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The Introduction.
If Musick, Dancing, Poetry, and Painting,(Free from scurrility, or obscene Ranting)
May please your Apprehensions, we'l not fear,
To let the worst of our design appear,
And boldly bid you welcome, for from hence
Will issue onely Art and Innocence:
We shall do nothing that may wrong these three,
Religion, Government, or Modestie;
Nor shall we your queint spirits dis-affect,
With speeches fix leagues from your Intellect,
But what we will commend unto your ear,
Shall be compendious, pertinent and clear;
So full of single innocence, that he,
Who (wanting the sweet bowels of the Bee)
Shall Comment ill on what this hour discloses,
May extract venome from the veyns of Roses.
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