English Iliads, or a sea-fight: reviewed in a poem occasioned by the death of a person of honour slain in the late vvar between the English and the Dutch. By J.W. Together with An Irenicum, or reflections on the trumpeter and conditions of peace.
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- English Iliads, or a sea-fight: reviewed in a poem occasioned by the death of a person of honour slain in the late vvar between the English and the Dutch. By J.W. Together with An Irenicum, or reflections on the trumpeter and conditions of peace.
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- J. W.
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- London :: printed for Jonathan Edwin at the three Roses in Ludgate Street,
- 1674.
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- Dutch War, 1672-1678
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"English Iliads, or a sea-fight: reviewed in a poem occasioned by the death of a person of honour slain in the late vvar between the English and the Dutch. By J.W. Together with An Irenicum, or reflections on the trumpeter and conditions of peace." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A97167.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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An Advice to a Friend to print his Poem, part being written some years past.
WHen sence in Poesie heightened cometh forth, It doth not borrow from the times its worth, As some spruce Wits, whom Fortune doth renown For some caught upstart humour of the Town, Which when digested in a waggish Verse, Extorts a laugh from Clubbing Stationers, Or some pert Novice who will them commend, If luckily a pair of lines do end, Or some fond Poet, who writes Playes in rithm, With a new measure vaumping up old time, Which made Theatrical, the vulgar stares, At's jingling verse, tagg'd as the points he wears, 'Tis trifling Art which syllables cant vary, What you write's like Caesars Commentary, And what's eternal do not call too late, That neither hath a Poste or Antedate.J. W.