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UPON M. WILLIAM LAWES, THE RARE MUSITIAN by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: SHO'D I NOT PUT ON BLACKS, WHEN EACH ONE HERE
Last Line: MUSIQUE HAD BOTH HER BIRTH, AND DEATH WITH THEE.
Subject(s): LAWES, WILLIAM (1602-1645);
Sho'd I not put on Blacks, when each one here
Comes with his Cypresse, and devotes a teare?
Sho'd I not grieve (my Lawes) when every Lute,
Violl, and Voice, is (by thy losse) struck mute?
Thy loss brave man! whose Numbers have been hurl'd,
And no less prais'd, then spread throughout the world.
Some have Thee call'd Amphion; some of us,
Nam'd thee Terpander, or sweet Orpheus:
Some this, some that, but all in this agree,
Musique had both her birth, and death with Thee.



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