Poems on several occasions. Humbly dedicated to the right honourable the Marchioness of Tavestock. By the author.

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Title
Poems on several occasions. Humbly dedicated to the right honourable the Marchioness of Tavestock. By the author.
Author
Walwyn, Herbert.
Publication
London :: printed for William Chandler, at the Peacock in the Poultry; and William Davis, at the Bull over against the Royal Exhange in Cornhill,
1699.
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English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
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To a Painter, whom, after his Removal in∣to B—Ch. Yard, I had not seen of a great while.

THen Bury'd be thy Soul, and all its Powers, If thou canst so Employ, The Break and Close of every Day, And fill with vain Essays thy Empty Hours.

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Quickly Descending go, And be a I imner to the Ghosts below; Where All-Confounding Shade Shall marr the Features by thy Pencil made, And ridicule th' Nice Exertions of thy Trade.
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