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choicely good, and double fs made 

 by a lover of Angling : Come,now 

 drinkaglafstome,and I wil requite 

 you with a very good Copy of Ver- 

 fes ; it is a farewel to the vanities 

 of the world, and fome fay written 

 by D\ JD, but let them bee writ by 

 whom they will, he that writ them 

 had a brave foul, and muft needs be 

 poffeft with happy thoughts at the 

 time of their campofure. 



Farwel ye guilded follies, pkafing troubles , 

 Farwel ye honour d rag^y^ glorious bubbles ; 

 Fame's but a hollow e echo gold pure clay, 

 Honour the darling but of one jhort day. 

 Beauty (tb* eyes idol) but a damasKd skin, 

 State but a golden prifonjo live in 

 And torture free-bornminds\imbroider d trains 

 Meerly but Page ants, for proud levelling vai?is, 

 And blood ally d to greatnefs,is alone 

 Inherited, not pure baf'd, nor our own. 



Fame, honor, beauty, ft ate, train, blood 6? birth, 

 Are but the fading blojfbmes of the earth. 



R 2 I would 



