A HYMNE TO APOLLO.
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Beginns with me first; and affects with wrong
My right in him; made by himselfe, his wise;
That knowes and does the honor'd marriage life,
All honest offices; and yet hath he
Undulie got, without my companie
Blew-eyd Minerua; who of all the skie
Of blest Immortalls is the absolute Grace.
Where, I haue brought into the heauenly Race,
A Sonne, both taken in his feet and head;
So oughly, and so fare from worth my bedd,
Thus (rauisht into hand) I tooke and threw
Downe to the vast sea, his detested view.
Where Nereus Daughter Thetis; (who, her waie
With siluer feet makes, and the faire araie
Of her bright sisters) sou'd, and tooke to guard.
But, would to be euen, another, yet, were spar'd,
The like Grace of his God-bead. (Craftie mate)
What other scape canst thou excorgitate?
How could thy bears restaine in gas alone,
The grey-eyd Goddesse? her conception,
Nor bringing forth, had any hand of mine;
And yet know all the Gods; I goe for thine
To such kinde vses. But I'le now employ
My braine to procreate a masculine Ioy;
That mongst th'Immortalls, may an eminent shine
With shame affecting, nor my bedd, nor thien;
Nor will I, euer, vouch at thine againe;
But farr, fly it, and there and yet will ragne
My right in him; made by himselfe, his wise;
That knowes and does the honor'd marriage life,
All honest offices; and yet hath he
Undulie got, without my companie
Blew-eyd Minerua; who of all the skie
Of blest Immortalls is the absolute Grace.
Where, I haue brought into the heauenly Race,
A Sonne, both taken in his feet and head;
So oughly, and so fare from worth my bedd,
Thus (rauisht into hand) I tooke and threw
Downe to the vast sea, his detested view.
Where Nereus Daughter Thetis; (who, her waie
With siluer feet makes, and the faire araie
Of her bright sisters) sou'd, and tooke to guard.
But, would to be euen, another, yet, were spar'd,
The like Grace of his God-bead. (Craftie mate)
What other scape canst thou excorgitate?
How could thy bears restaine in gas alone,
The grey-eyd Goddesse? her conception,
Nor bringing forth, had any hand of mine;
And yet know all the Gods; I goe for thine
To such kinde vses. But I'le now employ
My braine to procreate a masculine Ioy;
That mongst th'Immortalls, may an eminent shine
With shame affecting, nor my bedd, nor thien;
Nor will I, euer, vouch at thine againe;
But farr, fly it, and there and yet will ragne
