 | Sinetes (1597) |  |
Vpon the Authors muse.
If Poets with penne doe purchase praise,Let Parrie then possesse his parte:
Whose Posies rare, report doeth raise,
To Pernasse Mount of due desarte.
In house of fame he ought haue place,
Yf Ouid eu'r deserued that grace.
His pleasaunt vaine, his phrases fine,
Sentencious eke, in verse and prose:
That they include some grace deuine,
His former doinges doe well discose.
With his sweete Muse, & louely layes,
Who may compare in these our dayes.
But chieflie his SINETES nowe,
Hath moued his muse her prize to playe.
As if therein she had made a vowe,
Some peeries poesie to displaye.
There Cupides knacke are liuelye seene,
With Venus baites, that louelye Queene.
Then Momus mumme, & Zoylus cease,
And foule Mouth Theon leaue to raile:
Seeing Parries penne, the best doth please,
What doth your carping then auaile.
Whom valiaunt Lyon doth protect:
May well all crauing Curres reiect.
Habet scintilla calorem.
Hu. Gry.
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