Comedies, Tragi-comedies, With other Poems by Mr William Cartwright ... The Ayres and Songs set by Mr Henry Lawes |
Vpon the Translation of Chaucer's Troilus and
Creseide by Sir Francis Kinaston.
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Comedies, Tragi-comedies, With other Poems | ||
Vpon the Translation of Chaucer's Troilus and Creseide by Sir Francis Kinaston.
Pardon me, Sir, this Injury to your Bayes,That I who only should admire dare Praise.
In this great acclamation to your Name
I add unto the Noise, though not the Fame.
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Read Chaucer now without a Dictionary;
VVhose Faithfull Quill such constant light affords,
That we now read his Thoughts, who read his VVords,
And though we know't done in our Age by you,
May doubt which is the Coppy of the two;
Rome in her Language here begins to know
Laws yet untri'd proud to be fetter'd so;
And taught Our Numbers now at last, is thus
Grown Britaine yet, and owes one Charge to us.
The Good is Common, he, that hetherto
VVas Dumb to Strangers, and's own Country too,
Speaks plainly now to all; being more our own
Ev'n hence, in that thus made to Aliens known.
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