Satirycall dialogve or a sharplye-invectiue conference, betweene Allexander the great, and that truelye woman-hater Diogynes [by William Goddard] |
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[To the] bewteous: to the all-illustrious, and most puissaunt creatures of the Earth, VVOEMEN: Willyam Goddard, sole desirer of th'yncrease of your bewtyes, and chiefe adorer of your goddes-like vertues, (with al reuerence to your Angelicall sex,) commendes to your protection this harsh vnlearned DIALOGVE.
Starrs
of this earthlie heaun, you whose essence
Composd was of mans purest quyntessince,
To you (to virtuous you) J dedicate
This snaggy sprigg, hew'd from a crabby pate
Wherein (Celestiall bewties) you shall see,
Howe old Diogynes extolleth yee.
We men, doe loue to see our selues vp-raisd
And Jocond are, o heare our own selues praisd
But (oh you springes of Wisdome) J doe find
That is a thing most hatefull to your kind.
Yet old Diogynes did see your worth,
Such worth hee sawe, as needes heed paint it forth.
Accept his loue; for all the Cynnicks deedes
Out of true zeale vnto your sex proceedes
With rev'rent zeale, as high as th'azurd skyes
Your virtuous deedes, the old man magnifies.
Contrary wise, he with a bitter penn
Jnvectivelie, doth write against bad men
Comanunding them, that what soe e're they doe,
They alwaies should example take by you.
Composd was of mans purest quyntessince,
To you (to virtuous you) J dedicate
This snaggy sprigg, hew'd from a crabby pate
Wherein (Celestiall bewties) you shall see,
Howe old Diogynes extolleth yee.
We men, doe loue to see our selues vp-raisd
And Jocond are, o heare our own selues praisd
But (oh you springes of Wisdome) J doe find
That is a thing most hatefull to your kind.
Yet old Diogynes did see your worth,
Such worth hee sawe, as needes heed paint it forth.
Accept his loue; for all the Cynnicks deedes
Out of true zeale vnto your sex proceedes
With rev'rent zeale, as high as th'azurd skyes
Your virtuous deedes, the old man magnifies.
Contrary wise, he with a bitter penn
Jnvectivelie, doth write against bad men
Comanunding them, that what soe e're they doe,
They alwaies should example take by you.
Badd are these men, such is their perverse kind
They burne all bookes, wherein theire faults they find
And therefore (earthlie aungells) my desire
Js you'l protect this, from consuming fire.
They burne all bookes, wherein theire faults they find
And therefore (earthlie aungells) my desire
Js you'l protect this, from consuming fire.
The euer-faythfull honourer
of your celestyall Sex Willyam Goddard.
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