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[xii] EPIGRAMME.
[Illustrious Top-bough of Heroicke Stemme]
Illustrious Top-bough of Heroicke Stemme,Whose head is crown'd with glories Anademe,
My shallow Muse, not daring to draw neere
Bright Phœbus burning flames in his careere;
Yet knowing surely that Apollo shines
Vpon the Dung-hill, as on golden Mines:
And knowing this, the bounty of best Kings,
To marke the giver, not the gifted things,
Doth boldly venture in this pompous throng
To greet thy greatnesse with a wel-come Song;
And with the Pye doth Ave Cæsar sing,
While graver wits doe greater Offrings bring.
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