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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Or, as the Musherome, the Sowbread and the Blite,
Among the fatter clods, they start vp in a night:
Or as the Dragons teeth sow'n by the Duke of Thebes,
They brauely sprong all-arm'd from-out the fertill glebes.
Indeede this mighty ground, ycleaped Americke,
Was not enhabited so soone as Affericke;
Nor as that learned soyle, tow'r-bearing, louing-right,
Which after Iupiter his deare-beloued hight;
Nor as that other part, which from cold Bosphers head
Doth reach the pearly morne at Titons saffran bed:
For they much more approach the diaprized ridges;
And faire-endented bankes of Tegil bursting-bridges;
From whence our ancestors discamp'd astonished,
And like to Partridges were all-to-scattered;
Then doth that newfound world whereto Columbus bore
First vnder Ferdinand the Castill armes and lore.
But there the buildings are so huge and brauely dight,
So differing the states, the wealth so infinite;
That long agone it seemes some people thither came,
Although not all at once, nor all by way the same.
For some by cloudy drift of tempest raging-sore,
Percase with broken barks were cast vpon the shore:
Some others much auoid with famine, plague and warre,
Their ancient seats forsooke and sought them new fo farre:
Some by some Captaine led, who bare a searching minde,
With weary ships arriu'd vpon the Westerne Inde.
Among the fatter clods, they start vp in a night:
Or as the Dragons teeth sow'n by the Duke of Thebes,
They brauely sprong all-arm'd from-out the fertill glebes.
Indeede this mighty ground, ycleaped Americke,
Was not enhabited so soone as Affericke;
Nor as that learned soyle, tow'r-bearing, louing-right,
Which after Iupiter his deare-beloued hight;
Nor as that other part, which from cold Bosphers head
Doth reach the pearly morne at Titons saffran bed:
For they much more approach the diaprized ridges;
And faire-endented bankes of Tegil bursting-bridges;
From whence our ancestors discamp'd astonished,
And like to Partridges were all-to-scattered;
Then doth that newfound world whereto Columbus bore
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But there the buildings are so huge and brauely dight,
So differing the states, the wealth so infinite;
That long agone it seemes some people thither came,
Although not all at once, nor all by way the same.
For some by cloudy drift of tempest raging-sore,
Percase with broken barks were cast vpon the shore:
Some others much auoid with famine, plague and warre,
Their ancient seats forsooke and sought them new fo farre:
Some by some Captaine led, who bare a searching minde,
With weary ships arriu'd vpon the Westerne Inde.
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