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Third Entry
Fretumenters & after 3 Congies speakes
As to my great undoubted Sire I Bowe
And Bend the knees of my Obedience
Your will most Royall father
Oceanus:
—Sonne, 'tis this:
When first out of the Chaos I did runne
And Compase in its part was Sollydder
That Terra firma tooke for name whilest I
Oceanus am Calld; wee both Like freinds
Or Neighbour Princes (if a freind be not
Too Lowe A style to Court a prince withall)
Embrac't each other with such Mutuall Closes
That you were borne my first and eldest Sonne
And soe beare halfe your Mothers name of Terram
Wherefore allthough some breaches haue produc't
A full diuource betwixt us: yet my Charge
Is that with due obedience you waft
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Soe 't be within yor Bounds. ffor those againe
I Charge yow not t'exceed. Yor portion falls
In Vertues midle way, which is the best,
Where for disports y' haue Candy Ile or Creet
To entertaine yow; Malta for defence
Where knights engarison'd keepe Residence
If Cupids shafts Come piled from the forge
Vulcane in Ætna keepes, faire Cicely
Is wounded strayght and falls into yor Armes
Sardinia and Corsica two twinns betroth
themselues to yor soft Liquid Bed and Both
Maiorca and Minorca think 't a Grace
That yow'l be pleasd t'vouchsafe them an embrace.
ffor wracks (as there must needes bee some to raise
Your fame to those escape) in stead of Bayes
The Leafe of Triumph, you an Ile possesse
Affording Cypres fitt for Obsoqueis
These Blessings yow enioy, then be Content
fflowe not through pride, ebb not through discontent
Fretum:
As you Commannd soe must my waues obey
There is noe striueing 'gainst a fathers Swaye
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