Chaucer's ghoast Or, A Piece of antiquity. Containing twelve pleasant Fables of Ovid penn'd after the ancient manner of writing in England. Which makes them prove Mock-Poems to the present Poetry. With the History of Prince Corniger, and his Champion Sir Crucifrag, that run a tilt likewise at the present Historiographers |
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[Pulshrior in tota, quam Larissæa Coronis]
Arg. IV.
Of the Love of Apollo toward Coronis; and how the white Bird for discovering it was turned into a black Raven.
Pulshrior in tota, quam Larissæa Coronis,
Non fuit Amonia; placuit tibi Delphia certè,
Dum vel casta fuit vel inobservata: sed ales
Sensit adulterium Phœbius, &c.
Ovid. l. 2.
Non fuit Amonia; placuit tibi Delphia certè,
Dum vel casta fuit vel inobservata: sed ales
Sensit adulterium Phœbius, &c.
Ovid. l. 2.
Now take a Tale into thy mind,
the which of old ensample I find.
Phœbus, which maketh the days light,
a Love he had a handsome Wite
Coronis, whom aboven all
he pleased, but what shall befall
of Love, there is no man knoweth;
but as Fortune her happes throweth.
So it befell upon a chance,
a young Knight took her acquaintance,
and had of her all that he wold,
but a false Bird that was too bold;
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discovered all that e're he couth:
the Bird's name was amongst men
Corvus; and the Bird was then
well more white than any Swan:
and he did tell all that he can,
and all her thefts to Phœbus said.
But he for wrath his Swerd out-braid,
and it to Coronis did show,
but after that there was much wo;
and she took full great repentance,
whereof in token and remembrance
of him which used wicked speech,
upon this Bird he took his wrech,
that he which was snow-white before,
was afterwards cole-black therefore
transformed; thus his deeds he sheweth,
and many a man yet him beshreweth;
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a Raven, by whom yet men say
take evidence when that he crieth,
that some mishap it signifieth.
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