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TO HIS FRIEND MR. J.H. UPON HIS POEMS by WILLIAM DILLINGHAM

First Line: MAY THINE OWN VERSE, THE ENVY AND THE GLORY
Last Line: WISHING HIMSELF TURN'D LOOSE TO GRAZE IN PROSE.
Subject(s): HALL, JOHN (1627-1656);
MAY thine own verse, the envy and the glory
Of gowned gentry, still enrich thy story!
Flame out, bright spark! and let them clearly see
What's not impossible for them to be;
Go on, and make the bankrupt world to know
How much to thy judicious pen they owe;
By whose gigantic parts is clearly shown,
That Nature's womb is not yet feeble grown.
Thy lines pardon the press for all the rhymes,
That have committed been in senseless times,
When Pegasus, made hackney, foundered grows,
Wishing himself turn'd loose to graze in prose.



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