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To his much honored and ever renowned Friend Richard Elton, Serjeant Major.
- Anagram
- RICHARDUS ELTON,
- I HELD ARTS CROUN.
- Distic.
- To honour Art, and eke my Name renown,
- Mars condiscends to say, I held Arts Croun.
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Rich in thy Art, brave ELTON, lo thy Fame
Is crown'd above to eternize thy Name:
Can this thy Work be carped at? let none
Have such a Thought; (tis Momus carps alone:)
Away, away, let Silence be the word,
Read, ere thou censure; this Work doth afford
Delight and Skill even to the knowingst men,
Unto the weaker sort, lo here thy Pen
Such Rules lays down, in Battail, and Retreat,
Each one is made (as this thy work) compleat.
Leave then thy Work with us; now thou hast done:
The Fame thereof doth crown thee Mars his Son.
Of all that merit worth, o•• Art would gain,
None holds the Crown, but Elton, by his pain.
John Walker Lievtenant.