Choyce Drollery: Songs and Sonnets / Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent Authors.

by Unknown

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Fire, Fire,

Is there no help for thy desire?

Are tears all spent? Is Humber low?

Doth Trent stand still? Doth Thames not flow?

Though all these can’t thy Feaver cure,

Yet Tyburn is a Cooler lure,

And since thou can’st not quench thy Fire,

Go hang thy self, and thy desire!

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