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Greenes Funeralls

By R. B. [i.e. Richard Barnfield]

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Sonnet, VIII.
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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

[Muse giue place to my mone, and mone giue place to my musing]

Muse giue place to my mone, and mone giue place to my musing:
One for an others cause, and one for cause of an other.
First to behold him dead: last to behold him aliue.
And thou Shepheards Swaine, that keepes thy sheepe by the mountaine
(Mountaines) of Sicily, and sweet Arcadian Jland,
Oh Melibœus: leaue, Oh leaue any more to be mourning.
For though his Art bee dead, yet shall it euer abide:
Euer abide, to the end light, as a light to the rest.
Rest that haue wrot of loue: and the delights of a louer.
But by the sweete consent, of Pan and Marsias ofspringe.
Sweet consent of a Saint so sweet, of a Fowle an a foule one
Greenes but a foolish man: and such as him doe defend.
Yet will Feuer write both to defend and offend:
For to defend his friends, and to offend his foes.