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SONNET XIX.
[Imperious Ioue with sweet lipp'd Mercurie]
Imperious Ioue with sweet lipp'd MercurieLearned Minerua, Phœbus god of light
Vain-swelling Bacchus, Venus queene of bewtie
With light foote Phœbe lampe of silent night:
These haue (with diuerse dieties beside)
Borrow'd the shapes of many a mortall creature,
But (faire Parthenophe) grac'd with the pride
Of each of these, sweet Queene of louely feature.
As tho she were, with pearle of all their skill
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In wrath Ioues forehead, with sweet noting quill
She matcheth Mercurie, Mineruaes wittes,
In goldie-lockes bright Tytan, Bacchus syttes
In her hands conduict pypes, sweet Venus face,
Dianaes legge the tyrian buskines grace.
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