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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To the Sunne couered with cloudes, vpon Monday, being the .18. of August. 1578. |
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To the Sunne couered with cloudes, vpon Monday, being the .18. of August. 1578.
In shadowing cloudes why art thou closd? ô Phœbus bright retire:Vnspoused Pallas present is, ô Phœbus bright retire.
The threatning speare is floong farre off, doubt not grim Gorgons ire:
Vnarmed Pallas present is, ô Phœbus bright retire.
Perhaps thou art afrayd: And why? at this so large a light:
Least that a VVoman should excell, thy beames (ô Phœbus) bright.
Let not a Queene, a Virgine pure, which is, and euer was,
O faire Apollo, make thee blush: you both in beautie passe.
O Phœbus safe and sound returne, which, banishing the night,
Bringst backe the day: in all the world nothing of like delight.
She, only she, the darkenesse draue of Poprye quite away:
And, by Religion, hath restord the bright and lightsome day.
O Phœbus, with thy beames, which foylst the cloudes both blinde and blacke,
The world, in manner all, a thing of like delight doth lacke.
A thousand daungers and delayes, the Papistes had deuisde,
To thende our Princesse should abridge, hir progresse entreprisde:
Yet this our bright and shining sunne, cast light through euery cloud:
Although in cloudes thou art content, Apollo, oft to shroude.
Thou seest our Sunne in comely course, cuttes off eache stop & stay:
Do thou the like, and by thy light driue euery cloude away.
In shadowing cloudes why art thou closd? ô Phœbus bright retyre:
Vnspoused Pallas present is: ô Phœbus bright retyre.
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