The Heroical Lover or Antheon & Fidelta. A Poem Written by Thomas Bancroft |
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To his learned Friend Mr. THOMAS BANCROFT, ON HIS POEM Entituled THE Heroicall Lover.
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To his learned Friend Mr. THOMAS BANCROFT, ON HIS POEM Entituled THE Heroicall Lover.
From your retir'd abode in Bradley town,Welcome, my friend, abroad to fair renown.
Nova Atlantis and Eutopia you
Again expose unto the publique view
T' all mankind save to Bacon and to More.
To the tripartite world Columbus erst
The westerne India did discover first,
Yet (after that his perfecter survey)
Vesputius much on's glory tooke away,
By giving it his name: so though those two
Most learned Lords did first those countryes shew,
Yet by your Antheon (and his fair Delight)
Farre-sought Fidelta, does your skill unite
Eutopia and Atlantis: what these two
Ow'd singly to their pen, they both owe you.
Nor Belgium, Italy, nor France, nor Spain,
Nor Græcia, nor Sicilia, could constrain
(With their most tempting objects) your brave Knight
To yield submission to a false delight.
Although Sir Antheon did refrain to run
The monstrous courses of the Knight o'th' Sun,
(Whose Fablers so strange tales of him reherse,
That such untruths never appear'd in verse)
Those countryes Beauties he despis'd and pelfe;
Some others do orecome, but he himself:
And of all victories it is the best,
To keep our own wild appetites represt:
Hereby his prowesse he did most discover,
And hence you terme him the Heroick Lover.
Your faire Fidelta did not range about
Eutopian cities to find Suitors out:
Sir Antheon found her out, and married her.
Joy or long life I need not wish them either;
They in your lines shall happy live for ever:
And you for penning their high Epick song
(With Laurel crown'd) shall live i'th' Poets throng.
Aston Cokaine Bart.
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