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A CHARROLL PRESENTED TO DR. WILLIAMS, BP. OF LINCOLNE, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fly hence pale care, noe more remember
Last Line: His soule to glad you in perfumes.


Fly hence Pale Care, noe more remember
Past Sorrowes with the fled December
But let each prsant Cheeke appe
Smooth as the Childhood of the yeare
And sing a Caroll here.
T'was braue, t'was braue could we comand ye hand
Of Youthe swift watch to stand
As yow haue done yor day,
Then should we not decay,
But all we wither and our Light
Is spilt in eulasting night.
When as your Sight
Shewes like the Heavens aboue ye Moone,
Like an Eternall Noone
That sees noe setting Sunn.

Keepe vp those flames, & though you shroud
A while yor forehead in a Cloude
Doe it like the Sun to write
I'th ayre, a greater Text of light.
Welcome to all or vowes
And since you pay
To vs the day
Soe longe desir'd
See we haue fyr'd
Our holy Spicknard, & ther's none
But brings his stick of Cynamon,
His eager Eye, or Smoother Smyle,
And lays it gently on ye Pyle,
Which thus enkindled we invoke
Yor name amidst the sacred smoke.

Chorus. Come then greate Lord
And see or Alter burne
With loue of yor Returne
And not a man here but consumes
His soule to glad you in perfumes.





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