A Medicinable Morall that is, the two Bookes of Horace his Satyres, Englyshed accordyng to the prescription of saint Hierome. The Wailynges of the Prophet Hieremiah, done into Englyshe verse. Also Epigrammes. T. Drant |
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TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE and moste noble Lorde, the Lord Robert Dudley, Erle of Leicester.
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TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE and moste noble Lorde, the Lord Robert Dudley, Erle of Leicester.
To heare a pleasant penned verse,Augustus tooke delyte:
And well allowde, the wittes that could,
his prayses well indite.
From massie care of common wealthe,
ofte woulde he, for a space,
Translate him selfe, to interuewe
and iudge a Poets grace.
Augustus nowe is dead and gone,
his fame hath founde her wynges,
Of hym, the broode of Pegasse house,
and noble Muses synges.
If Englande had suche curious wittes,
that coulde in stately verse,
The factes, the feates of worthy wightes,
and royall gestes reherse:
Your lordshyps honour, should be made,
the myrrour of our tyme,
Because you loue to laye your lookes
vpon a Poets ryme.
Some mountynge wittes, that loue to mount,
and soore aloofe in skie,
Bothe will and can arreare your fame,
and lodge it in the skie,
If we be not to rude vnkynde,
You and your golden yeares,
Wherin you lyue, shall geue assaulte
vnto the furthest eares.
Not onely we shall liue in you,
the daies that you dwell here,
Shall shine and shewe to other worldes,
in you sette foorthe so clere.
by whom the worlde shall wynne,
And welcome to that happy age,
wherein you dyd begynne:
Moste hartie welcome vnto vs,
on your aduice dothe staye.
The pondrous peyse of publique weale,
and vrgent weyghtie swaye.
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