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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Now wanders Pan the arched Groues, and hils
Where Fayeries often danc'd, and Shepherds quils
In sweet contentions pass'd the tedious day:
Yet (being early) in his vnknowne way
Met not a Shepherd, nor on all the Plaine
A Flocke then feeding saw, nor of his traine
One iolly Satyre stirring yet abroad,
Of whom he might inquire; this to the load
Of his affliction addes. Now he inuokes
Those Nymphs in mighty Forrests, that with Oakes
Haue equall Fates, each with her seuerall Tree
Receiuing birth, and ending Destinie:
Cals on all Powres, intreats that he might haue
But for his Loue the knowledge of her graue;
That since the Fates had tane the Iem away,
He might but see the Carknet where it lay,
To doe fit right to such a part of mold,
Couering so rare a piece that all the Gold
Or Diamond Earth can yeeld, for value ne're
Shall match the treasure which was hidden there!
Where Fayeries often danc'd, and Shepherds quils
In sweet contentions pass'd the tedious day:
Yet (being early) in his vnknowne way
Met not a Shepherd, nor on all the Plaine
A Flocke then feeding saw, nor of his traine
One iolly Satyre stirring yet abroad,
Of whom he might inquire; this to the load
Of his affliction addes. Now he inuokes
Those Nymphs in mighty Forrests, that with Oakes
Haue equall Fates, each with her seuerall Tree
Receiuing birth, and ending Destinie:
Cals on all Powres, intreats that he might haue
But for his Loue the knowledge of her graue;
That since the Fates had tane the Iem away,
He might but see the Carknet where it lay,
To doe fit right to such a part of mold,
Couering so rare a piece that all the Gold
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Shall match the treasure which was hidden there!
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