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Show T 0 E M S. r\ * x ' " " . - yj I To Mr. Sam. Cooper, having taken LucafiaV Pi&nr? oteii givm December 14. 1660. . t ft 1 t F noble thing9 can noble thoughts infufe, Your Art might ev'n in m e create a Mufe, And what you did irifpire, you would excufe. I I . • . But if-itfeh ^Miracle could do, That Mufe would not return you half your due, Since ^ o u l d irry thanks, bfct not the praife purfue. To praife your Art is then it felf more hard, Nor would it the Endeavour much regard, Since it and Virttie, are their o w n reward. 1 A Pencil from an Angel newly caught, And Colours in the Morning's bofom fought, Would make n o Picture, if by you not wrought 5- • • * J But done by yiou it does no more admit O f zvi&immittm from the higheft Wit, Than that atiotfier hand fhould equal it, rifod • : i'j] fliu Yet T 0 E M S. 6. d bo\ Yet whilft you with creating power vye, Command the very fpirit of the Eye, And then reward it with Eternity. tui i 19U| cm - • ci7* 1 J .. [T notnxw • Whilft your each touch does Life and Air convey T Fetch the Soul out, like overcoming Day, And I m y Friend repeated here Survey. 8. T I by a paffive way m&y^q you rigfcfe Wearing in that what xione could e'er endite* Your Penegyrick, and m y own delight. Parting with a Friend. 1 I. Hoever thinks that Joys below Can lafting be and great, Let him behold this parting blow, And cure his o w n deceit. « 2. Alas! how foon are Pleafures done Where Fortune has a Power ? H o w like to the declining Sim, Or to the wither'd Flower ? r • • r - A thoufand unconcerned Eye* ShellfufFerustofee, But |