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Poets, Poems, and Rhymes of East Cheshire
Poets Poems and Rhymes of East Cheshire Author:Thomas Middleton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "Ah! how happy Is that woman That enjoys so true a friend: Many happy days God send her; Of my suit I make an end: On mv knees I pardon crave for my offen... more »ce, Which did from love and true affection first commt-nce. "Commend me to thy lovely lady, Bear to her this chain of gold ; And these bracelets for a token, Grieving that I was so bold All my jewels in like sort take thou with thee, For they are fitting for thy wife, but not for me! "I will spend my days in prayer, Love and all its joys defy: In a nunnery will I shroud me, Far from any companye: But ere my prayers nave an end, be sure of this, To pray for thee and for thy love I will not miss. "Thus farewell, most gallant captain! Farewell to my heart's content! Count not Spanish ladies wanton, Though to thee my love was bent- Joy and true prosperity go still with thee!" "The like fall ever to thy share, most fair ladie!" WILLIAM NICOLS, RECTOR OF STOCK- PORT (1694). William Nicols, M.A., appointed Rector of Stockport in 1694, was the son of a gentleman of Glamorganshire. Before his presentation to the living of Stockport he had held the living of Cheadle, Cheshire. He was an accomplished scholar and was the author of two books in Latin elegiac verse. In one of these "De Literis Inventis," he refers to certain passages in his own career, and mentions that he was a pupil of the celebrated Dr. Fell. In one passage he says— One loves dogs, another hcrses, but iny sole pleasure will always be my books, which enable me to know very many things." In another he describes the rough treatment hi met with at the hands of the opponents of the King; he himself was a staunch adherent ol the reigning monarch— "The villainous mob, having frequently threatened me with death, at length set...« less