TIXALL POETRY;
with
Notes and Illustrations
by
Arthur Clifford, Esq.
Editor of Sir Ralph Sadler's State Papers.
Sow, which from her spring,
At Stafford meeteth Penk, which she along doth bring
To Trent, by Tixall grac'd, the Astons' ancient seat,
Which oft the Muse hath found her safe and sweet retreat.
The noble owners now of which beloved place,
Good fortunes them and theirs with honoured titles grace:
May Heaven still bless that house, till happy floods you see
Yourselves more graced by it, than it by you can be.
Whose bounty, still my Muse so freely shall confess,
As when she shall want words, her signs shall it express.
Drayton's Poly-olbion, Song XII.
EDINBURGH:
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1813.
