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TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, EDWARD FILMER, ON HIS WORK PUBLISHED by BEN JONSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT CHARMING PEALS ARE THESE
Last Line: TO MAKE THE LANGUAGE SWEET UPON HER TONGUE.
Subject(s): FILMER, EDWARD (D. 1669);
What charming peals are these,
That, while they bind the senses, do so please?
They are the marriage-rites
Of two, the choicest pair of man's delights,
Music and poesy:
French air, and English verse, here wedded lie.
Who did this knot compose,
Again hath brought the lily to the rose;
And, with their chained dance,
Recelebrates the joyful match with France.
They are a school to win
The fair French daughter to learn English in;
And, graced with her song,
To make the language sweet upon her tongue.



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