The Works of William Fowler Secretary to Queen Anne, Wife of James VI. Edited with introduction, appendix, notes and glossary by Henry W. Meikle |
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Ane Summarye and a Sonett
vpon the Triumphs and the Translatour.
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Ane Summarye and a Sonett vpon the Triumphs and the Translatour.
If conquering Cupid, captane of Renoune,Who chaines his captiwes to his chariot bright,
By Chastetie is chaist and beaten doune,
And by her vertew spoyled is of might;
If deathe, the daunter of the humane wight,
Triumphe vpon that Dame and doeth hir thrall,
Surviving Fame clames bot hir propper right
To liue through land or lak as doth befall:
Bot thow, O Tyme, that long and short we call,
The Triumphe of the rest thow wouldest retane,
Wer not Eternitie confounds tham all,
as nothing more Triumphant may remane.
Than what abyds to Fowlar thame hes pend?—
Eternitie, to which he dois pretend.
Th. Hudsoun.
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