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. Otia sacra : optima fides . aloneTake^thcc for my Companion, deem in doing fo, Ive allI can True Converfation call .-Tor fo my Thoughts by this retreatGrow ftronger, like contraded heat* Whether on Natures Book I mufe. Or clfe fome other writes ont, ufe To fpend the time in, every line. Is not excentrickbut Divine .• And though all others downward tend, Thefe look to heaven, and afcend From whence they came •, where pointed hie. They raviili into Myflerie, To fee the lootfteps here are trod Of mercy by a Gracious God. To my Booh^ r^ Oe, and my Blefling with Thee •, then remain^-^ Secure, with fuch as kindly entertain:If fent to any Others, tell them Autlior fo takes but his Mark amifs :Whos fearlefs of reproach from Criticks skill,Seing, tlook a given horfe ith mouth founds ill :And what alone to Friends he would impart,Hath not at all to doe with Fair or Mart. Wherefore whoever fliall pcrufc thefe Rimes,Muft know, they were beguilers of fpare times. TEAOS. V y^f ^t.:^^^ /«ff^ ^ Tfevi Ti^ ^^%.
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