The Mirrovr of Maiestie or, the Badges of Honovr conceitedly emblazoned: with emblemes annexed, poetically vnfolded [by Sir Henry Goodere?] |
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EMBLEME 18.
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EMBLEME 18.
As busie Bees vnto their Hiue doe swarme,So do's th'attractiue power of Musicke charme
All Eares with silent rapture: nay, it can
Wilde Reason re-contract, diuorc'd from man.
Birds in their warblings imitate the Spheares:
This sings the Treble, that the Tenour beares:
Beasts haue with listning to a Shepheards lay,
Forgot to feed, and so haue pin'd away:
Brookes that creepe through each flowr-befretted field,
In their harmonious murmurs, musicke yeeld:
Yea, senselesse stones at the old Poets song,
Themselues in heapes did so together throng,
That to high beauteous structures they did swell
Without the helpe of hand, or vse of skill:
This Harmony in t'humane Fabricke steales:
And is the sinewes of all Common-weales.
In you this Concord's so diuinely placed:
That it by you, not you by it is graced.
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