On Ben Johnson .
By John Cleveland.

The Muses fairest Light in no dark time,
The Wonder of a barned Age, the Line
Which none can pass; the most proportiond to
To Nature the best Judge of what was fit
The deepest, plainest, highest, clearest Don';
The Voice, most echod, by consenting Mon
The soul, which answord best to all well so
By others, and which most Requital mad
Fund to the highest Key of ancient Rome
Returning all her Music with by
In whom with Nature, Study claim'da d
Get who unto himself owd all his Art:
Here lies Ben Johnson ! Every Age will look
With Sorrow how with Wonder on by Back
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All the former EDITIONS, and Corrected; with NOTES Critical and Explanatory.

By PETER WHALLEY, Late Fellow of St. John's College in Oxford.

Neque me ut miretur turba labore,

Contentus paucis lectoribus.

HOR

Rudem effe omnino in noftris poetis, aut inertissima fegnitiæ eft, aut faftidii delicatiffimi. Cic. de Fin. L. 1.

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