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[Apollo great, whose beames the greater world do light]
[Basilius.]Apollo great, whose beames the greater world do light,
And in our little world do cleare our inward sight,
Which ever shine, though hid from earth by earthly shade,
Whose lights do ever live, but in our darkenesse fade;
Thou God, whose youth was deckt with spoiles of Pythōs skin:
“(So humble knowledge can throw downe the snakish kinne)
Latonas sonne, whose birth in paine and travaile long
Doth teach, to learne the good what travailes do belong:
“In travaile of our life (a short but tedious space)
While brickle houreglas runnes, guide thou our panting pace:
Give us foresightfull mindes: give us minds to obaye
What foresight tels; our thoughts upon thy knowledge staye.
Let so our fruites grow up, that nature be maintainde:
But so our hartes keepe downe, with vice they be not stainde.
Let this assured holde our judgements overtake,
“That nothing winnes the heaven, but what doth earth forsake.
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