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And th' Aldermen by Charter, title lay('Cause writ 'ith City's Virge) to my new Play:So if, the Proclamations, kinde, nice care,Keepe you not (Madam) from our black raw Aire,Next Terme, you'll finde it own'd thus on each WallWrit by the Lord May'r, acted at Guild-Hall.But then I must be dead; which if you willIn curteous pitty feare, and suspect still;These Mellons shall approach your pensive Eye,Not as a Token but a Legacie.Would they were such, as could have reach'd the sense,To know what use they had of excellence,Since destin'd to be yours; such as would be(Now yours) justly ambitious of a TreeTo grow upon; scorne a dejected birth,Course German Tiles, low Stalks, that lace the Earth:Such, as since gladly yours, got skill, and pow'r,To choose the strongest Sunne, and weakest Showre:Such, as in Groves Cecilian Lovers eat,To coole those wishes, that their Ladies heat.But if the Gard'ner make (like Adam) allOur human hopes, bold, and apocryphall;

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