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LONDON; ANAGRAM, by                    
First Line: "though now I am unwilling, woes attend"
Last Line: Unto 'em such other in the end
Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666


Though Now I am unwilling, wOes attend
Me, so I grieve by fOrce, Let Heaven send
Such Detriment no more, for nOw I find,
grief wilL alONe DepOse the Noblest mind,
Thus this will highest Spirits subjugate,
They must (though most unwilling) yield to Fate.

LONDON'S EPITAPH

Here lies the Flower (as you may understand)
Not of a Family, but of a Land;
A beauteous LADY, Nations did her court,
And all the World unto her did resort:
She had a vast Estate (as may appear)
And many Sisters, but made none her Heir;
No, She (that they the more might sadly mourn)
Has all, consumed with her in her URN.
But from those Ashes all her Sisters crys
Are, that another PHAENIX yet may rise;
And all hopes are, Heaven yet will send
Unto 'em such another in the End.





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