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Pleasant dialogues and dramma's

selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. ... By Tho. Heywood

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Spoken to their two Majesties at Hampton Court.
  
  
  
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Spoken to their two Majesties at Hampton Court.

Prologue.

Amongst the Greecians there were annuall feasts,
To which none were invited as chiefe gests,
Save Princes and their wives: Amongst the men
No argument could be desputed then
But who best govern'd; and (as't did appeare)
He was proclaim'd sole Soveraigne for that yeare,
The Queenes and Ladies argued at that time
For beauty and for vertue, who was prime.
And she had the like honour. Two here be,
For Beauty one, the other Majesty.
Most worthy, did that custome still persever,
Not for one yeare, but to be soveraignes ever.

Epilogue.

Still the more glorious that the creatures bee,
They in their native goodnesse are more free
To things below them: so the sunne wee find
Vnpartially to shine on all mankind,

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Denying light to none, and you we may
Great King, most justly call our light, our day,
Whose glorious course may never be quite runne,
Whilst earth hath soveraigne, or the Heavens a Sunne.