Nocturnall Lucubrations or, Meditations Divine and Morall. Whereunto are added Epigrams and Epitaphs: written by Rob: Chamberlain |
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In Dominum Gulielmum Ball filium & hæredem Petri Balle Armigeri. |
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In Dominum Gulielmum Ball filium & hæredem Petri Balle Armigeri.
Apollos skill, the Grecian pen for wars,And Virgils too, transcēd the glittring stars:
Praise makes men live, but thou a child unfit,
Transcends the limits of an old mans wit.
Both sea and land thou know'st, & for thy praise
Our times shall give thee thy deserved bayes.
Great Poets sing great things that children know not,
Which to the places of oblivion go not.
Thy learning sits not with thy tender mold,
Old men are children, thou a child, art old.
The heavenly stars upon thy birth did shine,
To make thee happy, now the praise is thine.
Take up thy bayes, I'le teach thee what's in me,
And may the Gods give prosp'rous fates to thee.
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