Poems. By W.H.

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Title: Poems. By W.H.
Author: Hammond, William, b. 1614.
Publication: London, :: Printed for Thomas Dring at the George in Fleetstreet, neer Cliffords Inne Gate,; 1655.
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Subject terms: English poetry -- 17th century.
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To the same.
The Excuse.
NOr can your sexes easinesse excuse
Or countenance your teares to be profuse.
Some she's there are, whose breath is onely sighes:
Who weep their own, in others obsequies:
But in the reason, like the Sun at noon,
Dispells usurping clouds of Passion;
Where feminine defects are wanting, there
All Femininee xcuses wanting are;
Think not, since vertue then above them reares▪
A womans name can priviledge thy teares:
Fortune materiall things onely controwles
But doth her selfe pay homage unto soules:
There hath no power, can do no injurie,
The Pavement where the stars their dances form
By their own Musick, is above all storme:
For Meteors but imperfect mixtures are
In the raw bosome of distemperd aire:
Then let thy soule shine in her Christall spheare,
They're Comets in the troubled air appear.

Poems. By W.H.

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descriptionPage 73

To the same.

The Excuse.

Page 73