write of Stars to make men wonder.
Or Planets how remote they move asunder.
My shallow River thou may'st foord with ease,
Ways, which are fair, and plain can nere displease.
R. W.