Fovre bookes of Du Bartas I. The Arke, II. Babylon, III. The Colonnyes, IIII. The Columues or Pyllars: In French and English, for the Instrvction and Pleasvre of Svch as Delight in Both Langvages. By William Lisle ... Together with a large Commentary by S. G. S |
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Of that suppos'd Berose, abusing all that reade
As he and others doe; well might I let you see
Of all our Ancestors a fained pedegree:
I boldly might assay of all the worlds Prouinces,
From father vnto sonne, to name the former Princes:
To sing, of all the world, each peoples diuers lot,
And of the meanest townes to lay the grunsill-plot.
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To leaue the former course, and rashly assay to row,
(The bright Load-starre vnseene) vpon the waues vnknow'n
Of such an Ocean sea, so full of rockes bestrow'n
And Scyllaes glutton gulfes; where tumbleth equall store
Of shipwracks on the sands, and billowes to the shore:
Not hauing other guide then writers such as faine
The names of ancient Kings, and romants tell vs vaine;
Who make all for themselues, and gaping after glory,
On footing of a flie can frame a perfect story.
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