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Tixall Poetry.
Thus, in short writing couch'd, behold the test,
And glorious tryal of a grand inquest;
And th' impartial judgment here discovers,
The crown and tryumph that attend true lovers.
The trope is lost, unless you reade what meant I,
But to bespeake another foure-and-twenty.
This yeare their foreman, in poetike fury,
Gives you the sense and soul of their grand jury;
And in the name and nature of Apollo,
Doth fairly prophecy the rest shall follow.
Madam, you see both heart and hand agree
To court your genius, and wee hope to see
Your joyes growue up unto a jubilye.