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Trivial poems

and triolets. Written in obedience to Mrs Tomkin's commands, By Patrick Carey

Cary, Patrick

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[Fayre-one! if thus kind you be]

[The Ermine is without all spott]

[There's noe woeman, but I'me caught]

[I nere yett saw a lovely creature]

[Fayre beautyes! If I doe confesse]

[Surely now I'me out of danger]

[Come (fayth) since I'me parting, and that God knowes when]

[And can you thincke that this translation]

[Good people of England! come heare mee relate]

[Jacke! nay prithee come away]

[And now a figge for th'lower house]

THE COUNTRY LIFE.

[The parliament ('tis sayd) resolu'd]

[Speake of somewhat else I pray]

[A greeu'd Countesse, that e're long]

[Poore heart, retire!]

['Tis true. I am fetter'd]

[Cease t'exaggerate your anguish]

[O permitt that my sadnesse]

[This Aprile last a gentle swayne]

[Some prayse the browne, and some the fayre]

[Ned! she that likes thee now]

[Alasse! long since I knew]

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[Worldly designes, feares, hopes, farwell!]

[By ambition raysed high]

Seruire Deo, Regnare est.

[Whilst I beheld the necke o'th' doue]

Crux via Cœlorum.

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[Looke, how hee shakes for cold!]

CHRIST IN HIS PASSION.

Fallax et Instabilis.

[What use has hee made of his soule]

Dirige vias meas Domine!

Nobis natus in Pretium: Nobis datus in Prœmium.

Dies Iræ, Dies Illa.

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Trivial poems

and triolets. Written in obedience to Mrs Tomkin's commands, By Patrick Carey

Patrick Cary

John Murray [etc.]

London

1820