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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It so fell out (as oft strange things befall)
A gallant Knight, ariued at that faire Hall,
Attended on with such a noble sort,
Of warlike squires, as fild this spatious Court.
Who curiously enquiring of the rout,
Whose Court it was, could no waies find it out.
For contradictions crosse each other so,
As truth from falshood he could no waies know.
Bad fame did call it hers, and said, she was
A guide to such as vnto glory passe.
False Fame did call it hers; he saw they lide,
For 'boue their heads, two brighter Queens he spide.
True fame spake to him then, and let him know,
That she and good fame did the building owe,
Being eldest borne, to Titan and the Earth,
Before the Gyants war: when th'others birth
Long since was subiect to their parents sinne,
And heauens curse which now they liued in.
For as those Gyants gainst the Gods did war,
So these to truth professed enemies are;
Had by strong hand, and fraud, vsurpd her state:
And to expresse to vertue vtmost hate,
Had bard all passage to their houses hie,
That mortall men might in obliuion die
Or haue their memories blasted, glories kild
By eating time, with lies and slanders fild.
She wisht him then if he his good desired
To haue repeated, or his spirit aspired
To worthy honor as old knights had wont,
(Whose swords not rust, but too much vse did blunt)
That he would vse some meanes to set them free,
Whereby his blest name might eternizd be.
A gallant Knight, ariued at that faire Hall,
Attended on with such a noble sort,
Of warlike squires, as fild this spatious Court.
Whose Court it was, could no waies find it out.
For contradictions crosse each other so,
As truth from falshood he could no waies know.
Bad fame did call it hers, and said, she was
A guide to such as vnto glory passe.
False Fame did call it hers; he saw they lide,
For 'boue their heads, two brighter Queens he spide.
True fame spake to him then, and let him know,
That she and good fame did the building owe,
Being eldest borne, to Titan and the Earth,
Before the Gyants war: when th'others birth
Long since was subiect to their parents sinne,
And heauens curse which now they liued in.
For as those Gyants gainst the Gods did war,
So these to truth professed enemies are;
Had by strong hand, and fraud, vsurpd her state:
And to expresse to vertue vtmost hate,
Had bard all passage to their houses hie,
That mortall men might in obliuion die
Or haue their memories blasted, glories kild
By eating time, with lies and slanders fild.
She wisht him then if he his good desired
To haue repeated, or his spirit aspired
To worthy honor as old knights had wont,
(Whose swords not rust, but too much vse did blunt)
That he would vse some meanes to set them free,
Whereby his blest name might eternizd be.
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