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A HYMNE TO APOLLO.
Euer the honors, that all men shall giue.
Doe as I say then instantly; strike saile;
Take downe your Tackling; and your vessell hale
Vp, into land: your goods bring forth, and all
The instruments, that into sayling fall;
Make on this shore, an Altar: fire enflame;
And barley white cakes, offer to my name.
And then, (enuironing the Altar) pray,
And call me, (as ye sawe me, in the day
When from the windie seas, I brake swift way
Into your ship;) Delphinius: since I tooke
A Dolphins forme then. And to euery looke
That there shall seeke it; that, my Altar shall
Be made A Delphian memoriall
From thence, for euer. After this; ascend
Your swift black ship, and sup; and then intend
Ingenuous Offerings to the equall Gods
That in celestiall seates, make blest abods.
When, (hauing staid, your helthfull hungers sting)
Come all with me; and Io-Pæans sing
All the waies length, till you attaine the state,
Where I, your oppulent Phane haue consecreate.
To this, they gaue him, passing diligent eare;
And vow'd to his obedience, all they were.
First striking sayle, their tacklings; then they los'd;
And (with their Gables stoop't) their mast impos'd
Into the Mast roome. Forth, themselues then went;
And from the sea into the Continent
Doe as I say then instantly; strike saile;
Take downe your Tackling; and your vessell hale
Vp, into land: your goods bring forth, and all
The instruments, that into sayling fall;
Make on this shore, an Altar: fire enflame;
And barley white cakes, offer to my name.
And then, (enuironing the Altar) pray,
And call me, (as ye sawe me, in the day
When from the windie seas, I brake swift way
Into your ship;) Delphinius: since I tooke
A Dolphins forme then. And to euery looke
That there shall seeke it; that, my Altar shall
Be made A Delphian memoriall
From thence, for euer. After this; ascend
Your swift black ship, and sup; and then intend
Ingenuous Offerings to the equall Gods
That in celestiall seates, make blest abods.
When, (hauing staid, your helthfull hungers sting)
Come all with me; and Io-Pæans sing
All the waies length, till you attaine the state,
Where I, your oppulent Phane haue consecreate.
To this, they gaue him, passing diligent eare;
And vow'd to his obedience, all they were.
First striking sayle, their tacklings; then they los'd;
And (with their Gables stoop't) their mast impos'd
Into the Mast roome. Forth, themselues then went;
And from the sea into the Continent
