The Authors Conclusion.
Now
Goddesses and Muses giue me leaue,
In this sad Tragedie to acte a part,
I haue more cause for her decease to greeue,
Though you more wit to shew your sorrows smart:
Yee for affection doe extoll her praise,
And for mere pittie doe her death lament,
I both for loue and duetie striue to raise
Her fame aboue the starrie firmament:
And death for enuie did abridge her daies
T'enritch his kingdome with this vertuous dame
But I for griefe that death the Tyrant plaies,
Impouerisht haue my wit t'enrich her fame
While I performe these rites which are most fit,
Death waxeth rich in spoyle, I spoild of witte.
Annotations vpon the Celestiall Elegies of the Muses.
The nine Muses which are the presidents of Poets
and first authors of Poetry Musicke & other
sciences, are the daughters of Iupiter & mnemosyne
alias memoria whose names are Clio, Melpomine,
Thalia, Eutepre, Terpsichore, Erato, Calliope, Vrania &
Polihimnia. Clio exerciseth her wit & skill chiefely
in Histories and recording the actes & monumēts
of worthie persons, Melpomine in Tragedies, and
lamentable Elegies, Thalia in Comedies, comely
gestures, and sweete speeches, Euterpe in the pipe
& such like instruments, Terpsichore in the Citterne
or Lute, Erato in Geometrie, or Chosmographie,
Calliope in heroicke verses, Vrania in Astrologie and
contemplation of the starres, and Polihimnia in
Rhetorick and Eloquence.
