Philomythie or Philomythologie wherein Outlandish Birds, Beasts, and Fishes, are taught to speake true English plainely. By Tho: Scot ... The second edition much inlarged |
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This counsell they applaud; but th'Eagle thought
How purer, hotter, flames might soone be fought:
And vp he nimbly sores the milke-white way,
Where (being a minion knowne) he findes no stay;
Each dore flies ope alone, till to the eare
Of mighty Ioue he gets, and let him heare
His businesse and his suite, which was for fire
And thunderbolts; Ioue grants his full desire.
Downe quickly he descends and makes a traine
About the place where this theefe doth remaine:
Then powder he applies vnto the root
Oft' hollow tree, and thence the slaue doth shoot.
He shoots him thence into the ayre as hye,
As th'Eagles selfe could follow with his eye.
And downe he comes and doth descend the deep,
Where the still Center doth no motion keep.
Then vp againe aboue the swelling maine,
He bounds, there floting without sense or paine.
And ere he can recouer labouring breath,
That's loth to part, the Whale from vnderneath
The traytor doth attach, and straightway brings
To be arrayn'd before the other Kings.
Him they examine, but he will confesse
No truth, but what they know as he doth ghesse.
Then they doe racke him (being rent before)
Yet he no truth, but many a lye doth rore.
Till with the violent torture and constraint,
Life almost failing, and with sufferings faint,
His gorge he vomits and bewraies with paine
The truth, for which they sought so long in vaine.
How purer, hotter, flames might soone be fought:
And vp he nimbly sores the milke-white way,
Where (being a minion knowne) he findes no stay;
Each dore flies ope alone, till to the eare
Of mighty Ioue he gets, and let him heare
His businesse and his suite, which was for fire
And thunderbolts; Ioue grants his full desire.
Downe quickly he descends and makes a traine
About the place where this theefe doth remaine:
Then powder he applies vnto the root
Oft' hollow tree, and thence the slaue doth shoot.
He shoots him thence into the ayre as hye,
As th'Eagles selfe could follow with his eye.
And downe he comes and doth descend the deep,
Where the still Center doth no motion keep.
Then vp againe aboue the swelling maine,
He bounds, there floting without sense or paine.
And ere he can recouer labouring breath,
That's loth to part, the Whale from vnderneath
To be arrayn'd before the other Kings.
Him they examine, but he will confesse
No truth, but what they know as he doth ghesse.
Then they doe racke him (being rent before)
Yet he no truth, but many a lye doth rore.
Till with the violent torture and constraint,
Life almost failing, and with sufferings faint,
His gorge he vomits and bewraies with paine
The truth, for which they sought so long in vaine.
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