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Siste Hospes, sive Indigena, sive Advena vicessitudinis rerum memor, pauca per lege.
REader, when these dumb stones have told
In borrowed Speech what Guest they hold;
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 ...
- Author
- 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 20, 2024.
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Page 77
Thou shalts confess, the vain pursure
Of humane Glory yeelds no fruit,
But an untimely Grave. If Fare
Could constant happiness create,
Her Ministers, Fortune and Worth,
Had here that miracle brought forth;
They fix'd this child of Honour, where
No room was left for Hope, or Fear,
Of more, of lesse: so high, so great
His growth was, yet so safe his seat.
Safe in the circle of his Friends;
Safe in his Loyall heart, and ends;
Safe in his native valiant spirit;
By favour safe, and safe by merit;
Safe by the stamp of Nature, which
Did strength, with shape and Grace enrich;
Safe in the cheerfull Courtesies
Of flowing gestures, speech, and eyes;
Safe in his Bounties, which were more
Proportion'd to his mind than store;
Yet, though for vertue he becomes
Involv'd Himself in borrowed summes,
Safe in his care, he leaves betray'd
No friend engag'd, not debt unpay'd.
But though the starres conspire to shower
Vpon one Head th'united power
Page 78
Of all their Graces, if their dire
Aspects, must other breasts inspire
With vicious thoughts, a Murderers knife
May cut (as here) their Darlings life.
Who can be happy then, if Nature must
To make one Happy man, make all men just.