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SONNET.
[The mightie Father of the Muses nyne]
The mightie Father of the Muses nyneWho mounted thame vpon Parnassus hill,
Where Phœbus faire amidd these Sisters fyne
With learned toung satt teaching euer still,
Of late yon God declared his woundrous will,
That Vranie should teach this Prince most rare:
Syne she informed her scholler with such skill,
None could with him in Poesie compaire.
Lo, heir the fructis, Nymphe, of thy foster faire,
Lo heir (ô noble Ioue) thy will is done,
Her charge compleit, as deid doth now declaire.
This work will witnesse, she obeyed the sone.
O Phœbus then reioyce with glauncing glore,
Since that a King doth all thy court decore.
M. VV.
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