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Like those in Hospitals, who dare presume
To make French Cordage now of English Rhume;
Or slender Ropes, on which, in stead
Of Pearle, revolted Teeth they thred;
For limitting my Cheekes, that else had beene
Swolne like the signe, o'th Head o'th Saracen;
For preservation from a long
Concealement of my Mother-Tongue;
Whilst speechlesse, sow'd in Hoods, I should appeare,
An Antarminian, silenc'd Minister;
Or some Turks poyson'd Mute; so fret
So fome at mouth, make signes, and spet.
Whilst all I eat, goes downe, with lookes to sight
More forc'd, than Quailes t'each full-cramm'd Isralite;
Whose angry swallowing denotes
They lay at Flux, and had sore throats.
For these deliverances, and all the good
My new returne of Senses, strength, and blood,
Shall bring; for all I mine can boast,
Whilst my Endimion is not lost,
By'th feeble influence of my Starre; or turnes
From me, to one whose Planet cleerer burnes;
To make French Cordage now of English Rhume;
Or slender Ropes, on which, in stead
Of Pearle, revolted Teeth they thred;
For limitting my Cheekes, that else had beene
Swolne like the signe, o'th Head o'th Saracen;
For preservation from a long
Concealement of my Mother-Tongue;
Whilst speechlesse, sow'd in Hoods, I should appeare,
An Antarminian, silenc'd Minister;
Or some Turks poyson'd Mute; so fret
So fome at mouth, make signes, and spet.
Whilst all I eat, goes downe, with lookes to sight
More forc'd, than Quailes t'each full-cramm'd Isralite;
Whose angry swallowing denotes
They lay at Flux, and had sore throats.
For these deliverances, and all the good
My new returne of Senses, strength, and blood,
Shall bring; for all I mine can boast,
Whilst my Endimion is not lost,
By'th feeble influence of my Starre; or turnes
From me, to one whose Planet cleerer burnes;
May
