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Sonnet. 6. In the praise of musicke.
Twas Musick fetch'd Euridice from hell,And rap'd grim Pluto with harmonious straines:
Renowned Orpheus did with Musick quell
The fiends, and ease the tortur'd of their paines.
The Dolphin did account it wondrous gaines,
To heare Arion play as hee did ride:
Gods, fiends, fish, fowles, & shepheards on the plains
Melodious Musicke still hath magnifide:
And ancient records plainely doe decide,
How braue Orlando, Palatine of France,
When he was raging mad for Meadors bride,
Sweet Musicke cur'd his crazed wits mischance.
For Musick's only fit for heau'ns high quire,
Which though men cannot praise enough, admire.
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