Poems, with a maske by Thomas Carew ... ; the songs were set in musick by Mr. Henry Lawes ...

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Poems, with a maske by Thomas Carew ... ; the songs were set in musick by Mr. Henry Lawes ...
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Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?
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London :: Printed for H.M., and are to be sold by J. Martin ...,
1651.
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"Poems, with a maske by Thomas Carew ... ; the songs were set in musick by Mr. Henry Lawes ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34171.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 19, 2024.

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To my Rivall.

HEnce vain Intruder, haste away, Wash not with thy vnhallowed brine The foor-steps of my Celia's shrine; Nor on her purer Altars lay Thy empty words, accents that may Some looser Dame to love encline; She must have offrings more divine; Such pearly drops, as youthfull May Scatters before the rising day;

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Such smooth soft language, as each line Might stroak an angry God, or stay Iove's thunder, make the hearers pine With envy; doe this, thou shalt be Servant to her, Rivall with me.
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