Emblemes and Epigrames Psal: Quum defecerit virtus mea, ne derelinquas me, Domine. [A.D. 1600, by Francis Thynne ... ]: Edited by F. J. Furnivall |
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(68) Monstrous Childe.
Did Learned Ouid live, with poetrie divine,his Metamorphosis he would a newe refyne,
and add this prodigie, as vncouth as the reste,
of his transformed shapes which there he hath expreste;
ffor here, though bodies were to other forms not chang'd,
Yet is this followinge truth as farr from nature strang'd,
That the celestiall saints which doe adorne the skye,
should from the heavens discend, and children multiplie;
for why sainte Peters sonne, a thinge to fewe men knowne,
maintaind a child which he supposd to bee his owne,
yet others had more righte to her by kindlie knott;
soe easilie one others child falls to our lott.
This is a thinge vnvsd, a Saint a sonne to haue,
and hee deformed, not shap'd as heavenlie bodies crave,
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that fondlie nourished as his, one others childe,
exceedinge anie chyld which natures course doth give,
for lightlie she could beare the tallest mann on live;
soe bigg her bone in bredth, soe monstrous shee did seeme,
that ech, noe childe, but perfect woman, did her deeme.
Thus nature changinge kinde,
these monsters forth doth sende,
Saint Peters sonne, a woman childe,
which could with menn contende.
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