Pleasant dialogues and dramma's selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. ... By Tho. Heywood |
Of Iohannes Secundus an excellent Poet of the Hage in Holland.
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Pleasant dialogues and dramma's | ||
Of Iohannes Secundus an excellent Poet of the Hage in Holland.
6. Excelsum seu condis opus magnique Maronis,
luminibus offerre studes, &c.
luminibus offerre studes, &c.
If an high worke thou undertak'st; to rise
In Virgils straine, and looke out with his eyes;
Or if light Elegies art pleas'd to sing,
Such as from Ovids veyne were knowne to spring;
If to the ly'r of Pindarus thou fit
Thy various notes, to make him blush at it;
If thou make Belbulus his browes contort,
To see how he in Epigrams can sport;
These foure thou shalt excell: even thou alone
Secundus, who art second unto none.
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