The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in Ten Volumes - Volume I. by John Fletcher;Francis Beaumont
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Yet _Great Goods have their Ills_: Should we _transmit_
To _Future Times_, the _Pow'r_ of _Love_ and _Wit_, In _this Example_: would they not _combine_ To make _Our Imperfections Their Designe?_ They'd _study_ our _Corruptions_; and take more _Care_ to be _Ill_, then to be _Good_, _before_. For _nothing but so great Infirmity, Could make Them worthy of such Remedy. Have you not scene the Suns almighty Ray Rescue th' affrighted World_, and _redeeme Day_ From _blacke despaire_: how his _victorious Beame_ _Scatters_ the _Storme_, and _drownes_ the _petty flame_ Of _Lightning_, in the _glory_ of his _eye_: How _full_ of _pow'r_, how _full_ of _Majesty?_ When to _us Mortals, nothing_ else was _knowne_, But the _sad doubt_, whether to _burne_, or _drowne_. _Choler_, and _Phlegme, Heat_, and _dull Ignorance,_ Have cast _the people_ into _such_ a _Trance_, That _feares_ and _danger_ seeme _Great equally_, And no _dispute_ left now, but _how_ to _dye_. Just in _this nicke, Fletcher sets the world cleare_ Of all disorder and reformes us here. The _formall Youth_, that knew _no_ other _Grace_, Or _Value_, but his _Title_, and his _Lace_, _Glasses himselfe_: and in _this faithfull Mirrour_, _Views, disaproves, reformes, repents_ his _Errour_. |
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