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 172 Anne Bradjireef s Works.

Sweet fragrant Spring, with thy iTiort pittance fly^ Let Ibme defcribe thee better then can I. Yet above all this priviledg is thine, [62 |

Thy dayes ftill lengthen without leall decline;

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'^ 11 /"HEN Spring had done, the Sitninierdid^ begin,

' * With melted tauny face, and garments thin, Refembling Fire, Choler, and Middle age. As Spring- did Air, Blood, Youth in's equipage. Wiping the fweat from of her face'" that ran. With hair all wet fhe puffing thus began; Bright yiine^ y^^^V ^^'^^ -^^fg'^ft hot are mine, In'th firll Sol doth in crabbed Cancer fhine. His progrefs to the North now's fully done. Then retrograde inuft be" my burning Sun, Who to his fouthward Tropick ftill is bent, Yet doth his parching heat but more augment Though he decline, becaufe his flames fo fair. Have throughly dry'd the earth, and heat the air."

k Instead of this and the following line, the first edition has, — Some fubje6l, fhallow braines, much matter veelds, Sometime a theame that's large, proves barren fields. Melodious Spring, with thy Ibort pittance five, In this harlh Itrain, I find no melody,

'' niult. 'I' brow. " now is.

" The reafon why. becaufe his flames fo fairc. Ilatli former! \ much heat, the earth and aire.

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