The Whole Works of William Browne of Tavistock ... Now first collected and edited, with a memoir of the poet, and notes, by W. Carew Hazlitt, of the Inner Temple |
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TO THE NO LESSE ENOBLED BY VERTVE, THEN ANCIENT
In Nobilitie, the Right Honorable Edvvard
Lord Zouch, Saint-Maure, and Cantelupe, and
one of his Maiesties most Honourable Privie Covncell. |
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TO THE NO LESSE ENOBLED BY VERTVE, THEN ANCIENT In Nobilitie, the Right Honorable Edvvard Lord Zouch, Saint-Maure, and Cantelupe, and one of his Maiesties most Honourable Privie Covncell.
Honors bright Ray,More highly crown'd with Vertue thē with yeares,
Pardon a Rusticke Muse that thus appeares
In Shepheards gray,
Intreating your attention to a Lay
Fitting a Siluan Bowre, not Courtly Traines;
Such choiser eares,
Should haue Apollo's Priests, not Pans rude Swaines:
But if the Musick of contented Plaines
A thought vpreares
For your approuement of that part she beares,
When time (that Embrions to perfection brings)
Hath taught her straines,
May better boast their being from the Spring
Where braue Heroës worths the Sisters sing:
(In Lines whose raignes
In spight of Enuy and her restlesse paines:
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The Vales shall ring
Thy Honor'd Name; and euery Song shall be
A Pyramis built to thy Memorie.
Your Honors: W. Brovvne.
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