The plays & poems of Robert Greene Edited with introductions and notes by J. Churton Collins |
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| LXVII. | LXVII EVRIMACHVS IN LAVDEM MIRIMIDÆ HIS MOTTO. |
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 | The plays & poems of Robert Greene |  |
LXVII
EVRIMACHVS IN LAVDEM MIRIMIDÆ HIS MOTTO.
Inuita fortuna dedi vota concordia.
When Flora proude in pompe of all her flowers
Sat bright and gay,
And gloried in the deaw of Iris showers,
And did display
Her mantle checquered all with gawdy greene:
Then I
Alone
A mournfull man in Erecine was seene.
Sat bright and gay,
And gloried in the deaw of Iris showers,
And did display
Her mantle checquered all with gawdy greene:
Then I
Alone
A mournfull man in Erecine was seene.
With folded armes I trampled through the grasse,
Tracing as he
That held the Throane of Fortune brittle glasse,
And loue to be
Like Fortune fleeting, as the restlesse wind
Mixed
With mists
Whose dampe doth make the cleerest eyes grow blind.
Tracing as he
That held the Throane of Fortune brittle glasse,
And loue to be
Like Fortune fleeting, as the restlesse wind
Mixed
With mists
Whose dampe doth make the cleerest eyes grow blind.
Thus in a maze I spied a hideous flame,
I cast my sight,
And sawe where blythly bathing in the same
With great delight,
A worme did lye, wrapt in a smokie sweate:
And yet
Twas strange
It carelesse lay and shrunke not at the heate.
I cast my sight,
And sawe where blythly bathing in the same
With great delight,
A worme did lye, wrapt in a smokie sweate:
And yet
Twas strange
It carelesse lay and shrunke not at the heate.
I stood amazd and wondring at the sight,
While that a dame
That shone like to the heauens rich sparkling light,
Discourst the same:
And sayd, my friend this worme within the fire
Which lies
Content,
Is Venus worme, and represents desire.
While that a dame
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Discourst the same:
And sayd, my friend this worme within the fire
Which lies
Content,
Is Venus worme, and represents desire.
A Salamander is this princely beast,
Deckt with a crowne,
Giuen him by Cupid as a gorgeous crest
Gainst fortunes frowne,
Content he lies and bathes him in the flame,
And goes
Not foorth:
For why he cannot liue without the same.
Deckt with a crowne,
Giuen him by Cupid as a gorgeous crest
Gainst fortunes frowne,
Content he lies and bathes him in the flame,
And goes
Not foorth:
For why he cannot liue without the same.
As he: so louers lie within the fire
Of feruent loue,
And shrinke not from the flame of hot desire,
Nor will not mooue
From any heate, that Venus force imparts:
But lie
Content
Within a fire and wast away their harts.
Of feruent loue,
And shrinke not from the flame of hot desire,
Nor will not mooue
From any heate, that Venus force imparts:
But lie
Content
Within a fire and wast away their harts.
Vp flew the dame and vanisht in a clowde,
But there stood I,
And many thoughts within my mind did shrowde
My loue: for why,
I felt within my heart a scortching fire,
And yet
As did
The Salamander, twas my whole desire.
But there stood I,
And many thoughts within my mind did shrowde
My loue: for why,
I felt within my heart a scortching fire,
And yet
As did
The Salamander, twas my whole desire.
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