Philomythie or Philomythologie wherein Outlandish Birds, Beasts, and Fishes, are taught to speake true English plainely. By Tho: Scot ... The second edition much inlarged |
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This Fame hath now her house glazde all with eies,
The rafts, beames, balkes, nerues, sinewes, arteries;
The dores wide open, eares; hangd round about
With nimble tongues, and couerd so without.
All things are seene and heard the wide world ore
Which touch that place, and farthest off the mone.
The House of Fame built vp foure stories hie,
Stands in an open plaine, in which doth lie
Foure sister twins, True same, and good the first,
And eldest are; false and had fame the worst.
And youngest payre, yet swiftest are in flight
And though last borne, yet oft come first to light.
These last dwell in two darker roomes below,
Among the thicke Crowdes where all errors grow.
There keepe they Court, where Scandals, Libels, lies,
Rumors, Reports, Suspicions, calumnies,
Are fauorites and Gouernors of State,
Whose practise 'tis true worth to ruinate.
False fame liues lowest, and true Fame aboue,
Bad Fame next false, good fame next, true doth moue:
Yet good fame somtime doth with false fame stay,
And bad fame sometime doth with true fame play.
But false and true (opposd) will neuer meete,
Nor bad and good fame, one the other greete.
The rafts, beames, balkes, nerues, sinewes, arteries;
The dores wide open, eares; hangd round about
With nimble tongues, and couerd so without.
All things are seene and heard the wide world ore
Which touch that place, and farthest off the mone.
The House of Fame built vp foure stories hie,
Stands in an open plaine, in which doth lie
Foure sister twins, True same, and good the first,
And eldest are; false and had fame the worst.
And youngest payre, yet swiftest are in flight
And though last borne, yet oft come first to light.
These last dwell in two darker roomes below,
Among the thicke Crowdes where all errors grow.
There keepe they Court, where Scandals, Libels, lies,
Rumors, Reports, Suspicions, calumnies,
Are fauorites and Gouernors of State,
Whose practise 'tis true worth to ruinate.
False fame liues lowest, and true Fame aboue,
Bad Fame next false, good fame next, true doth moue:
Yet good fame somtime doth with false fame stay,
And bad fame sometime doth with true fame play.
But false and true (opposd) will neuer meete,
Nor bad and good fame, one the other greete.
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