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Sir John Denham. (1615–1669) (continued)

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Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

The Sophy. A Tragedy.

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But whither am I strayed? I need not raise
Trophies to thee from other men’s dispraise;
Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built;
Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt
Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign,
Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain. 1

On Mr. John Fletcher’s Works.

Richard Crashaw. (1612?–1649)

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The conscious water saw its God and blushed. 2

Epigram.

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Whoe’er she be,
That not impossible she,
That shall command my heart and me.

Wishes to his Supposed Mistress.

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Where’er she lie,
Locked up from mortal eye,
In shady leaves of destiny.

Wishes to his Supposed Mistress.

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Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.

Wishes to his Supposed Mistress.

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Life that dares send
A challenge to his end,
And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!

Wishes to his Supposed Mistress.

Note 1.
Poets are sultans, if they had their will;
For every author would his brother kill.
Orrery: Prologues (according to Johnson).

Should such a man, too fond to rule alone,
Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
Alexander Pope: Prologue to the Satires, line 197. [back]

Note 2.
Nympha pudica Deum vidit, et erubuit (The modest Nymph saw the god, and blushed).—Epigrammationa Sacra. Aquæ in vinum versæ, p. 299. [back]

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