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The second Song.
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The second Song.
[Olimpian IOVE to the bright ALBA sends]
Olimpian IOVE to the bright ALBA sendsNo vulgar God to beare his deare Commends.
And with pure eyes, and a paternall hand,
This Vniverse having survey'd, and span'd,
In Councell with himselfe, he hath decreed,
From fayre ALBIPOLIS shall soone proceede
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To weare those Bayes; Heroicke, as his mind;
Iust, as his actions; Glorious, as his Reigne.
And like his Vertues, Infinite in Treyne.
Th'Immortall Swannes, contending for his Name,
Shall beare it singing, to the House of Fame.
And though at distance yet High IOVE is pleas'd
Your laboring eyes shall with his sight be eas'd.
This from a God, vnto a Goddesse sent,
A God Relates, that could vse Complement:
But when such States, negotiate by such meanes
We speake in Acts, and scorne words trifling Scenes.
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