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TO PHILLIP AYRES, ESQ.; ON HIS POEMS, by                    
First Line: As when with utmost skill some architect
Last Line: In plenty does th' ambrosial food produce.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dartineuf, C.
Subject(s): Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)


AS when with utmost skill some architect
Designs a noble structure to erect,
Searches whate'er each country does produce
For outward ornament, or inward use:
So, Friend, from divers books thy lab'ring thought
Has all the huddled am'rous notions sought,
And into form and shape the unlickt cubs has brought.
Here Proteus-Love thou show'st in various dress,
From gaudy France to more majestic Greece;
Something thou gather'st too from Roman ore,
And Spain contributes to thy well-got store,
Whence (each by thee refin'd in English mould)
Verse smooth as oil does flow, and pure as gold.
Thus the laborious Bee with painful toil
From various flowers of a various soil,
Duly concocting the abstracted juice,
In plenty does th' ambrosial food produce.





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