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Show 3§ T 0 E M S. 7' And in their pofture is expreft Friendfhips exaltedIntereft: Each follows where the other leans, And what each does, this other means. 8. And as when one foot dbes ftand faft, And t' other circles feeks to caft, The fteddy part does regulate And make the wand'rer's motion ftraight So Friends, are only two in this, T' reclaim each other when they mifs : For whofoe'er will grofly fall, Can never be a Friend at all. io. And as that ufeful Inftrument For Even lines was ever meant •, So Friendfhip from good Angels fprings. T o teach the world'Heroick things. n. As thefe are found out in defign T o rule and meafure every Line; So Friendfhip governs actions belt, Prefcribing unto all the reft. 12. And as in Nature nothing's fet So juft as Lines in number met; So Compafies for thefe b'ing made, D o Friendfhip's harmony perfwade. & T 0 E M S. 13. And like to them, fo Friends may own Extenfion, not Divifion : Their Points, like Bodies, feparate \ But Head, like Souls, knows no fuch fate. ,39 And as each part fo well is knit, That their Embraces ever fit : So Friends are fuch by deftiny, And no third can the place fupply. 19 There needs no Motto to the Seal: But that w e may the Mind reveal T o the dull Eye, it was thought fit That Friendfhip only fhould be writ 16. But as there are Degrees of Blifs, So there's no Friendfhip meant by this, But fuch as will tranfmit to Fame Lucafia and Orinda s Name. In Memory of F. P. who died at Acton the 44 of May, 1660. at Twelve and an Half of Age. 1 1 F I could ever write a Iafting Verfe, It fhould be laid, dear Saint, upon thy Herfe. But Sorrow is no Mufe, and does confefs, That it leaft can, what it would moft exprefc Yet that I may fome bounds to Grief allow, I'll try if I can weep in Numbers now. Ah, beauteous Bloffom, too untimely dead J Whither ? A h whither is thy fweetnefs fled ? Where |