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IMPROMPTU LINES ADDRESSED TO HIS COUSIN, MRS. CREED by JOHN DRYDEN

Poet Analysis

First Line: SO MUCH RELIGION IN YOUR NAME DOTH DWELL
Last Line: AND PRACTICE IS WITH ENDLESS GLORY CROWN'D.
Subject(s): NAMES; RELIGION; SOUL; THEOLOGY;

So much Religion in your Name doth dwell,
Your Soul must needs with Piety excel.
Thus Names, like [ ] Pictures drawn of old,
Their owners' Nature and their Story told.
Your Name but half expresses, for in you
Belief and Practice do together go.
My Pray'rs shall be, while this short Life endures,
These may go Hand in Hand, with you and yours;
Till Faith hereafter is in Vision drown'd,
And Practice is with endless Glory crown'd.



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