The Poets VVillovv Or, The Passionate Shepheard: With sundry delightfull, and no lesse Passionate Sonnets: describing the passions of a discontented and perplexed Lover. Diuers compositions of verses concording as well with the Lyricke, as the Anacreonticke measures; neuer before published: Being reduced into an exact and distinct order of Metricall extractions [by Richard Brathwait] |
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To Dorinda.
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To Dorinda.
Elegie. 1.
The soaring Eagle stouping to allure,
Too base a lure (god wot) for such a bird,
Was soone depriu'd of that he thought most sure,
At which strange hap the Eagle much admird,
To be debard of that he least desird,
Wherefore opprest with furie there he swore,
Descend he would to such base lures no more.
Too base a lure (god wot) for such a bird,
Was soone depriu'd of that he thought most sure,
At which strange hap the Eagle much admird,
To be debard of that he least desird,
Wherefore opprest with furie there he swore,
Descend he would to such base lures no more.
Art thou not borne (quoth he) of royall race,
Hatching thy Aerie in the wildernesse?
And wilt thou then that auncient house disgrace,
Soiling thy glory with such filthinesse,
Which would ecclipse thy pristine worthinesse?
O fie for shame let such vnworthies be,
Whose worthles parts will shame thine house and thee.
Hatching thy Aerie in the wildernesse?
And wilt thou then that auncient house disgrace,
Soiling thy glory with such filthinesse,
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O fie for shame let such vnworthies be,
Whose worthles parts will shame thine house and thee.
Thy Father was a Prince, thou art his sonne,
For with thy pearcing eyes canst thou behold
The glorious lustre of the cheerefull sun,
Fruitfull as springtime, not to bondage sould,
Building thy neast in clymates far from cold,
Flie to the Cedar; let this mushrome be,
For higher plants will better nourish thee.
For with thy pearcing eyes canst thou behold
The glorious lustre of the cheerefull sun,
Fruitfull as springtime, not to bondage sould,
Building thy neast in clymates far from cold,
Flie to the Cedar; let this mushrome be,
For higher plants will better nourish thee.
Those sparkling eies of thine which shine so bright,
Clad with the flames of Phœbus regiment,
Cannot immantled be in pitchie night,
But aime at some more gracious element,
Sunne seldome shines on such base excrement,
Then as thou soar'd by nature, so let art
In thine aspiring thoughts sustaine a part.
Clad with the flames of Phœbus regiment,
Cannot immantled be in pitchie night,
But aime at some more gracious element,
Sunne seldome shines on such base excrement,
Then as thou soar'd by nature, so let art
In thine aspiring thoughts sustaine a part.
What plesant poems haue come from my bill,
Whose sweete resounding made the eccoes ring,
In fields and shades where siluer streames distill,
Where Philomell her selfe was wont to sing,
Downe by the current of Sabinas spring,
Shall then my brest which tund so plesantly,
Be matchd with such a tunelesse Harmonie?
Whose sweete resounding made the eccoes ring,
In fields and shades where siluer streames distill,
Where Philomell her selfe was wont to sing,
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Shall then my brest which tund so plesantly,
Be matchd with such a tunelesse Harmonie?
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