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, successiue Nuptials.
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To Dorinda, successiue Nuptials.
Et quis me retulit laurea dignum,
Qui nequeo digna laude Dorindam
euehere ad astra? &c.
in eleg. lib. 3.
Qui nequeo digna laude Dorindam
euehere ad astra? &c.
in eleg. lib. 3.
Purest Nimph that Hyble bred,
With Ambrosia nourished,
Beauties glorie, natures mirror,
Heauens blest Trophie, worldes terror,
Nature made thee and thy feature
As it seemes to put downe nature,
Most admit'd, when most deiected,
Humble most, when most erected.
With Ambrosia nourished,
Beauties glorie, natures mirror,
Heauens blest Trophie, worldes terror,
Nature made thee and thy feature
As it seemes to put downe nature,
Most admit'd, when most deiected,
Humble most, when most erected.
Ladie Flora with her beautie,
Tenders thee her vigin duetie:
Hymen too, doth chaplets carrie
To adorne him thou doest marrie:
Gods of all sorts haue descended,
And their bounties haue extended,
Some with roses mix'd full sweetely,
Some with spikenard came to greete thee.
Tenders thee her vigin duetie:
Hymen too, doth chaplets carrie
To adorne him thou doest marrie:
Gods of all sorts haue descended,
And their bounties haue extended,
Some with roses mix'd full sweetely,
Some with spikenard came to greete thee.
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Nere was marriage day so graced,
Since by Hymen all are placed,
As sweete flowers set in a border,
Gods and goddesses in order,
There sits Ioue with Iuno Queene,
Here Diana clad in greene,
Here god Mars that heroe stout,
Here crabd Vulcanes limping foote.
Since by Hymen all are placed,
As sweete flowers set in a border,
Gods and goddesses in order,
There sits Ioue with Iuno Queene,
Here Diana clad in greene,
Here god Mars that heroe stout,
Here crabd Vulcanes limping foote.
Here sat Venus smouth as doune
In a purple veluet goune:
There Minerua whose deseruing
Had a laurell for her learning:
Here aboue their heads did flie,
With winged speed God Mercurie:
Æolus at last did come,
But for winde there was no roome.
In a purple veluet goune:
There Minerua whose deseruing
Had a laurell for her learning:
Here aboue their heads did flie,
With winged speed God Mercurie:
Æolus at last did come,
But for winde there was no roome.
Neptune from his liquid cell,
Bad the seas and stormes farewell:
Nereus no more would swimme
In his streames, but follow'd him:
Thus all meeting, ioy appeared,
Well with wine their hearts were cheered,
Till their wine to sleepe resolued,
Made these Nuptials be dissolued.
Bad the seas and stormes farewell:
Nereus no more would swimme
In his streames, but follow'd him:
Thus all meeting, ioy appeared,
Well with wine their hearts were cheered,
Till their wine to sleepe resolued,
Made these Nuptials be dissolued.
Helicons poore inhabitant
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