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Abel redevivus

or, The dead yet speaking. The Lives and Deaths of the Moderne Divines. Written by severall able and learned Men (whose names ye shall finde in the Epistle to the Reader.) And now digested into one Volumne, for the benefit and satisfaction of all those that desire to be acquainted with the Paths of Piety and Virtve [by Thomas Fuller]
 

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The Life and Death of Andrew Willet.
 
 
 
 
 


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The Life and Death of Andrew Willet.
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The attribution of this poem is questionable.


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Abi, & tu fac similiter.
See here a true Nathaniel, in whose brest
A carefull conscience kept her lasting feast;
Whose simple heart could never lodge a guile
In a soft word, nor malice in a smile:
He was a faithfull labourer, whose pains
Was pleasure and an others good, his gaines:
The height of whose ambition was, to grow
More ripe in knowledge, to make others know

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Whose Lamp was ever shining, never hid;
And when his tongue preacht not, his actions did:
The world was least his care; he sought for heaven;
And what he had he held not earnd, but given:
The dearest wealth he own'd, the world near gave,
Nor owes her ought but house rent for a grave.