{ Best friends no more than worst of foes I'll spare;

{ And all this I can do, because I dare.

He who writes on, and cudgels can defy,

And, knowing he'll be beaten, still writes on, am I.

London, printed for J. Smith, 1681. J. D.

[4] Sir Roger L'Estrange, whose skill in music is said to have amused Cromwell, who had some turn that way.

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Thou, as once the healing serpent rose,

Was lifted up, not for thyself, but us.

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