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The Lady-Errant

A Tragi-Comedy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
On Mr VVil: Cartvvright's excellent Poems, Collected and Published since his death.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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On Mr VVil: Cartvvright's excellent Poems, Collected and Published since his death.

Thou whose great Soul display'd it self to Fame
More to preserve true Poetry than thy Name,
Art thus united, that late Times may find
What went with thee by what thou left'st behind:
In both Divine; though the most Bayes do grow
Not from the Parts men have, but those they show;
Which some exhibit only to be known
By others Breath, even whil'st they breath their own.
Thou didst avoid this Path, and from us fly
Lest that thy Fame precede thy Memory;
Which this thy Posthume Of-spring will uphold,
And shall be then most priz'd when 'tis most old:
While thou wert standing none could take thy Height,
Thy Fall (Great Cartwright) made us feel thy Weight;
Whose full Dimension was unknown till dead,
So Corps are measur'd when the Soul is fled:
Now, he that name's thy Name, builds thee a Shrine,
For none will stay to judge who know 'tis Thine.
Iohn Raymond.