A Courtlie controuersie of Cupids Cautels Conteyning fiue Tragicall Histories, very pithie, pleasant, pitiful, and profitable: Discoursed uppon wyth Argumentes of Loue, by three Gentlemen and two Gentlewomen, entermedled with diuers delicate Sonets and Rithmes, exceeding delightfull to refresh the yrkesomnesse of tedious tyme. Translated out of French as neare as our English phrase will permit, by H. VV. Gentleman [i.e. Henry Wotton] |
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And in the Dryades Table, this Cenotaph ensuing.
Conceiued sith Dame Venus wasVpon the fome of surging Seas,
No Swimmer may this water passe,
Hir wrathfull spite doth so displease:
Leander knewe too soone alas,
VVhen feruent Loue did force him seaze
The deadely shoare where Hero laye,
For salte Seas drownde hym by the waye.
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