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On the Author of the Fancies Theater.

Amongst the rest, Friend Tatham, I am come,
To doe thy Fancies right, and quit the summe
I stand engag'd for: since my forward youth
Sign'd Love a Bond, for currant Coyne of Truth,
To pay at severall times, the world shall be
Thy Secretarie; and take this truth from me,
In all thy Shop of Fancies, not a Line
(I emulate thee so) but I wish mine;
'Twill be sufficient portion for thy Name
To live by; for Times Treasurer, wing'd Fame,
Shall, as thy worth deserves, speake thee as high
As any fill'd her Trump with Poesie.
Tho. Rawlins.