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LYRICS: THOMAS STANLEY
Thy numbers carry weight, yet clear and terse,
And innocent, as becomes the soul of verse.
James Shirley: To his honour’d
friend Thomas Stanley, Esquire,
upon his Elegant Poems. [1646.]
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