Poeticall varieties: or, Varietie of fancies. By Tho. Iordan Gent
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- Poeticall varieties: or, Varietie of fancies. By Tho. Iordan Gent
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- Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685?
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- London :: Printed by T[homas] C[otes] for Humphry Blunden, and are to be sold at his shop, neare the Castle Taverne, in Corne-hill,
- 1637.
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TO THE MECOENAS OF CANDID INDVSTRY, Mr. IOHN FORD of Grayes Inne, Gent. My humble Muse directs her weake Endeavours.
Worthy Sir,
I Have had a long propension in my soule to endeavour something worthy your ac∣ceptance, and gaine me ho∣nour in the oblation, had lov'd Thalia pleas'd to blesse my braine with some deser∣ving subject; yet these greene fruites (though gathered in the Spring-time of my knowledge)
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and farre unworthy of so choyse a Pallat, may by your kind acceptance bee digested, and thought as sweet to all that tast, as the rich fruite the pregnant Summer yeeldeth. Yet, Can∣did Sir, I had not rob'd the Age of so much Im∣pudence as to communicate the weake effects my Infant Muse produceth to your judgement, but that I knew a sweete encouragement lives in your gentle censure can give an inspira∣tion to that brayne that is but yet ambitious of desert; which gives me hope I shall (when I write next) produce things that may merit ap∣probation, and cause you to confesse me,
A Servant studious to deserve your love, THO. IORDAN.