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CYNTHIVS IOANNES BAPTISTA.
To Diana Ariosta.
In browe, in breast, in beautie braue,in skill, and noble name:
Chast Cynthia thou resemblest right
Diana, peerlesse Dame.
In this alone ye are not like,
hartes wilde she killed still:
Hartes milde thou kilst: she kild with bowe,
with look but thou dost kill.
Of Niobe.
Ye pleasaunt brutes be packyng hence,approche ye pensiue wights:
And mourne with me whom sorrowe fell,
torments bothe daies and nights.
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and brought into the light:
Of 7. and 7. (ah wretche) againe
the Gods haue refte me quight.
I melted into teares, and now
transformde to Marble stone:
I drop foorth teares: so as in life
I mourne, now life is gone.
Learne here ye mortalles all, what tis
with stroutyng pride to swell:
And what likewise, for to despise
the Gods, in heauen that dwell.
Of his straunge loue.
In fire I freeze, in Froste I frie:How so, wouldst knowe? a louer I.
To Renata, a noble Dame.
For princely pompe, and riches greate,queene Iuno beares the bell:
Pallas for skill: for puritie
Diana doeth excell.
For beautie braue doeth Venus passe:
Renata learned well,
Riche, chast, of beautie braue beside,
all fower doeth farre excell.
Vesbia.
Three Furies (heretofore)haue alwaies been in hell:
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there furies fower doe dwell.
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