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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 excellent Majesties upon the like occasion.
  
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Spoken to their excellent Majesties upon the like occasion.

Prologue.

Excellent Princes may you ever bee,
As great as good, each yeare a Iubilee.
That as heavens bounty crownes you with th' increase

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Of honour, glory, and domestick peace.
You, with like liberall hands instated here,
May to each subject and deserving Peere:
Like the bright Sunne your glorious favours throw,
To comfort and make flourish what's below.
Whilst we like the woods Quiristers still sing
Loud Hymnes to you the Lord of this our spring.

The Epilogue.

You that are Emblemes of that light divine,
Which equally on all estates doth shine,
The Palace and the Cottage, flower and weed,
Of whose bright luster all have use, and need,
Even from the Scarlet, to the Russet: Gray
As well as Purple: Had we power, as they
That are in eminent place; there could not be
Those, should expresse more gratitude than we.
The rich may pay in gold, that which he owes,
But we our debt, onely in words and showes.