Poems, chiefly consisting of satyrs and satyrical epistles by Robert Gould.
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- Poems, chiefly consisting of satyrs and satyrical epistles by Robert Gould.
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- Gould, Robert, d. 1709?
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- 1689.
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"Poems, chiefly consisting of satyrs and satyrical epistles by Robert Gould." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41698.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2025.
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TO THE Right Honourable JAMES, EARL of ABINGDON, &c.
My Lord,
WHen I was last at Laving∣ton, I had the good For∣tune to see the Extraordinary Person to whom the following Epistle is sub∣scrib'd; and from an occasional saying of your Lordship's, took the hint of the Poem, which, therefore, I now
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here present to your Lordship. Some will, for their own Interest, think it a Paradox, and some, I cou'd hope methinks, will not. However, at worst, if the Argument fail in the Main, the Iudicious and Lovers of Truth, will, by the way, find so much Vanity and Knavery discover'd, as may perhaps, encline 'em to forgive me. But, above all, if it please your Lordship, 'twill be my greatest satis∣faction, having resolv'd for the fu∣ture (next my Devotions to Heav'n) to make that the chief study of,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's infinitely obliged, And most humble Servant, R. Gould.