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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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Wordly Honor.

Honos mundi est onus animis.

Climb up the highest hill, and you shall find
That place most subject to great storms and wind.
So wordly Honours, and preferments are
But steps to raise you to more grief, and care.