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Andrew Marvell. 1620-1678

Ralph Venning. 1620(?)-1673.

All the beauty of the world, 't is but skin deep.[262:4]

Orthodoxe Paradoxes. (Third edition, 1650.) The Triumph of Assurance, p. 41.

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.[262:5]

Mysteries and Revelations, p. 5. (1649.)

Orange bright,

Like golden lamps in a green night.

Bermudas.

And all the way, to guide their chime,

With falling oars they kept the time.

Bermudas.

In busy companies of men.

The Garden. (Translated.)

Annihilating all that 's made

To a green thought in a green shade.

The Garden. (Translated.)

The world in all doth but two nations bear,—

The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.

The Loyal Scot.

The inglorious arts of peace.

Upon Cromwell's return from Ireland.

He nothing common did, or mean,

Upon that memorable scene.

Upon Cromwell's return from Ireland.

So much one man can do,

That does both act and know.

Upon Cromwell's return from Ireland.

To make a bank was a great plot of state;

Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.

The Character of Holland.