WAUTONIANA. 



For his deceafe ; Such fad extremities 

 May make fuch men as I write Elegies. 



And wonder not ; for, when a generall lofTe 

 Falls on a nation, and they flight the crofTe, 

 God hath raif 'd Prophets to awaken them 

 From ftupifadion ; witnefTe my milde pen, 

 Not uf 'd to upbraid the world, though now it muft 

 Freely and boldly, for, the caufe is jufl:. 



Dull age. Oh I would fpare thee, but th'art worfe. 

 Thou art not onely dull, but haft a curfe 

 Of black ingratitude; if not, couldft thou 

 Part with miraculous Donne^ and make no vow 

 For thee, and thine, fucceflively to pay 

 A fad remembrance to his dying day ? 



Did his youth fcatter Poetry^ wherein 

 Was all Philofophy? was every finne, 

 Charadler'd in his Satyrs ? Made fo foule 

 That fome have fear'd their fliapes, and kept their 



foule 

 Safer by reading verfe ? Did he give dayes 



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