I wish thee, Vin, before all wealth, Both bodily and ghostl… - Richard Corbet

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I wish thee, Vin, before all wealth,
Both bodily and ghostly health: ...
I wish thee all thy mothers graces,
Thy father’s fortunes, and his places.
I wish thee friends, and one at Court,
Not to build on, but support;
To keep thee, not in doing many
Oppressions, but from suffering any.

Richard Corbet

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About Richard Corbet

(or Corbett; 1582 – 28 July 1635) was an English clergyman who rose to be (1628) and then (1632) in the Church of England. He is also remembered as a humourist and as a poet, although his work was not published until after his death.

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Farewell, Rewards and Faeries, Good Housewives now may say,
For now foule Slutts in Dairies Doe fare as well as they;
And though they sweepe theyr Hearths no less Than Maydes were wont to doe,
Yet who of late for Cleaneliness Finds sixe-pence in her Shoe?

Boldly I preach, hate a cross, hate a surplice, Mitres, copes, and rotchets:
Come hear me pray nine times a day, And fill your heads with crotchets.

Let others write for glory or reward,
Truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.

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