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[Faunus a siluan god, and Melliflora]
Faunus a siluan god, and MellifloraA sacred Nymph, that vsde among the woods,
Rose euery morning with the bright Aurora,
To gather garlands made of musk-rose buds:
In loue they liude long, and in loue they dide,
(O wonder not, that gods, and Nymphes can perish)
Obliuion buried them in their chiefe pride:
So all men die whom no sweete Muse doth cherish:
This Æsculapius by his cunning pen,
Reuiues the dead from their obscured graue,
Such sacred skill hath Art inspir'd in men,
And such a sweete reuiuing may I haue:
All Poets with greene Luirell crowne his head,
Whose pen makes liue, such as haue long bin dead.
T. H.
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