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[Ankor tryumph, upon whose blessed shore]
Ankor tryumph, upon whose blessed shore,
The sacred Muses solemnize thy name:
Where the Arcadian Swaines with rytes adore
Pandoras poesy, and her living fame.
The sacred Muses solemnize thy name:
Where the Arcadian Swaines with rytes adore
Pandoras poesy, and her living fame.
Where first this jolly Sheepheard gan rehearse,
That heavenly worth, upon his Oaten reede,
Of earths great Queene: in Nectar-dewed verse,
Which none so wise that rightly can areede.
That heavenly worth, upon his Oaten reede,
Of earths great Queene: in Nectar-dewed verse,
Which none so wise that rightly can areede.
Nowe in conceite of his ambitious love,
He mounts his thoughts unto the highest gate,
Straynd with some sacred spirit from above,
Bewraies his love, his fayth, his life, his fate:
He mounts his thoughts unto the highest gate,
Straynd with some sacred spirit from above,
Bewraies his love, his fayth, his life, his fate:
In this his myrror of Ideas praise,
On whom his thoughts, and fortunes all attend,
Tunes all his Ditties, and his Roundelaies,
How love begun, how love shal never end.
No wonder though his Muse then soare so hie,
Whose subject is the Queene of Poesie.
On whom his thoughts, and fortunes all attend,
Tunes all his Ditties, and his Roundelaies,
How love begun, how love shal never end.
No wonder though his Muse then soare so hie,
Whose subject is the Queene of Poesie.
Gorbo il fidele.
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