Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO THE MOST INGENIOUS AUTHOR MR. W. BROWNE, by JOHN GLANVILL


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TO THE MOST INGENIOUS AUTHOR MR. W. BROWNE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ingenious swain! That highly dost adorn
Last Line: To hear such matters sung by such a voice.
Subject(s): Browne, William (1591-1645)


INGENIOUS swain! that highly dost adorn
Clear Tavy! on whose brink we both were born!
Just praise in me would ne'er be thought to move
From thy sole worth, but from my partial love.
Wherefore I will not do thee so much wrong,
As by such mixture to allay thy song.
But while kind strangers rightly praise each grace
Of thy chaste Muse, I (from the happy place
That brought thee forth, and thinks it not unfit
To boast now that it erst bred such a wit)
Would only have it known I much rejoice
To hear such matters sung by such a voice.





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