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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20831	The Muses Elizium lately discouered, by a new way ouer Parnassus. The passages therein, being the subiect of ten sundry nymphalls, leading three diuine poemes, Noahs floud. Moses, his birth and miracles. David and Golia. By Michael Drayton Esquire.	Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.; Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631. Moyses in a map of his miracles. aut	1630 (1630)	STC 7210; ESTC S109889	101,886	216

THE MUSES ELIZIVM Lately discouered BY A NEW WAY OVER PARNASSVS The passages therein being the subiect of ten sundry Nymphalls Leading three Diuine Poemes NOAHS Floud MOSES his Birth and Miracles DAVID and GOLIA By MICHAEL DRAYTON Esquire LONDON ¶ Printed by Thomas Harper for Iohn Waterson and are to be sold at the signe of the Crowne in Pauls Church-yard 1630. TO THE RIGHT HOnourable EDWARD Earle of DORSET Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter of his Maiesties Priuie Counsaile and Lord Chamberlayne to her Maiesty My most honoured Lord I Haue euer founde that constancie in your Fauours since your first acknowledging of mee that their durablenesse haue now made me one of your family and I am become happy in the title to be called Yours That for Retribution could I haue found a fitter way to publish your Bounties my thankefulnes before this might haue found it out I craue of your Lordship the patronage of my ELIZIVM which if the Muse fayle mee not shall not bee altogether vnworthy of your protection I haue often aduentured vpon desperate vntrodden wayes which hath drawn some seuere censures vpon many of my Labours but that neyther hath nor can euer trouble me The diuine Poemes in this small volume inserted I consecrate to your Religious Countesse my most worthy Lady And so I rest The honorer of you and your noble Family MICHAEL DRAYTON To the Reader DIscreet and iudicious Reader if my Friend whosoeuer let me ingeniously intreal thee that in reading these Poemes thou wilt be pleased patiently to correct some faults that partly by reason of the raggednesse of the written Copy and partly by our ouer sight haue escaped in the Presse which if thou shalt doe the Muses themselues as they are courteous and well educated virgins shall in their thankefulnesse inspire thee with some Poeticke rapture that thou shalt read them with more delight then otherwise thou shouldest in being ouer Criticall Some of which faults I dare not say all I haue heereunder set downe Errata PAge 6. line 1. for that th' one the other was reade that th' one of them the other was p. 9. 1. 8. for she would not outstrip a Roe reade shee would outstrip a Roe p. 10. l. 17. for we reade were p. 34. l. 21. for that reade thou p. 125. l. 36. for and l'st must reade and l'st must die p. 137. l. 25. for through reade though p. 172. l. 14. for made them to prepare read their deserued fare But this last fault is not through all the Impression I onely shew you these few for breuity sake that in your Reading you may correct the like which I am afraid are many more then these THE DESCRIPTION of ELIZIVM A Paradice on earth is found Though farre from vulgar sight Which with those pleasures doth abound That it Elizium hight Where in Delights that neuer fade The Muses lulled be And sit at pleasure in the shade Of many a stately tree Which no rough Tempest makes to reele Nor their straight bodies bowes Their lofty tops doe neuer feele The weight of winters snowes In Groues that euermore are greene No falling leafe is there But Philomel of birds the Queene In Musicke spends the yeare The Merle vpon her mertle Perch There to the Mavis sings Who from the top of some curld Berch Those notes redoubled rings There Daysyes damaske euery place Nor once their beauties lose That when proud Phoebui hides his face Themselues they scorne to close The Pansy and the Violet here As seeming to descend Both from one Root a very payre For sweetnesse yet contend And pointing to a Pinke to tell Which beares it it is loath To iudge it but replyes for smell That it excels them both Wherewith displeasde they hang their heads So angry soone they grow And from their odoriferous beds Their sweets at it they throw The winter here a Summer is No waste is made by time Nor doth the Autumne euer misse The blossomes of the Prime The flower that Iuly forth doth bring In Aprill here is seene The Primrose that puts on the Spring In Iuly decks each Greene. The sweets for soueraignty contend And so abundant be That to the very Earth they lend And Barke of euery Tree Rills rising out of euery Banck In wilde Meanders strayne And playing many a wanton pranck Vpon the speckled plaine In Gambols and lascivious Gyres Their time they still bestow Nor to their Fountaines none retyres Nor on their course will goe Those Brooks with Lillies brauely deckt So proud and wanton made That they their courses quite neglect And seeme as though they stayde Faire Flora in her state to viewe Which through those Lillies looks Or as those Lillies leand to shew Their beauties to the brooks That Phoebus in his losty race Oft layes aside his beames And comes to coole his glowing face In these delicious streames Oft spreading Vines clime vp the Cleeues Whose ripned clusters there Their liquid purple drop which driues A Vintage through thee yeere Those Cleeues whose craggy sides are clad With Trees of sundry sutes Which make continuall summer glad Euen bending with their fruits Some ripening ready some to fall Some blossom'd some to bloome Like gorgeous hangings on the wall Of some rich princely Roome Pomegranates Lymons Cytrons so Their laded branches bow Their leaues in number that outgoe Nor roomth will them alow There in perpetuall Summers shade Apolloes Prophets sit Among the flowres that neuer fade But flowrish like their wit To whom the Nimphes vpon their Lyres Tune many a curious lay And with their most melodious Quires Make short the longest day The thrice three Virgins heauenly Cleere Their trembling Timbrels sound Whilst the three comely Graces there Dance many a dainty Round Decay nor Age there nothing knowes There is continuall Youth As Time on plant or creatures growes So still their strength renewth The Poets Paradice this is To which but few can come The Muses onely bower of blisse Their Deare Elizium Here happy soules their blessed bowers Free from the rude resort Of beastly people spend the houres In harmelesse mirth and sport Then on to the Elizian plaines Apollo doth invite you Where he prouides with pastorall straines In Nimphals to delight you The first Nimphall RODOPE and DORIDA This Nimphall of delights doth treat Choice beauties and proportions neat Of curious shapes and dainty features Describd in two most perfect creatures WHen Phoebus with a face of mirth Had flong a broad his beames To blanch the bosome of the earth And glaze the gliding streames within a goodly Mertle groue Vpon that hallowed day The Nimphes to the bright Queene of loue Their vowes were vsde to pay Faire Rodope and Dorida Met in those sacred shades Then whom the Sunne in all his way Nere saw two daintier Maids And through the thickets thrild his fires Supposing to haue seene The soueraigne Goddesse of desires Or loves Emperious Queene Both of so wondrous beauties were In