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Iter boreale

With large additions of several other poems: being an exact collection of all hitherto extant. Never before published together. The author R. Wild

Wild, Robert (1609-1679)

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Iter Boreale.

THE TRAGEDY OF Mr. Christopher Love, Late Minister of the Gospel;

UPON The much to be Lamented DEATH OF THE Reverend Mr. Vines.

TO THE MEMORY OF Mr. Jeremy Whitaker,

On his Preaching.

UPON THE DEATH OF So many Reverend Ministers of late.

AN ELOGY UPON THE Earl of Essex HIS FUNERAL.

To the Father of a very vertuous Virgin, Deceased; who desired an obscure Person to make an Elegy, &c.

IN MEMORY Of Mris E. T.

AN EPITAPH Upon E. T.

UPON The Learned Works of the Reverend DIVINE Ed. Reynolds, D. D.

Another.

Aliud.

AN EPITAPH For a Godly Mans Tomb.

AN EPITAPH For a Wicked Mans Tomb.

[From a kind Hand there came t' enrich a place]

Alas poor Scholar, VVhither wilt thou go?

THE Norfolk and Wisbich.

UPON THE DEATH OF Dennis Bond, Esq;

Upon some Bottles of Sack and Claret, laid in Sand, and covered with a Sheet.

AN ESSAY Upon the late VICTORY obtained by His Royal Highness the Duke of York,

To the KING.

THE GRATEFUL NON-CONFORMIST:

A POEM UPON THE Imprisonment OF MR. CALAMY In NEWGATE.

ON THE DEATH OF MR. CALAMY,

The EPITAPH.

THE Loyal-Nonconformist;

THE RECANTATION Of A Penitent Proteus;

THE PORING DOCTOR,

THE FAIR QUARREL.

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AN EPITAPH Upon E. T.

Reader, didst thou but know what sacred Dust
Thou tread'st upon, thou'dst judg thy self unjust
Shouldst thou neglect a showr of tears to pay,
To wash the Sin of thy own Feet away.
That Actor in the Play, who looking down
When he should cry, O Heav'n,—was thought a Clown,
And guilty of a Solœcism—might have
Applause for such an Action o're this Grave.
Here lies a piece of Heav'n, and Heav'n one day
Will send the best in Heav'n to fetch't away.
Truth is, this Lovely Virgin from her Birth
Became a constant strife 'twixt Heav'n and Earth:
Both claim'd her, pleaded for her; either cry'd,
The Child is mine; at length they did divide:
Heav'n took her Soul; The Earth her Corps did seize,
Yet not in Fee, she only holds by Lease;
With this Proviso—when the Judge shall call,
Earth shall give up her share, and Heav'n have all