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TO THE MOST WORTHIE Earle, Lord Treasurer, and Treasure of our Countrey, the Earle of Salisbvry, &c. |
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TO THE MOST WORTHIE Earle, Lord Treasurer, and Treasure of our Countrey, the Earle of Salisbvry, &c.
Vouchsafe, great Treasurer, to turne your eye,
And see the opening of a Grecian Mine;
VVhich, VVisedome long since made her Treasury;
And now her title doth to you resigne.
VVherein as th' Ocean walks not, with such waues,
The Round of this Realme, as your VVisedomes seas;
Nor, with his great eye, sees; his Marble, saues
Our State, like your Vlyssian policies:
So, none like Homer hath the VVorld enspher'd;
Earth, Seas, & heauen, fixt in his verse, and mouing;
VVhom all times wisest Men, haue held vnper'de;
And therfore would conclude with your approuing.
Then grace his spirit, that all wise men hath grac't,
And made things euer ffitting, euer last.
And see the opening of a Grecian Mine;
VVhich, VVisedome long since made her Treasury;
And now her title doth to you resigne.
VVherein as th' Ocean walks not, with such waues,
The Round of this Realme, as your VVisedomes seas;
Nor, with his great eye, sees; his Marble, saues
Our State, like your Vlyssian policies:
So, none like Homer hath the VVorld enspher'd;
Earth, Seas, & heauen, fixt in his verse, and mouing;
VVhom all times wisest Men, haue held vnper'de;
And therfore would conclude with your approuing.
Then grace his spirit, that all wise men hath grac't,
And made things euer ffitting, euer last.
An Anagram.
Robert Cecyl, Earle of Salisburye.Curb foes; thy care, is all our erly Be.
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