The Whole Works of William Browne of Tavistock ... Now first collected and edited, with a memoir of the poet, and notes, by W. Carew Hazlitt, of the Inner Temple |
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Great Pan of his kinde Nymph had the imbracing
Long, yet too short a time. For as in tracing
These pithfull Rushes, such as are aloft
By those that rais'd them presently are brought
Beneath vnseene: So in the loue of Pan
(For Gods in loue doe vndergoe as man),
She whose affection made him raise his song,
And (for her sport) the Satyres rude among
Tread wilder measures then the frolike guests,
That lift their light heeles at Lyëus feasts:
Shee by the light of whose quick-turning eye
He neuer read but of felicitie:
She whose assurance made him more than Pan,
Now makes him farre more wretched then a man.
For mortals in their losse haue death a friend,
When gods haue losses, but their losse no end.
Long, yet too short a time. For as in tracing
These pithfull Rushes, such as are aloft
By those that rais'd them presently are brought
Beneath vnseene: So in the loue of Pan
(For Gods in loue doe vndergoe as man),
She whose affection made him raise his song,
And (for her sport) the Satyres rude among
Tread wilder measures then the frolike guests,
That lift their light heeles at Lyëus feasts:
Shee by the light of whose quick-turning eye
He neuer read but of felicitie:
She whose assurance made him more than Pan,
Now makes him farre more wretched then a man.
For mortals in their losse haue death a friend,
When gods haue losses, but their losse no end.
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