Willobie His Avisa Or The true Picture of a modest Maid, and of a chast and constant wife. In Hexamiter verse. The like argument wherof, was neuer heretofore published [by Henry Willoby] |
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In praise of Willobie his Auisa, Hexameton to the Author.
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Lauine Land though Liuie bost,
There hath beene seene a Constant dame:
Though Rome lament that she haue lost
The Gareland of her rarest fame,
Yet now we see, that here is found,
As great a Faith in English ground.
There hath beene seene a Constant dame:
Though Rome lament that she haue lost
The Gareland of her rarest fame,
Yet now we see, that here is found,
As great a Faith in English ground.
Though Collatine haue deerely bought,
To high renowne, a lasting life,
And found, that most in vaine haue sought,
To haue a Faire, and Constant wife,
Yet Tarquyne pluckt his glistering grape,
And Shake-speare, paints poore Lucrece rape.
To high renowne, a lasting life,
And found, that most in vaine haue sought,
To haue a Faire, and Constant wife,
Yet Tarquyne pluckt his glistering grape,
And Shake-speare, paints poore Lucrece rape.
Though Susan shine in faithfull praise,
As twinckling Starres in Christall skie,
Penelop's fame though Greekes do raise,
Of faithfullwiues to make vp three,
To thinke the Truth, and say no lesse,
Our Auisa shall make a messe.
As twinckling Starres in Christall skie,
Penelop's fame though Greekes do raise,
Of faithfullwiues to make vp three,
To thinke the Truth, and say no lesse,
Our Auisa shall make a messe.
This number knits so sure a knot,
Time doubtes, that she shall adde no more,
Vnconstant Nature, hath begot,
Of Fleting Feemes, such fickle store,
Two thousand yeares, haue scarcely seene,
Such as the worst of these haue beene.
Time doubtes, that she shall adde no more,
Vnconstant Nature, hath begot,
Of Fleting Feemes, such fickle store,
Two thousand yeares, haue scarcely seene,
Such as the worst of these haue beene.
Then Aui-Susan ioyne in one,
Let Lucres-Auis be thy name,
This English Eagle sores alone,
And farre surmounts all others fame,
Where high or low, where great or small,
This Brytan Bird out-flies them all.
Let Lucres-Auis be thy name,
This English Eagle sores alone,
And farre surmounts all others fame,
Where high or low, where great or small,
This Brytan Bird out-flies them all.
Were these three happie, that haue found,
Braue Poets to depaint their praise?
Of Rurall Pipe, with sweetest sound,
That haue beene heard these many daies,
Sweete wylloby his AVIS blest,
That makes her mount aboue the rest.
Braue Poets to depaint their praise?
Of Rurall Pipe, with sweetest sound,
That haue beene heard these many daies,
Sweete wylloby his AVIS blest,
That makes her mount aboue the rest.
Contraria Contrarijs: Vigilantius: Dormitanus.
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