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Du Bartas

His Divine Weekes And Workes with A Compleate Collectio[n] of all the other most delight-full Workes: Translated and written by yt famous Philomusus: Iosvah Sylvester

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TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE Charles Lord Mount-ioy, Earle of Deuonshire.

THE IMPOSTVRE.

Though in thy Brook (great Charles) there swim a Swan,
Whose happy, sweet, immortall tunes can raise
The vertuous Greatness of thy Noble praise
To higher notes, than my faint Numbers can;
Yet, while thy Lucan doth in silence scan
Vnto himselfe new meditated laies,
To finish vp his sad Pharsalian fraies;
Lend ear to Bartas (now our Country-man).
For, though his English be not yet so good
(As French-men hardly do our tongue attain)
He hopeth yet to be well vnderstood;
The rather, if you (worthy Lord) shall daign
His bashfulness a little to aduance,
With the milde fauours of your countenance.
I. S.