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TO VESTA.
With All good, All Men (great Argicides)
Inhabit all Good houses; see'ng no wants
Of mutuall mindes loue, in Th'inhabitants.
Ioine in kinde blessing with the bashfull Maid
And all-lou'd Virgin, Vesta; eithers aid
Combin'd in euery Hospitable House:
Both being best seene, in all the gracious
House-works of Mortalls. Jointly follow then
Euen from their youths, the mindes of dames and men.
Haile then, ould Daughter of the ouldest God,
And thou great bearer of Heauens golden Rodd?
Yet not to you, alone, my vowes belong;
Others as well, claime T'Homage of my song.
Inhabit all Good houses; see'ng no wants
Of mutuall mindes loue, in Th'inhabitants.
Ioine in kinde blessing with the bashfull Maid
And all-lou'd Virgin, Vesta; eithers aid
Combin'd in euery Hospitable House:
Both being best seene, in all the gracious
House-works of Mortalls. Jointly follow then
Euen from their youths, the mindes of dames and men.
Haile then, ould Daughter of the ouldest God,
And thou great bearer of Heauens golden Rodd?
Yet not to you, alone, my vowes belong;
Others as well, claime T'Homage of my song.
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