The most famous and Tragicall Historie of Pelops and Hippodamia Whereunto are adioyned sundrie pleasant deuises, Epigrams, Songes and Sonnettes. Written by Mathewe Groue |
Of faithfull friendship.
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The most famous and Tragicall Historie of Pelops and Hippodamia | ||
Of faithfull friendship.
VVhen worldly wealth doth vade & decay,And erthly riches to erth do turn againe
Hap what hap may doth styll remayne.
May any man find the lyke of Carion
And Menalip companions aye,
Who to the death were friends? no not one,
Who kept this frendship most stedfest in stay,
There are freends dead, and of sorts twayne,
By prouing a man may finde it true,
The one in countnance all for gaine,
The others words dead to ensue.
Some men remember Pylades,
A faithfull man, a trusty wyght,
Oh sacred freend vnto Orestes,
Oh sparkling starre to giue vs light:
They all are gone and layd in graue,
Once we had Pilades, and once Orestes,
But them againe or like, we none shall haue,
Ne haue not nowe, to trace their progresse:
Menalip is gone, and Carion,
The sacred soules hath rapt them aye,
Their facts haue we as yet to looke vpon,
Such kept the flowre of freendship in stay.
The most famous and Tragicall Historie of Pelops and Hippodamia | ||