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Had halfe way mounted to the highest storie
Of his Olympicke Palace: there to see
This long expected Dayes solemnitie:
When all on sudden, there was heard (around
From euerie quarter) the Maiestick sound
Of many Trumpets: all in consort running
One point of warre, transcending farre the cunning
Of mortall blasts; and what did seeme more strange,
The shrill mouth'd musicke did as sudden change
To Dorick straines, to sweet mollitious ayres,
To Lyrick songs, and voyces, like to theirs
That charm'd Vlysses: whil'st th'amazed eare
Stood rauisht at these changes, it might heare
Those voyces, (by degrees) transforme to Lutes,
To Shaulms, deepe throated Sackbuts, and to Flutes,
And Eccho-forcing Cornets; which surpast
The Art of man: this Harmony did last
Vntill the Bridegroome came: But all men wondred
To heare the noyse: some thought the heauens had thundred
To a new tune; and some more wiser eares
Conceiu'd, it was the Musick of the Spheares:
All wonderd, all men gaz'd; and all could heare,
But none knew whence the Musicke was, or where.
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