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Deeds of good men; for by their living

here,

Virtues, indeed remote, feem to be near.

Who would imagine it poffible that in a very few lines fo many remote ideas could be brought together:

Since 'tis my doom, Love's underfhrieve,
Why this reprieve?

Why doth my She Advowfon 'fly
Incumbency?

To fell thyfelf dost thou intend
By candle's end,

And hold the contraft thus in doubt,
Life's taper out?

Think but how foon the market fails, Your fex lives fafter than the males;

As

As if to measure age's fpan,

The fober Julian were th' account of

man,

Whilft you live by the fleet Gregorian.

CLEVELAND.

F enormous and difgufting hyberboles, thefe may be examples:

By every wind, that comes this way, Send me at least a figh or two, Such and fo many I'll repay

As fhall themselves make winds to get

to you.

COWLEY.

In tears I'll waste these eyes

By love fo vainly fed;

So luft of old the Deluge punished.

COWLEY.

All arm'd in brass, the richest dress of

war,

(A dismal glorious fight) he fhone afar. The fun himself started with fudden

[blocks in formation]

Trees, tho' no wind is ftirring, fhake

with fear;

F

Silence

Silence and horrour fill the place around: Echo itself dares fcarce repeat the found.

COWLEY.

THEIR fictions were often violent

and unnatural.

Of his Mistress bathing:

The fish around her crouded, as they do To the falfe light that treach'rous fifhers

fhew,

And all with as much case might taken be,

As fhe at firft took me :

For ne'er did light fo clear

Among the waves appear,

Tho' ev'ry night the fun himself fet

there

COWLEY.

The

The poetical effect of a Lover's name

upon glafs :

My name engrav'd herein,

Doth contribute my firmnefs to this glass; Which, ever fince that clrarm, hath

been.

As hard, as that which grav'd it, was.

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THEIR conceits were fometimes flight and trifling:

On an inconftant woman.

He enjoys thy calmy funfhine now,
And no breath stirring hears,

In the clear heaven of thy brow,

No fmalleft cloud appears.

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