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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<HEAD>VERSES, Lately VVritten by THOMAS Earle of STRAFORD.</HEAD>
<LG N="1">
<HEAD>(I.)</HEAD>
<L>GO, Empty Ioyes,</L>
<L>With all your noy&s;e,</L>
<L>And leave me here alone,</L>
<L>In &s;weete &s;ad &s;ilence to bemone</L>
<L>Your vaine and fleete delight,</L>
<L>Who&s;e danger none can &s;ee aright,</L>
<L>While&s;t your fal&s;e &s;plendor dimmes his &s;ight.</L>
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<LG N="2">
<HEAD>(II.)</HEAD>
<L>Goe and in&s;nare</L>
<L>With your fal&s;e ware,</L>
<L>Some other ea&s;ie Wight,</L>
<L>And cheate him with your flattering Light:</L>
<L>Raine on his head a &s;hower</L>
<L>Of Honours, favor, wealth, and power;</L>
<L>Then &s;natch it from him in an houre.</L>
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<LG N="3">
<HEAD>(III.)</HEAD>
<L>Till his big minde</L>
<L>With gallant winde</L>
<L>Of In&s;olent applau&s;e:</L>
<L>Let him not feare all-curbing Lawes,</L>
<L>Nor King nor Peoples frowne;</L>
<L>But dreame of &s;omthing like a Crowne;</L>
<L>And climing towards it, tumble downe.</L>
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<LG N="4">
<HEAD>(IV.)</HEAD>
<L>Let him appeare</L>
<L>In his bright Sphere,</L>
<L>Like <HI>Scynthia</HI> in her pride,</L>
<L>With &s;tar-like troups on every &s;ide;</L>
<L>Such for their number and their light,</L>
<L>As may at la&s;t orewhelme him quite,</L>
<L>And blend us both in one dead night.</L>
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<LG N="5">
<HEAD>(V.)</HEAD>
<L>Welcome &s;ad Night,</L>
<L>Griefes &s;ole delight,</L>
<L>Your mourning be&s;t agrees</L>
<L>With Honours funerall Ob&s;cquies.</L>
<L>In <HI>Theis</HI> lap he lies,</L>
<L>Mantled with &s;oft &s;ecurities,</L>
<L>Who&s;e too much Sun-&s;hine blinds his eyes.</L>
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<LG N="6">
<HEAD>(VI.)</HEAD>
<L>Was he too bold,</L>
<L>That needs would hold</L>
<L>With curbing raines, the day,</L>
<L>And make <HI>Sols</HI> fiery Steeds obay?</L>
<L>Then &s;ure as ru&s;h was I,</L>
<L>Who with ambitious wings did fly</L>
<L>In <HI>Charles</HI> his Wai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> too loftily.</L>
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<LG N="7">
<HEAD>(VII.)</HEAD>
<L>I fall, I fall,</L>
<L>Whome &s;hall I call?</L>
<L>Alas, can <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> heard,</L>
<L>Who <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> is nither lov'd nor fear'd.</L>
<L>You, who were wont to ki&s;&s;e the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">round,</L>
<L>Where e're my honor'd &s;tep <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> found,</L>
<L>Come catch me at my la&s;t rebound.</L>
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<LG N="8">
<HEAD>(VIII.)</HEAD>
<L>How each admires</L>
<L>Heav'ns twinklng fires,</L>
<L>When from their glarous &s;eate</L>
<L>Their influence gives life and heate.</L>
<L>But O! how few there ar',</L>
<L>(Though danger from that act be far)</L>
<L>Will &s;toop and catch a falling &s;tarr.</L>
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<LG N="9">
<HEAD>(IX.)</HEAD>
<L>Now 'tis to late</L>
<L>To imitate</L>
<L>Tho&s;e L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">htes, who&s;e palliedne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Argues no <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> guilline&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>That cour&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> is bent.</L>
<L>The <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> is there's no <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>In Heavens high Court of Parliament.</L>
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<P>Printed in the yeare 1641.</P>
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