A Golden Mirrour Conteining certaine Pithie and figuratiue Visions prognosticating good fortune to England and all true English Subiectes with an ouerthrowe to the enemies. Whereto be adioyned certaine pretie Poemes written on the names of sundrie both noble and worshipfull [by Richard Robinson] |
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[The Godesse chast, that Dian hath to name] |
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[The Godesse chast, that Dian hath to name]
The Godesse chast, that Dian hath to name,
Is much abus'd by vermin that deuoure:
In forrest, park, and chace, her galland Game
Is vexed sore, and daungered euery houre:
Which causeth her, to send for sure Hounds,
To hunt the wolues, out of her Stately Grounds.
Is much abus'd by vermin that deuoure:
In forrest, park, and chace, her galland Game
Is vexed sore, and daungered euery houre:
Which causeth her, to send for sure Hounds,
To hunt the wolues, out of her Stately Grounds.
When
as Aurora with rudie cheekes prepard,
Her Oriental pallace Phœbus to receiue:
The Christall skyes, vnto the earth declard,
That Flora would restore, what Hyemps did bereue:
Which caused birds to brush, them on the bowes,
And many for to walke, their chambers did refuse.
Her Oriental pallace Phœbus to receiue:
The Christall skyes, vnto the earth declard,
That Flora would restore, what Hyemps did bereue:
Which caused birds to brush, them on the bowes,
And many for to walke, their chambers did refuse.
And I my selfe then weary of my booke.
To be partaker of the pleasant ayre:
Into a forrest fast by the way I tooke,
Wherein my sight, did hautie hills appeare:
And rocky towers, did scale the loftie skyes,
Whom vnderneath, deepe dales and dymbles lyes.
To be partaker of the pleasant ayre:
Into a forrest fast by the way I tooke,
Wherein my sight, did hautie hills appeare:
And rocky towers, did scale the loftie skyes,
Whom vnderneath, deepe dales and dymbles lyes.
Thus for to feede my gredy eyes at gaze,
By wandring long I weary was at last:
Till sodenly, my witts were in a maze,
My eyes did dazile, and all my sense was past:
I set me downe, a while to rubbe my browes,
The poore Knights pallace of pleasure to peruse.
By wandring long I weary was at last:
Till sodenly, my witts were in a maze,
My eyes did dazile, and all my sense was past:
I set me downe, a while to rubbe my browes,
The poore Knights pallace of pleasure to peruse.
But in a dreame or trance, that tyme I was,
As did appeare, by sightes I see full rare:
I heard such hunting of hounds both more and lesse,
That scarse I can, the twenteth part declare:
And euery hound, was called by his name,
The Hunters hallowing did declare the same.
As did appeare, by sightes I see full rare:
I heard such hunting of hounds both more and lesse,
That scarse I can, the twenteth part declare:
And euery hound, was called by his name,
The Hunters hallowing did declare the same.
The ragged hills and rocky towers reporte,
By Ecchoes, voyce, the quest of Noble hounds:
The which to heare, it was a worthy sporte,
The merry voyce from earth to skyes rebounds:
The Goddesse, Nymphes, with speedy foote doe follow,
With sounde of merry horne, most plesantly they hallow,
By Ecchoes, voyce, the quest of Noble hounds:
The which to heare, it was a worthy sporte,
The merry voyce from earth to skyes rebounds:
The Goddesse, Nymphes, with speedy foote doe follow,
With sounde of merry horne, most plesantly they hallow,
Thus as I heard this heauenly hunting there,
I parted from the place, where then I sat:
To haue a sight, of that which I did heare,
Up higher the hill, with expedition gat:
Where vnder a bush, not farre where I did stand,
I saw a Nymphe with bended bow in hand.
To haue a sight, of that which I did heare,
Up higher the hill, with expedition gat:
Where vnder a bush, not farre where I did stand,
I saw a Nymphe with bended bow in hand.
Whose presence then I durst not well approch,
Her strange attire, and sparkling lookes were such:
But closly kept me vnderneath a roch,
Because harme haunteth some for medling much:
Thus as I stood to heare this merry quest,
I heard the names of houndes that hunted best.
Her strange attire, and sparkling lookes were such:
But closly kept me vnderneath a roch,
Because harme haunteth some for medling much:
Thus as I stood to heare this merry quest,
I heard the names of houndes that hunted best.
The followers chear'd the houndes with mery voyce,
With pleasant notes of worthy warbling horne:
And cald vpon the houndes that were of choyce,
Who leade no chawle, the game they found so warme:
And many houndes of sundry names there where,
Of mightie mouthes, so did their sound apeare.
With pleasant notes of worthy warbling horne:
And cald vpon the houndes that were of choyce,
Who leade no chawle, the game they found so warme:
And many houndes of sundry names there where,
Of mightie mouthes, so did their sound apeare.
I heard the hunts-man, call on duetie still,
Obedience raung'd, from duetie quite away:
Pleasure he ran riot, with his fellow will,
Rufler rudely rou'd, and would no whit obey:
Loue well found the perfit, whereat the hunts-man blew,
And sayd, here Talbot, take it, for thou art euer trew.
Obedience raung'd, from duetie quite away:
Pleasure he ran riot, with his fellow will,
Rufler rudely rou'd, and would no whit obey:
Loue well found the perfit, whereat the hunts-man blew,
And sayd, here Talbot, take it, for thou art euer trew.
