Newe Sonets and pretie Pamphlets. Written by Thomas Howell. Newly augmented, corrected and amended |
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TO HIS FAYHTFVL FRIENDE AND Fellow Maister Henry Lassels.
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TO HIS FAYHTFVL FRIENDE AND Fellow Maister Henry Lassels.
Some prudent heads: with pollicie, do ponder how to please,the freendly man by whose desart, they haue founde healpe or ease,
And other some: there be agayne, which valiently doo seeke,
to do some deed by venture great, that lookers on might like,
wherby Dame Fame shuld neuer cease, triumphant Trumps to soūd,
the pollicie and valientnesse, which hath in them been founde.
But I of francke, and meare good will, and not to gayne the praise,
as one that wanth a cunning skill, to imetate their wayes.
Do present thes my triflyng toyes, and far vnconning writes:
remembryng how the wise man saies, the change of thinges, delites.
Which not alone apereth trew, by meates whereon wee feede,
but change in all thinges doth renew, the apetite in deede:
When as the Uitale spirits be filde, with vewe of learned Booke,
the werld eyes do willyng craue, on lighter thinges to looke,
And Musicke sounde, doth much delight, the eares and minde of man,
whose pleasant tunes, so mightie be, that banish cares they can:
The cause for which, it hath this gifte, is the varietie,
in it contaynde, by learned shifte, of skilfull Hermonie.
Doth not the sounde: of homely Pipe, that Shepperds rudely bloe,
refresh the hartes: of rusticke route, their simple skill to shoe.
Which is sufficient proofe inoughe that change contentes the minde,
wherefore I will: pricke on my Plough, some further change to finde
By tillinge oft my fruitelesse feilde, whose bare and barin soyle,
god knowes hath scarce the power to yeld, one Corne for all my toile,
But yet where wanth the finer flower, the coursest sorte doth ease:
in like case thinges of litle power, the minde sometime may please,
Accept therefore my Lassels trewe, these toyes in freindly part,
from him that meanes: to thee nought els, but show of faithfull hart:
Use them for change: as Musicke rude, for such is sure their grace,
Or els as coursest Flower is vsde, when fine is out of place.
Thine till not his ovvne Thomas Howell.
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