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A68144 Foure letters, and certaine sonnets especially touching Robert Greene, and other parties, by him abused: but incidently of diuers excellent persons, and some matters of note. To all courteous mindes, that will voutchsafe the reading. Harvey, Gabriel, 1550?-1631. 1592 (1592) STC 12900.5; ESTC S103854 40,293 78

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shine like Sunne To liue in motion and action hoat To eternize Entelechy diuine Where Plutarches Liues where Argonautiques braue Where all Heroique woonderments concurr Oh Oh and Oh a thousand thousand times That thirsty Eare might heare Archangels rimes SONNET XV. A continuation of the same Petition THen would I so my Melody addoulce And so attune my Harmony to theirs That fellest Fury should confesse her selfe Enchaunted mightily with charmes diuine And in the sweetest termes of sacred Leagues With pure deuotion reconcile her rage Meane-while I seeke and seeke but cannot finde That Iewell rare of precioussest worth Gentle Accord and soueraigne Repose The Paradise of Earth and blisse of Heauen Be it in Earth ô Heauen direct my course Be it in Heauen alone ô Earth Farewell Or well-fare Patience that sweetens sowre And reares on Hellish Earth an Heauenly Boure SONNET XVI His professed Disdaine to aunsweare vanity in some or to enuy prosperity in any SOme me haue spited with a cruell spite But Fount of Mercy so reclense my sinne As I nor them maligne nor any wight But all good mindes affect like deerest kinne Small cause I haue to scorne in any sort Yet I extreamely scorne to aunsweare some That banish Conscience from their report And ouerwantonly abuse the dumme God keepe Low-Countrymen from high Disdaine Yet I disdaine with haughtiest contempt To enuy any persons Fame or Gaine Or any crooked practise to attempt Iesu that we should band like Iohn Oneale That tenderly should melt in mutuall zeale SONNET XVII His exhortation to attonement and Loue. O Mindes of Heauen and wittes of highest Sphere Molten most-tenderly in mutuall zeale Each one with cordiall indulgence forbeare And Bondes of Loue reciproquely enseale No rose no violet no fragrant spice No Nectar no Ambrosia so sweet As gratious Looue that neuer maketh nice But euery one embraceth as is meet Magnes and many thinges attractiue are But nothing so allectiue vnder skyes As that same dainty amiable Starre That none but grisly mouth of Hell defyes That Starre illuminate celestiall Harts And who but Rancour feeleth irkesome smarts SONNET XVIII Iohn Harueys Welcome to Robert Greene. COme fellow Greene come to thy gaping graue Bidd Vanity and Foolery farewell Thou ouer-long hast plaid the madbrain'd knaue And ouer-lowd hast rung the bawdy bell Vermine to Vermine must repaire at last No fitter house for busy folke to dwell Thy Conny-catching Pageants are past Some other must those arrant Stories tell These hungry wormes thinke long for their repast Come on I pardon thy offence to me It was thy liuing be not so aghast A Foole and Phisition may agree And for my Brothers neuer vex thy selfe They are not to disease a buried Elfe SONNET XIX His Apology of himselfe and his brothers YEt fie on lies and fie on false Appeales No Minister in England lesse affectes Those wanton kisses that leaud folly steales Then Hee whome onely Ribaldry suspectes Were I a foole what man playes not the foole The world is full of fooles and full of sectes Yet was Iohn neuer spoyled with the toole That Richard made and none but none infectes The third is better knowne in Court and Schoole Then thy vaine Quipp or my Defence shal be Whose Eie but his that sitts on Slaunders stoole Did euer him in Fleete or Prison see Lowd Mentery small confutation needes Auaunt black Beast that sowes such cursed seedes SONNET XX. His Apology of his good Father AH my deere Father and my Parent sweete Whose honesty no neighbour can empeach That any Ruffian should in termes vnmeete To your discredite shamfully outreach O rakehell Hand that scribled him a knaue Whome neuer Enemy did so appeach Repent thy wicked selfe that so didst raue And cancell that which Slaunders mouth did teach Nor euery man nor euery trade is braue Mault haires and hempe and sackcloth must be had Truth him from odious imputations saue And many a gallant Gentleman more bad Foure Sonnes him cost a thousand pounds at lest Well may he fare and thou enioy thy rest SONNET XXI His charitable hope and their eternall repose LEt memory of grose abuses sleepe Who ouer-shooteth not in recklesse youth Were sinnes as redd as reddest scarlet deepe A penitentiall Hart preuenteth ruth Well-wishing Charity presumes the best Nothing impossible to powrefull Trueth Body to Graue and Soule to Heauen addrest Leaue vpon Earth the follies of their youth Some Penury bewaile some feare Arrest Some Parmaes force some Spanyardes gold addread Some vnderly the terrible inquest Some carry a Ielous some a climing Head We that are dead releas'd from liuing woes Soundly enioy a long and long Repose SONNET XXII L'enuoy or an Answere to the Gentleman that drunke to Chaucer vpon view of the former Sonnets and other Cantos in honour of certaine Braue men SOme Tales to tell would I a Chaucer were Yet would I not euen-now an Homer be Though Spencer me hath often Homer term'd And Monsieur Bodine vow'd as much as he Enuy and Zoilus two busy wightes No petty shade of Homer can appeere But he the Diuell and she his Dam display And Furies fell annoy sweete Muses cheere Nor Martins I nor Counter-martins squibb Enough a doo to cleere my simple selfe Momus gainst Heauen and Zoilus gainst Earth A Quipp for Gibeline and whip for Guelph Or purge this humour or woe-worth the State That long endures the one or other mate Robertus Grenus vtriusque Academiae Artium Magister de Seipso I Lle Ego cui risus rumores festa puellae Vana libellorum scriptio vita fuit Prodigus vt vidi Ver AEstatemque furoris Autumno atque Hyemi cum Cane dico vale Ingenij hullam plumam Artis fistulam Amandi Ecquae non misero plangat auena tono Gabriel Harueius desideratissimae animae Ioannis fratris AT Iunioris erat Seniori pangere carmen Funebre ni Fati lex violenta vetet Quid frustra exclamem Frater fraterrime Frater Dulcia cuncta ab●unt tristia solamanent Totus ego Funus pullato squallidum amictu Quamuis caelicolae flebile dico Vale. To the right worshipfull my singular good frend M. Gabriell Haruey Doctor of the Lawes HAruey the happy aboue happiest men I read that sitting like a Looker-on Of thisworldes Stage doest note with critique pen The sharpe dislikes of each condition And as one carelesse of suspition Ne fawnest for the fauour of the great Ne fearest foolish reprehension Of faulty men which daunger to thee threat But freely doest of what thee list entreat Like a great Lord of peerelesse liberty Lifting the Good vp to high Honours seat And the Euill damning cuermore to dy For Life and Death is in thy doomefull writing So thy renowme liues euer by endighting Dublin this xviij of Iuly 1586. Your deuoted frend during life Edmund Spencer FINIS