Lucida intervalla, containing divers miscellaneous poems, written at Finsbury and Bethlem by the Doctors patient extraordinary.
Carkesse, James, fl. 1679.
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On the Doctors letting him Blood.
Doctor, my Rhythmes on you which do reflect,
Know, of Poetick fury are th'effect;
To let me Blood then, you're but Fool in grain,
Unless your Lance prick my Poetick Vein:
No longer now, for shame, pretend the Moon,
For Phoebus rules my Madness and Lampoon.
