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Vpon the New Spring.

A New Spring's found which cureth most diseases;
It cleeres the Eye-sight, and the Bladder eases,
It cooles the Stomacke, and it cheeres the Heart,
And giues free passage to th'digestiue part,
It recombines the Sinnewes too, some say,
And makes the Cripple throw his Crutch away.
So as there's none that iustly can complaine them,
Since both a

Sir Edward Bellingam, a Knight of extended bounty and curtesie.

Knight and's Spring doe entertaine them.

Hee, out of Loue and Bounty mixt together,
It by it's Vertue healing such come thither.
O that the Reader could like Vertue finde
In my New Spring, to cure the griefes of Minde,
But much I feare me, if it had like force,
The Bodies care would make my Spring tast worse.