The ioyfvll receyuing of the Queens most excellent Maiestie into hir Highnesse Citie of Norvvich: The thing done in the time of hir abode there: and the Dolor of the citie at hir departure. Wherein are set downe diuers orations in Latine, pronounced to hir Highnesse by Sir Robert Wood Knight, now maior of the same citie, and others: and certaine also deliuered to hir Maiestie in vvriting: euery of the[m] turned into English [by Bernard Garter] |
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[From slumber softe I fell a sleepe]
From slumber softe I fell a sleepe,
From slepe to dreame, from dreame to depe delight,
Eche Iem the Gods had giuen the world to keepe
In Princely wise came present to my sight:
Suche solace then did sincke into my minde,
As mortall man on molde coulde neuer finde.
From slepe to dreame, from dreame to depe delight,
Eche Iem the Gods had giuen the world to keepe
In Princely wise came present to my sight:
Suche solace then did sincke into my minde,
As mortall man on molde coulde neuer finde.
The Gods did striue, and yet their striues were sweete,
Ech one woulde haue a Vertue of hir own,
Dame Iuno thought the highest place moste meete
For hir, bicause of riches was hir throne.
Dame Venus thought by reason of hir loue
That she might claime the highest place aboue.
Ech one woulde haue a Vertue of hir own,
Dame Iuno thought the highest place moste meete
For hir, bicause of riches was hir throne.
Dame Venus thought by reason of hir loue
That she might claime the highest place aboue.
The Virgins state Diana still did prayse,
And Ceres praysde the fruite of fertile soyle:
And Prvdence did dame Pallas chiefly rayse,
Minerva all for eloquence did striue,
They smylde to see their quarelling estate,
And Iove himselfe decided their debate.
And Ceres praysde the fruite of fertile soyle:
And Prvdence did dame Pallas chiefly rayse,
Minerva all for eloquence did striue,
They smylde to see their quarelling estate,
And Iove himselfe decided their debate.
My sweetes (quoth he) leaue of your sugred strife,
In equall place I haue assignde you all:
A soueraigne wight there is that beareth life,
In whose sweete hart I haue inclosde you all.
Of England soyle she is the soueraigne Queene,
Your vigors there do florish fresh and greene.
In equall place I haue assignde you all:
A soueraigne wight there is that beareth life,
In whose sweete hart I haue inclosde you all.
Of England soyle she is the soueraigne Queene,
Your vigors there do florish fresh and greene.
They skipt for ioy and gaue their franke consent,
The noyse resounded to the hawtie skie:
With one lowd voyce they cryed al, content,
They clapt their handes, and therewith waked I.
The world and they concluded with a breath,
And wisht long raigne to Queene Elizabeth.
The noyse resounded to the hawtie skie:
With one lowd voyce they cryed al, content,
They clapt their handes, and therewith waked I.
The world and they concluded with a breath,
And wisht long raigne to Queene Elizabeth.
Finis
B. G.
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