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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66465	Poetical piety, or, Poetry made pious by rendering into its method observations arising from various divine subjects, useful for these prophane and enormous times : to which is added, a brief alphabetical expositor, explaining the most intricate words made use of in this book, to the conception of a mean reader, and may serve as a remembrancer to the imperfect memory / by William Williams ...	Williams, William, of Cardigan.	1677 (1677)	Wing W2785; ESTC R8078	64,141	220

The Frontispiece SPare Hours spare Minutes Leisure did incline My Head to study Poetry Divine Who spare some time to read what I did write They both my Pains and Studies best requite But Candid Readers where You see me halt In these my first Fruits pardon my default This I acknowledge that I had a will To Versify although I wanted Skill Which contradicts a Proverb ' cause I find Verse smoothly made hard to my willing mind On the License of this Book April the Twelfth its License will appear The Sixteen Hundred Seventy Seventh Year And on the Thirteenth day if that you look 'T was Entred in the Stationers hall-Hall-Book An Advertisement AN Author of my Name hath lately writ A Sacred Book in Verse and some thought it To be my Study and their reason why Because mine Poems were and Piety But to content the World I dare it tell This Author's Writings mine may much excell Moreover thus I differ from that Man He 's Cornwal born and I am Cardigan And likewise in our Age we disagree I am near Thirty he near Sixty three POETICAL PIETY OR Poetry made Pious By rendring into its Method Obesrvations arising from various Divine Subjects useful for these Prophane and Enormous Times To which is added A Brief Alphabetical Expositor Explaining the most Intricate Words made use of in this Book to the Conception of a mean Reader And may serve as a Remembrancer to the Imperfect Memory By WILLIAM WILLIAMS a respecter of Piety and Pious Poetry Psal 30 4. Sing unto the Lord O ye Saints of his and give thanks at the Remembrance of his holiness Psal 104 33. I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will sing praise to my God while I have my Being Vouchsafe whose Aspect on this Title look To bar your Censure till you read the Book London Printed for W. Williams at the White Swan in Black-Fryers near the Kings Printing-house 1677. To the Honourable but my most Honoured most Obliging and most Beloved Friend Sir THOMAS PRYSE of Go-gerthan in the County of Cardigan Baronet W. WILLIAMS wisheth all Temporal Blessings here and hereafter Eternal Blessedness Honoured Sir GReat and many are the Obligations since Providence so order'd it that moved me to request your Patronage of these Poems as I might thus variously instance First in that Nature so far befriended my Birth as to be a Native both of your Neighbourhood and County Likewise upon that acquaintance and if I may so far presume I might stile if the intintate acquaintance that I had with your Honour in the days of Infancy and Minority of my Age the renovation of which acquaintance in my Maturity or riper Years impos'd an Obligation upon me to Reverence and Regard your Honourable Person especially when I had Intelligence of your late approach to London and the Honour of your Courteous Visit at my Habitation before I had Information of your Abode besides these Obligations I have a regard to some others in a more peculiar manner namely those Virtuous Qualifications which manifested and still do manifest themselves in the whole course of your Sober Conversation to wit Meekness and Familiarity with these foremention'd motives More I might still nominate as touching your Candid Deportment towards my Parentage and that Affection and Amity my Father continually enjoy'd from the Bounty of your Noble Progeny all which were main Inducements provoking my Ambition to shelter my slender Conceptions under the Ornament of your Patronage and to further my attainment in this attempt I observed the Caution of the wise man in Pro. 27. v. 10. Thine own Friend and thy Fathers Friend forsake not or as I might fitly add forget not and to Reverence your Noble Name to whom I am a Debtor in respect of Service Affection and Gratitude I conjectur'd it expedient to be the Memorial of this Dedication by reason the first Fruits of my Intellectual Productions flowing from a Divine Instinct both in this and the ensuing method I must needs acknowledge it to be my great Encouragement and Satisfaction in that I am Honoured with so worthy a Patron as your Generous and Ingenious self whose Virtue Candor and Affability doubles your Honour while others exalted to a higher degree by Pride maculate their Promotion May your Honour as you are my Patron be pleased to peruse these ensuing Poems and may these Poems be worthy your perusal The best Apology J can make in mine or their defence is only this That there are variety of Inferences drawn from variety of Subjects comprehended in this little Volume some whereof may be smoother polished than others and thereby the more approveable In case that if any be found knotty and unevan I hope they may be the more dispensible if observ'd as deriving from a Novice in the Potent Science of Poetry I am dubious that your Discerning eye may find Imperfections in their Perusual But I had rather lisp and stammer forth the Praises of my God than be bruitishly silent yet must acknowledge the Theme deserved an abler Poet and I fear may in some places seem Maculated by my ruder Pen Wherefore I am Importunate in the Imploration of your Candor to Connive at my Misdemeanours in all respects and vouchsafe my Pardon from your Clemency for the presumption of this Address and those Expressions that stand in need either of Gravity or Gratitude in reference to your Parts and Person Thus Craving your Honour to accept of my Will for the Deed the which shall impose upon my self a further Obligation entituling me to remain acccording to the stile of this my sincere Subscription SIR Your Honours most Humbly Devoted and Submissive Servant to Command WILLIAM WILLIAMS An Encomium on the Honourable Sir Thomas Pryse Baronet TO speak your Fame your Merit and your Praise Befits a Lawreat Poet deck'd with Bayes Not such as I who never gain'd the Skill To Court the Muses on Parnassus Hill My Rustick and Domestick Genius yields No charming Rapture of Elizian Fields Allows me not the prospect of such things Nor yet to taste of Heliconian Springs Abjures all Fiction though the Poets due And prompts me these fair stories are not true Perswading my belief they cannot be Or it would tollerate my leave to see Then to request these things I shall omit And praise you as my Fancy thinks most fit Vouchsafe me Sir although my pen be slow To pay your Honour that respect I owe Your just Encomiums duly to Rehearse Unto a Volume soon would swell a Verse But time and tediousness for to omit I 'le speak in brief what I conjecture fit Who would compleat your Praise by due Applause Much to enlarge shall find there is a Cause But my slow Tongue finds tedious to begin That Noble Narrative what you have been Therefore I pardon crave from this to start And for the whole to manifest a part This is observ'd wherever you resort With Love and Meekness there your self Comport