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[46]
HIERONYMVS BALBVS.
To Guido.
In signe of trustie frendship true,my Guido trustie frende:
Bothe Uerses fine, and apples fine,
vnto vs thou didst sende.
As apples fine delight the mouthe,
so Uerses please the minde:
The firste in taste, the seconde graest,
moste pleasaunt we did finde.
Thy apples passe the glisteryng golde:
thy Uerses pearles excell:
Thy guifts from either golde, or pearle,
quight beare awaie the bell.
Not better apples then were thine,
might kyng Alcinous sende:
And Uerses thyne so excellent,
God Clarius might not mende.
To Marianus.
Thou enemie to muses nine,thou foe to learned dames:
How darst thou Poets pure dispise,
and seeke to foyle their fames?
Orpheus Poet excellent,
with song and sugred voice:
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bothe stones and beasts reioyce.
Arion fingeryng fine his Harpe,
with cunnyng skilfull hande:
Was by a Dolphin saued from seas,
and brought vnto the lande.
Amphion by his eloquence
and sugred speaches milde:
Brought to a ciuell forme of life,
rude barbarous people wilde.
Now if so thou procede and speake,
gainst Poets that excell:
More harde art thou then ragged stones,
and beasts in woods that dwell.
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