Hobbinols Embleme.
O dea certe.
Embleme.
This Poesye is taken out of Virgile, and there of him vsed in the person of
Æneas to his mother Venus, appearing to him in likenesse of one of
Dianaes damosells: being there most diuinely set forth. To which similitude
of diuinitie Hobbinoll comparing the excelency of Elisa, and being
through the worthynes of Colins song, as it were, ouercome with the
hugenesse of his imagination, brusteth out in great admiration, (O quam te
memorem virgo?) being otherwise vnhable, then by soddein silence, to
expresse the worthinesse of his conceipt. Whom Thenot answereth with
another part of the like verse, as confirming by his graunt and approuaunce,
that Elisa is nowhit inferiour to the Maiestie of her, of whome that Poete
so boldly pronounced, O dea certe.
