The purple island, or, The isle of man : an allegorical poem / By Phineas Fletcher, esteemed the Spenser of his age. To which is added Christ's victory and triumph, a poem, in four parts. By Giles Fletcher. Both written in the last century.

  • Fletcher, Phineas, 1582-1650.
Date:
1783
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Credit: The purple island, or, The isle of man : an allegorical poem / By Phineas Fletcher, esteemed the Spenser of his age. To which is added Christ's victory and triumph, a poem, in four parts. By Giles Fletcher. Both written in the last century. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE learned author. Son and Brother to two judicious Poets, himfelf the third, not fecond to either. GRAVE Father of this Mufe, thou deem'd too light To wear thy Name, 'caufe of thy youthful Brain It feems a fportful Child ; refembling right. Thy witty Childhood, not thy graver Strain, Which now edeems thefe Works of Fancy vain : Let not thy Child, thee living, Orphan be ; Who when thou’rt dead, will give a Life to thee. How many barren Wits would gladly own, How few o’th’ pregnanted own fuch another! Thou Father art, yet blufhed to be known; And though 'tmay call the bed of Mufes Mother, Yet thy feverer Judgment would it fmother. O judge not Thou, let Readers judge thy Book: Such Cates diou’d rather pleafe the Guejl, than Cook. Ji O ! but thou fear’d 'twill dain the reverend Gown Thou weared now; nay then fear not to diow it. For were’t a Stain, 'twere Nature’s, not thy own : For thou art poet-born; who know thee, know it: Thy Brother, Sire, thy very Name’s a Poet. Thy very Name will make this Poem take, This very Poem elfe thy Name will make. W. BENLOWES. a 2