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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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 14, 2024.

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Page 184

III.

YE▪ who with curious numbers, sweetest art, Frame Dedall Nets our beauty to surprize, Telling strange Castles builded in the Skies, And tales of Cpids ow, and Cupids Dart; Well, howsoever ye act your fained smart, Molesting quiet eares with tragick cries, When you accuse our chastities best part, Nam'd cruelty, ye seem not halfe too wise, Yea, ye your selves it deem most worthy praise; Beauties best guard; that Dragon which doth keep Hesperian fruit, the spur in you does raise; That Delion wit that other waies▪ may sleep, To cruell Nymphs your Lines do fame afford, Oft many pitifull, not one poore word.
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