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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"Poems on several occasions. Humbly dedicated to the right honourable the Marchioness of Tavestock. By the author." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67473.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.

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Page 38

To a Sorry Apothecary, who pretended to Criticize on my Friend's Excellent Ser∣mon.

THou Dull Son of a S—t-house, dost thou think that a fit House? Or thou fit to Commence A Profession of Sence? No, thou low Animal, That from Excrements crawl, 'Twas not Nature's Intent Thou should st quit that Fat Scent, To lend a Tongue, or an Ear, In a Rational Sphere. Then thou Worm of the Privy, Get thee home, and in't live ye:

Page 39

Thence thy Pipe may allure A Clapt Beau for a Cure, Or some Wenches Compassion, To squat a Broad A-se on The Hole of the Seat, And the drift of thy Life is compleat.
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