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Regions registred by Fame By theyr ten Sibils haue the world controld Who prophecied of Christ or ere he came And of hys blessed birth before fore-told That man-god now of whom they dyd diuine This earth of those sweet Prophets hath bereft And since the world to iudgement doth declyne In steed of ten one Sibil to vs left Thys pure Idea vertues right Idea Shee of whom Merlin long tyme did fore-tell Excelling her of Delphos or Cumaea Whose lyfe doth saue a thousand soules from hell That life I meane which doth Religion teach And by example true repentance preach Amour 20. Reading sometyme my sorrowes to beguile I find old Poets hylls and floods admire One he doth wonder monster-breeding Nyle Another meruailes Sulphure Aetnas fire Now broad-brymd Indus then of Pindus height Pelion and Ossa frosty Caucase old The Delian Cynthus then Olympus weight Slow Arrer frantick Gallus Cydnus cold Some Ganges Ister and of Tagus tell Some whir-poole Po and slyding Hypasis Some old Pernassus where the Muses dwell Some Helycon and some faire Simois A fooles thinke I had you Idea seene Poore Brookes and Banks had no such wonders beene Amour 21. Letters and lynes we see are soone defaced Mettles doe waste and fret with cankers rust The Diamond shall once consume to dust And freshest colours with foule staines disgraced Paper and yncke can paynt but naked words To write with blood of force offends the sight And if with teares I find them all too light And sighes and signes a silly hope affoords O sweetest shadow how thou seru'st my turne Which still shalt be as long as there is Sunne Nor whilst the world is neuer shall be done Whilst Moone shall shyne by night or any fire shall burne That euery thing whence shadow doth proceede May in his shadow my Loues story reade Amour 22. My hart imprisoned in a hopeles Ile Peopled with Armies of pale iealous eyes The shores beset with thousand secret spyes Must passe by ayre or else dye in exile He framd him wings with feathers of his thought Which by theyr nature learn'd to mount the skye And with the same he practised to flye Till he himselfe thys Eagles art had taught Thus soring still nor looking once below So neere thyne eyes celestiall sunne aspyred That with the rayes his wasting py●eons fired Thus was the wanton cause of hys owne woe Downe fell he in thy Beauties O●●an drenched Yet there he burnes in fire thats neuer quenched Amour 23 Wonder of Heauen glasse of diuinitie Rare beauty Natures ioy perfections Mother The worke of that vnited Trinitie VVherein each fayrest part excelleth other Loues Methridate the purest of perfection Celestiall Image Load-stone of desire The soules delight the sences true direction Sunne of the world thou hart reuyuing fire Why should'st thou place thy Trophies in those eyes Which scorne the honor that is done to thee Or make my pen her name imortalize Who in her pride sdaynes once to looke on mee It is thy heauen within her face to dwell And in thy heauen there onely is my hell Amour 24. Our floods-Queene Thames for shyps Swans is crowned And stately Seuerne for her shores is praised The christall Trent for Foords fishe renowned And Auons fame to Albyons Cliues is raysed Carlegion Chester vaunts her holy Dee Yorke many wonders of her Ouse can tell The Peake her Doue whose bancks so fertill bee And Kent will say her Medway doth excell Cotswoold commends her Isis and her Tame Our Northern borders boast of Tweeds faire flood Our Westerne parts extoll theyr VVilys fame And old Legea brags of Danish blood Ardens sweet Ankor let thy glory be That fayre Idea shee doth liue by thee Amour 25. The glorious sunne went blushing to his bed When my soules sunne from her fayre Cabynet Her golden beames had now discouered Lightning the world eclipsed by his set Some muz'd to see the earth enuy the ayre Which from her lyps exhald refined sweet A world to see yet how he ioyd to heare The dainty grasse make musicke with her feete But my most meruaile was when from the skyes So Comet-like each starre aduaunc'd her lyght As though the heauen had now awak'd her eyes And summond Angels to thys blessed sight No clowde was seene but christaline the ayre Laughing for ioy vpon my louely fayre Amour 26. Cupid dumbe Idoll peeuish Saint of loue No more shalt thou nor Saint nor Idoll be No God art thou a Goddesse shee doth proue Of all thine honour shee hath robbed thee Thy Bowe halfe broke is peec'd with olde desire Her Bowe is beauty with ten thousand strings Of purest gold tempred with vertues fire The least able to kyll an hoste of Kings Thy shafts be spent and shee to warre appointed Hydes in those christall quiuers of her eyes More Arrowes with hart-piercing mettel poynted Then there be starres at midnight in the skyes With these she steales mens harts for her reliefe Yet happy he thats robd of such a thiefe Amour 27 My Loue makes hote the fire whose heat is spent The water moysture from my teares deriueth And my strong sighes the ayres weake force reuiueth This loue tears sighes maintaine each one his element The fire vnto my loue compare a painted fire The water to my teares as drops to Oceans be The ayre vnto my sighes as Eagle to the fire The passions of dispaire but ioyes to my desire Onely my loue is in the fire ingraued Onely my teares by Oceans may be gessed Onely my sighes are by the ayre expressed Yet fire water ayre of nature not depriued Whilst fire water ayre twixt heauen earth shal be My loue my teares my sighes extinguisht cannot be Amour 28. Some wits there be which lyke my method well And say my verse runnes in a lofty vayne Some say I haue a passing pleasing straine Some say that in my humor I excell Some who reach not the height of my conceite They say as Poets doe I vse to fayne And in bare words paynt out my passions payne Thus sundry men their sundry minds repeate I passe not I how men affected be Nor who commend or discommend my verse It pleaseth me if I my plaints rehearse And in my lynes if shee my loue may see I proue my verse autentique still in thys Who writes my Mistres praise can neuer write amisse Amour 29. O eyes behold your happy Hesperus That luckie Load-starre of eternall light Left as that sunne alone to comfort vs When our worlds sunne is vanisht out of sight O starre of starres fayre Planet mildly moouing O Lampe of vertue sun-bright euer shyning O mine eyes Comet so admyr'd by louing O cleerest day-starre neuer more declyning O our worlds wonder crowne of heauen aboue Thrice happy be those eyes which may behold thee Lou'd more then life yet onely art his loue VVhose glorious hand immortall hath enrold thee O blessed fayre now vaile those heauenly eyes That I may blesse mee at thy sweet arise Amour 30.