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In remembrance of

Master William Shakespeare.

Ode.

(1)Beware (delighted Poets!) when you singTo welcome Nature in the early Spring;Your num'rous Feet not treadThe Banks of Avon; for each Flowre(As it nere knew a Sunne or Showre)Hangs there, the pensive head.
(2)Each Tree, whose thick, and spreading growth hath made,Rather a Night beneath the Boughs, than Shade,(Unwilling now to grow)Lookes like the Plume a Captive weares,Whose rifled Falls are steept i'th tearesWhich from his last rage flow.

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