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Poesis Rediviva

or, Poesie Reviv'd. By John Collop
 
 

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To a man of office under the L. K. who call'd detraction love, and Calumny good Counsel.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

To a man of office under the L. K. who call'd detraction love, and Calumny good Counsel.

Gold could buy offices, could it have bought wit,
You for your place, it had for you been fit:
But oh more happy times sequestred it!
No time can you sequester of your wit.
You'r a rare Courtier, if the proverb's true:
Nor want of pride, nor ignorance is in you.
And no bad statesman, you may Cope with th' fame
Of Burleigh, Cecil, and wise Walfingame.
No Statesman must divulge what he doth know,
You'r rarely wise who nere your wisdom show.
Your knowledge by your sentences I know,
Pray me some wisdom by your silence show.
Forth giddy pated surgeon, who would care
Thinks to cure wounds, exposing them to th' air,
Counsel is balm, each folly is a wound:
Cover'd with balm, and kept close, thy'r made sound.