Daphnis and Chloe Excellently describing the weight of affection, the simplicitie of loue, the purport of honest meaning, the resolution of men, and disposition of Fate, finished in a Pastorall, and interlaced with the praises of a most peerlesse Princesse, wonderfull in Maiestie, and rare in perfection, celebrated within the same Pastorall, and therefore termed by the name of The Shepheards Holidaie. By Angell Daye |
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[Geue me thy Syrinx, Pan, giue me thy flute] |
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[Geue me thy Syrinx, Pan, giue me thy flute]
Geue me thy Syrinx, Pan, giue me thy flute,(A worthier musike farre, beseemes my laies)
In speach of her I tel, the best are mute,
And may not weld the greatnes of her praise,
If any Muse of all the Nymphs that staies
About these walkes and louely pleasant springs
Haue greater gift then others, let them raies,
The sweetned lawdes that faire Eliza, brings,
And sharpened be my wits, O God of Loue,
(Loue hath men saie a furie tha'ts deuine)
Yelde me the scope of thy delights to proue
And in my brest thy sweetned fancies shrine,
O would my pipe had such proportions fine,
Or that deriu'd from greatest excellence,
My endles skil her fewtures could define,
Whom gods and men admire with reuerence,
Vouchsafe my Goddesse yet vouchsafe to see,
The wil I haue to weld so hie aspects,
Yet shall it be hence-forth a grace to mee,
That Loue thy name within my Muse erects,
Much gratious Soueraigne t'is that Loue effects,
Wherein if skilful Pan and Nymphes me faile,
My actiue forces shall with large respects,
Compence the rest, and yeeld me more auaile,
Let be as yet for this not all in vaine,
My sacrifice, my vowes, and praiers eke,
Wherein O Nymphe, thy fame shall aie remaine,
Enhaunst by those that to thy Bountie seeke.
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