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"Vertue Improv'd by Suffering [from Poems and Translations Amorous, Lusory, Morall, Divine]"
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Date: 1651
"And as the Grindstone to unpolish'd Steel / Gives Edge, and Lustre: so my Mind, I feel / VVhetted, and glaz'd by Fortunes turning VVheel"
preview | full record— Sherburne, Sir Edward (bap. 1616, d. 1702)
Date: 1651
"'Tis but the Body that blind Fortunes spight / Can chain to Earth; the nobler Soul doth slight / Her servill Bonds, and takes to Heaven her flight."
preview | full record— Sherburne, Sir Edward (bap. 1616, d. 1702)