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[By Fathers, backt; by Holy Writ, led on]
By Fathers, backt; by Holy Writ, led on,Thou shew'st a way to Heav'n, by Helicon:
The Muses Font is consecrate by Thee,
And Poesie, baptiz'd Divinitie:
Blest soule, that here embark'st: Thou sayl'st apace,
'Tis hard to say, mov'd more by Wit, or Grace;
Each Muse so plyes her Oare; But O, the Sayle
Is fill'd from heav'n with a Diviner Gale:
When Poets prove Divines, why should not I
Approve, in Verse, this Divine Poetry?
Let this suffice to licence thee the Presse;
I must no more; nor could the Truth say lesse.
Sic approbavit RICH. LOVE Procan. Cantabrigiensis.
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