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To the much honour'd Mr. HENRY LAVVES,
on his Book of Ayres.
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To the much honour'd Mr. HENRY LAVVES, on his Book of Ayres.
That Princes dye not, they to Poetts owe;Poetts themselves do owe their Lives to You;
Whose Phansies soon would stifle, and declare
They could not breath unlesse you lent them Ayre.
'Tis that inspires their Feet, which else but crawle
As Judges walk th'old Measures round the Hall,
Untill the feather'd heels of Youth advance
And raise their dull pace up into a Dance:
Your Art such Motion to our Verses brings
We can but give them Feet, You give them Wings.
WILL. BARKER.
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