Bowman bruisht the brakes, through thicke and thin,
Diligence followed dutie, with merry open mouth:
Yet scarse could duetie bring obedience in,
He was so rudely raung'd ore farre into the south:
The hunts-man neuer ceast, but hallowed still and blew,
And sayd, here Talbot, take it, for thou art euer trew.
Diligence followed dutie, with merry open mouth:
Yet scarse could duetie bring obedience in,
He was so rudely raung'd ore farre into the south:
The hunts-man neuer ceast, but hallowed still and blew,
And sayd, here Talbot, take it, for thou art euer trew.
Finde all, and hold fast, both hunted together,
Through thicke and thin, both night and day:
Reuell and ringwood spared no weather,
Ouer hills and dales, they take the way:
Whereat the hunts-man, both hallowed and blew,
And sayd, here Talbot, take it, for thou art stil trew.
Through thicke and thin, both night and day:
Ouer hills and dales, they take the way:
Whereat the hunts-man, both hallowed and blew,
And sayd, here Talbot, take it, for thou art stil trew.
Talbot, treasure and trustie, followed duetie fast,
And loue wel laboured lustily night, day, and houre:
The hunts-man did rechat, with horne a merry blast,
Dianas Nymphes did follow with al their might and power:
Thus one, or other, neuer seast but blew,
And cride, here Talbot, take it, for thou was euer trew,
And loue wel laboured lustily night, day, and houre:
The hunts-man did rechat, with horne a merry blast,
Dianas Nymphes did follow with al their might and power:
Thus one, or other, neuer seast but blew,
And cride, here Talbot, take it, for thou was euer trew,
These hounds hunte together, with a gallant quest,
But that Mendall was behind aboue a myle or more:
And fauor hunted counter, with diuers of the rest,
Which marde some sport, beshrow their harts therfore:
But to the trusty hounds the hunts man hallowed still & blew,
And sayd, here Talbot, take it, for thou art euer trew.
But that Mendall was behind aboue a myle or more:
And fauor hunted counter, with diuers of the rest,
Which marde some sport, beshrow their harts therfore:
But to the trusty hounds the hunts man hallowed still & blew,
And sayd, here Talbot, take it, for thou art euer trew.
The wolfe, and foxe, both fled before the hounds,
The beastly belling bull, lay coucht in cabbin closse:
And wicked weesels, fled from Britanian grounds,
The tygar trudgeth, dayly to his losse:
The hounds quest merrily, the hunts-man euer blew,
And sayd, here Talbot, take it, for thou art euer trew.
The beastly belling bull, lay coucht in cabbin closse:
And wicked weesels, fled from Britanian grounds,
The tygar trudgeth, dayly to his losse:
The hounds quest merrily, the hunts-man euer blew,
And sayd, here Talbot, take it, for thou art euer trew.
The concord of their cry and merry quest,
Caus'd al the hills, and mountaines to reioyce:
The rocky woods, recordes both East and West,
To euery eare, the noble pleasant voyce:
The Nymphes let arrowes flee, and still the hunts-man blew,
And sayd, here Talbot, take it, for thou art euer trew.
Caus'd al the hills, and mountaines to reioyce:
The rocky woods, recordes both East and West,
To euery eare, the noble pleasant voyce:
The Nymphes let arrowes flee, and still the hunts-man blew,
And sayd, here Talbot, take it, for thou art euer trew.
Thus ouer hills and dales, these hounds did mount,
Diana in her chariot, followed very fast
Till to the quirry, a number out of count,
Were brought to reape their iust reward at last.
Where presently, the Mort the Hunts-man blew,
And said, here Talbot, take it, for thou art euer trew.
Diana in her chariot, followed very fast
Till to the quirry, a number out of count,
Where presently, the Mort the Hunts-man blew,
And said, here Talbot, take it, for thou art euer trew.
The heads and quarters of these Carrens vile
I did beholde, where kites and Crowes did eate,
A marke for many that do themselues exile
From Dueties doctrine, and deale by deepe deceit.
For by this same it doth appeare full well,
That sacred Gods of euerie thing can tell.
I did beholde, where kites and Crowes did eate,
A marke for many that do themselues exile
From Dueties doctrine, and deale by deepe deceit.
For by this same it doth appeare full well,
That sacred Gods of euerie thing can tell.
The heauens did declare a ioyfull time,
By christall skies, and Phœbus golden gleimes:
The Larke aloft into the cloudes doth clime,
And euery Hunter, his wished pray obtaines.
Till at the length, away the Hunts-man blew,
And said, that noble Talbot euermore was trew.
By christall skies, and Phœbus golden gleimes:
The Larke aloft into the cloudes doth clime,
And euery Hunter, his wished pray obtaines.
Till at the length, away the Hunts-man blew,
And said, that noble Talbot euermore was trew.
This heauenly hearing so delighted me,
I wisht this hunting last for euermore:
Most pleasant dreame it was that ere I see,
But loe, what lucke did light (alas) therefore,
A friend of mine by chance that way did passe,
And wakened me, asleepe where then I was.
I wisht this hunting last for euermore:
Most pleasant dreame it was that ere I see,
But loe, what lucke did light (alas) therefore,
A friend of mine by chance that way did passe,
And wakened me, asleepe where then I was.
FINIS.
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