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TO THE SVN.
Casts circular Radiance: that comes streaming downe
About his Temples; his bright Cheekes, and all
Retayning the refulgence of their Fall.
About his bosome flowes so fine a Weede
As doth the thynnesse of the winde exceede
In rich context: beneath whose deepe folds flie
His Masculine Horses, round about the skie;
Till in this Hemisphere, he renders staie
T'his gold-yo'kt Coch, and Coursers: and his way
(Let downe by Heauen) the heauenly Cocheman makes
Downe to the Ocean, where his rest he takes.
My Salutations then, faire King, receiuve,
And, in propitious returnes Relieue
My life with Minde-fit means; & then from Thee
And all the race of compleate Deitie
My song shall celebrate those halfe-God states,
That yet, sad deaths condicion circulates.
And whose braue Acts, the Gods shew men, that they
As braue may ayme at; since they can but die.
About his Temples; his bright Cheekes, and all
Retayning the refulgence of their Fall.
About his bosome flowes so fine a Weede
As doth the thynnesse of the winde exceede
In rich context: beneath whose deepe folds flie
His Masculine Horses, round about the skie;
Till in this Hemisphere, he renders staie
T'his gold-yo'kt Coch, and Coursers: and his way
(Let downe by Heauen) the heauenly Cocheman makes
Downe to the Ocean, where his rest he takes.
My Salutations then, faire King, receiuve,
And, in propitious returnes Relieue
My life with Minde-fit means; & then from Thee
And all the race of compleate Deitie
My song shall celebrate those halfe-God states,
That yet, sad deaths condicion circulates.
And whose braue Acts, the Gods shew men, that they
As braue may ayme at; since they can but die.
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