A Strappado for the Diuell Epigrams and Satyres alluding to the time, with diuers measures of no lesse Delight. By MISOSUKOS[Greek], to his friend PHILOKRATES[Greek] [by Richard Brathwait] |
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Thysbees replie.
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Thysbees replie.
If you (quoth Thysbee) as you doe professe,
deriue your birth from gods then shew no lesse:
For its not fit that gods with starres araid,
and heauens immortall sphæres, should loue a maid,
A Countrie lasse best fits a Countrie swaine,
his oaten pipe best suites with her harsh straine.
Those gods that in Olympus regiment,
sit and beare rule skorne baser elements.
Then if you be diuine, as sure you be,
surcease your suite which yeelds indignity,
To that high of-spring whence you did proceed,
staine not your loue with any mortall seed.
deriue your birth from gods then shew no lesse:
For its not fit that gods with starres araid,
and heauens immortall sphæres, should loue a maid,
A Countrie lasse best fits a Countrie swaine,
his oaten pipe best suites with her harsh straine.
Those gods that in Olympus regiment,
sit and beare rule skorne baser elements.
Then if you be diuine, as sure you be,
surcease your suite which yeelds indignity,
To that high of-spring whence you did proceed,
staine not your loue with any mortall seed.
Doth mine high linage (quoth Syluanus) shew,
that I am too diuine to match with you;
Thou art sure born of that ambrosian aire,
which is infus'd in me: thou art too faire
To be of mortall race, oh do not then
debase that faire so much to mach with men:
Yet if thou wilt not match but with a swaine,
Ile be no god that I thy loue may gaine.
A shepheards habite I wil take vpon me,
if in that habite I may liue with thee.
For credit me (heauens saint) if thou partake
of man, all men ile honour for thy sake:
Then loue Siluanus, doe not blush be free,
loue god or swaine, Syluanus both will be.
that I am too diuine to match with you;
Thou art sure born of that ambrosian aire,
which is infus'd in me: thou art too faire
To be of mortall race, oh do not then
debase that faire so much to mach with men:
Yet if thou wilt not match but with a swaine,
Ile be no god that I thy loue may gaine.
A shepheards habite I wil take vpon me,
if in that habite I may liue with thee.
For credit me (heauens saint) if thou partake
of man, all men ile honour for thy sake:
Then loue Siluanus, doe not blush be free,
loue god or swaine, Syluanus both will be.
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