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Fame that in Homers time a vagrant was,
Without a house and home, did after passe
In stately structures all the mixed race
Of Semdeities, and euery place
Built her a Court, assisted by the Rages
Of sundry Poets in succeeding ages.


For euery one did something adde, to frame
More space and roome for their friends narrow fame.
Which as they purchast, still to her they gaue
And that's the cause, themselues so little haue.