 | The Tragedie of Mariam, The Faire Queene of Iewry |  |
TO DIANAES EARTHLIE DEPVTESSE, and my worthy Sister, Mistris Elizabeth Carye.
VVhen cheerfull Phœbus his full course hath run,
His sisters fainter beams our harts doth cheere:
So your faire Brother is to mee the Sunne,
And you his Sister as my Moone appeere.
His sisters fainter beams our harts doth cheere:
So your faire Brother is to mee the Sunne,
And you his Sister as my Moone appeere.
You are my next belou'd, my second Friend,
For when my Phœbus absence makes it Night,
Whilst to th'Antipodes his beames do bend,
From you my Phœbe, shines my second Light.
For when my Phœbus absence makes it Night,
Whilst to th'Antipodes his beames do bend,
From you my Phœbe, shines my second Light.
Hee like to SOL, cleare-sighted, constant, free,
You LVNA-like, vnspotted, chast, diuine:
Hee shone on Sicily, you destin'd bee,
T'illumine the now obscurde Palestine.
My first was consecrated to Apollo,
My second to DIANA now shall follow.
You LVNA-like, vnspotted, chast, diuine:
Hee shone on Sicily, you destin'd bee,
T'illumine the now obscurde Palestine.
My first was consecrated to Apollo,
My second to DIANA now shall follow.
E. C.
| The Tragedie of Mariam, The Faire Queene of Iewry | |