Pans Pipe, Three Pastorall Eglogues, in English Hexameter With Other Poetical Verses delightfull. For the further delight of the Reader, the Printer hath annexed hereunto the delectable Poeme of the Fisher-mans Tale [by Francis Sabie] |
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Thy dayes greene blossoms, thy yeeres yong plants doe resemble,
but my time imitates Swans white and hoary feathers,
To labor and take pains, thy years do wil thee, my white haires
forewarne that death is readie to strike daylie:
Now therfore, O my son, these words I charge thee remember,
Which to thee thy father, so duty binds me speaketh,
Like litle Bees fro their hiues nowe must thou bee banished of Bees
and ants learn, they wil teach thee, my son, to labour:
They will teach thee to worke, lo the Bee, she gathereth hony,
and th' Ant corne, winters pennurie wisely fearing.
So must thou take paines, whilst time wil let thee, for old age
thy body, though now strong, wil very quickly weaken,
A raynie day wil come, crooked age wil (I say) creep vpon thee
enemies vnto worke, enemies vnto profit.
A trade thou must learne, now must thou dwell in a cittie,
which hath both vertues, and manie vices in it:
These thou must eschew, these must thou greedilie follow,
these bring perdition, those credit and great honour:
Bur first thy maker see that thou serue aboue all things,
serue him, he made thee, loue him, he will thee gouerne:
Be loyall and gentle, to thy maister trustie, thy dutie
so requires, be to al affable, lowly, louing:
And marke this one thing, detest euil companie chieflie:
for it wil doubtlesse lead thee to follie: shun it.
Shun womens faire lookes, Venus is faire but to be shunned:
Shees hurtfull, of her flatery see thou take heed:
As to the net with a call smal birds are craftily allured,
with false shew of a baite, as little fish be taken:
Euen so womens looks entrap young nouices oft times,
see thou beware they be naught, flie thē I warn thee, fly them
To know mens desire medle not, but speak wel of each one,
so shalt thou get same, and loue of all thy neighbours:
Shun playes and theaters, go to sermons, here many vices:
there thou shalt learne to magnifie God thy maker.
Both mony and counsell I thee giue, set more by my counsel,
Than mony, thou shalt be rich ynough if thou do thus:
More precious it is then gems which Tagus affoordeth,
then golden fleeces which Phasis Ile hap in it.
So fare well my sonne, God blesse and keep thee, remember
these things, and God wil surely preserue thee, Farewell.
but my time imitates Swans white and hoary feathers,
To labor and take pains, thy years do wil thee, my white haires
forewarne that death is readie to strike daylie:
Now therfore, O my son, these words I charge thee remember,
Which to thee thy father, so duty binds me speaketh,
Like litle Bees fro their hiues nowe must thou bee banished of Bees
and ants learn, they wil teach thee, my son, to labour:
They will teach thee to worke, lo the Bee, she gathereth hony,
and th' Ant corne, winters pennurie wisely fearing.
So must thou take paines, whilst time wil let thee, for old age
thy body, though now strong, wil very quickly weaken,
A raynie day wil come, crooked age wil (I say) creep vpon thee
enemies vnto worke, enemies vnto profit.
A trade thou must learne, now must thou dwell in a cittie,
which hath both vertues, and manie vices in it:
These thou must eschew, these must thou greedilie follow,
these bring perdition, those credit and great honour:
Bur first thy maker see that thou serue aboue all things,
serue him, he made thee, loue him, he will thee gouerne:
Be loyall and gentle, to thy maister trustie, thy dutie
so requires, be to al affable, lowly, louing:
And marke this one thing, detest euil companie chieflie:
for it wil doubtlesse lead thee to follie: shun it.
Shun womens faire lookes, Venus is faire but to be shunned:
Shees hurtfull, of her flatery see thou take heed:
As to the net with a call smal birds are craftily allured,
with false shew of a baite, as little fish be taken:
Euen so womens looks entrap young nouices oft times,
see thou beware they be naught, flie thē I warn thee, fly them
To know mens desire medle not, but speak wel of each one,
so shalt thou get same, and loue of all thy neighbours:
there thou shalt learne to magnifie God thy maker.
Both mony and counsell I thee giue, set more by my counsel,
Than mony, thou shalt be rich ynough if thou do thus:
More precious it is then gems which Tagus affoordeth,
then golden fleeces which Phasis Ile hap in it.
So fare well my sonne, God blesse and keep thee, remember
these things, and God wil surely preserue thee, Farewell.
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