The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in Ten Volumes - Volume I. by John Fletcher;Francis Beaumont
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The _Credulous, bright Girle_, that _beleeves all_
_Language_, (in _Othes_) if _Good, Canonicall_, Is _fortifi'd_, and _taught, here_, to _beware_ Of _ev'ry_ specious _bayte_, of _ev'ry snare_ Save _one_: and _that_ same _Caution_ takes her _more_, Then _all_ the _flattery_ she _felt before_. She finds her _Boxes_, and her _Thoughts betray'd_ By the _Corruption_ of the _Chambermaide_: _Then throwes_ her _Washes_ and _dissemblings_ By; And _Vowes_ nothing but _Ingenuity_. The _severe States-man quits_ his _sullen forme_ Of _Gravity_ and _bus'nesse_; The _Luke-warme_ _Religious_ his _Neutrality_; The _hot_ _Braine-sicke Illuminate_ his _zeale; The Sot_ _Stupidity_; The _Souldier_ his _Arreares_; The _Court_ its _Confidence_; The _Plebs_ their _feares_; _Gallants_ their _Apishnesse_ and _Perjurie_, _Women_ their _Pleasure_ and _Inconstancie_; _Poets_ their _Wine_; the _Usurer_ his _Pelfe_; The _World_ its _Vanity_; and _I_ my _Selfe_. Roger L'Estrange. COMMENDATORY On the Dramatick Poems of Mr JOHN FLETCHER. _Wonder! who's here?_ Fletcher, _long buried |
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