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Tixall Poetry.
On the Death Of
The Lady Catherin White,
in Child-Birth, at Rome.
Ladys, would you have combin'd
Beauty both of face and mind;
Would you marry, hand in hand,
Strict obedience with command;
Snatch the low and high degree
Of greatnes with humilitye;
With chastetye calme appetite,
And with wisdome temper wit:
Would you reade the double story
Of beauty's wrack, and vertue's glory;
Teach lip-rethorik to yeeld
Silent eloquence the field;
Beauty both of face and mind;
Would you marry, hand in hand,
Strict obedience with command;
Snatch the low and high degree
Of greatnes with humilitye;
With chastetye calme appetite,
And with wisdome temper wit:
Would you reade the double story
Of beauty's wrack, and vertue's glory;
Teach lip-rethorik to yeeld
Silent eloquence the field;
