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To the Right Honourable, the Earle of Pembroke.
ANAGR.
- William Harbert.
- ...With liberall arm.
THE DECAY.
FAr bee The Title of this tragik page
From Thee (rare Module of Heröik mindes)
Whose noble Bounty all the Muses bindes
To honour Thee; but mine doth most engage:
And yet, to Thee, and to Thy Patronage
(For present lack of other gratefull signes)
Needs must I Offer these DECAY ed lines
(Lyned with Horrors of ISAACIAN rage):
Whear-in, to keep decorum with my Theam,
And with my Fortunes (ruin'd euery-way)
My Care-clogd Muse (still caried down the stream)
In singing Other's, sighes her Own DECAY
In stile, in state, in hap, in hope, in all:
For, Vines, vnpropped, on the ground do craul.
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