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 VVorshipfull, his most approoved Friend, M. Robert Nicolson.
Sir, the kinde Welcom that you alwaies daign
To the fair Muses, and their favorites;
And chiefly mee, the meanest of their train
(Too mean to meddle with their sacred rites)
To the fair Muses, and their favorites;
And chiefly mee, the meanest of their train
(Too mean to meddle with their sacred rites)
My willing heart with thankfull hand invites
To offer you my busie-idle pain,
Ill-shapen shadows of my young delights,
Till better fruits my better Fates ordain.
To offer you my busie-idle pain,
Ill-shapen shadows of my young delights,
Till better fruits my better Fates ordain.
Yet (pray-you) private let this Iigg bee kept;
Vnworthy Object for judicious Eies:
Which, but for you, eternally had slept;
And, but to you, from hence-forth ever dies:
But, lack of better forç't mee, for a shift,
To bring you now this old-new New-yeers Gift.
Vnworthy Object for judicious Eies:
Which, but for you, eternally had slept;
And, but to you, from hence-forth ever dies:
But, lack of better forç't mee, for a shift,
To bring you now this old-new New-yeers Gift.
Semper Arcto-philos.
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