BY
Mrs Anne Killigrew.
Immodicis brevis est ætas, & rara Senectus.
_Mart. l. 6. Ep. 29._
These POEMS are Licensed to be Published,
_Sept. 30. 1685._
_Ro. L'Estrange._
[Illustration]
_LONDON_:
Printed for _Samuel Lowndes_, over against
_Exeter Exchange_ in the _Strand_. 1686.
THE
PUBLISHER
TO THE
READER.
Reader, dost ask, What Work we here display?
What fair and Novel Piece salutes the Day?
Know, that a Virgin bright this POEM writ,
A _Grace_ for Beauty, and a _Muse_ for Wit!
Who, when none higher in _Loves_ Courts might sway,
Despis'd the Mertile, for the nobler Bay!
Nor could _Apollo_ or _Minerva_ tell,
Whither her Pen or Pencil did excel!
But while these Pow'rs laid both to her their Claime,
Behold, a Matron of a Heavenly Frame,
Antique, but Great and Comely in her Meen,
Upon whose gorgeous Robe inscrib'd was seen
_Divine Vertue_, took her from both away, }
And thus with Anger and Disdain did say, }
_Of Me she Learn'd, with You she did but Play_. }
To the Pious Memory
Of the Accomplisht Young LADY
Mrs Anne Killigrew,
Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poësie, and Painting.
An ODE.