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TO HIS WORTHILY AFFECTED FRIEND MR. W. BROWNE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Awake, sad muse, and thou my sadder spright
Last Line: The nephew of the brave philisides.
Subject(s): Browne, William (1591-1645)


AWAKE, sad Muse, and thou my sadder spright,
Made so by Time, but more by Fortune's spite;
Awake, and hie us to the green;
There shall be seen
The quaintest lad of all the time
For neater rhyme:
Whose free and unaffected strains
Take all the swains
That are not rude and ignorant,
Or Envy want.

And Envy, lest its hate discover'd be,
A courtly love and friendship offers thee:
The shepherdesses, blithe and fair,
For thee despair.

And whosoe'er depends on Pan
Holds him a man
Beyond themselves (if not compare),
He is so rare,
So innocent in all his ways
As in his lays.
He masters no low soul who hopes to please
The nephew of the brave Philisides.





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