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TO THE KING OF SCOTLAND.
Where others hooded with blind loue do flie,Low on the ground with buzzard CVPIDS wings,
A heauenlie loue, from loue of loue thee brings,
And makes thy MVSE to mount aboue the skie,
Young Muses be not woont to flie too hie,
Age taught by time, such sober ditties sings,
But thy youth flies from loue of youthfull things,
And so the wings of time doth ouerflie.
Thus thou disdainst all worldlie wings as slow,
Because thy MVSE with Angels wings doth leaue
Times wings behind, and CVPIDS wings below,
But take thou heed, least Fames wings thee deceaue.
With all thy speed from Fame thou canst not flee,
But more thou flees, the more it followes thee.
HENRIE CONSTABLE.
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