Poems, by that most famous wit, William Drummond of Hawthornden

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Title
Poems, by that most famous wit, William Drummond of Hawthornden
Author
Drummond, William, 1585-1649.
Publication
London :: Printed for Richard Tomlins ...,
1656.
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Subject terms
Charles -- I, -- King of England, 1600-1649 -- Poetry.
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"Poems, by that most famous wit, William Drummond of Hawthornden." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36573.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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Epitaph.

THe Bawd of Justice, he who Laws controll'd, And made them fawn, and frown as he got gold, That Proteus of our State, whose Heart and Mouth Were farther distant than is North from South,

Page 90

That Cormorant who made himselfe so grosse On Peoples Ruine, and the Princes Losse, Is gone to Hell, and though he here did evill, He there perchance may prove an honest Devill.
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