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To make a Iournall of each Circumstance;
His change of fortunes, or each obuious chance
Befell his tedious trauell: to relate
The braue attempt of this exploit, or that;
His rare atchieuements, and their faire successe;
His noble courage, in extreame distresse;
His desp'rate dangers; his deliuerance:
His high esteeme with men, which did enhanse
His meanest actions to the throne of Ioue:
And what he sufferd, for Partheniaes loue,
Would make our volume endlesse, opt to try
The vtmost patience of a studious eye;
All which, the bounty of a free conceit
May sooner reach too, then my pen relate.
But till bright Cynthiaes head had three times thrise
Repayr'd her empty hornes, and fill'd the eyes
Of gazing mortalls, with her globe of light,
This restlesse louer ceas'd not, day and night,
To wander, in a sollitarie Quest
For her, whose loue had taught him to digest
The dregges of sorrow, and to count all ioyes
But follyes (weigh'd with her) at least, but toyes.
His change of fortunes, or each obuious chance
Befell his tedious trauell: to relate
The braue attempt of this exploit, or that;
His rare atchieuements, and their faire successe;
His noble courage, in extreame distresse;
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His high esteeme with men, which did enhanse
His meanest actions to the throne of Ioue:
And what he sufferd, for Partheniaes loue,
Would make our volume endlesse, opt to try
The vtmost patience of a studious eye;
All which, the bounty of a free conceit
May sooner reach too, then my pen relate.
But till bright Cynthiaes head had three times thrise
Repayr'd her empty hornes, and fill'd the eyes
Of gazing mortalls, with her globe of light,
This restlesse louer ceas'd not, day and night,
To wander, in a sollitarie Quest
For her, whose loue had taught him to digest
The dregges of sorrow, and to count all ioyes
But follyes (weigh'd with her) at least, but toyes.
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