The Muses cabinet, stored with variety of poems, both pleasant and profitable. / By W.W.

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Title
The Muses cabinet, stored with variety of poems, both pleasant and profitable. / By W.W.
Author
Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.
Publication
London, :: Printed for F. Coles in the Old-Baily.,
1655.
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English poetry -- 17th century.
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"The Muses cabinet, stored with variety of poems, both pleasant and profitable. / By W.W." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A96701.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 11, 2024.

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To his much respected Gosin Mr. T.N.

SIr, If you would renowned live for ever, And be inroll'd i'th books of fame, indeavour To have no Poet to your enemy, But let desert find liberality. It's in a Poets power to make your name For ever live within the books of Fame. No Mausolean monument can give Such lasting fame, nor make your name to live, As can sweet Poesie, whose art divine Will make your name like stars in splendor shine. Who ever was more fam'd for chastity, Then was Ʋlysses wife Penelope? Yet had not Homer in his verses shown her, These days of ours had not so much as known her.

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Virgil Aeneas lasting fame did give, And made Mecoenas name for ever live. Such mighty power in a Muse doth lye, It makes men live to all posterity, And if that Poets true presages give, You by my book eternally shall live.
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