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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In louely May when Titans golden raies
Make ods in houres betweene the nights and daies,
And weigheth almost downe the once-euen Scale
Where night and day by th' Æquinoctiall
Were laid in ballance, as his powre he bent
To banish Cynthia from her Regiment,
To Latmus stately Hill, and with his light
To rule the vpper world both day and night:
Making the poore Antipodes to feare
A like coniunction 'twixt great Iupiter
And some Alc'mena new, or that the Sun
From their Horizon did obliquely run:
This time the Swaines and Maidens of the Ile
The day with sportiue dances doe beguile,
And euery Valley rings with shepherds songs,
And euery Eccho each sweet noat prolongs,
And euery Riuer with vnusuall pride
And dimpled cheeke rowles sleeping to the tide;
And lesser springs, which ayrie-breeding Woods
Preferre as hand-maids to the mighty floods,
Scarce fill vp halfe their channels, making haste
(In feare, as boyes) lest all the sport be past.
Make ods in houres betweene the nights and daies,
And weigheth almost downe the once-euen Scale
Where night and day by th' Æquinoctiall
Were laid in ballance, as his powre he bent
To banish Cynthia from her Regiment,
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To rule the vpper world both day and night:
Making the poore Antipodes to feare
A like coniunction 'twixt great Iupiter
And some Alc'mena new, or that the Sun
From their Horizon did obliquely run:
This time the Swaines and Maidens of the Ile
The day with sportiue dances doe beguile,
And euery Valley rings with shepherds songs,
And euery Eccho each sweet noat prolongs,
And euery Riuer with vnusuall pride
And dimpled cheeke rowles sleeping to the tide;
And lesser springs, which ayrie-breeding Woods
Preferre as hand-maids to the mighty floods,
Scarce fill vp halfe their channels, making haste
(In feare, as boyes) lest all the sport be past.
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