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958. TO THE MOST COMELY AND PROPER
M. ELIZABETH FINCH.

Handsome you are, and proper[1] you will be
Despite of all your infortunity:
Live long and lovely, but yet grow no less
In that your own prefixed comeliness:
Spend on that stock: and when your life must fall,
Leave others beauty to set up withal.

  1. Proper, well-made.


960. TO HIS BOOK.

If hap it must, that I must see thee lie
Absyrtus-like[1], all torn confusedly:
With solemn tears, and with much grief of heart,
I'll recollect thee, weeping, part by part;
And having wash'd thee, close thee in a chest
With spice; that done, I'll leave thee to thy rest.

  1. Absyrtus-like, the brother of Medea, cut in pieces by her that his father might be delayed by gathering his limbs.}}


961. TO THE KING, UPON HIS WELCOME TO HAMPTON
COURT. SET AND SUNG.

Welcome, great Cæsar, welcome now you are
As dearest peace after destructive war:
Welcome as slumbers, or as beds of ease
After our long and peevish sicknesses.