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Menaphons Roundelay.
When tender Ewes brought home with euenings Sun,
Wend to their Folds,
And to their holds
The Sheepheards trudge when light of day is done
Vpon a tree,
The Eagle Ioues faire bird did pearch,
There resteth hee.
A little Flie his harbour then did search,
And did presume, (though others laugh'd thereat)
To pearch whereas the Princely Eagle sat.
Wend to their Folds,
And to their holds
The Sheepheards trudge when light of day is done
Vpon a tree,
The Eagle Ioues faire bird did pearch,
There resteth hee.
A little Flie his harbour then did search,
And did presume, (though others laugh'd thereat)
To pearch whereas the Princely Eagle sat.
The Eagle frownd, and shooke his royall wings,
And charg'd the Flie
From thence to hie.
Afraide, in hast the little creature flings,
Yet seekes againe,
Fearefull to pearke him by the Eagles side.
With moodie vaine
The speedie poast of Ganimede replide:
Vassaile auaunt, or with my wings you die.
Is't sit an Eagle seate him with a Flie?
And charg'd the Flie
From thence to hie.
Afraide, in hast the little creature flings,
Yet seekes againe,
Fearefull to pearke him by the Eagles side.
With moodie vaine
The speedie poast of Ganimede replide:
Vassaile auaunt, or with my wings you die.
Is't sit an Eagle seate him with a Flie?
The Flie crau'd pitty, still the Eagle frownd.
The silly Flie
Ready to die:
Disgrac'd, displac'd, fell groueling to the ground.
The Eagle sawe:
And with a royall mind said to the Flie,
Be not in awe,
I scorne by me the meanest creature die.
Then seate thee heere: The ioyfull Flie vp-flings,
And sate safe shadowed with the Eagles wings.
The silly Flie
Ready to die:
Disgrac'd, displac'd, fell groueling to the ground.
The Eagle sawe:
And with a royall mind said to the Flie,
Be not in awe,
I scorne by me the meanest creature die.
Then seate thee heere: The ioyfull Flie vp-flings,
And sate safe shadowed with the Eagles wings.
FINIS.
Ro. Greene.
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