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Did never whiter shew,

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Then forth they all out of their baskets drew

Come softly swimming downe along the lee;1

The snow which doth the top of Pindus

Nor Jove himselfe, when he a swan would Great store of flowers, the honour of the be

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field,

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That even the gentle streame, the which

And all the waves did strew,
That like old Peneus waters they did

seeme,

them bare,

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Of fowles so lovely, that they sure did

"Ye gentle birdes, the worlds faire ornament,

deeme

1 stream.

And heavens glorie, whom this happie hower

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The rest so far as Cynthia doth shend1
The lesser starres. So they, enranged well, That through thy prowesse and victorious

That promiseth the same:

Did on those two attend,

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And their best service lend,
Against their wedding day, which was not
long:

Thy country may be freed from forraine harmes;

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Sweete Themmes, run softly, till I end my song.

And great Elisaes glorious name may ring

1 shame.

Through al the world, fil'd with thy wide alarmes,

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An endless wind doth tear the sail apace Of forced sighs and trusty fearfulness;

1 sweet. 3 float.

2 mate. 4 mixes.

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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?

Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

Stella looked on, and from her heavenly face

Sent forth the beams which made so fair my race.

1 press, throng.

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After long storms and tempests' sad assay,
Which hardly I endurèd heretofore,
In dread of death, and dangerous dis-
may,

devise

1 mate.

2 punished.

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