The Life and Poems of Richard Edwards By Leicester Bradner: A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy |
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A replie to M. Edwards May.
I read a maying rime of late delighted much my eare,
It may delight as many moe, as it shall reade or heare.
To see how there is shewed how May is much of price,
And eke to May when that you may even so is his advice.
It seemes he meant to may himselfe, and so to use his skill,
For that the time did serve so well, in May to have his will.
His only May was ease of mind so farre as i can gesse,
And that his May his mind did please a man can judge no lesse.
It may delight as many moe, as it shall reade or heare.
To see how there is shewed how May is much of price,
And eke to May when that you may even so is his advice.
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For that the time did serve so well, in May to have his will.
His only May was ease of mind so farre as i can gesse,
And that his May his mind did please a man can judge no lesse.
And as himselfe did reape the fruites of that his pleasant May,
He wils his freende the same to use in time when as he may.
He is not for himselfe it seemes but wisheth well to all,
For that he would they should take May in time when it doth fall.
So use your may, you may, it cannot hurtfull be,
And May well used in time & place may make you mery gle:
Modest maying meetest is, of this you may be sure,
A modest maying quietnes to Mayers doth procure.
He wils his freende the same to use in time when as he may.
He is not for himselfe it seemes but wisheth well to all,
For that he would they should take May in time when it doth fall.
So use your may, you may, it cannot hurtfull be,
And May well used in time & place may make you mery gle:
Modest maying meetest is, of this you may be sure,
A modest maying quietnes to Mayers doth procure.
Who may & will not take, may wish he had so done,
Who may & it doth take, may thinke he tooke too sone:
So joyne your May with wisedomes lore and then you may be sure,
Who makes his May in other sort his unrest may procure.
Some may before May come, some may when May is past,
Some make their May to late and some doe May post hast:
Let wisedome rule I say your May, and thus I make an ende,
And May that when you list to May, a good May God you sende.
Who may & it doth take, may thinke he tooke too sone:
So joyne your May with wisedomes lore and then you may be sure,
Who makes his May in other sort his unrest may procure.
Some may before May come, some may when May is past,
Some make their May to late and some doe May post hast:
Let wisedome rule I say your May, and thus I make an ende,
And May that when you list to May, a good May God you sende.
Finis.
M. S.
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