The Golden Fleece Divided into three Parts, Under Which are discouered the Errours of Religion, the Vices and Decayes of the Kingdome, and lastly the wayes to get wealth, and to restore Trading so much complayned of. Transported from Cambrioll Colchos, out of the Southermost Part of the Iland, commonly called the Newfoundland, By Orpheus Iunior [i.e.William Vaughan], For the generall and perpetuall Good of Great Britaine |
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An Epigram vpon the Golden Fleece, moralized by the Authour for the good of Great BRITAINE.
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An Epigram vpon the Golden Fleece, moralized by the Authour for the good of Great BRITAINE.
Orpheus but late our Woods did make to ring,And to his Harp great Charles his Carols sing.
Since that he toucht vpon th' Italian shore,
Whence Boccalinies Newes of State he bore.
But Orpheus now forsaking Easterne Greece,
From Westerne Colchos brings the Golden Fleece;
Which no Eutopia is, nor Fairy-land,
Yet Colchos in Elisian Fields doth stand.
Three luckie Births his Braine makes to appeare,
Whereas most Creatures breed but once a yeare.
Men Hercules among the Starres did put,
'Cause Hydraes triple Head He off had cut.
And our new Orpheus haue no high degree?
Three-Monsters Heads that lops off at one blow,
Errour, Vice, Want, which in our Country grow?
The One foule mouthed Cerberus did quell,
And chayning fast, him dragged about Hell:
The Other Errour, which in Hell was bred,
Hath by strong Reasons bound and Captiue led.
The Augean Stables He of filth did cleanse:
The Other Men, of vice and foule Offence.
Th' Hesperian Apples He by waking got:
But Orpheus greater Gaine doth vs allot.
For which let Paris iudge, who now shall haue
The Golden Apple, which the World doth craue?
Stephen Berrier.
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