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SELECT POEMS.!

MAY

ON

VARIOUS SUBJECTS;

SELECTED TO ENFORCE THE

PRACTICE OF VIRTUE,

AND

With a View to comprife in one Volume the

BEAUTIES

OF

ENGLISH POETRY:

BY THOMAS TOMKINS.

THE THIRD EDITION.

The pleafing Art of Poetry's defign'd
To raise the thought, and moralize the mind;
The chafte delights of virtue to inspire,
And warm the bofom with feraphic fire;
Sublime the paffions, lend devotion wings,
And celebrate the First great Caufe of things.

LONDON:
Printed for

J. WALLIS, AT YORICK'S HEAD, LUDGATE-STREET.

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