Du Bartas His Divine Weekes And Workes with A Compleate Collectio[n] of all the other most delight-full Workes: Translated and written by yt famous Philomusus: Iosvah Sylvester |
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To the Honourable, Sir Robert Carie: Sir Iames
Fullarton: Sir Robert Carr: Sir Dauid Foulis: Master
Thomas Murray. |
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To the Honourable, Sir Robert Carie: Sir Iames Fullarton: Sir Robert Carr: Sir Dauid Foulis: Master Thomas Murray.
Graue
Guides and Guards of Hopefull Charles
his Wayn,
Lest I incurr the least of Your Disdaigne;
If, without Leaue, I (ouer-rashly rude)
Vsurp Your Rooms, or on Your Rights intrude;
I humbly craue Your Licence; and Your Loues,
For My Address, When My Access behoves.
Lest I incurr the least of Your Disdaigne;
If, without Leaue, I (ouer-rashly rude)
Vsurp Your Rooms, or on Your Rights intrude;
I humbly craue Your Licence; and Your Loues,
For My Address, When My Access behoves.
I know, the Field of His Yong HIGHNES heart
So duly till'd by Your deep Care and Art
(Adding His Fathers Royall golden Writt;
And goodly Practice; to demonstrate it:
His (late) rare Brother's Pattern, of Renowne:
With Honest Quin's new-cast Prince-Worthy Crown:
And holy Promptings of that reuerend Payre,
Milborne and Hackwill, from the sacred Chaire)
That little needs Hee the Stagyrian's store,
The Corduban's, or the Attik-Muse his Lore:
Much lesse (alas!) My silly Muses Myte,
With borrowed Feathers to aduance his Flight.
So duly till'd by Your deep Care and Art
(Adding His Fathers Royall golden Writt;
And goodly Practice; to demonstrate it:
His (late) rare Brother's Pattern, of Renowne:
With Honest Quin's new-cast Prince-Worthy Crown:
And holy Promptings of that reuerend Payre,
Milborne and Hackwill, from the sacred Chaire)
That little needs Hee the Stagyrian's store,
The Corduban's, or the Attik-Muse his Lore:
Much lesse (alas!) My silly Muses Myte,
With borrowed Feathers to aduance his Flight.
Yet sith, too-often, to a tender Eare,
Too-serious Lectures sound but too-severe;
Especially, to Princes dainty Taste,
They seeme but harsh, and will not down in haste
(As holesom'st Dishes, if but homely drest,
Some queasie Stomachs hardly can digest):
Let me presume (with your good leaues) a while
To imitate Physicians honest Guile;
Who, oft, in Sugar sheathe their bitter Pills,
The better so to Cure vnwilling Ills,
When wayward Patients, for the Sugars sake,
Take-in their Health, which else they would not take.
Too-serious Lectures sound but too-severe;
Especially, to Princes dainty Taste,
They seeme but harsh, and will not down in haste
(As holesom'st Dishes, if but homely drest,
Some queasie Stomachs hardly can digest):
Let me presume (with your good leaues) a while
To imitate Physicians honest Guile;
Who, oft, in Sugar sheathe their bitter Pills,
The better so to Cure vnwilling Ills,
When wayward Patients, for the Sugars sake,
Take-in their Health, which else they would not take.
Sad Rules of Patience, Abstinence, Austeritie,
Humility, Frugality, Sincerity,
Religion, Labour, Care of Common-Wealth,
And Manie, meet for Prince and Peoples Health;
Which hardly can, in their Owne Likenes, sink
In Youth-full Mindes (scarce in their Eares, I think)
How grauely oft, with greatest Diligence
Prest; and imprest with Tullian Eloquence:
Sweetly disguis'd, in artificiall Sutes,
Dauncing the Measures after Delphian Lutes,
Washed in Nectar, wrapt in sugred Verse,
Enter more easily, and more deeply perce.
Humility, Frugality, Sincerity,
Religion, Labour, Care of Common-Wealth,
And Manie, meet for Prince and Peoples Health;
Which hardly can, in their Owne Likenes, sink
In Youth-full Mindes (scarce in their Eares, I think)
How grauely oft, with greatest Diligence
Prest; and imprest with Tullian Eloquence:
Sweetly disguis'd, in artificiall Sutes,
Dauncing the Measures after Delphian Lutes,
Washed in Nectar, wrapt in sugred Verse,
Enter more easily, and more deeply perce.
This I endevour: and to This Intent
I summon CHARLES to Vertues PARLAMENT.
I summon CHARLES to Vertues PARLAMENT.
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