Classic Poem

Fullbeck

— Sic magnis componere parva —

Since Lesser things with Greater may compare
And in Proportionable Praises share
Let Fullbeck (though beneath the Cliff) not hide
Its Patron's Glory thus re-edifide
Wher All such Architecture doe express
They marry Bewty with Convenientnes
Whither to Parler, Hall or other Roomes
We would apply our just Encomiums
And so confine them to the Seelings, Dores
The Windowes, Stair-case, Chimnies and the Flores
Or let them walk abroad and take the Aire
Wher the Par-terra'd Guardens Dainties are
(And that you deem not Flora heer alone is
Ther's Statued Venus Paramour Adonis)
Or on the Twinny Orchard spend their might
Wher All of Frute and Shade afford delight
Which like a Life-guard to the Pallace stand
To guide the Passenger on either hand
Whilst a fayr even Walk conducts him strait
Upon the Frontespeece and out-most Gate
All These and more when duely skanned strike saile
Unto the Nobler Prospect o're the Vale
Wher soe rich Soyle at one View may be seen
Gould-ears Enameled with Medows green
And sevrall Parishes and Touns amidst
Known and distinguisht by their Pyramids
That Graves heer might not Judg his time lost quite
To write of These who'f Egipts once did write
What Alexandria doth committ to Fame
Grand-Cayr or Memphis heer to Nottingam
Newark and Southwell now Transplanted lie
And Claym a revrent wonder from each eye
And fertile Nile ore come heer by assent
Confess its water's barren to our Trent:
Thus Least I leese myself on Joyes beneath
I must wing Fancy, sore up to the Heath
Wher if on Earth we may what Poets faigne
Enjoy: then sure Ther's the Elizian Playn
Wher All that Mortalls for content may find
Presented is to Satiate the mind
And guive the body to preserve its health
Of Exercise a Scope and Common wealth
Whither Poor Watt his Clotty Forme forsakes
And to his nimbler leggs his fear betakes
When swiftly followd by the flattring crewe
Of well nos'd senters that their Pray pursue
Soe hot and closs they break sent into View
Or else a Cony from some Grotten Spring
To trye the Mastery and power of wing
With some high-towring-Hawke whilst nimbly ther
She stoops and Trusses 'thout a Canceleer
These and a thousand more delights concurr
To prove the vertue both of whip and spurr
When the Beasts need them, whilst nor Gate nor Hedge
Stands ther t'restrain Their Running Priviledg
But whither Hawke or Hound in swiftnes win
The Rider may resolve by Riding in:
I'le say noe more but Judg All these Comprize
And Christen Fullbeck Earthly Paradice.